#to just casually drop that fact

[albatris]

potential funniest book three plot twist: Quinn and Alex are married and have been for years

[lucabyte]

So does anybody else ever think about how Loop felt the need to demonstrate that the party's deaths wouldn't have any effect on the loops. I know I do but that's besides the point. Anyway I don't think Loop actually needs to bathe, they just like to feel included.

[homielander]

i'm sorry but hotd positing that all women are innately cautious and peaceful and compassionate while men are rash warmongers is not a feminist win! i could see the value in everyone being hesitant to go to war at the onset of the story because it intensifies the tragedy of this house tearing itself apart, but at this stage, rhaenyra has as much reason for bloodlust (if not more) as the men on the show. it's pretty heavily implied that the shock of her usurpation killed her daughter, aemond killed lucerys, and one of aegon's kingsguard snuck into her quarters with the intent to assassinate her. most importantly, she has felt entitled to the throne since she was named heir as a child. she should be incensed! rhaenyra's inaction in the season 1 finale due to a sudden aversion to violence was already stretching believability -- this is the same woman who expressed nothing beyond mild shock at vaemond's beheading, who plotted with daemon to have an innocent man killed to facilitate laenor's escape while declaring that the realm should fear her. to have rhaenyra insist on peace at this point in the story, when war is already well underway, is incredibly irrational.

this problem is not limited to rhaenyra. alicent ordered larys to kill mysaria's network of spies and any suspected traitors in the red keep, presumably without any due process, and neither of these decisions was depicted with the gravity they deserved for a character who was once horrified by any bloodshed. meanwhile, aegon had a few extra ratcatchers executed, and not only was the direction sufficiently ominous, but we also got a lengthy monologue from otto about how it would spell his doom. it is probably pointless to bring up rhaenys because she is written less like a believable human being and more like a mouthpiece for the writers to assert whatever political opinion they believe is correct in a given episode -- but she did very much kill dozens if not hundreds of smallfolk last season. she did do that and very clearly did not care. why is she an advocate against war? for both alicent and rhaenys, there is a strange dissonance where their actions are at odds with their attitudes about opposing large-scale war for the good of the realm. i'm not saying this dissonance cannot exist, but it should at least be acknowledged.

helaena raising concerns about the losses suffered by the smallfolk might have worked in isolation, but for it to accompany everything above is exhausting. can none of these women be allowed to feel for themselves?

[ilostmygenderalongwithmydignity]

Can’t stop thinking of the concept of Martha and Thomas Wayne getting resurrected pre-Jason Reveal, and he has all this shit planned, he hasn’t done any of his Dramatic Ideas™️ yet, but Jason “theater kid” Todd hears that his grandparents have come back from the dead, and goes “oh fuck, this would be SO fucking funny” and just. Shows up. Acts like whatever brought them back also did it to him. Alfred answers the door and he’s just like “guess it runs in the family :)”

Bruce et al. are thrilled, if a bit confused as to why he’s so Big now, but they figure whatever, it’s fine, Jason’s BACK

Martha and Thomas, though, IMMEDIATELY know something is up. But they Know in a sort of “I’ve been dead before” way so when they question him they do it out of earshot of everyone else, with an excuse about wanting to get to know their grandson. Jason, knowing he won’t be able to fool them (he’s honestly shocked he’s gotten this far with Alfred), fucking folds immediately. Thing is, you cannot tell me those two had no mob connections. Idc what cannon does or does not say. I stand by the firm belief that organized crime is the funniest possible way for the Waynes to get their fortune, and that’s how a lot of my headcannons start.

ANYWAY, Thomas and Martha are, as a result, amusingly supportive of his crime lord career. To them, this is just a family member with a hobby that reflects their younger years.

So you have

• Bruce Wayne, the Batman, fighting crime

• Jason Todd, his son, Red Hood the prolific crime lord

And

• Thomas and Martha Wayne, Bruce’s parents, who went full mafia family and are very supportive of both careers

And then there’s Alfred, who is pretty sure Martha and Thomas aren’t the only undead members of his family “borrowing” firearms, but in all honesty he feels better about Jason having a gun on him considering what happened to him

[zeb-z]

can we talk about Phil and Jaiden today and their interactions after Jaiden finally shows her wings because I’m going crazy.

Jaiden showing off her wings for the first time to Phil, and Phil both happy for her and also insanely jealous, because why did she get to keep her wings, while his got clipped so badly he needs his backpack to counterbalance the weight he lost - or at least the weight he looses having to keep them close to his back.

and the whole time they’re talking in a group, hanging around spawn, Jaiden is perched somewhere above the group. up in a tree, moving from branch to branch, or against the wall, or right on the top of that lamppost. Phil, on the other hand, stays sat on the bench the entire time. grounded.

and every time Jaiden hops from perch to perch, he looks specifically at her. zooms in whiles she’s sat on the lamppost even as he continues conversation. its such a small detail but really helps punch in just how much Philza can’t let it go, can’t stop wishing that he could do the same.

[qqueenofhades]

One of my friends was trolling through the Rook and Rose Wiki and found this gem:

If you have read the wiki in sufficient detail to find this paragraph, congratulations! Your prize is a bit of canonical post-canon trivia: reincarnated ex-zlyzen are sterile until they have fully burned off the influence of Nirri. This means that Grey is sterile, and yes, it means that Vargo sires any kids Ren has. You're welcome. ^_^

It made my little ficcer's heart squeal in glee, and I thought it might do similar for you

OKAY WHAT. WHAT. WHAT. WHY WOULD THEY JUST CASUALLY DROP CANON OT3 CONFIRMATION ON US LIKE THAT VIA A CAREFULLY HIDDEN PARAGRAPH IN A RANDOM FAN WIKI. I KNOW FOR A FACT THAT AT LEAST ONE OF THEM FOLLOWS ME ON TUMBLR SO MA'AM. MA'AM, EXPLAIN YOURSELF!!!!

Anyway. I am. Hmm. I am taking this news entirely normally and definitely did not search "heavy breathing" gifs on Tumblr which turned up, possibly to nobody's surprise, so much porn. But yes. Seeing as I am the Chief Rook & Rose OT3 Tumblr Pumper Pepper Upper and have dragged so many people into the books by screaming about it nonstop at extended intervals, I feel it is my responsibility to normally and responsibly uh

uh

hmm

/SCREAMS

[chichapalabok]

AU where ritsu meets leo & izumi early on and doesn't get held back bcs leo befriends him immediately :')

falling out still happens tho

[uzukali]

stop normalizing ccs coming to tumblr. Its scary.

[lloydfrontera]

when lloyd comes back in his own body javier starts having trouble to fall asleep again no matter how long and boring lloyd makes his lullaby. he's fine during the day but the moment he closes his eyes he's filled with anxiety and the visceral feeling that something is Wrong. they're both extremely confused about why their usual method is not working but after a while of trying (and failing) with a bunch of things lloyd half-jokingly asks if maybe holding his hand would work. but javier is desperate because it's been weeks since he'd gotten any decent sleep so he takes him up on it and that's how they end up in the same bed holding hands with each other.

and it works.

lloyd teases javier about it relentlessly the next morning while pretending he didn't spend half the night imploding into himself because 1) Feelings and 2) turns out this body was still pretty touch starved who would've thought.

and javier bears with it because maybe if lloyd is distracted enough he won't ask any questions and javier will be able to keep to himself his realization that he'd gotten so used to keeping track of lloyd's heartbeat that he'd been unconsciously reacting to its absence now that he was in a different body with a different heart. and that he'd needed the physical reminder that he was there to be able to sleep. he's taking that shit to the grave thank you very much

[wildandmoody]

And to think aaron carter and michael jackson are smoking weed together in heaven now

[qoldenskies]

little CVD detail that i think is funny but not really relevant, in the chapter in the hidden city donnie notes that he doesn't have a tracker on casey after he runs off, and then in the very next chapter when he goes to pick him up from the GED place he just does.

the devil works fast but hamato donatello works faster (its because he's paranoid and doesnt sleep)

[shsl-writer]

sorry for accidentally dming you this but I find you very interesting and got too excited and pressed the wrong button and stuff so uh yeah

Opinions on Kiyo? (I’m very very normal about Kiyo and definitely relate to him to a average degree)

Heslo! Don’t worry, I totally get it, I’m horrific with technology. I’m just glad you wanted to talk!

Kiyo! God, I adore Kiyo. I haven’t gotten to the third game yet but I’ve watched all the ftes and am obviously pretty deeply entrenched in fandom stuff so I know a good deal about him, he’s genuinely one of my favorite Danganronpa characters.

To me Kiyo reads as an abused person who hasn’t yet realized they’ve been abused. Other people can probably articulate it better than me but from what I’ve seen his Sister has dictated most everything about him from his clothes to his interests. Everything he does is for her and from the sounds of it this is still the case years after her death, that’s how deeply she’s influenced (and manipulated) him. I’m assuming that his parents were either absent or not there entirely which is why she had so much control over him. It makes me so angry about what they did to him in the 3rd trial not only because Kiyo’s character was then completely villainized but because it’s an absolutely disgusting way to paint someone who’s so clearly been abused. There’s a difference between recognizing that a character doesn’t realize they’ve been mistreated and writing them to be a goddamn serial killer (Danganronpa has a history of turning heavily traumatized characters ‘evil’ tho, just look at Toko and Syo).

Anyway, I also think Kiyo is super autistic. So many of his sprites are self-soothing positions (which could also be related to the abuse but yunno), he’s covered pretty much head to toe which could be to protect from sensory issues, and most importantly: this man infodumps like no one’s fucking business. It’s kinda all he talks about unless prompted otherwise? And there’s implication he doesn’t have a lot of control over it because he’ll cut himself off sometimes realizing he’d been talking for too long and dominating the conversation. All of his ftes with Shuichi are about essentially acting as a teacher for different anthropological subjects. That is a special interest, you can’t convince me otherwise.

Overall I think Kiyo is just a really tragic character who was completely fucked over by the writing. As someone ND myself I find him so fucking relatable. He’s seen as weird and typically keeps to himself and has a hard time holding a normal conversation. He keeps trying to just stay in the background and observe but not only does his stature make that difficult he’s also got so much to say, so much knowledge he wants to share, and he just wants someone who will listen. I hold him so dear to my heart <33

[modelxis]

You cannot try to write mmz/mmzx without playing mmx

You cannot

[surprisinglydomestickakashi]

My favorite part about being still into Naruto is the way I'm into it means I frequently have to tell algorithms that I don't actually want to consume Naruto like they want me to. Don't give me bland voice over theories from people who need to be reminded of minor characters. I need my clinically not-normal girls, gays, and theys to talk with about the little side guys they have entire lives mapped out for, the interpretations that include their favorite filler episode because they like it and above all else people who don't shit on the women characters or only consider them, annoying and useless or waifu material.

[nectadraws]

so i finally made myself a mafuteru, i wanted to years ago already.. no regrets

It's portable to put in ur pocket (or attach to phone)

[sketching-shark]

In honor of the Journey to the West reading group I moderate reaching some particularly violence-laden chapters, I just wanted to take a moment to express both both my wonder at the fact this story has be the base for centuries worth of stories for adults and children, but also my bafflement as to why more horror creators haven't taken advantage of some of the most casually inflicted and mentioned acts of violence and mass death that you'll find in classical literature.