#this is such a bleak ending

[togairaa]

I keep getting disappointed with each new chapter, and I get my hopes up for the next one, but it hits a new low

[tariah23]

The manga industry, especially JUMP, needs to hurry up and do away with weekly scheduling for mangaka. There needs to better regulations put into place for their health and safety because this is pitiful. Two weeks - monthly updates should’ve already been the standard for the manga industry at this point. These money grabbers will only continue to put the lives of these artists at stake for the sake of capitalism unless some serious changes are implemented.

[mohntilyet]

illario as the grandchild that is most like caterina is something i'm loving to chew on. the grandson that took her lessons to heart the most. kill anyone who sees your face and knows your name, "we are not revolutionaries", the first out of the two to prioritise the contract. power at any cost, and the only one to lean into the unnecessary abuse that their grandmother told them was tradition. why is anyone surprised he allied with the venatori? and then there's illario's considerable skill in infiltration and manipulating any mark, he has always had the charisma that lucanis lacked. illario isn't attached, he has/can/will use someone and immediately drop them; "that does free me from promises i don't intend to keep". he can lie about how much he cares so well that he fools a magister into believing he loves her. he kills zara without hesitation to cover his own tracks, meanwhile lucanis blindly promises a young girl in the middle of a siege that he will help her find her father. even the lessons about family stick with him, and in this entire messy power struggle, he never actually orders anyone to directly kill caterina or lucanis, not until he's backed into a corner.

and even after all that. despite even lucanis believing illario should be first talon, lucanis is still the better killer. illario is not strong enough to be the brutal assassin caterina needs him to be. so when lucanis seems to fill the role his mother left, grief and love for her dead heir apparent remains, and any of the other qualities caterina needs in her next talon doesn't matter. whatever his mother was, lucanis has to be. what illario does doesn't matter, because he will always be second best to caterina's memory of her favored daughter.

[beatsheetromanroy]

potentially very divisive opinion but i would rather take alive and non canon destiel than reciprocation in heaven. i don’t want this story to end in death i don’t want the so called happy ending if it’s not on earth do you hear me andrew dabb!!!!! do you hear me!!

[yeoldenews]

(source: The Kentucky Advocate, December 24, 1902.)

Narrator voice: Charles was not, in fact, a good boy forever.

The 15 minute gun fight broke out between Charles and at least two other men following an argument at a hotel coffee shop in Louisville where Charles, a bookie, was staying for the Kentucky Derby. It was soon joined by responding police officers.

Charles' photo and fingerprints were sent out to surrounding law enforcement and it was discovered Charles was wanted for a bank robbery in Detroit and a hotel hold-up in Cleveland where one person was killed.

Charles died from his wounds several days later, but refused to identify the other men involved in the argument, who fled in the aftermath - though several articles mention they were thought to be "Chicago men", suggesting mob affiliation.

(source: The Akron Beacon, May 22, 1931.)

[smilepaint]

finally watched i saw the tv glow and. ouch. oof. ouch! "you wont even remember that you're dying". the brief lapses into realisation and then back into denial. the way time is handled. "there is still time"... this is the first time ive been presented with the deep, soul crushing horror of what if you DON'T transition??? what if you stay like this, forever? aren't you dying, all the time, stuck this way? are you already dead? absolutely sick of being fed the "horrors" of transition by cis people, transition is scary sure, but the scariest thing imaginable to me is thinking about a reality where i am still trapped in a coffin and slowly suffocating. that felt like a unique kind of stomach turning cautionary tale and i hope whoever needs to see it can dig themselves out soon

[straight-to-the-pain]

I’ve been thinking about how often we see stories about people getting out of an awful situation and being surrounded with support and care and getting to move on and recover.

But what if they don’t. They’ve spent god knows how long in their own personal hell, captivity, torture, isolation. For what felt like an eternity, they held onto the idea of finally being freed, rescued, released. And one day it just happens. Political pressure, a hostage exchange, a rescue. Whatever happens, one day they’re just free.

But they come home and everything’s different. They never had a huge network to begin with, and now the people who still care just don’t know how to deal with them and their trauma. It’s all too much. They’re not the person they used to be, the person their friends used to love.

Sure, they’ve been given medical treatment for their obvious wounds but the doctors just don’t seem to understand them when they say that there’s a pain that never quite goes away. They’ve had the mandatory counselling, but the therapist’s empty platitudes made them feel all the more disconnected from their reality.

For so long, they waited for this. But now it feels like their past is an impossible weight on their chest, never letting them move forward. People tell them that they have their future ahead of them, but they can’t help but wonder if they should have just died there.

[getougender]

actually i am now actively rooting for jjk bad end. not necessarily a total loss, but like. pyrrhic victory. god can u imagine. yuuji and everyone else vs sukuna and megumi seizes control at the last moment before he dies in front of yuuji in a reflection of the cursed womb arc. curses still exist. yuuji winds up as one of the last surviving members of his generation, detested by the higher-ups but respected by his peers, and takes up a mentorship role. not as a teacher and not a complete loose cannon, but something between nanami and yuki. he exorcises curses and protects people—civilians and young sorcerers alike—where he can, but it’s like he said: he’s a cog. it’s his job. the cycles. The Cycles.

[crehador]

i feel like this moment was kind of glossed over (in part because of tl issues but also in part because forget me not just didn't really react to it lmao)

but i'm obsessed with how x set up a rube goldberg machine that ended with hot tea being poured on forget me not's head

and they even released this official sticker

[saucefunk]

adam saw really is one of my favourite characters. stuck in a vicious feedback loop of isolation and self hatred, unfulfilled days trapped in a box not unlike the one you wake up chained in.

you want to die, right? here’s the opportunity- stuck between a bath and a hard place and a man you simply have to let pull the trigger. it’s scary to have to open up or rely on someone, let alone comfort a half-stranger unravelling before you… but maybe that’s what you were missing, a shoulder to lean on, perhaps you can learn to live again- reaffirm with an ‘are we going to be okay?’

but you’re still in a saw movie, and someone has to pull the trigger.

[dawnbreakerluna]

not even joking i really think that in the myth timeline, sylus and mc had a kid or two. i’m sure there could be tidbits in dialogue that hint at it throughout the story, but to me, it would explain why sylus is genuinely just so content on having a domestic life and settling down. additionally—why sylus took in luke and kieran.

since it’s the most coherent myth (imo) of what had happened in specifics, even filling the gaps of time, i’m very positive that in those long months a baby likely could’ve been popped out. a precious little half-human dragon running around ):

[stevebabey]

“Well,” Eddie mutters, more to himself. He rolls his shoulders back to shake his nerves and grips the rope of sheets in his hands tighter. “Here goes nothing.”

He tosses the rope up, aiming for the centre of the gate and just when he thinks it’s too short of a throw—that it will just fall back to the ground in a pathetic heap—something catches.

The sheets twist and then suddenly go taut, strung out through the middle of the gate, pulled by gravity in either direction.

Eddie huffs a relieved laugh, grinning up at the ceiling. He turns to look over his shoulder and Steve’s staring at the gate, green eyes wide and quizzical.

“Dude,” He says, taking another step so he’s shoulder to shoulder with Eddie. He peers forward, gaze trailing up the rope and seeing just what Eddie's done.

“You made a ladder,” He breathes, awed sounding.

Something warm in Eddie’s chest aches at the sound of Steve’s voice, admiring and directed solely at him. He huffs another laugh, nervous this time, and scratches the back of his neck.

“Wish I could take the credit, Stevie,” The nickname slips out without permission and Eddie catches the way Steve’s attention snaps over to him. “But I only borrowed the idea from Henderson.”

Steve smiles still, nudging Eddie’s shoulder with his own. “You can take a little credit. I won’t tell.”

another excerpt from you're not from around here, are you? final three, coming 31/10 <3 tehe @steddiebang2024

[hermesmoly]

Priam’s little “I don’t blame you, I blame fate and the gods. Sit with me. Sit with me and see your old husband and your people” to Helen will never not get me

[i-cast-zone-of-truth]

THAT'S the context of "fangs of fortune"??????????????

[distant--shadow]

wanting to draw the latest imodna kiss but being overly aware I have drawn so many kisses that I'm basically repeating my lines 🥲

[dimension-20-every-introduction]

Everyone Introduced in Dimension 20's Fantasy High: Junior Year episode 20 (finale)