#they’ve got that handled

[swampbrick]

I think the funniest (read as: most upsetting) things about the Five/Lila/Diego side plot is that literally NOBODY got a happy ending out of it??????????

There are definitely outcomes to that bombshell of a plot line that would have been more favorable than others (my favorite probably being the one where it doesn’t happen at all), but let’s take a look at the facts shall we?

Diego, Lila, and Five all die (along with the others of course)

Diego dies with no true resolution for the fact that his wife and the mother of his children cheated on him with his brother

Diego also ends up some sort of weird cuck who watches Lila reach for Five’s hand during their final moments, knowing it’ll be the last hand she holds.

Diego dies with no clarity as to whether or not Lila loved Five or not. She never fucking answered him. Maybe her silence was meant to speak for itself; I just think it’s bullshit that he died not knowing and having that uncertainty.

Lila dies after spending 7 years in some sort of time limbo away from her children, only to see them for a grand total of maybe an hour being she meets her death

Five dies also not knowing if Lila loved him, which I think is significantly less important than anything else on this list, but I do think if you’re going to write a love triangle at least SOMEBODY should know if love is in the equation or not?

Diego and Five both die with bad blood between them.

I have mixed feelings on the season overall, and I didn’t hate a lot of the aspects of it that others seem to.

I can however agree that not only is the love triangle unnecessary and weird, but it was shoddily written and cruel in its delivery. This is some half-crocked shit I’d expect to see in a mid-series writing slump to generate drama that can be resolved over the course of a season or two- NOT some kind of ambiguous series finale.

The only props I have to deliver to this plot line are to the cast for managing to act their asses off despite the script being garbage.

[quinn-of-aebradore]

I keep thinking about how Ashton’s been acting lately and I coming back to them saying that they’ve earned “a minor sense of superiority” for all they’ve been through in their life and then how through a lot of what they said after that demonstrates that that sense of superiority goes far beyond being minor. Especially the way they laughed and said “who else?” when the Hells asked themselves if they should really be the ones deciding if the balance of the world should be upended and remade. It carried a lot less of a “well who else is going to do it?” energy that I think it might’ve once carried, the sort of thing the Nein might say, and instead felt more like a “you really want anyone else but us choosing that?”, which aligns with the wildly out-of-hand way they were behaving in the council meeting. They really seem to be placing themself above everyone that was in that council room, especially with how they repeatedly said that all of those delegates are stupid and blind and so on, particularly those who answer to divine powers (I cannot remember if Ashton directly said that last night, but I feel like it would align with what they did say even if they didn’t put it that clearly).

What makes that very interesting to me is that Ashton is also a vessel for a higher power now, a power that—from the way they seem to be looking at things—is grander and older and more powerful than the gods themselves; a titan. They may not answer to Rau’shan, but they channel her power just as surely as any cleric or paladin might channel their deity’s powers. Which is a little hypocritical, but that’s not my point.

I keep wondering that if maybe, probably on a subconscious level, that connection to an older power than the gods is fueling Ashton’s sense of superiority over the gods and those who follow them.

[champagnemoon]

I want sunburnt blush for black girls… like that dark rich terracotta shade

[scoobydoodean]

Anons are so weird sending my vagues to people who they weren’t even about lmao

[alxclaremont]

had an absolute shit day at work, got off of work, remembered lando and oscar’s beef, almost started crying, went on twitter, saw that they ate mcdonalds and played monopoly on the plane back to monaco, almost started crying again, no longer feel like shit thank you and goodnight

[wacky-nameless-inventor-24]

Fully dressed, cry in the bath I’m still a child Pick me up, reuse me ‘til the glue melts apart From the heat of the argument

[sonadow4life]

The first one was Violets original design. She was supposed to be 17, light blue with purple markings (like classic sonic), abandoned in the woods by Sonic cause he didn’t know how to parent and that’s what his parents did, Shadow didn’t even know about her until she confronted him looking for Sonic, knowing that Shadow was her dad and thinking he did too and is basically on a revenge quest after Sonic and finds Shadow along the way. Sonic explains himself and while Violet doesn’t forgive him she give him a chance to prove himself and they are very happy. They end up more like best friends than father and daughter tho. Also Sonic is 29 and she was a fusion of him and Shadow from when Sonic was 12. G.U.N basically took his DNA, took Shadows DNA and merged them before they’d even met.

She is now 7 years old with 2 loving (yet kinda shit) parents who are trying their best and a brother named Shock, autistic and overall just a fairly stable kid.

Idk what happened

[etapereine]

not this interviewer ambushing all these riders with questions about wt and pt riders being excluded from u23 next year 💀

[dis-asterism]

did u add the rainbow flags for pride in ur desc or were those always there...

I somehow didn’t even think abt adding any for pride..

[crookedfivefingers]

Me: Why aren’t there so many more TenMartha shag-or-dies? Let’s write a simple one!

Me, later: Let’s base it on Ten being required to bring Martha to orgasm X amount of times in X amount of ways

Me, several thousand words into new fic whilst actively ovulating: Let’s make Martha a virgin+have Ten be super empathetic and gentle about it because they’re best mates/he knows she fancies him/he wants her to be comfortable+enjoy herself as much as she can

Me, falling apart: Over and above all of that, let’s channel obscene amounts of energy into ensuring it’s in character/realistic/feels like an actual [NC-17] episode

[silverhalla]

playing inquisition first really is the move because you can finish the whole entire thing and won’t even realize how much of an absolute fucking slog it is until you start the other two

[rebelwriter99]

OK so I’ve just watched the first two episodes of The Bad Batch (season 2) and…yep. I understand the post about this not being altogether different in tone to Andor. The Empire is very much not pulling punches. “Hey look here’s another city they orbitally bombarded” “here let me falsify that report for you”. Along with one side order of angsty emotional turmoil, a main character getting injured to the point they’re incapacitated, and the mission not actually succeeding-I’m guessing this season is not going to be sunshine and rainbows. This is going to be season two of Rebels all over again isn’t it?

[kingfakey]

idk who needs to hear this but short of insurance fraud nobody is out to get you. a much simpler but maybe more painful reality is that they just don’t like you that much. things u think and feel were done out of malice were probably done with 0 thought at all.

[starlooove]

Everytime I see anything abt how teenagers are reacting to Kanye I wanna scream bc black women have been saying this for YEARS!

Especially on tiktok bro, like there are videos where ppl are talking about how the normalization of anti semitism is happening in spaces like schools right, like it’s ppl saying that their classmates are jokingly saying “Hitler was right” and using literal dogwhistles that they pretended they didn’t know existed “as a joke” and it’s always someone with a stupid shocked look on their face acting like it’s some big new thing that see coudve never predicted but we literally HAVE

When y’all were making fun of AAVE, when y’all started calling the bodies of our aunties and moms “bbl bodies”, when y’all started calling every fat black woman peaches or Lizzo, you know who saw first hand just how easily teenagers were radicalized and converted? BLACK TEENAGERS! Do y’all know the hell it was to be a black girl with “DSLs”? A black girl being called Shanaynay by Shane Dawson Stans? You know who has firsthand experience with being gaslit using dogwhistles? Black girls that were called hot cheeto girls by their TEACHERS! Y’all yap and yap Abt the alt right pipeline and ignore who’s affected and how, and NOW y’all wanna act surprised? Y’all are just confused that you’re seeing it in real time abt ppl u pretend to care abt.

White people make me sick bro y’all can’t be this fucking unserious. Some bitch making a post abt how we should be aware of what celebrity stanning can do to minorities as if black girls weren’t dealing with swifties, Ayesha Erotic fans, or the entire fucking K-pop fanbase for DECADES! Like bitch we been fucking knew y’all are the only ones not caught up.

[recareels]

Tartaglia is getting increasingly jealous about the attention you are giving daddy dendro, be careful clari😳

WAAAAH anon!!! (*/ω＼*) stop hehehe u just made me so giddy!!! he is such the jealous type tho like the man is borderline yandere and lately i’ve been thinking about just how he’d react, knowing he was my first favourite, my original favourite, but then came ayato and thoma (a packaged deal, of course), and now here comes alhaitham, stomping all over everything with his big stupid boots and what the fuck??? ajax was here first, and he doesn’t even have a single fic to show for it, only bits and pieces of finished work!? that’s not fair! hehehe waaah i just feel like he’d be fuming over it all and def plotting some clever yet gruesome murders ｡：ﾟ(｡ﾉω＼｡)ﾟ･｡

[roobylavender]

I feel like the fact that Kory is the same If not younger than Dick is also something that I feel like is really not talked about. And I feel like it’s important because of the weight of the different tragedies they had in their lives and what is expected of them and what they except of each other. And then when they are together they are like cuddled together during meetings or shown soon after with Dick putting his clothes on and Kory in bed. Like it’s hard imagining how young they were and like they really were young. Lol But also like the fact that they didn’t really have a person to go to to help guide their relationship and they relied mostly on their friends…

the titans are such a fun clusterfuck of people when you think about how insistent they already are about being independent and making their own choices and doing things their own way at the ages of like. nineteen. like i get that in white people spheres that’s an adult but to me personally that is still a child i really don’t think you come intro true adulthood until maybe your mid twenties. but anyway as i was saying they’re so self assured about themselves and their identities or at least they claim to be and it’s like. you know it wouldn’t kill them to lean on their mentors a little more and that it wouldn’t be a failure if they had to do so bc they didn’t know where else to look to for guidance. i honestly think that is why roy and wally end up so comparatively well adjusted: they’re not affronted or ashamed by the idea of needing to ask for this help. and kory is obv a different case bc she doesn’t really have anyone outside of the titans to ask for it but i really do find it amusing how staunchly committed dick is to making his own decisions and leading his own life without asking for bruce’s input while nonetheless expressing hurt at the idea that bruce would leave him alone to do exactly that