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[genericpuff]

If there's anyone more out of touch with webcomic culture than Webtoons, it's their investors who they keep pulling the wool over in their earnings calls 💀😆

[puwumats]

the wine's got me fucked up thinking about the keyleth/orym parallels. something horribly tragic happens to people you care for. it was a deliberate, and callous act, and killed innocents for no other reason than to further the one responsible's goals.

and now, due to world-ending circumstances beyond your control, you have to sit at a table with your friends and that very same evil and talk to them like they are your equal. some of your friends even want to side with them, however temporarily, for some higher goal. but you can't stop thinking about all those that you lost, because of this person. and the anger bubbles and boils away right underneath the surface of your usually-sweet demeanor, until you explode or die.

"you called a hit on my family. a successful one - fuck you" and "call me child one more goddamn time" are the same frustrated and bitter cry, just in a different key.

[dadrielle]

have i mentioned lately that I Love Them especially when they are being idiots

[thedickgraysons]

rip to nesta archeron, who should have been able to choose. to reclaim power in the political genius her mother and grandmother forced her to hone instead of being forced to fit the role of a soldier. or to explore the world. to just find comfort. to read, to weave, to do math. to have a romance where your ml says he loves you

you would have loved making the bed by olivia rodrigo tbh

[evie-doesnt-write]

I feel because of Jinx and Viktor’s popularity in fandom (having some of the most annoying fans in Arcane fandom) and the attention they receive in the show itself, people forget/don’t realise how bad they were done by the writers in s2

[oddthesungod]

We'll meet again 🍃

[kiwisandpearls]

the statements “this piece of media was made for kids, it’s not that serious” and “a piece of media being made for kids does not exempt it from criticism” can and should coexist.

[blorbologist]

What do you mean explosives are inappropriate at dinner?! Uncle Tary said it was a great idea.

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Sequel to this, because y’all seem to really like Gwendolyn and Bauble [??] redraws. This time redrawn from this strip. Yes Vex’s tits are practically out im only obeying the official art. 

Bonus:

[laufire]

I never fail to roll my eyes when people say alfred is the one who put up jason's memorial in the case (I never fail to roll my eyes when people act like alfred, and not bruce, is the source of the bat clan's problems, period).

first of all, that memorial is painfully in-character for bruce, lbr. second of all, I'm gonna go blue in the face if I have to explain one more time that alfred has zero authority over batman-related matters (and a few others) in that household (bruce's household; the pater familias' property). third of all that was a throwaway moment written by geoff johns of all people (remember how he butchered jason's backstory with the teen titans), in a justice league cameo issue, where alfred was explicitly trying to get jason to look at bruce with better eyes, and thus likely to have lied out of his ass (iirc this is soon before bruce pulls the stunt of taking jason back to his place of death to trigger any repressed memories so. lol).

most importantly, remember batman: underd the hood? THEE jason todd run? issue 641 to be precise? how, after jason's identity (and living status) is confirmed, alfred asks bruce (because it is bruce's decision!) if wants him to take the memorial down? and bruce refuses because jason being back "doesn't change anything at all"?

[xxwillowpotatox]

WAIT ALSO TALESINS LITTLE *yes*

[betweenblackberrybranches]

Woop woop Fae au Sun incomming

[justatalkingface]

for an op izuku story. it could even make aizawa’s reaction towards izuku understandable in a way. smart, powerful midoriya who came 1st in the entrance exam by a country mile, who was quick to make friends and those friends call him “Dekiru” because he can do it. maybe he couldn’t see past the shiny quirk whose only weakness is being TOO STRONG of all things. he’d still be childish and ignorant but more realistic i think. i stumbled upon your post from last year about op izuku and i thought it was a great read

You want to know the interesting thing? That's almost canon.

The thing about Aizawa's introduction to us is that he spends the entire time lying: not just at the end, where he says he was never going to expel anyone and the entire thing was a 'logical ruse'; he goes through about three different excuses for why he's even doing this: first, that they're 'too happy', which was always... deeply fucked up.

Then he zeroes in on Izuku and starts on about how uncontrolled his Quirk is, and combined with his reactions watching the them apply it makes it seem like maybe that's the reason... but after awhile All Might chimes in, and Aizawa unconsciously agrees with him, in that he's doing this because Izuku is like All Might.

The fact that he's a pure-blood product of All Might's Plus Ultra philosophy pisses him off so damn much that he goes through all this to find an excuse to try and kick Izuku out, knowing his Quirk control is terrible... and, as I've discussed before, when peak!human Izuku and his super throw outperforms a girl whose only power is invisibility, he fudges the results to put him at the bottom.

Literally, the the Quirk Test 'arc' is build around Aizawa's vendetta at All Might, Plus Ultra, and, as an extension of them, Izuku. And even if Izuku was actually the second coming of All Might, and, like All Might himself, actually able to use the Quirk from the first minute, All Might makes it clear that, no, he couldn't actually stop Aizawa from kicking out Izuku. Even though he's the Number One Hero.

Because Reasons(TM).

For whatever fucking reason, Eraserhead was given an absurd amount of power involving his students, and I don't think there's canonly anything stopping him from kicking out someone he just doesn't like, and the only reason he didn't kick out Izuku was his weird, twisted ethics that said only breaking a finger was such a big improvement he deserved to stay... and then he did nothing with the whole, 'breaking his finger' thing.

I'm not sure on the exact details, I'd need to brain storm it, but in an OP!AU where Izuku was able to actually use his Quirk I could imagine him constantly trying to test Izuku, looking to undermine him with morals and making the right choice in, like, disaster scenarios and what not (you know, that thing we had implied for five seconds before Shigaraki showed up), trying to make Izuku make the 'wrong' choice so he could have a 'good' reason to expel him, since once upon a time that shit actually mattered.

Have you read Ao No Exorcist? The way Rin was treated always pissed me off, and the fact that pretty much everyone did it kinda drove me away, but that kind of attitude is exactly what I'd imagine for this, where Eraserhead wasn't narratively made the Best Teacher and Izuku was allowed to be great, an attitude of constantly having to earn his place, again and again and again, and passing whatever the most recent test isn't proof that he's 'worthy', but that he's just barely making the absolute minimum.

You know, that, or just the energy Sir Nighteye had in general.

(Fuck Sir Nighteye.)

[c1trvswurld]

Im kinda so very much out of the vivziepop helluva boss loop since its been a while since I watched anything of hers (And because spme of the writing and some of her...choices character design wise turned me off from interacting further) but one thing I will never not have in the back of my mind is how they portrayed striker* as being unreasonably petty and angry at the mistreatment of imps and that his agenda was misguided hatred.

When from what I get in lore from what I remeber that imps systematically are treated like shit and so infantilized by higher-ups that they are treated as pets so I honestly I dont blame him for being a hater as well as not understanding why anyone would--esp an imp would wanna be in cahoots with these infamously elitist classist set of assholes.

[dadrielle]

They told me her coat was gonna be leather and I refuse to accept anything else t b h

[simmersofia]

diego lobo makeover

Bonus: his nighttime outfit 🤫

[olessan]

"Chat never said where to post my dιck pic!"

"Don't say YOUR dιck pic!"

"RELEASE THE WANG CUT"

"PENΙS! SAY PENΙS!"