#this was sad to think abt ngl

[vinhteer]

RAMBLES ABT THE YUMI GANGG

ngl I've been keeping my tangents away because they have so much potential and I'm kind of gatekeeping them for my personal stuff... But here's one that just pains my heart:

Alec interacting with Yumi's gang is very interesting because they're people that don't seem to mind killing people.

here are my HCs kicking in but:

- mood tempered Yumi

- chatty Celeste who has very sensitive ears which makes her be able to hear from very far away (hence the fact that she's good at gathering intel and knows all the gossip at school without having connections)

- Elijah who's well intentioned but eventually just thinks that his life just had to go down this path

I like to think that Celeste and Elijah are people who never got help and eventually just kind of feel dependent on each other. They hurt each other because they don't know what else to do... They're there for each other but they just don't get how the other feels.

In general I think they give the vibe of a circus' freakshow. Alec both pities them and also thinks that... in terms of social status, is he also like them? Is he as hopeless as them?

And here I feel like Alec would just go on a spiral where he decides that maybe the hard work he's been tirelessly doing is vain. That everything he does means nothing. That what he is as a person, is worthless as well. His future does not exist. I mean, I don't think he can go on much longer knowing that he's been helping a murderer.

and I feel like he would get more reckless and try to test his limits- EXCEPTT THAT HE HAS FRIENDS!!! WHO CARE ABOUT HIM!! Kyran, Gold, Funneh, Evan, pls show up #mlp #mlp:Fim #friendshipismagic

OHHHH AND THERE WOULD STILL BE ANGST BC THEYRE ASKING HIM WHATS WRONG, BUT HE HAS TO LIE ANYWAY BECAUSE HE KNOWS THEY WILL LEAVE HIM IF HE TELLS THE TRUTHHH

Anyways here are my suggestions plot-wise for this element to develop: Yumi makes them go on a fun (not fun) car trip for her Yandere endeavours (and pays alec a crap ton since yk he'll have to be away for a few days). Maybe it happens in the middle of a normal school period and we get 2 stories; Alec going on the van thing and getting frustrated with this but eventually has to mingle with Yumi's gang, and Funneh and her friends doing... whatever that could be parallel to what the other group is doing. (hope that made sense)

This means that we'll get some off handed sass and resentment from Celeste and Elijah against... whoever hurt her or just did her wrong. Idk just that type of stuff. I think Alec would obviously still not like them but this backstory shit did contextualise things for him. I feel like he DOES feel bad for them but then when they all go like "so Alec do u want to see us chop off this person's head? LOL!" he just... backs off.

[lotus-pear]

rewatched madoka magica again today bc i fucking hate myself and to absolutely no one’s surprise i went through all five stages of grief in a single evening

[holysheithyall]

“I’ve done the math, there’s no solution. We’ll never last”

[unordinary-diary]

Seraphina and Arlo: The Brainwashing of High Tiers

Exposition:

— Remi, Episode 50.

There is a heavy implication that Seraphina and Arlo were raised in much the same way. The pressure on Seraphina comes from her parents, so I’ll extrapolate that the same goes for Arlo. This raises the question: how do the authorities create such a strong societal pressure on such a small percentage of the population? Most high tiers will probably not know any other high tiers besides their parents. Take Wellston Private High School for example: it’s the most prestigious private school around, and canonically has the “highest concentration of high tiers in the region”. There are six high tiers in Wellston. Apply this to god tiers specifically, and there are only three. Not to mention that this current group of students is uniquely strong, even for Wellston. In Rei’s senior year, he was the strongest at 5.8 max.

So much of this brainwashing relies on the parents to do all of the work, and it only takes one or two people to break the cycle. So how are the authorities creating this immense pressure? One tactic could be by isolating high tiers. There is a very widespread concept that one shouldn’t associate with those outside their level range. A caste system like this that affects everyone is much easier to create and maintain than an expectation for a small group, and it also means that high tiers are only being influenced by those who are also high level. This creates an echo chamber. I’ve researched cults and how they brainwash victims, and the first step in the process is isolating them in exactly this way.

But, if there are so few high tiers, how the hell are they supposed be isolated from other groups? The answer is that high tiers are just isolated in general. Take a look at Arlo: his only friend is Remi, and even her, he keeps at an arm’s length. Arlo is only close with Remi in the first place because he was close with Rei, who, at the time of meeting Arlo, was presumably close in level with him. [EDIT: I forgot about Holden, which I think says a lot about his relevance. He is kept at more than an arm’s length and doesn’t seem to have any actual influence on Arlo, let alone a deep relationship. He is also not presented as an equal.] Take a look at Seraphina: before meeting John, she didn’t seem to have any friends other than possibly Arlo. Seraphina and Arlo pre-John seemed to have had more of a professional relationship, and while they were not close in level, Arlo did fit the bill of being a fellow god tier, and strong enough to also be brainwashed.

Now let’s look at Remi. In episode 60, Cecile says to Remi: “And yet here you are... Always hanging around those two monkeys, Blyke and Isen. Letting them treat you as an equal even though you’re in a completely different league.” This struck me as odd because, aside from Cecile herself, the Wellston students closest in level to Remi were Arlo, Blyke, and Isen. And who is she friends with? She actually was doing a pretty good job at following that social convention, unless Cecile wanted to be friends with Remi, which she clearly didn’t. But... her friends were still not close enough to her level. Was she supposed to just not have friends at all? The answer seems to be a resounding yes. Can you think of any genuine friends that Cecile has either?

Friendship simply isn’t considered a necessity for high tiers.

But... why is it that Arlo and Seraphina were brainwashed differently? Creating a societal norm for an isolated group of people is one thing, because those people’s mindsets feed into each other. Putting pressure on individual families to keep them in line, but doing it all in different ways? That would be near impossible. My theory is that Seraphina recieved the typical high tier brainwashing, and that Arlo was raised differently because he was being groomed to work for the authorities. Seraphina didn’t have a set career path planned out for her, but if she’s trying to be “perfect” by the standards of those controlling her, she’s bound to end up going in a direction that pleases them. Arlo on the other hand was specifically planned to become an authority figure. That’s why his brainwashing is so centered on leadership. Also, growing up with direct contact to the authorities makes it more possible for them to customize his brainwashing in this way.

But does all of this apply to high tiers in general, or is it specific to god tiers? Let’s take a look at the high tiers in Wellston. We have Seraphina, John, Arlo, Terrence, Remi, Cecile, and Blyke. John is a unique circumstance because he wasn’t raised by high tiers, so we’ll cross him off the list. Terrence was also unique, so we can cross him off as well. Remi was different from the norm as well. Why is that? Well, Remi actually wasn’t raised by high tiers either. Rei said on screen that both of his parents were elites. We can cross Remi off. Blyke doesn’t fit the bill either, but that’s easy to explain. He was an elite for a large part of the story, and he shot up rather quickly. We don’t know much of his family, but he probably wasn’t expected to be a high tier at all, and was raised as an elite. (All of this also serves to emphasize how much of this brainwashing comes from a person’s parents.) That leaves only Seraphina, Arlo, and Cecile to look at.

Cecile does seem to have high tier brainwashing, but it’s not nearly as intense as with Seraphina and Arlo. She doesn’t seem “obsessive”, and she wasn’t one of the examples Remi mentioned in chapter 50. It’s clear that high tiers are brainwashed in general, but god tiers are kept on a much shorter leash. This makes sense, obviously, because keeping a population in control like that is less necessary the lower the level. However, it’s also a chicken an egg situation: god tiers are both more important to keep in control, and also easier to keep in control. It’s important to note just how many exceptions we had to cross off. People like Remi and Blyke aren’t actually that unusual— a lower leveled high tier is much more likely to have non-high tier parents, or to have not always been a high tier themselves, or just in general, to have way more day-to-day interaction with non-high tiers. The brainwashing gets more and more diffused the lower down the ladder you go.

[teddybeartoji]

now that i have aventurine i'm just left wondering how the fuck was i doing anything before😭😭😭😭😭

[aesthetic-gem]

don’t think about possessed q!forever actually locking up the all islanders in prison. don’t think about them trying their hardest to get out so they can get back to their kids. don’t think about richarlyson seeing his family of tios and tias and dads and mom incapable of fighting back and thinking he’s the only one who can help his dad because he thinks he’s beyond saving. don’t think about richas being as self sacrificing as some of the other eggs and trying to put himself in harms way thinking his dad forever would never hurt him but his dad is far too buried under the black virus possessing him. don’t think about the potential of richas actually going down and his family is stuck behind bars desperate to get to him with no way out of their cells

[supersunshine10]

Random Sorta-long Rambling abt MLP

Okay I haven't watched every episode of FiM, I do rewatch a few eps time to time, so maybe this was said somewhere I didn't know or forgot about,

But honestly was it ever really said that Twilight canonically became immortal and will outlive her friends when she became an ailicorn? I see this all the time in fanworks, I even hear ppl act like this is 100% canon when I don't remember if it was??

Tbh I haven't rewatched MYM in a long itme, but from what I remember it was extremely vauge on anything to do with specifics of Twilight and her friends in the future. Maybe I forgot but I really don't remember there being any hint that Twilight outlived her friends or was immortal specifically, for all we know they could all be dead.

And don't get me wrong I don't mind or care if it's used in fanworks/fics or whatever, but it just seemed weird to me how sometimes I'll hear someone talking abt Mlp and bring this up as if it was 100% something that is canon and idk it kinda bugs me a little bit

[kuiinncedes]

i watched wickeddddddd

[waterbearable]

havent drawn her in 900000 yrs so sorry queen

[woolydemon]

i am soooo good at getting emotional over children's media but not in a fandom way in like a. oh god i care about people so much way

[irena-dubrovnaa]

i wish characters w addictions werent treated so poorly by their fandoms. straight up either villainized or ignored, example being roy harper

[t4r0tc4rdz]

@teethcritter Adventure Time mutual Teethcritter do you ever think about who there’s like three people who got divorced bc God yoinked their S/Os away into a fabric of un-existence

[micwrs]

thinking abt luka's self-sacrifice and the fact he gives up literally everything for his friends happiness & safety

[bluejaybytes]

I love Stardew Valley so much. Everyone in this town wants me carnally (I've been married and have had kids the majority of my time living here)

[the-silent-hashira]

i could show you every iteration of my s/is for Hazbin Hotel/Helluva Boss but that's almost 3-4 years of increasingly varying designs and I was only ever satisfied with a handful

[yioh]

man i have soooooo many thoughts abt the sasaki to miyano authors rules on reposting their manga panels 🥲