#use their insecurities against them

[sukibenders]

"Penelope has insecurities!" As an excuse for her harming others because of those said insecurities falls very flat when it puts the character's, who live during a time of few options especially if you were a women, at risk. And even with her insecurities, her lashing out and hurting people should be held in the same regard as how some view Cressida, who didn't get the luxury of a view into her home life until s3, unlike Penelope, and while it still has people calling out this behavior, although rightfully so, it often still includes denying that Penelope needs to take accountability as well.

[cementcornfield]

https://x.com/vikingzfanpage/status/1867748114540433549?s=61

ummm excuse you justin, that is your best friend

lol really though!!

but nah, i touched on this in my tags of a rb of this tweet. like to me it isn't a huge deal or anything. they're obviously still close, they just don't talk in season (which they've both said before). but they spent time in france together this offseason and have also said that they love each other and are always gonna have that connection so i'm not too worried! friendships go through stages sometimes, and adult friendships are just kind of like that, even for football players i guess! (some of my absolute best friends in the world, my favorite people, i only talk to once a month if that. and like a real deep catch up session happens only a few times a year. it's just hard! and i can say for sure that me and my friends do not have nearly as much going on as these two guys lol)

but anyway i'm also gonna take this opportunity to ramble about some more ja'marr character analysis lol. so like, it's becoming pretty clear that ja'marr is deadset on keeping tee and joe with him as long as possible (not gonna get into contract details or likelihood at the moment because that's all still in the air of course. but like, ja'marr's intentions at least are clear at the moment). and it's also obvious how much ja'marr treasures his friendships! he loves his guys and thrives off of being around them! i wonder if like, the evolution of his relationship with justin has to do with how extreme he, tee, and joe are being about contract stuff right now???

like justin and ja'marr were SO close for awhile there. from the hyper competitive but clearly loving friendship they had going on in college. the way they were always together on the sideline and always doing their dances and making up ridiculous elaborate handshakes <3 the way all of their joint interviews involved so much laugher and loving glances. and even after joining the league still talking about each other in the media and how much they love and support each other even as they're still super competitive. hell, when i first became a fan in 2022, ja'marr would still be streaming with justin almost every week lol. (i think justin has stopped streaming and maybe doesn't even do much gaming-wise anymore, which may have been the main way they kept in touch tbh. like, many such cases for the men i know in my life lol)

and now they're at the point where they have so much else going on, that even though they love each other, the constant conversation and all that isn't as present. (and ja'marr has kind of made it clear that that started on justin's end. like, ohhh he doesn't text me back blah blah blah, however true that is 🤔). and i feel like, even though ja'marr probably understands, that had to have hurt. again he values his friends so much and is at his best mentally, emotionally, and athletically when he's around them!!! i wonder if that taught him something about like, "if i want to keep these people i love in my life as much as possible, i need them to stay on my team. justin went to a different team and something that was so beautiful and important to me changed. i can't have that for tee. i can't have that for joe. we need to figure something out" which like, could absolutely be me digging depth into something that isn't there but at the same time it makes sense motivationally for me!!! like did he sob on his agent's shoulder one night about how much he missed justin and how he couldn't stand the thought of that happening with tee (I WANT TO PLAY WITH HIM FOR ETERNITY!!!) and the agent was like, hey, we can do something about this actually! send me his info!

[retordedd]

I never use this blog because the eddsworld fandom is genuinely the only fandom I've been completely fucking miserable trying to engage with. It's full of trans people and yet the community is SO hostile towards non-afab or non masc aligned in some way trans people. I've had people blatantly refused to respect my pronouns after saying they would. I've been misgendered in a server full of trans people where literally no one else was misgendered because there were pronoun roles. In that same server, while I was uplifting trans people making jokes about being proud of their bodies, they made fun of me for not having breasts. I've had multiple people debate my boundaries like it's a topic of discussion because I asked not to be called dude, a GENDERED TERM. I've had people gang up on me to the point of tears because I dared to describe my experiences being raised with an unconventional relationship to gender. I've been accused of holding grudges and being aggressive for even daring to speak up when I'm tired of being treated this way

And these events don't refer to a bunch of random assholes, they refer to people well known in the fandom. People I've seen on multiple servers. People whose names you say and it gets recognized

The eddsworld fandom has a HUGE transmisogyny problem and it needs to be discussed. The way I constantly feel unsafe when in a fandom surrounded by trans people is completely unacceptable

[onthevirgooftears]

not to be insane or anything but it really pisses me off when people say whit killed arei 💀 it is objectively never that serious but everytime i see someone come up with a theory or whatever it just shows such a fundamental misunderstanding of his character and not that I'm a veteran or anything but i just wanted to right some wrongs.

whit is not a killer. he exists in a sphere of kindness and prosperity and nothing else. people only think he's suspicious because we've been dispositioned to think every 'nice' character in danganronpa is secretly evil. whit does not have a facade, he's truly and 100% a good person.

looking back at some of his character defining moments it's so striking that he was one of the only people to give his kindness to the two people who were at the time not very nice people themselves. its striking that he doesn't reveal charles' secret in the first trial until he feels as though charles is comfortable enough for everyone to know and how he does the same thing with david in the second trial because it simply isn't his secret to tell.

he extends kindness to those who probably don't deserve it and actively is willing to put aside his own personal grievances in order to comfort someone when they’re in need. like, it's insane to me that you can look at all of that say "yep 💀 that guys definitely the killer!" HES A GOOD PERSON like literally what more do i have to say.

[chirpsythismorning]

A boy being interested in Will would be amazing the only thing that could make it more amazing imo would be Will having a smidge of interest back so milkmaids ain't doing nothing but helping with the manifesting.

I am totally down for Will being hit on and either (a) having no clue it’s happening so he’s just going along with it none the wiser or (b) figuring out what’s going on pretty quickly and choosing to play along casually in banter bc some cute dude is flirting with him and not some cute girl (finally!!).

In both of those scenarios Mike is witnessing it experiencing the 5 stages of grief 😭

AND WHAT IF it took a puzzle tales twist??! With the guy being brought up in a convo with Will and Mike, with either Will mentioning him casually or Mike bringing the guy up looking uncomfortable, and Will being like ‘is it really that hard to believe someone could like me, Mike?’ THE ANGST!

I just love tasteful angst (rain fight/rink-o-mania fight are peak angst) and that scenario would apply to the rules of tasteful angst so I’m all for it.

Tbh I don’t think it’ll happen tho 😭 This is all assuming Will would have down time to even interact with a random guy while they’re in between conflicts, which I doubt.

But all I’m saying is, worst case scenario being jealous Mike is not an issue for me AT ALL 😅

[annierosaart]

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[questioninglogic]

my sister and i are doing our watch-through of danny phantom and i've become. genuinely baffled at the hatred for the episode Double Cross My Heart

i was actually dreading watching this because i remember hating this episode too, and now i don't remember why. why did i hate it again? fdjnskfnjk

throwing this in the tags because i'd love to have a conversation to see what people think. maybe there was something i missed, or for those who are in the reverse position i can share why i enjoyed it so much

[koishua]

shining solo ep 8. my reaction rn 😐😐 took it a bit hard lmao

[tobuo]

i wanna go on a date this year but dating apps are so humiliating and also Very Straight in my area so lmaooooooo rip

[neverendingford]

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[forthedancingandthethriving]

Part 1

Writing practice for the most part

tw: manipulation

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The fox mother let out a few soft yaps, grabbing her cub by his scruff and back into the secure, hollow tree trunk. The cub protested, squeaking and yapping, but wasn't able to get away.

The skies above the land of Luminos were dark and cloudy. Dark as the night sky, yet no stars or moon provided light, the clouds preventing them from seeing the kingdom below.

Rain poured down, as it had been for a week now. The land was flooded with rainwater, lakes, rivers, and oceans rising. Countless habitats ruined the water drowning vegetation.

Animals of any species had taken refuge in places that were high above ground, knowing that dangers that lie below. Predator and prey put aside their differences, solely due to the fact that it would scarcely matter.

Places farther from the kingdom had locked down, doing their best to work amidst the rain that never ceased. All seemed to realize it had something to do with the kingdom of Luminos going silent, but no one dared venture out and see what happened.

Roads and pathways were flooded, turned to mud that dared to sink anyone who stepped on it. Not even the most trained of horses dared.

Luminos was no better. Unknown to all outside, the bubble around the kingdom stayed up. Its code working well to keep all the residents alive while in the perfect world Nimbus had crafted for her. Working effortlessly and feeding the Program that made it.

In the solarium, the second largest room in the kingdom, five bubbles were in it, with five beings inside. Queen Melody, Ambrosia, Lumiere, SMG8, and SMG9.

The stained glass windows didn't shine. Their colors that normally brought warmth and comfort to the room were cold. The depictions of music, dancing, and harmony on the windows still seemed true, but not in this world.

Nimbus found herself kneeling in the middle of the solarium, holding the conch shell in her paws, gazing at it silently. The rain pounded against the roof of the castle, reminding her of her choice a week ago.

She clutches it, form shaking. Was this right? Did she do the right thing?

Isn't this what you wanted? the words of the water construct ring in her mind again. I'm giving you the perfect life again. No Avatar code to worry about. No stress of having to mask.

Nimbus shudders, her eyes squeezing shut. Had she gone about this the wrong way?

She exhales before jolting, remembering something.

"Oh god, the meetups.." she whispers, tail puffing up. What was she going to do?!

She jolts again, hearing two knocks. Her eyes open as she gazes at the door. "Who..?"

It opens, and there slithers in the water construct. "Having fun?" it asks.

"I.. yeah.." Nimbus looks away. "But I.. I just realized something. I.. I have meetups with.. friends, outside of my universe from time to time. And.. the latest one is coming up soon."

"If you leave with the conch shell, the dream will stop." the construct informs her.

"Well that's.. that's not so bad-"

"Not so bad?" it cuts her off. "It is bad. Your perfect life will be gone forever, Nimbus. Making a conch shell like that takes time and effort. Time neither of us have."

"Well.. I just.." the Songbird looks at the floor. The water construct slithers over to her and wraps around her.

"Dear, think about it, really. You've obviously wanted this for so long. To have your friends, and no worry about your code!" it pats her cheek. "So, really, it'd be horrible if you left, and this ended. Don't even think about it, little one."

Nimbus hesitates. "Well, what about.."

"I'll go in your stead."

It slithers off of her, and it's both changes, taking shape of her. Nimbus watches, amazed, as color comes to its body, mimicking hers perfectly. It's eyes were cloeer, but she assumed that they were the same color as hers.

"And I'll make little constructs of your friends so that they can tag along." the water construct walks over to the bubble of SMG8 and slips its paw into the bubble, gripping the Guardian's arm, and accesses the memory banks.

It suppresses a flinch, feeling some demand it back off and to go away. It doesn't yield, though, and it copies the memory banks. It pulls its paw away and walks over to SMG9's bubble, repeating the same action.

With ease, it makes two constructs of the Guardians, inserting the memories, but keeps the constructs dormant.

It looks at Nimbus, who was watching, amazed.

"Go back to your little dream." it smiles. "I'll handle everything from now on."

Nimbus hesitates before nodding. She walks to the middle of the solarium and jumps, curling around the conch as she does. A bubble forms around her, and she falls asleep.

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Leto hums, satisfied, before opening its eyes and looking in the reflection. It immediately falters, seeing green eyes staring back. "That isn't her eye color!" it gasps, looking back towards the bubble.

It pauses before sighing. "Oh, whatever. It's not like anyone will notice. She keeps her eyes closed most of the time anyway!"

A flick of its paw had the two constructs of the Guardians turn to small water orbs. It tucks them into a pocket before walking out of the solarium.

It glances back, eyes narrowing.

It didn't remember Guardians having that secure of defenses. Something noticed it immediately. But, just like before, if those Admins knew what was good for them, they'd stayed out of Leto's business.

It makes its way into Nimbus's chambers and spots a calendar. It picks it up and smirks. Just a few days from now, the meetup was set to take place.

What fun.

Leto always wanted to see what it was like having so many Avatar in one place.

It flips back a few times and spots the location. SM64 universe.

It makes sure to remember that before turning and leaving.

Leto just couldn't wait to put on a show soon. It really wanted to see just how well it could fool others.

[gingerswagfreckles]

Both things can be true. We don't have to ignore the damage the predatory plastic surgery industry is doing to young girls to support trans people and suggesting we do is misogynistic and incredibly dismissive. Refusing to acknowledge the blatant harm an industry is causing is not going to protect anyone. Should we also not address the opioid epidemic because bad faith actors may use it as an excuse to further limit access to already difficult to get pain treatment? Of course not. These are two issues that BOTH have to be addressed, and the fact that addressing one could be used as an excuse by some people to exacerbate the second is NOT a reason to intentionally ignore those who have been harmed by the opioid epidemic. Similarly, transgender people having increasingly limited options to access gender affirming surgery is NOT the fault of feminists campaigning against the plastic surgery industry, and suggesting that it is is not only bigoted, but balls to the wall insane.

Trans people are being increasingly restricted from accessing gender affirming care because of TRANSPHOBIA, not anti-plastic surgery activists. If TRANSPHOBES are going to use the increasing backlash against the beauty industry as an excuse to limit gender affirming surgeries, the solution is to fucking CALL THEM OUT ON THAT BULLSHIT and why it isn't the same. It's not to basically win their own fucking argument for them by implying that all gender affirming surgeries are merely cosmetic and then intentionally ignoring the dysphoria cosmetic surgeries CAUSE??

Look. I’m going to be honest with you. Adopting that hard anti-plastic surgery stance while trans people’s lives and right to transition is at stake is absolutely horrendous timing. Knock it off.

[bugsybaritone]

I love remembering the last thing my former best friend and said to me, totally doesn’t make me want to scream and sob and rip my skin off

[stonesandswords]

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[abnormallycreative]

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[theatrebooknerd56]

"Antagonist plays on heroes insecurities and makes them doubt themselves and their worthiness of the power they hold" trope my beloved

ITS MY FAVORITE