#this is fucked up!!! he's fucked up!!!

[everykillerbee]

extended thoughts on this confrontation!

thank you to @super-kame-love and @full-frontal-lotus for not only asking abt my thoughts on this, but for also supporting the blog <3

for context, this is the scene where ay and tsunade stop bee and naruto on their way onto the battlegrounds. bee is making his case that him and naruto are needed and capable, but ay is fighting back Hard.

this is the part where we get bee's backstory as well, which is super important to keep in mind with the way ay fights back. because the third raikage could not have another child to be raised as a b (to be a battle partner for ay), the third raikage and ay went to what seems to be an orphanage to adopt a compatible child. ay is in his 20s, but he seems to lower his strength so it's possible one of the children could meet the goal.

bee is adopted not so he'd have a family, but so he could be formed into a perfect battle partner for ay. throughout the flashback, you can see how bee overachieved to meet this expectation. another detail that i think is important to look at here is how ay since he was little had instilled fear in bee.

quick aside, i'm not trying to paint ay as a bad person; i imagine given the way shinobi stuff is, he was similarly raised. the narrative enforces that despite him meaning well, there absolutely are things he needs to work on and unlearn, and this is one of them (because if you remember with the end of the first kisame fight, ay still grabs him by the face like this). "i'll win when we play", considering the context and what is happening in the present in this scene, means that he'll one day be allowed to assert himself without the threat of... punishment and death.

that may seem extreme with the past three caps, but in the present confrontation ay is directly saying that if bee does not back down, he's ready to kill him and start from scratch (find a new gyuuki host, assign a new b). the only reason he hesitates is because he's a "greater military asset". later in this confrontation, even after bee almost seems to get through to him, ay continues to disregard bee as a person, instead pushing him aside as an obstacle (to test naruto, the one he does for sure have less of a connection to but yknow. gotta pass as "a savior" and whatever).

we should also consider that blue b, the previous gyuuki jinchuuriki, died from having gyuuki removed/sealed away after its last rampage. it is not clear whether the rampage occurred before or after there was decision made to replace blue b with bee as the gyuuki's host, as blue b had suspicions there were plans to (orochimaru being the reason is anime-only, and so is blue b being edo tensei'd).

sorry for cap spoilers up ahead, but they're important for this discussion too. at the third raikage's funeral, ay decides to retire bee as an active shinobi and instead assigns him as border control.

the implication is that ay wants to make this change to protect bee. this is what ay believes is best for his little brother, because his little brother was assigned to him not as a brother, but as a battle partner. meanwhile, bee has just been told that all he'd been expected to do since he was five, and exceeded nonetheless, means nothing now. in reality, his status has been downgraded from battle partner to weapon. his thoughts were never considered. he never got to make decisions, he only had the choice of how he carried himself as he was forced - to become a piece of a battle plan, a jinchuuriki, a weapon.

[inkskinned]

it's extremely critical that you see the photo of the perp walk for luigi mangione as being propaganda. i've seen so many people wave it off and instead fawn over his looks. and trust me, i know it ended up being kind of pathetic and weird - but please don't brush it off as a "modelling opportunity" for him. it's a fucking terrifying message the police are sending.

i want to make a few comparisons here, in case you're not from the US or familiar with why the perp walk thing is something to pay attention to. just to set the groundwork for why this is a purposeful, unusual, and cruel act by the nyc police - for why this is not a common occurrence and for why that matters.

the prosecution alleges the show of force is due to the charge of "terrorism." for comparison, in june 2015, tsarnaev was found guilty for the boston marathon bombing, which killed 3 people and injured hundreds. his actions are considered to be an act of domestic terrorism. i have spent the last hour looking through google for pictures of similar to mangione's perp walk - and so far, i have found zero. i also just do not personally remember a moment like that, despite living in boston at the time.

they allege that luigi is a stone-cold killer who carried out a longterm plan, making him particularly dangerous. again for comparison: in nyc, recently cory martin was found guilty of the killing of brandy odom. the murder was planned and premeditated to steal insurance money. and yet no staged perp walk. why didn't her life matter enough for a "show of force"?

but mangione gets paraded by a veritable army of police officers as if he is a rabid animal. for a single citizen who allegedly killed one other single citizen, the "largest perp walk ever" occurs.

so what is the "strong message" that the mayor and the police were trying to send here? the mayor speaks as if mangione is already convicted of terrorism. there is a very thin number of people who feel threatened by the CEO's death. none of us felt like mangione needs to be under massive armed guard.

the message is that you shouldn't resist. they are trying to "make an example" of him - that if you behave badly and kill a single rich person, you'll be treated as if you killed hundreds of people. you will be treated worse than a man who was found guilty of terrorism. you will be considered guilty without trial. the message is that the rich are a protected class, and you cannot touch them without massive punishment. they are trying to prevent a revolution by showing dominance and force against you.

the message is that the police are a puppet of the wealthy and that the law is not equally applied across class disparity. it is "some are more equal than others." it is "one life is more precious than another."

the show of force wasn't for luigi. it was for us. it was a warning. they are trying to remind us who is really in control.

[knockknockwhosthereartistism]

The worst trauma comes from those who you love

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the thing about Professor Utonium is he didn't accidentally create 3 daughters, he purposely created 3 daughters who accidentally have superpowers. the sugar, spice, and everything nice was intentional, only Chemical X was an accident

this guy became a girl dad on purpose and I am so proud of him for achieving his dream!

[marypsue]

Keep seeing that post where OP starts like 'Thinking about...grieving the undead' and then adds on about like. Real life situations where people have not died but have left your life and you would have reason to grieve them.

All respect, that's an important concept, but that is not what I am thinking about when I read 'grieving the undead'.

[krispytm]

You can only reblog this today or until the next Monday, June 19th, 2028.

[xiaq]

So my bike was stolen from our garage last night. My beloved, custom, carbon fiber, most-expensive-thing-I-own-aside-from-my-car bike. I just found it listed on FB marketplace. Shit is about to go down.

[haroldhighballjordan]

sometimes I randomly think about the time a girl posted in this girls only Facebook group I’m in telling everyone how she broke up with her boyfriend and he lied saying that he lost the spare key she gave him, only to then break into her apartment when she wasn’t home and steal the cat they’d adopted while they were together, but then he denied having done this and she didn’t really have proof that he took the cat since he wouldn’t let her come into his place and look for it. And then another girl saw this post and knew her ex-boyfriend, and she was like “girl. I used to hook up with your mans back in xxxx and I still have his number. If you want, I’ll hit him up and get him to invite me back to his place and see if your cat’s there.” And the OP was like “bet.”

So this woman hit up homie dog, asked him out for drinks, went home with him, slept with him, and then woke up in the middle of the night and TOOK THE CAT. Like she had only said that she would confirm if the cat was there but then she took it upon herself to steal this woman’s cat back. Like she full on Trojan horsed this man and then hit up homegirl like “I got the goods. Where you wanna meet.” And then the two of them posted a photo of them together with the cat to the group.

And I just think women supporting women is so beautiful.

[maeamian]

If you saw me agreeing with being annoyed about wasted helium in a fictional context and were like "I bet she has some more helium based anger in her life" good news LAPD fucked up a raid on a medical facility they thought was a pot farm and flat out ruined thousands of gallons of the stuff.

[chiljax]

obligatory i wonder what i taste like meme old man yaoi edition

[askfordoodles]

Mages when they run out of mana 🤣

[redpapercraness]

to lose you

[artkaninchenbau]

A h-heartfelt reunion..?

Bonus

[everwalldigan]

Bruce: *waking up in a hospital that he drove himself to after having a heart attack and telling absolutely nobody* hey…

The entirety of the batclan looking over him with Dick in the centre, an absolute terrifying grin on his face:

Dick: hello Bruce, nice evening isn’t it? Got something to share with us?

Edit: the fic is now out on ao3! https://archiveofourown.org/works/57780508

[payasita]

being a manager sucks balls half the time but the cashier kids im in charge of trust me enough to dick around in front of me so ive been keeping a running list of the shit they say that makes me laugh randomly: -"guys, is it cheating if you play fortnite with your ex" [4 seperate others, immediately]: "YES" -"there must be like… infinite sentences" -"bro what bro what the fuck bro what's that mean bro why'd you say that bro what" <distraught response to a girl randomly greeting him with 'hey there big boy' in an old timey transatlantic news reporter accent

[birdy-babe]

Blitzøs entire life spent being unwanted. So he adapted, and learned how to be something needed, something to be used.

Which is why I think he firmly believes he is being used by Stolas. He simply cannot fathom a different reality, one in which he is wanted for once in his life.