#this happens repeatedly

[nightmareentertainment]

Nahhhhh because sometimes I be catching feelings that aren't romantic I just wanna be someone you value in a special way. Dawg I don't wanna kiss you can you explain this thing to me in detail in my dms and send me bad tiktoks. You can call me your boyfriend . I don't wanna fuck I wanna be special , you get me? AND NOT IN A JUST CLOSE FRIENDS WAY MAANNNN FUCK OFF MORE THAN THAT ITS SPECIAL

[scientistknife]

Started playing Baldurs Gate 3 with an idea of who I was going to romance and then Gale said the gayest thing I've ever heard and I went in my head "I can't not fuck him."

[sleepyvib-es]

I will never get over the fact that rick riordan's favorite way of uplifting other characters is to tear percy jackson down

[saintofsacrilege]

i kinda hope kevjerejean goes canon in earlier drafts of the golden raven or the final jerejean book only for nora to scrap it later and just go with jerejean because that’ll mean kevin has been booted out of the protagonist’s throuple not once but twice 😭

[heartinhyacinth]

Thinking of how utterly pissed Hua Cheng (or rather hong-er) must have been to have finally grown taller/bigger than Xie Lian after so long of being small beside him…only to die and become a ghost fire, even smaller than he’d ever been in his mortal life. They reunited, but this time he couldn’t even touch him, couldn’t hold him, couldn’t save him. So small, he was. Always so small.

I just know he loves their height difference now that he’s finally the bigger one. Being able to rest his chin on Xie Lian’s head, scoop him in his arms, shield or warm his entire body with his own.

[fiona-fififi]

"Eddie has to do so much work on himself before he'll be ready for a relationship, but Buck has grown so much and is ready for a serious relationship now, so they wouldn't make sense together."

Are you serious right now?

Buck dated a man for six months, they somehow barely knew one another in the end, he full body cringed at the idea of being in love with said man, then he basically called him a gay savior and asked him to move in.

If being perfectly mentally well is our measure, Buck is not ready for shit. Please.

That man wants to be in love so bad he is willing to sacrifice every part of himself to keep a partner he barely even knows and who clearly doesn't know him. He is terrified of dying alone and being left behind and that manifests as desperate clinging to any vague prospect that appears before him.

That is not healthy behavior.

They both need to work out their shit. But there is no reason they can't do that together.

Because even people who are not perfectly mentally healthy deserve love, actually.

[jomeimei421]

Even if TWSA had finished without the world ending, KDJ would have been okay

[wardensantoineandevka]

the fact that people keep interpreting the word "consequences" to be exactly and only "punishment" and knee-jerk responding to it with "why do you want my precious Bells Hells pookies punished" frankly says a lot about more about you than it does about those who feel that C3 as a narrative never followed through on consequences for anything

this is ESPECIALLY evident when it is remembered that we're all talking about a story and doing narrative analysis and media critique here, yes, all of us, even the casual commentaries, debriefs and post-mortems of the campaign is analysis. consequences. narrative follow through. the consequential story beat that carries the weight and concluded a prior set up. results, negative or positive or neutral, that are incurred as a consequence of what happened before. a continuity of narrative logic. actions that result in the expected and prior established weight and outcome. feeling like things consistently matter and affect things meaningfully on various levels, including the personal.

[a-very-tired-jew]

One of the common exchanges that we’ve all witnessed or been a part of is the general “the UN is antisemitic” discourse. Often we’ll point to the hypocrisy of the organization as a whole, its member states that commit arguable worse actions that Israel, the antisemitism of member nations, the double standards, and so much more.

A common argument is that the UN often employs established and well known antisemites in positions to “oversee” Israel. These persons barely hide their antisemitism behind professional jargon or obfuscations.

Of these persons one of the worst offenders is Francesca Albanese.

There is an ever growing pile of interactions, exchanges, actions, and writing that routinely show she is antisemitic.

I, unfortunately, got to witness this latest one, which is still up on Twitter.

Look at this interaction. Notice that Rene is stating "Jews are capable of eating human flesh" an age old antisemitic conspiracy that we've dealt with for centuries.

And what does Albanese do?

She doesn't refute it or call it out.

She says not to "attribute what Israel does to all Jewish people".

Meaning, "Israeli Jews are capable of eating human flesh, just not all Jews". Meaning, "If a Jew supports Israel they are capable of eating human flesh." Albanese is supporting this antisemitic rhetoric by basically implying anyone who is a "bad Jew" is subject to this hateful rhetoric. It once again shows that she is not, nor has ever been, an impartial observer as her position as UN Special Rapporteur dictates. She's been called out for her antisemitism and thinly veiled justification for it for years. This is just one more occurrence and shows that she either does not understand what her "correction" supports and justifies or she is willfully doing this type of stuff to signal to her followers and supporters what kind of hate can be thrown as Jews they label as "bad".

This latter position is the most likely because there's no way this has not been explained to her.

But like anything antisemitic with the UN, its personnel, and associated orgs, the well documented antisemitism is ignored and brushed under the rug and concerns ignored.

[worstwolverinesbf]

the batfam as things i and others have said pt 2

jason talking about his death: everyone has bad days, everyone gets blown up sometimes

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tim: dad, how old are you?

bruce: old enough

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dick: the moon is in a phase

tim: what is it, emo?

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jason talking about tims mental state: its being held together with zip ties and a dream

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steph when a bat appears: i hate when men do that… appear out of thin air

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bruce, deadpan: i was gonna say who has a mobile number (police number) but it’s the police

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tim talking about wifi: it keeps dropping out

jason: of high school?

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bruce: are you on something?

little dick: FREEDOM

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tim after scrolling on tumblr for too long: teenagers relate to murder

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dick after fighting slade too many times: he’s always down to kill kids and i respect that

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pt 1

[cybertron-smash-or-pass]

TF One Sentinel Prime

[heliomanteia]

I think Nico's ability to survive is less so about his will to live and more so about his refusal (less so personal and more so narrative-wise) to die. Nico, for the lack of a better word, is like a cockroach: you cannot kill him in a way that matters so he survives and keeps haunting the scene.

There was once a marvelous post on Nico's function as a narrative tool and it was so beautifully pointed out that he's a near-omniscient deus ex machina (to simplify) which cannot be overlooked when characterizing him. Nico carries so much narrative weight on his back (which arguably could be an example of either good or bad writing depending on your perspective) that he cannot just go and die.

His road towards healing (though definitely not walked alone/individually) is his own, that's his choice to make as a character, but his disposition as a guy that perseveres resides more within his function, in my opinion.

He's not the tragic prince doomed for self-destruction people often draw him out to be but his capacity for survival is also not a product of his continuous work as a character, at least not just that — but is rather a result of his narrative function. Simply saying, you cannot, narratively, kill off Nico di Angelo.

[aka-indulgence]

(TFP spoiler)

Me when they sent Soundwave into the shadowzone:

[clarkgriffon]

Xander Harris + Outfits (Season 4)

[waitineedaname]

when I started orv I expected it to be a story where lots of main characters die, like i was coming at it as someone who's read homestuck, I fully expected a lot of major character death, I expected no one from that first subway car to survive. and then as I kept reading, it really struck me just how many people survived and how aside from kim dokja dying a dozen times, no one in the main party has died, and now I've realized that is extremely intentional. this is a story where a lot of people are supposed to die, it's a story that's supposed to force repeated sacrifice, and kim dokja looked at that story and went "absolutely the fuck not, that's not the story I want to tell" and pulled that burden of sacrifice onto himself over and over because he refuses to be part of a story where his friends die

[ilk-insolence]

Raph Is A Great Strategist

Numerous times in the show Raph has shown to have a preference for straightforwardly punching his problems away rather than think up a more complex solution. Like how his immediate fix to getting Mayhem out of the mirror in Mystic Library was to punch everything in the bathroom but the mirror. However, when Raph understands the situation requires more in depth strategy, he’s shown to be an incredibly capable tactician.

(long post ahead!)

In nearly all the plot heavy episodes like Shadow of Evil, Many Unhappy Returns, and the season finales, Raph gets moments where he’s highlighted for his strategic thinking. In Insane in the Mama Train, he’s the one who figures out which eyeball-button goes to the front car with the dark armor, because “‘it was the only button [the Foot Clan] didn’t want me to press!’” [21:05]. He’s also the one who came up with the scheme to defeat all the (known) combatants in the train, with Leo specifically attributing Raph as the deviser during their mind meld [19:46]. In Many Unhappy Returns, after spending a single night waylaying the Shredder, Raph formulated a plan using all the tricks the team learned, seamlessly transitioning the mystic collar Leo acquired into it [19:53], to defeating the Shredder. Additionally, he’s repeatedly called for a retreat during fights, like in Shadow of Evil, Shreddy or Not (Finale pt 2), and the movie, when he can tactically recognize that a battle couldn’t be won. Each time, the show/movie implied that that was the right call, for the family to lose the fight but win the war.

And it’s not just that Raph is good at strategy when he’s pushed to be more serious; the show characterizes him as passionate about creating plans, he enjoys doing it. Literally in the first episode, Mystic Mayhem, after the turtles’ initial plan failed of getting Splinter out of the living room to touch his Do-Not-Touch Cabinet, Raph immediately started devising a new plan that involved “ten chickens [and] a gallon of rubber cement” [9:35]. It was convoluted, sure, and they didn’t end up using it, but it was inventive and the opposite of reluctant. This is also shown in Bug Busters, where Raph planned out dousing Mikey in honey to attract the oozequitoes [2:52]; Snow Day, with the idea to freeze Ghost Bear like in Jupiter Jim Pluto Vacation 4; and Raph’s Ride-Along (and also Bad Hair Day), where Mind Raph created multiple schemes to get the criminals arrested. The show wouldn’t have made Raph be so creative with his plans if they were trying to characterize him as someone who didn’t like strategizing.

So does why Raph do stupid shit sometimes where he doesn’t think things through at all? Well, even though Raph is good at strategy and enjoys doing it, it’s clear his immediate impulse is still “punch the problem in the face”. In fact, all the turtle boys contain the fascinating dichotomy of being incredibly smart in some areas, and the dumbest teenagers alive in others. Just look at Donnie. It’s also how Raph is a loving protective older brother, and the guy who shoved Leo into a wall so hard he disappeared in one frame for shits and giggles (The Mutant Menace x). None of this means that Raph is bad at strategy though.

tldr: Yeah, Raph has a lot of dumb and, frankly, insane moments in the show, but he’s still an incredible tactician who’s plans consistently saved his family and sometimes the world. He's a great strategist.