#this is my 3AM rants

[relsxtoru]

no because I have never, ever, felt like I've been portrayed by a character before I came across this megumi panel about how he hates both bad people and overly good people

of course I hate bad people, theyre proud of inflicting pain to someone. But overly good people? I despise them too. The way they're justifying all kind of bad deeds, like theyre ALL supposed to be forgiven, like all of you goodies dont deserve to be hurt and angry, like people doing bad things is normal, like youre telling others that being angry isnt right even when they treat you like shit.

most of all, I despise overly good people because they seem to have peace even when they're being hurt.

[too0bsessedformyowngood]

Okay so I’ve been reading a lot of reverse robin AUs recently and I have a hot take. Duke Thomas should be the Dick Grayson parallel instead of Damian.

Hear me out. So bare bones Duke was the last to join in cannon, so he should be the first to join for reverse robins. But to get deeper into it Duke lost both of his parents at the same time setting him down a path of becoming a vigilante. He becomes Bruce’s ward instead of being adopted because he already was raised with two good parents and doesn’t want them to be replaced. He also created his own mantle that was the opposite to Batman, the light to Batman’s dark, inspiring hope against Batman’s fear. He’s friendly and works well and inspires others, but also extremely sharp and smart which people often forget.

Damian would work well as a batgirl parallel more. He would join after Duke but be a few years older, got there already trained and immediately jumping into crime fighting. Covering the areas that Bruce and Duke don’t fill. While Duke takes up his own name Damian would use a name more inspired by Batman himself.

I just think this dynamic of Bruce and Duke being the first dynamic duo would fit so well (also get to spotlight Duke who so often gets overlooked).

[robynator]

obsessed with how daud canonically chooses to forgive billie when she gives him the choice between killing her and showing her mercy after she betrays him

obsessed with how just a few months later, daud does the same, placing his life in the hands of a man whose life he completely ruined, asking to be spared and, against all odds, walking away from that encounter alive

obsessed with the alternatives you're given to those options as well

how, if you choose to kill billie in low chaos she helps you guide the blade. how she looks up at you and smiles as you stab her. how you hold her hand as she dies and don't let go even after she's gone

how, in high chaos, you just don't get that choice. her death is brutal, just like all the other deaths at your hand. like she said, what's one more body? but she's not just one more body. she's your second in command, your confidant, the closest thing you have to a daughter. you don't kill her with the same detachment you do for everyone else. you don't simply pull her onto your blade, you grab her by the throat as you stab her. it's brutal and it's personal, and that makes it so much worse

how, if you end brigmore witches with high chaos, corvo will kill you because you are not true to your word. you say that you feel remorse over jessamine's murder and yet your actions speak otherwise. you are not sincere in your words and while corvo may not know that, the game does. and it's telling you that that's the only way it could end. that if daud goes down that path he will not ever better his ways, nor will he be given the chance to. the only way daud can live is if he is actually committed to change

but despite all those options, in canon, daud gives billie the chance to leave and make a new life for herself. and corvo does the same for daud. and that is a parallel i think a lot about

[hisui-dreamer]

jamil, who loves showing affection by cooking food for his loved ones, making sure the curry is seasoned to perfection and your favourite dessert to go along with the meal.

and you, with zero spice tolerance but so incredibly overwhelmed with gratitude and affection for how hard jamil's worked. and with your favourite dessert right there enticing you, you're determined to finish every drop of curry on your plate.

...

it doesn't go too well.

indeed, you have finished every drop of curry. but you've also downed around 12 cups of water, and the burning in your mouth is still unrelenting. jamil visibly looks concerned with how much water you're drinking and it's unavoidable you address your non-existent spice tolerance.

jamil sighs, and his eyes show a hint of exasperation you often see when he's following kailm's whims. you avert your gaze to the floor, upset at yourself that you've disappointed him and maybe he hates you now how could you not like his fo-

flick!

ouch! your hands reach up to shield your forehead, and your eyes meet his. not exasperated, maybe slightly, but amused and... loving??

"dummy, don't go forcing yourself to eat what you don't like," he sighs

you timidly explain you could never do that with how much time and effort he puts into his cooking

his smile widens slightly.

"for now, i guess i'll be making more desserts for you then,"

he chuckles at the way your eyes light up.

"here," he feeds you a spoonful of the chilled dessert. "is your mouth still burning?"

oh. you don't think it is anymore.

but your heart sure is.

[sybeez]

I believe one of the reasons so many kids under 12 only watch loud tiktoks on their phones is because of the death of the DS, and handheld gaming in general. (Also the disappearance of wired headphones but I wanna focus on the DS)

Like sure if you wanna play handheld now there's still the Switch and maybe the steam deck but 1/ both are pricier and 2/ none of them are easy to fit in a pocket like a ds or gameboy was. Even the Switch requires internet to play SINGLE PLAYER GAMES THAT YOU DOWNLOADED if you're not at home. And most games on those are meant to be played on a tv or computer screen to spend hours at a time on, not play for 10-15mins at a time while in the bus.

But back in the DS/3DS era?? It was MEANT to be a casual handheld console to take everywhere with you. They were small and maybe the size of a phone today, even the XL models at least fit in a pocket (big pockets ig); the Switch you need at least a bag with you to carry. And the game library was PACKED. Just pokemon alone had tons of genres on that console to choose from. Also I remember the dsi game sharing thing we're if you didn't have a game you could still play like, Mario kart with someone else as long as they had the game n play as a maskass. Plus, street pass?? The 3ds was so widespread you could find at least one other person with one on your commute every day.

,,, I might have lost my train of thought in DS nostalgia.

Back to the point. If a kid wants entertainment out of home now, they only have their phone to look at. Sure some mobile games are decent nowadays but there's a difference between one time purchase on sale at a flea market you can waste hundreds of hours into with interesting cc concepts, and choosing between predatory gacha game that's supposed to eat all your money or candy-crush clone number 3967 with in-app purchases and hundreds of adds per minutes. But at least both are free right?

The morale of this post if we should give kids 3DSs again.

[all-too-unwell-13]

i think as a society, we moved on far too quickly from the lyrics, "dreams— of your hair, and your stare, and sense of belief... in the good in the world, you once believed in me."

[frienderbee]

Camp camp x gravity falls crossover but its just Mabel and her summer romance attempts. She has a crush on a new camper every week.

[kelocitta]

What a worthless animal

[ellyjeon978]

"tHIs EnDInG IS ShiT!! ThEy DeSTroYeD __ CHaRACteR!!"

had literal npc and item descriptions that explained the lore

"Ew THeYre RelATed"

bish incestuous relations happened often in a royal family in ancient times to keep the blood pure or whatever

"MiQUeLLa Is A ChIlD"

is a literal man age probably couple thousand years old in a body got cursed to never age

yall here be looking like yall never seen a small adult person

plus it's fiction booooooo

lemme enjoy my shit in peace

but yeah they could've shown more of miq's and rad's in the dlc cos i was shocked too coa they never mentioned it in the base game and we never saw those two interact or been talked together

[astronomodome]

[whoiszaara]

annabeth: i feel like doing something stupid, though that’ll be bad.

piper: yeah, you shouldn’t

percy: hey, im stupid! do me!

annabeth:

piper:

percy: i mean- *blushing* did i say that out loud- oh gods

[alexxuun]

My god… I forgot how much twenty one pilots stir the artist in me. Whatever they are putting in it, my mind is going wild with creativity and imagery. Demaverse straight up is just such a well thought out world and storyline. It’s a book in music form.

[lowpawly]

I think it can be kinda hard to convey how much it hurts sometimes to exist as a lesbian when your identity has existed as a porn category for decades that caters to a group who you are not only not a part of but who actively oppress and disrespect you, often times in sexually violent ways. and like it's very hard to form a sense of identity when the majority of erotic depictions of your sexuality are deeply uncomfortable and cater first and foremost to men. for me my issue isn't that men like lesbian porn, its the dehumanization and disrespect that comes with it. I have a hard time putting it into words, because a lot of it is based on the intersection between depictions of your sexuality not only catering to a group you aren't attracted to but that group also often being very sexually violent and hateful towards lesbians and women in general. it's hard to develop a normal relationship to sex when you can't see yourself in anything. this isnt even getting into how much worse this problem is for trans lesbians who are lucky if they find really anything that isn't made by people with zero respect and recognition for the existence of trans girls outside of porn, especially not trans girls who don't want to fuck them. I don't know, I think we live in an age where lesbian art and media by and for queer girls is the most accessible it's ever been, but that doesn't mean that the root issue is fixed.

[solarpunkani]

Ok fuck it you know something I've never really quite understood about part of the Leftist vs Liberals debate on voting.

So so so many people act like its either-or. Like you're either dedicating your entire life to voting and promoting politicians and phone banking or whatever, or you're a True Rebel waiting for The Uprising to Come and Solve Everything.

But like. In my experience. Me voting is just me kinda go 'which person seems kinda good? Which one at least sucks the least? ok lemme go vote.' and then its anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour tops of my life. And I still have plenty of time to do Stuff and participate in Conversations about Other Important Things. And also you can admit and acknowledge and understand that the system As Is kinda sorta really sucks ass, but also still admit and acknowledge and understand that at this current point in time we are still living in the suckass system and do something to alleviate the suckass At Least A Little while also working to bolster/create/advocate for Other Systems.

I guess just like. it's not a black or white thing. Between 'top 500 volunteers for a specific politician/voting office/etc' and 'absolutely positively not voting at all' there is a gray area called 'vote and then just do other stuff'.

[tea-cat-arts]

Disclaimer: this is 3am rambling. Whether or not this rant ends up being a cohesive thought is between me and God. Also, I'll be switching around what pronouns I use for Shi Qingxuan and He Xuan every paragraph

"Shi Qingxuan should've chosen He Xuan! Shi Qingxuan would never chose anyone other than his brother-" man, if choosing He Xuan was one of the options he was given, I honestly do think Shi Qingxuan would've taken it.

Cuz here's the thing: Shi Qingxuan was thoroughly sick of their brothers bs. They wanted to go their own way, they wanted to break out of the house, they wanted to handle their demons on their own, they wanted to choose their own gender expression without getting told to "put that thing away", they disagreed with their brothers actions and what he did to turn them into a god... they wanted to get away from their brother, but they never got the chance to unpack or deal with any of that because both of their lives were constantly being put in danger (so they were kinda distracted).

And I don't even know where to start with how Shi Wudu had been breaking down their self esteem, getting them to second guess all their wants/desires/choices, and pulling the "big brother knows best" card on them for god knows how long. I know it came from a place of love, but it still had to have done something to Shi Qingxuan's brain chemistry

Shi Qingxuan options were never "He Xuan or her Brother," it was "chose to abandon your luck for both your lives, or chose yourself and become a murderer" so ya, of course she's gonna go with the first option because she's not a terrible person. Shi Qingxuan probably would’ve chosen He Xuan (who was her best friend, who'd been going along with her antics for centuries, who remembered which resturant she wanted to go to even after the breakup), but that wasn't a card they put in her hands, and even if it was, its not a real card if she had to kill her brother to get it. At that point, giving up revenge and finding love again wasn't an option He Xuan had even considered yet, and it'd be unreasonable to suggest Shi Qingxuan should've come up with a secret third option off the top of her head given she only knew the full story for like what? A minute before she was forced to make a choice? And even though she tried choosing the option that would hurt the least amount of people, Shi Wudu could not for the life of him respect her choices. Kinda makes me think Shi Qingxuan never really was given any choices to make in the first place 😒

Anyways, I'm choosing to believe at some point, He Xuan realizes this, spends the rest of her life trying to make amends, they get some time being a ghost couple together, and then they eventually find peace and disappear into the afterlife

[synthshenanigans]

Finally has been a full year since I started listening

Fuckin hate that guy eugh