#to me the context matters

[hxhhasmysoul]

Same anon and fwiw, I think Gojo will win but die and the students will have to deal with everything else, and Sukuna will have to accept being defeated and weaker than someone which will be interesting for his character.

And sorry, I don't see an issue with depending on on the fly smart manoeuvres over long term strategy. And I liked your blog before but I feel you're being unpleasantly rude to people who like Gojo and aren't calling Sukuna a fraud or shit like that.

There is so much to unpack here.

You came to me with your first ask that was phrased in a way meant to provoke me due to its tone, and I explained to you why I think the thing I think. Gave you 2 arguments for it. Then you came with your second ask which you phrased in a pretty rude way and in which you try to provoke me more by completely ignoring the points I made. Kept implying that the main problem is that I don't want to admit that Gojou's smart or whatever.

You finished it off with: "You hate the idea of Gojo winning, I get it, but you could be more self aware of your bias lol." Do you think this sentence somehow doesn't mean: your opinions are stupid because you're not perfectly objective. And implies this as a contrast between you, the objective one and me, the subjective one. Are you a right wing/centrist influencer who thinks that the appeal to the fallacy of objectivism is somehow a discussion ending statement? Do you somehow not know that the accusation of subjectivism and emotion is used by the right wingers and centrists to shut up people, especially women and queer people? If you weren't aware what you sounded like. If you really didn't mean it in your head as a dismissive provocation, I'm sorry to tell you, you live in a culture with certain cliches and strangers online will not be able to glean your pure intentions when you use loaded language like this.

So I matched your tone. And now you're here: I don't like you anymore because when I was rude to you, you should've been extra nice to me. I'm sorry stranger online who I had no idea reads things on my blog that I won't roll over for you and pretend to you that this also isn't straight from some right wing playbook of internet discourse. The appeal to civility when you broke the rules of it first.

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Yes, Sukuna managed to seem a bit human in this fight, got a tiny bit character development. Gojou got none.

Both of them enjoyed this fight equally, they were both very mean to each other and insulted each other to rattle each other. Both of them were purely focused on dominating. Gojou in an even more open way by yelling: look I will humiliate you in front of an audience...

Gojou never respects his opponents, in no fight of his, he always insults them. Sukuna actually praised his opponents 3 times in total, 1 time purely mockingly, the finger bearer, 2 times the mocking tone was actually laced with sincerity, Megumi and Jougo.

Because Gojou disrespects his opponents he makes them other people's problems.

He disregards Touji, thinks Touji's attacks and actions are merely to distract Gojou so Touji can go after Riko, because Gojou can't even perceive himself as vulnerable or as a target at a time when his techniques aren't perfected yet, then he's still a kid. Riko dies. But Gojou ascends because he's untouchable. He suffers no permanent damage from that just gets stronger.

He destroys the Inverted Spear of Heaven and the Black Rope later out of pure selfishness and pettiness because they could be used against him and even a tiny bit level the playing field, that will not stand.

He doesn't contain Jougo, just bullies him in the open. Hanami saves Jougo and Gojou doesn't give a shit because he can easily best Jougo. Countless people die, including Nanami.

Gojou doesn't make sure to kill Hanami during the school attack.

Had he respected these opponents and killed them, Kenjaku would've had a much harder time pulling off Shibuya.

Gojou knows something's cooking, that he might be a target. He very flippantly concerns himself with it. After all, he can take everything that anyone throws at him.

Shibuya happens, countless people die. Culling games happen countless people are affected, die, are displaced. All because Gojou has zero respect for his opponents.

He doesn't even treat Sukuna as a potential threat. He'd win, maybe he'd break a bit of a sweat but he'd win. And he does. Because the rules that govern all other characters, including Sukuna do not apply to Gojou.

Gojou is exactly the amount a piece of shit as Sukuna. Sukuna is actively homicidal and Gojou shows so little regard for others and is so neglectful that people die and suffer. But Gojou is worshiped, there's so much propaganda behind him that everyone sees him as a savior. It's perverse.

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Sukuna didn't get nervous so he lost. Sukuna lost because the longer they fought the more damage he too, it affected him. His power level, his abilities, his durability.

Nothing that happened in the fight affected Gojou for longer than a moment. His power level kept resetting. None of the damage stuck.

The brain damage Sukuna suffered was because that's how Gojou's technique works. Sukuna had no choice but to take it and hope for the best, he miscalculated, didn't asses his condition well enough. Instant consequences, that carry on throughout the fight.

The brain damage Gojou suffered was unintentionally self inflicted. He instantly gets over it, he didn't know that it'd happen but he walks it off. It has no bearing on the fight going forward.

Gojou has a secret childhood technique that perfectly counters Sukuna's type of attack. No damage.

Gojou can pull off a Black Flash because he's undamaged, because he's power levels don't drop.

Why can't Sukuna perform it? Why doesn't he counter with it and reap the benefits of it? He doesn't know how to? Toudou explained it to Yuuji, so even if Sukuna didn't know it before then he'd've known it now.

Oh and Hollow Purple doesn't affect Gojou because it's his own cursed energy... Funny how that didn't apply to Yuki.

Clever moves mean nothing if you're not bound by the rules of the game. Sukuna isn't worse than Gojou in figuring out what's going on in the fight on the spot. He's just bound by the rules. All the other characters are.

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Being able to think on the fly isn't less than planning. It can be absolutely fucking amazing. Yuuji fights like that. All his fights are so fucking good. He's very good at reading and understanding his opponent. In matching them, in countering them. The fights wouldn't be half as good if he wasn't bound by the rules. If his reactions or tactics or maneuvers always worked flawlessly. If he didn't take damage. If his superhuman qualities weren't consistently met with reality checks.

These fights are fucking brutal, they are heart breaking. He's so amazing and heart-wrenching alone, he's even better when he fights with someone else, with Nanami, with Nobara, with Toudou with Megumi or Maki. His fights are gripping, they make me scream, or cheer, or cry.

But thinking on the fly to magically counter everything that is thrown at you is not exciting after a while. Coming up with clever tactics that always work as planned, especially when the character isn't affected by the fight while their opponent is.. and while their opponent really planned for the fight. and while the opponent is equally smart but somehow fails a lot... that's just plot armour, that's deus ex machina. For me there's no excitement in that. And if everything works in Gojou's favour it really doesn't feel like he's actually doing much.

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But all above is actually just insult to the true injury that is this fight happening at all.

You know what would've been perfect. If Gege never answered the question who's the strongest. If those two arrogant fuckers never got to measure their dicks against one another. If they both got humbled and suffered the consequences of who they are.

Gojou should've stayed in the box until it was all over. He should've have been thusly rewarded for his arrogance. It should've been proven to him that he's not indispensable. That him being one of the kind is nice but the world doesn't need that. That the victims of his negligence managed to clean up his fucking mess. And that if he wants to be a part of the world he needs to rethink who he is.

Sukuna should've been beaten by people individually weaker than him. It doesn't really humble him to be beaten by an invulnerable being. Sukuna did consider himself above all but at no point it seems that he thinks that the rule don't apply to him.

Gojou comes from the supposition that they won't, that whatever reckless thing he does, the universe will align itself and it does. There are no stakes, there is no tension.

All the stress is manufactured by Gege adding an audience because none of it comes from Gojou himself. It's all from the people who don't know that the rules don't apply to him and who care about him.

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People whose potential is being wasted, whose stories are being put on hold.

And look what Kusakabe says: there are still Uraume and Kenjaku to fight... why isn't Gojou going to kill them? He's fine, he can't be affected by anything. So now others are supposed to risk their lives... Why? What's the logic here?

Because the Sukuna fight was Gojou's dick measuring contest, a little ego booster, an opportunity to show off to the public. There's nothing cool with him coming up to Uraume and exploding them like he did with Hanami. The audience wouldn't even register that it happened. He's done. He showed how cool he is, he didn't save Megumi but that never was the point of this exercise. He's done.

Also as I said, magically nothing he did made Megumi worse, at least nothing to the effect has been mentioned. The stakes literally don't exist.

Now the kids can go and die dealing with Uraume and Kenjaku, tough love... or like Ijichi put it he's just lazy. And selfish. He kinda beat Sukuna... will he contain him? Considering how he behaved with Jougo... Maybe he learned something from that one...

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Speaking of the kids, he supposedly does it all for them, just not for Megumi fuck that one. And fuck all the weak ones who didn't survive, like Mai. So he put Gakuganji in charge. Gakuganji who doesn't consider Yuuji human. Gakuganji who killed Yaga. A death Gojou made all about himself. He wasn't there to prevent it. But now he surely will be so it's okay to put Yaga's murderer and the person who actively tried to kill Yuuji twice, in charge of the system the kids are trapped in. The system that killed Mai because there was no way out for her.

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To me whether Gojou's move can be considered tactics or can be considered smart is a moot point in the context of how his character functions in the story. If he pulled some of these things... not all of them because the sheer amount of these clever instant solutions also diminishes their impact... If he pulled some of them off, failed others and was actually in any way affected by the fight then we could talk about him outplaying Sukuna. I will repeat it one last time. You can't outplay anyone if the rules don't apply to you because then you're not actually playing the game, you're just taking the board and breaking it.

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I have no idea how Gege is planning to sell whatever happens next.

If they focus on Yuuji now and his overdue family time and matricide, if it's painful, excruciating, tense and beautiful I will stop caring about how annoying and disappointing this fight was.

[buttercupbuck]

"you know, my therapist says everyone needs a safe space, a place where you can fully be yourself"

[image description: 2 large gifs of evan buckley and eddie diaz from 9-1-1.

gif 1: from season 6 episode 12. in the diaz home, eddie (out of frame) watches buck sleep on his couch, his arm draped across the sofa.

gif 2: from season 7 episode 5. at buck's apartment, the camera pans as eddie, holding his phone, turns to face buck as buck rounds the corner of his kitchen island.

/end ID]

[bixels]

tarpit site.

[pinep-ne]

If one more person misconstrues Arthur's journal entry about how he should have married Abigail as genuine romantic attraction I will actually lose it. OBVIOUSLY IT WAS TO SUPPORT HER AND JACK AND FILL THE ROLE JOHN RAN FROM!!! Marriage for the sake of convenience and support is nothing new folks. It was not lust nor love. I personally don't even think Arthur had anything with Abigail at any point. They were just two troubled souls that had leant on each other in a desperate situation. Y'all are stirring a hollow pot talking about how John would've felt reading that entry. He probably didn't even give a damn because he knew well Arthur's insistence on giving Abby and her boy at least some semblance of stability.

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[elvyn]

Some drawings of Solas and my Lavellan. Idc that their story in games is over as they are still live in my head💃

[starry-bi-sky]

im dedicating this to @detectivedarling. i felt inspired after seeing their little ficlet yesterday sadhjfl 🫶

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Danny's grip on his cane tightens.

"What—"

His voice cracks. He stops, clears it, then tries again in spite of the nausea twisting in his gut. "What are — you, uh, watching, Bruce?" He sounds horribly far away.

Bruce doesn't look at him, his attention laser-focused on the screen. Which is— fine. It's usually not a problem, Bruce gets like that when he hyper-focuses on a case, and unless it's urgent — or he's been at it for hours — Danny sees no need to pull him away from it. He likes the quiet camaraderie they have, it's companionable and unique to the two of them.

He wishes he was right now though. Looking at him, that is.

That way he wasn't watching what was clearly one of Danny's ghost fights. One of the nastier ones, if the collateral damage and rubble on the street is of any indication.

Danny tries to remember which one that is. He shuffles a little closer to the desk, ignoring the rock in his stomach or the ugly weightlessness in his arms. It's not the blood blossoms, that much he knows. He just recently had an injection so it shouldn't be bothering him this soon—

So it's just nerves. Perfect.

Most footage of his fights are— messy, at best. Unusable at worst. Amity Park was obsessed with appearing 'normal' when they first started happening, and typical news stations censor the worst of the fights anyways for publishing, since they can get pretty gory at times. And ghosts move too fast to be caught on regular standard cameras, not including distance and light and—

That is to say— finding usable ghost fight videos is hard.

Danny wonders how Bruce got his hands on this one, and then stops wondering.

The audio is muted, which is - good. Good, because the fight is ugly and chaotic and clearly this was taken on someone's phone. Fuck, he can't remember if he ever saw that before — clearly not. They're hiding behind an overturned car, and Danny grits his teeth so he doesn't tell that idiot to run.

The camera turns up, and focuses on two figures in the air. It takes a few seconds, but when it does, Danny gets hit with a wave of vertigo. His grip tightens and he leans heavily on his cane, he waits for the black dots to disappear.

He- uh, he remembers this fight now. Uh, sort of.

He remembers being twelve at the time, and he remembers some of the injuries he got out of it. His eyelid spasms abruptly. This ghost wasn't one of his regulars, so he doesn't remember whatever name they had, barely remembered what they looked like up until- uh. Now.

Was he always that small? Well— Phantom's never been particularly big, perks of being a dead kid, but— it's - different. Seeing it from an outsider perspective. Was he that small? Or is it just because he's wearing a jumpsuit clearly too big for him that casts the illusion of being small?

Doesn't really - matter. Now. He can't access his ghost form, and he already knows the answers to his appearance.

Phantom is clearly bleeding, viscous and violently green like the bubbles of a lava lamp, clutching onto a limp shoulder that's missing an arm from the elbow down. Half his face is drenched in similar blood, the eye on the drenched side is closed — not because he can't see through the ectoplasm.

Danny's memories of that fight slowly come in a bit clearer. Right. He took a pole to the eye in that one. That had - hurt. A lot. Getting an eye gouged out usually does. It and the missing arm took hours to grow back.

He rubs his eye with his palm for no other reason than it itches.

The other ghost isn't untouched of any injury either, but he's not in a state of dismemberment like Phantom is.

Danny drops his gaze down at Bruce, whose sitting in his chair with his hands threaded together, looking so tense that Danny half expects to meet solid steel if he were to touch his back. His face is - blank. Terribly blank, with an intensity in his eyes that Danny doesn't see often.

He looks terribly distressed.

He opens his mouth, and finds that nothing comes out. His throat is thick with an ugly, tar-like feeling that makes his eyes sting. Kinda reminds him of when someone wraps their hands around your throat and presses. He closes his mouth, then tries again.

"B—" hhhhhh, "Buzz."

Finally Bruce looks at him, one hand slaps the space button on the keyboard, and the video pauses. His expression doesn't shift, but there's a weight in the lines of his face that reminds Danny of a set of weights sagging.

He looks quite like he's grieving something.

Bruce opens his mouth, his voice comes out terribly soft and heartbroken: "He looks like you."

Which is— a terrifying sentence in and of itself. One that makes Danny's legs shake and ignite his ragged, poison-chewed nerves alight with the need to run. An instinctive urge to deny, deny, deny.

How could he? He could say, that's a ghost, Bruce. I'm not a ghost. He could crack a joke, and ask, 'do I look dead to you?' or say something about how he knows that his parents studied ghosts, but that didn't make him one.

He could say that, and he could say it knowing full well that Bruce would see right through it. He'd probably let Danny too.

Danny closes his eyes. They sting, you see? So does his nose, right in the back like someone popped him in the face. And his throat is thick and gross and like someone stuck a spider, the big fat tarantula kind, right down into his esophagus.

He breathes in — through his mouth, because his nose stings and so it'd be best not to irritate it further with air — and it's terribly shaky and uneven. But it clears a pathway to his lungs big enough for him to say — whisper, really:

"You know, I think you're the first person to notice that."

[luna-loveboop]

I find it funny that Wild, who has basically a couple years ish of full life experience, comes up with the most insane theories for everything

He assumed that the only other explanation to Four being able to split in Four was. That he was quadruplets who'd been hiding this whole time???

Also apparently he believed that his wolf companion Twilight in botw was a diety (and felt very uhh shocked upon finding out that he was not)

Malon made things worse, telling him about her aliens theory

What's even FUNNIER is that every time Wild expresses any sort of confusion at magic stuff that he's never seen before, everyone else in the chain acts like it's crazy for him to be weirded out by it

Honestly maybe Wild's the only one with his head on straight, rather than everyone else who are just like 'it's magic bro' like no he's right this is weird

I appreciate this because it's very considerate of the fact that he woke up with no memories not too long ago, so he doesn't have much experience to explain the stuff that's 'normal' for the chain. Plus the explanations he comes up with are funny.

:)

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Art and comic and adorable character by Jojo @linkeduniverse au :D

[royalarchivist]

Foolish: Unlucky for you guys, Fit's already leaning towards joining The Kingdom. 😌

Hannah: Fit, what?

Pangi: Really?

Fit: I've indecisive– I'm an indecisive voter right now, you know? Like... you know? I could be swayed one way or the other if- if– you know.

Hannah: Well Fit– we have- we have a Badboyhalo.

Pangi: That is true!

Foolish: That should be enough to make you NOT join. [Laughs]

Fit: [Laughs] Yeah, that– You're not selling it that well right now!

Hannah: Nooo– stop! 😫 [Laughs]

Sneeg: Fit, our– you know, our little- our little mountain is right next to the castle.

Fit: That is true. I mean yeah, Badboyhalo's a legendary warrior, but then you also have to put up with Badboyhalo, so it's like a double-edged sword.

[coern-art-very-cool-and-nice]

distant blue sky

[bunnieswithknives]

Can we possibly get your version of osma? I'd be interested to see what you did with her

Here you go!! I was putting this off a bit cause, I'll be honest, the way the reveal/transition scene was handled was actually kinda upsetting for me.

I did read on her Wiki though that she's apparently a fairy which is awesome as hell. I haven't gotten to that part in the books yet but I'm glad to have something to chew on in my time of need.

[buttdumplin]

I only know Mexican Spanish, so I can only speak for myself and those I grew up with but "mami" and "papi" are not the equivalent of mommy/daddy as used in sexual or intimate relations.

We use mami and papi with our kids. It's what our tíos and tías call us that affectionately. It's what the lady from the corner store calls us when she's sweet on us and can't quite remember our names. It's what our grandparents call us as they fix up a scraped knee. And they bring out papito/mamita when we're either in deep shit, or in need of comfort that can only come from someone with more knowledge, power, or experience than us. It's a diminutive term of endearment.

I'm not saying it's never used as mommy/daddy, but it's hardly ever a title. The context of it is so wildly different, because it's usually what we call someone we're responsible for.

"Mamas" tho? Mamas can fuck.

[anti-transphobia]

Random reminder that I HATE Plushie Dreadful!! Those mental illness/disabilities plushes? Typically rabbits? There's been a lot of criticism over them about ableism in the past. Personal feelings about disorders being marketed, formerly partnering with Autism Speaks, etc. But one thing people don't seem to notice is the ableism towards schizophrenics, narcissists, and antisocials! This site with a bunch of beautifly designed rabbit stuffed animals decided to make the schizophrenic and antisocial plushes noticably creepier than most others. The antisocial one at the very least came out cuter than the concept art. But the schizophrenic one is openly based on serial killers. And NPD? The official Twitter account made a poll about what the design should be, made degrading comments about narcissists, and liked comments by people making fun of narcissists. In the end, in order to not make the npd plush TOO special or unique looking, made it a plain brown rabbit with a paper crown (openly saying it's because pwnpd aren't actually special or deserving of a real one). When contacted by pwnpd with criticism/feedback, like they say they accept, they ignored it

Ableism towards disorders people find "scary" or "bad" is still ableism!!! It's still shitty!!!

[toastsartcornerthesequel]

Isn't this how ttv3 went?

[shorthaltsjester]

Imogen Temult, Exaltant Hope of the Red Storm

Heroes and Monsters by Penny & Sparrow // Critical Role Campaign 3

[irvingcoded]

❄️ TERROR TEXT POSTS⟶ 17/??

[aroaceleovaldez]

Romantic in nature or not, I always just looked at that scene in MoA with the notion: Annabeth is convinced that Nico, a gay man, has a crush on her in this exact scene (or you know, a different scene in MoA, I don't remember), and since we know that Annabeth isn't the best on the emotional front, she read Luke's intentions incorrectly, and Percy did, as well, due to his jealousy of the guy.

(Now, I know that neither of these are the case, especially since I doubt Nico was thought to be gay until HoH, and this is around the time that Annabeth was starting to be characterized as Never Wrong About Anything Ever, but it's always been my go-to regarding the whole Luke-Annabeth debacle. What I mean to say is that I like your interpretation of the scenes, too)

Oh i actually believe Nico was fully intended to be gay starting around MOA at least (though I do believe Rick claiming he had figured that out about Nico earlier than that), because Rick was absolutely acknowledging queer topics in his writing at that time. Jason's arc particularly in the latter half of HoO is extremely bi-coded and there's just straight up a canonical polyamorous relationship in Serpent's Shadow, which came out several months before HoH.

Which does make Annabeth's line about that in MOA funnier, especially considering by that point Nico has held maybe one full conversation with her in the entire franchise thus far, maybe two or three if you wanna push it. I cannot emphasize enough how little they had spoken to each other - and tbh, continued to not speak to each other. Just in general. Like the most notable interactions the two of them have prior to the high-five scene in BoO are literally both in BoTL and it's one line and then one off-screen scene of Nico breaking up a fight between Rachel and Annabeth (where they were fighting over Percy) entirely for the purposes of going to save Percy. They barely interact in HoO. Nico and Annabeth have a chronic case of their plot lines being in different locations because only one of them is allowed to be active at a time due to their narrative roles. Annabeth is kidnapped for most of the TTC Nico scenes and Nico is at camp when they get to Annabeth, and then in TLO Nico's busy with all the Underworld stuff and flirting with Percy so he never interacts with Annabeth. Then Nico is off at Camp Jupiter when Annabeth's at CHB and then busy being kidnapped for the first stretch of the Argo II mission and only shows up when Annabeth is busy on her Arachne quest. And then Annabeth FALLS INTO TARTARUS when Nico gets there (and proceeds to pine at Percy) and then IMMEDIATELY after Annabeth gets out of Tartarus, Nico skips away with Reyna and Coach to drag the Athena Parthenos to camp. And then FINALLY they interact and it's not even Nico speaking directly to Annabeth really, just high-fiving her after insulting Percy to his face. He literally only says one word directly to her.

Like. I cannot overemphasize the absolute comical degree to which these two avoid interacting. They're like magnets repelling each other. And yet Annabeth is like "I think he has a crush on me - he spoke to me once, allegedly." Like ah yes, sure, HoO. Next you're gonna tell me you retconned them into having a FOURTH conversation! Don't get too wild!