#unresolved thoughts

[vinyls-corner]

This thing have been bothering me for a while. Its about Winter and his students.It was shown how Winter cares for his students ,that he would threathen a duke's daughter just to keep them safe but then in later chapters he didn't seem to care and he just told Penelope to run away and not worry about his students who were held hostage by Yvonne. Its just seem out of character of him to do that it feels like the author is forcing him to look heartless .For example the chapter where he use Raon as a bait( I still treat this chapter like it never existed) I get the part where he wants to test Penelope because she's acting suspicious but using Raon as a bait? Seems like a hard thing to believe .Why would Winter who saved these children from an anti magic organization will use one of them as a bait? As a rational and overcautious person as Winter it feels really strange.Honestly a lot of the parts of the novel are unresolved and left me confused but this is the only question I want to ask at the moment. I'll be grateful to anyone who can give me an answer or opinion ^⁠_⁠^

[candont]

I mean I liked it. I cheered at the at the exciting parts got sad during the sad parts. Yet after there was a small yet lingering twinge of disappointment. Can't pinpoint why.

I mean this one was like custom built to hit me in the nerdstalgia. Not only do I still have my copies of the Mignolia scripted Rocket Racoon series from way back when but the Abnett Lanning series was one of the last mainstream series I was reading before the last (most recent) time I quit comics. I didn't really feel they got the characters right until the second film as the first one seemed to me more like Star Wars but if everybody was Han Solo (an excellent idea mind you). And this one only added, actual time in knowwhere and Cosmo! How cool! Maybe she could have said Comrade more but I thought yes right I should have been reading Cosmo as female all along.

My oldest said it was the best Marvel in forever and my youngest liked it but said it was still sad. Am sure I'll watch again and see if that twinge comes or goes.

[fulcrums501st]

if we define “good dad” by genuinely wanting what’s best for your kid, loving and caring for them unconditionally, being patient with them, making them feel valued, giving them the space to express themselves, encouraging their talents, and genuinely trying your best and doing what you think is best for them, then Silco was a good dad.

But if we define “good dad” by actually being able to properly parent and discipline your child, ensuring they aren’t a danger to themselves and others, teaching them healthy life lessons so that they can grow, not projecting your own unresolved trauma onto your child in a codependent way, and being a good role model, then Silco was NOT a good dad.

[brucie-baby]

unnecessarily sad over the inherent tragedy of comic book characters like batman. he loves his city and he wants everybody to be safe and he hopes that one day gotham will no longer need batman but that will never happen because the story can't end. his city will never get its forever happy ending because that doesn't sell comics. quite literally doomed by the narrative because the story must go on. crazy. sucks for that guy.

[bookshelfdreams]

"charles's anger issues make him volatile, just look what he did to the night nurse!"

yeah I saw that, second sexiest thing he ever did. "that was extreme" "that was a lot" no it was BASED. sometimes, violence is the answer. sometimes, people make you relive the worst, most traumatic moments of your life in an effort to manipulate you - and in such an event, it very reasonable to beat them up with a music box and feed them to a giant angler fish.

hope this helps.

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

Spells To Forget Us

YA witchy romance

a powerful teen witch who’s expected to take over her grandmother’s witch council role

and a girl struggling under the public pressure of being the focus of her family’s influencer blogging content

when they meet they’re immediately drawn together and start dating - and the witch casts a required spell so that if they break up, the mundane will forget about magic and their relationship

then they break up. and both forget. and then they meet and start dating again, regaining all their memories

the cycle keeps continuing, and they have to figure out how to deal with their issues their family expectations are causing so that they can potentially have a real chance together

bi & lesbian MCs

[idazahardt]

[jawlipops]

bellaras dialogue after weisshaupt is pissing me tf off i hate that they boiled the entire worldbuilding potential of elven gods returning down to one scene of "what if people think we evil :("

[campbenji]

opening the trailer with the news flashback scene and having Darius say "we survived because we had each other", to then have Scott Kreamer say that Darius has withdrawn from people since we last saw him...... can you hear me crying

[havenandart]

been stuck in a bit of an art rut but wip :'>

[lunar-years]

Thinking about Jamie having his dad in his phone as “Dad” with quotations because he knows he’s never been much of a father and about him watching as Sam talks to his own dad on the phone and Sam is grinning so wide because his Dad is praising him and loving on him and Jamie stands there and knows he’s never, ever going to get that from James. Thinking about how he still goes to Higgins and asks him about his relationship with his own father. Thinking about “I try to love him for who he is and forgive him for who he isn’t.” Thinking about “look Jamie, whoever he may be, he’s your father, and that makes him a VIP!” Thinking that Jamie probably thinks of Higgins as a fundamentally Good Person and he’s trying and clawing so desperately to be a good person, too. Thinking about him wondering if the reason his Dad doesn’t love him is because he’s not a good person. Wondering if he’s incapable of being a good person. Wondering if it’s his dad that’s the problem or him, if it’s really been him along. Thinking about Jamie immediately searching out his father when he steps onto the pitch at Wembley, and letting him into the dressing room afterwards. How probably Higgins’ words are the ones in his head as he nods him in. How James lets Jamie down again–now always forever. How James rags on him in front of the entire team and questions his loyalty to Richmond in front of the entire team and shoves him when his back is turned in front of the entire team. Thinking about Jamie, who fights back and then is visibly shaking in terror afterward. How everyone is so thrown and no one knows what to do with that and so no one does anything except for Beard and Roy. Beard, who tosses James out only to be punished for it after, nearly killed. Roy, who hugs Jamie like he’s maybe understanding him for the first time. Like he can finally, finally see him, only this is the part of himself Jamie never wanted anyone to see. Even Roy. Especially Roy. Thinking about how Jamie hugs him back anyway. Desperately. Like Roy’s the only solid body left on earth. Thinking about how the show moves on and we don’t get to see if Roy took him home after and we don’t get to see how their relationship changed after, if at all, and we don’t get to see anyone–not Ted or the team or Keeley or Higgins or Roy–ask him if he’s okay. How the next time we see Roy with him Roys back to fighting with him and headbutting him. How the narrative moves on like James didn’t come into that locker room and change everything. How James disappears from the story entirely after that until he reappears somewhere in Amsterdam a season later as a phantom still hovering over the scene, over everything. Still haunting Jamie. How Jamie still looks for him in the stands when he walks onto the pitch in Manchester during Mom City. How Jamie can’t shake him and can’t be made free of him and how Higgins’ advice turns into Ted’s advice turns into a voice in Jamie’s head telling him to forgive. “Dad” becomes Dad, no quotations. “Hey. It’s been awhile. I hope you’re okay.” Jamie who tries forgiveness. Jamie who visits his father in rehab. Jamie who’s still trying to be a Good Person and wondering if he’s finally doing it right—

[sapphorror]

Y'know... A lot of ZaDr fics have them either gradually drifting into a less contentious status quo or establishing a deeply bizarre multilayered dynamic that is nonetheless very consistent and beholden to its own rules—which works, to be clear, because slavish adherence to the rhythm of their endless 'game' is already their canon baseline.

WITH THAT BEING SAID. I think it would be very funny to depict a ZaDr dynamic in which they're like, on-again off-again nemeses. As they get older theyre gradually forced to acknowledge the true depth of their mutual attachment, but instead of actually improving themselves in any lasting way or compromising the conflicting elements into an ill-definable state of contentious codependence, they just start oscillating wildly between periods of obscenely clingy allyship and devotedly murderous enmity. There's never an in between. They'll dedicate all their energy to trying to horrifically torture each other to death, until one of them gets uncomfortably close to actually dying or an external crisis pushes them together or they just get bored—at which point, they become obnoxiously glued at the hip until one of them relapses into anxiety about their ambitions or an argument escalates past the the point of no return or they just get bored. And every time they both Really Mean It, They're Not Gonna Do This Anymore, before naturally going ahead and doing it again

[and-her-saints]

“hmmm should i download the dating apps again?” *loud wrong buzzer noise* NO NO NO WRONG ERRRRR WRONG you just want validation that you’re desirable and attractive. go pet your dog or call a friend and experience what real love is about

[coleramse]

win the fight, save your life.

[quietwingsinthesky]

I feel like opinions of John Winchester are less about how well you can interpret the show and more about how many daddy issues you, personally, have.

[pinazee]

Why couldnt i hyper-fixate on like learning an instrument or a new language? Instead its just revisiting TOS episodes with heavy doses of spirk and spiraling in my feelings about the things left unsaid