#we have a very complicated relationship (?)

[sailermoon]

I hate when people try to talk to me about god like u know nothing about my god

[cometblaster2070]

ranting for a bit because the entire scene where elphaba tells glinda her secret makes me go rabid and actually makes me want to chew concrete because not only is it actually absolutely heartbreaking to see just how deeply elphaba believes all the horrible things her father reinforces; how she thinks she's responsible for her mother's death and is the reason for nessarose's disability even when it's literally not her fault in any way and is actually DIRECTLY her father's fault.

and just the fact that elphaba tells glinda all this and tells glinda her father hates her and that everything's her fault and glinda looks at her and she's absolutely heartbroken to hear elphaba saying all these things and she becomes the first person in elphaba's life to look her in the eyes and tell her that none of that is true and that it is NOT her fault, it was NEVER her fault despite whatever anyone said.

ik a lot of ppl see glinda's "it was the milkflower's fault" line as a very sort of shallow take by glinda (I'm explaining it poorly but ik some ppl wonder why she didn't just call out governor thropp directly) but I've got to disagree with that take because personally I think glinda heard elphaba talking, heard her describe her secret and heard how her father forced her mother to chew milkflowers constantly during her pregnancy all because he was afraid the baby would come out green like elphaba and she heard all this and she hears how elphaba thinks this is all her fault.

and yk they're roommates. glinda sees the way elphaba talks about her father and how even though she says that he hates her in an almost casual manner despite how she says he's justified for hating her, elphaba still loves her father and she still wants to do right by him and she still wants him to love her.

so glinda knows that elphaba will not listen to her if she straight up tells her that her father's fucking mental and completely wrong and that it was all his fault and that she's probably going to bludgeon him to death. she knows that elphaba will never accept this and she knows that right now it won't do any good for anyone.

so instead she tells elphaba it was the milkflower's fault. and she looks her in the eyes and she tells her this was never your fault you shouldn't think this was ever your fault and anyone who ever told you that it was your fault was completely and totally wrong and I need you to know this.

because the primary concern isn't about telling elphaba she's got a shitty dad the primary concern is telling elphaba that it is not her fault for simply existing. and to let her know that there is nothing wrong with her and that there is someone here, right now, who loves and cares for her so so much and wants her to know that. that there is someone who will hold her hand and who will tell her that they are there for her and that she is fine the way she is. that she is loved.

[spark-river]

Solomon & Thirteen

Headcanon:

Thirteen sometimes sees Solomon's candle go out. The first time she rushed to check up on him, genuinely thinking the immortal sorcerer met his end. Instead she was met with an... unsavory scene.

Solomon did die, yes. But he didn't stay dead. She was a first hand witness to his body regenerating, limbs cracking into the right place and wounds closing up. A mangled body back to being a person.

She still comes every time his candle flickers out but the scene she sees never will grow any less unsettling.

(She pretends to be mad at him for forcing her to come over but she's just relieved he didn't actually stay dead.)

[darcyolsson]

as many of you are aware i lack any natural predisposition to be a true hater as i simply find it hard to relish in anyone's misery no matter the circumstances However i just found out that my ex situationship/ex best friend/current friend-of-a-friend who i run into from time to time who i try to implode with my mind every time he posts pictures w his gf GOT DUMPED!!!!!! absolutely BEAUTIFUL day to be ME 😁☀️💞💛🙂‍↕️🙏🤭🤭🤭🤭 LMAOOOOOOO

[skyheld]

vg being like 'this isn't the south we don't have circles' you can't fool me game i remember. the circles started in nevarra.

[ghoulishautism]

Im back on my bullshit soap box again but-

I think we only have this big of a problem of the massive disconnect between fanon and canon in Danny Phantom because we actively discourage people from wanting to watch the show.

And I can't even blame people...we like to talk a lot about the problems the show has (racism, sexism, fumbled writing, missed opportunities, a show with inconsistent worldbuilding, Butch Hartman-) but in turn I think it turns people away from ever getting into it.

If they already know they like the fan content, and they hear the real show has all of these problems, why should they waste their energy investing in something they were told they wouldn't like?

[farshootergotme]

Dick, Bruce and Cass for the Ask game

Please and Thank You 😊

Dick

Bruce

Cass

[save-the-villainous-cat]

a hero that’s forced to kneel in front of villain??🤨🤨😏😏😏 (I know it’s kinda cliché but still a classic)

“Don’t make me sad,” the villain said. “Don’t make this worse.”

The hero stared at them with burning eyes, with ignited hatred. Once, they’d been something close to friends, somehow close to solving these problems together and bring peace to the city.

What a fucking joke that was. Betrayal could cut deep, the hero was fully aware of that but the villain giving them hope, making promises to work together and looking at them the way they did, didn’t only cut deep but truly severed.

“Kneel,” the villain said softly. And the hero didn’t really have a choice, did they? With the mayor and the superhero taken as hostages, they would vault the villain into a position on top of the food chain if they didn’t obey.

Killing political figures was usually not the villain’s approach. They rather became them by weaselling their way into politics. But if these two died, the entire city would burn. Killing the most powerful superhero in the city and murdering the human responsible for managing it? It was like killing the queen and checking the king.

So, the hero didn’t have a choice. Their actions could prevent a war.

The hero got down on one knee, eyes boring into the hard concrete beneath their feet. Nothing of it had been real and the hero hated themselves for their naïveté.

Why had the villain saved them that night? Why had they stitched their wounds messily? Why had they brought them to the hospital before fleeing into the dark? Giving them painkillers? Hell, putting their cape around the hero’s shoulders?

It didn’t make any sense to the hero and it stung, upsetting their muscles, torturing their heart…

Curiously, humiliation wasn’t part of this. They only felt like they’d lost someone close to them.

Which wasn’t even the truth.

“Look at me.” The villain lifted the hero’s chin with their index finger gently. “No matter what happens, look at me.”

The hero didn’t understand. Their brows knitted together but they didn’t break the eye contact with the villain, looking at their sharp features which only softened in the light of dawn. All of this, so the city could survive. The hero was quite aware that they were the only one to change the city’s fate.

One wrong word and the villain would cut their throats and with that, conjure chaos.

“Do you hate me now?” the villain asked. One thumb brushed over the hero’s bottom lip. “Do you want to kill me?”

“No,” the hero said.

“Answer truthfully. Do you want me dead?”

The hero paused, thinking about that. No, they didn’t want the villain to die, they didn’t want anyone to die. Yes, the hero loathed them for the things they’d done. Breaking their heart like that, leaving them to wonder if things could’ve been different if they’d made a different decision.

“…no,” the hero said. They still looked at the villain, stared into their eyes. In this moment, they seemed as tender as they’d been when they’d rescued the hero. “I don’t want anyone to die.”

“Do you think you could forgive me for the things I’ve done?”

The hero thought about that too.

Fuck, they probably could. Although they were angry and frustrated, they knew they forgave easily. When they thought too much about it, put themselves into someone else’s shoes a little too desperately…

“Yes, I could. Probably.”

The villain waited.

“Okay,” they said. “Kill them both.”

The hero’s eyes widened and they wanted to yank their head towards the mayor and the superhero but the villain’s grip on their chin hardened, commanding them with a gaze to keep looking.

“I’ll take care of you.” The villain wiped one of the hero’s tears away. “Don���t worry, sweetheart. You can stay with me.”

[rafyki]

It's so incredibly funny to me that by ep 12 Peem and Phum have kissed like a hundred times already and done and said the sweetest things to each other, yet they're not together yet

Phum finally confesses and Peem has the guts to play hard to get asdfghkljkkll "no I will not tell you I like you too, but I'll let you kiss me and kiss you back tenderly and lovingly, I'll be your safe place, I'll book a trip to the beach for just the two of us, and I'll even get a room with only bed so we have to sleep together" lmao they've been hitting on each other since day one, pleaseeeee

"try and win my heart", BRO YOUR HEART HAS BEEN HIS SINCE EP 5 WHO ARE YOU KIDDING

[bitchliteraria1906]

Someone: What's your sexuality?

Me: well you see, I never had a serious crush on anyone. Also, I had trouble understanding what a crush even was for most of my life. Also, I identified as aroallo for a while because I thought I was aro but not ace, but now I think I'm ace too. Also, fictional crushes. Also, I enjoy learning and reading/sometimes even writing about kink but have no idea if I would be comfortable actually participating on it. Also, some days I'm perfectly happy like this but other days are still confusing and shitty because it's all still new to me. Also-

[forbiddentaako]

more monochrome practice I suppose

[six-improbable-things]

The idea that family is always good is so fucking pervasive. And if your birth family sucks, the goal is to find another one. But what if I don't want a family (or don't want another family)? What if I just want friends? And I don't want to have to call them something fancy to get people to understand the depth of our relationship? Why is it always "just friends"? Not just in a romantic context, but like, people call their closest friends their brothers and sisters. Why does calling them that immediately make people take the relationship more seriously???

[qoldenskies]

Do you have any particular characterization for Splinter in your sep au that you’re able to share?

personally i see him as a little more active in his sons' lives than he is in canon (donnie stepped up with money and resources that allowed them to live comfortably, and without his presence in the family they have to be a lot more careful to conserve what they have, which requires him to be a much more active presence) but he's still withdrawn from them enough for raph to still have some of the issues he has in canon; after all of the trauma he went through leading up to the sudden children thrusted upon him, he struggles a lot with his mental health, which is something raph at times directly had to feel responsible for. it's probably not good to feel like you're co-parenting with one of your children, but that's kind of what ended up happening!!

raph and splinter are TECHNICALLY closer than they were in canon, and a lot more communicative, but i would say their relationship is a lot more complicated in a lot of ways. it's why raph is a lot more serious here, because even more than in canon he's kind of always had to be an adult. he didn't get the opportunity to be a kid at all because they always had to fight to survive. (it creates both great exhaustion, and intense protectiveness. he is EXTREMELY overprotective of mikey because of it, while splinter is a lot more lenient and encouraging to let him have some independence)

[noisytenant]

Being reminded once again that a lot of people have fucking sleeper cell agent triggers that make them instantly fail to see the human being in front of them, regardless of any personal history they have or any rapport. instantly, that person is an Enemy that cannot be reasoned with. Permanent fight or flight.

And that instead of this being seen as, you know, a rather maladaptive attitude to bring to your relationships that will permanently strip you of the capacity to experience full love and companionship, there is a dominant strain of thinking that this is a reasonable, righteous, moral good.

That a "boundary" looks like building an impenetrable wall that nobody can see but you; That conversation, negotiation, and collaboration aren't just avoided--They're treated with contempt. The very notion of trying to understand why another human being that you care about may suddenly act in an unpleasant or even monstrous way is spat upon and trampled underfoot. Complete abandonment is considered a first line of defense rather than a last resort.

I think we all need to do our best to get over this kind of thinking. And I don't mean that we should be push-overs; In actuality, moving away from this kind of rigid "boundary" often means advocating for yourself and fighting for what you think is right. I think we all deserve friends and allies who can compassionately challenge us when we adopt ways of thinking and behaving that hurt others without immediately assuming the worst.

[yourfriendlyneighborhoodenby]

*slaps side of cybersix cartoon* this show can fit so many trans experiences in it

like, the genderfluidity of it all? you're is presenting as a man here with this identity and as a woman here with this identity but is always still you. one of the things the story says over and over about our protagonist's love interest is that, in whatever way, he cares so so much about our protagonist in Both of their identities. The story is not just about one it's about both.

a transmasc experience? The coat that's a bit too big for you but makes your shoulders look wider, the shirt that's big enough to hide in, your voice doesn't really pass and you're just hoping it'll be overlooked, you get hurt and you don't want to go to a hospital because they would see through the disguise, you don't want to give your name to someone who might realize it's not official. If they see through the disguise you're in danger. you've finally reached a part of your life where you can make connections freely as a person but there's always this doubt of is this real? do i deserve this? what if they knew? and they can't know because that would implicate them in the same danger. i cannot be this and live this all the time because of how i was created, because of the dangers around me. and at the end of the day, when it comes to the final hour, I'll have to give this up, won't I? you put the glasses down. but you survive anyway, and you can get them back, if you want.

but just. the more I watched of this show the more it's just absolutely hit me in the feels with a transfem narrative? like in the way galaxy the prettiest star has a 'you're in disguise as a man to keep yourself and those around you safe' transfem narrative and like specifically a partially closeted/sometimes in guymode transfem narrative. your childhood photo that you keep with you is ambiguous enough on your gender to not give anything away. you go to work in mens clothes that don't quite fit right with a man's name and you hope no one sees through that facade because if they do you would be in danger. You go home and at night you change your hair, you put on your makeup and nails and heels and you go back out as yourself. and you are incredibly strong and you are in incredible danger but deep in your heart you feel alive. and at the same time there is a voice in your head that says you are not real, you are not a real person. you are not the right kind of person. you are not the right kind of woman. you don't deserve the things that real people deserve. you'll try to turn away someone who loves you because of that but because he loves you for yourself he doesn't care. You face danger and you survive anyway and you're loved. It just. it hits me right in the feels. I love her.

so much trans. very gender.

[sombreset]

Personal and emo update below