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Kinda miss the days superheroes were about hope and help and not about how far you should be able to bend before you break
#all these heroes started out as people who looked at the world#or even at one person#and went ‘I want to help’#not ‘I can help therefore it is my responsibility’#but ‘I WANT to help’#a world of people who chose to be—at least in this little moment—kind#it’s the simple act of loving so much you fashion yourself into a protector#you step up and be the shield#i think that’s the core of superheroes really that so many writers have just. forgotten#they’re not a sword#they’re never a sword#dc#batman#bruce wayne#marvel#it’s okay for a story to just be#it’s not about how much pain you can take#how tortured your soul can get#it’s about how much at your core you love something#justice league#to be clear this excludes most of the flash family#you’re a joy and we’re happy to have you here
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COBRA KAI SEASON 5 EPISODE 10 / SEASON 6 EPISODE 1
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#cobra kai#miguel diaz#robby keene#kiaz#kenny payne#shawn payne#what i love about this is that we know robby can and HAS individually beaten both kenny and shawn#but the difference is in both these situations 1. he doesn't WANT to fight them and 2. he's being tagteamed#and both times miguel steps in to act as a shield#to say 'hey robby might not wanna do this but i'll do it for and with him if you keep this up'#and it's refreshing!! because robby has always had to fight his own battles!!#anyway i support kenny and shawn's rights and wrongs
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Some dungeon predictions (and things I'd just like to see xD ) for the upcoming arc!
(inspired by boards I've seen in the past. like this! Art from @/linkeduniverse!)
I love Zelda dungeons and LU dungeon crawling fics are some of my favorites! I'm so excited to see what puzzles Jojo's come up with! Nine person puzzles? Let's goOOO!!! There's so many possible interesting things to do with the chain's items and abilities.
#linked universe#linked universe bingo#mine#would love to see Wind get sand for the phantom sword too!#it's something he pointed out early in the comic so maybe there will be a return to it?#trampolines are my goof prediction. PLEASE!!! xD Legend uses them in OoS and it's so funny to think about#bouncing between levels in a dungeon!!!#(Four kinda does that in MC with the roc's cape too? and Legend again with the tornado rod (albw))#Legend and Time have their mirror shields on them. Wind and Four might have theirs stashed? it'd be cool to see them in play!#I love a good light / energy redirection puzzle#it's been pointed out that the dungeon they're at looks like it might be out of Zelda 2#so I'm thinking it'll be zelda 2 heavy and TP heavy (the statues look like they have spots to be controlled by the dominion rod)#maybe we'll see Ooccoo? hehe#maybe something with switching between which time they're in changes up the dungeon (like the cubes in OoT?)#Wumbodorf on youtube has co-op Twilight Princess and WW series#with some very good multiple Link shenanigans#the game was not built for multiple of them asgjfshfds#Links trapping each other behind doors like- 'step on that switch for me?'#'yep *steps on. gate opens*' 'thank you *goes in*' '*steps off. gate closes*' 'HEY!'#ty again Zola for helping me find one of the boards#AAA I FORGOT BLOCK PUZZLES#A BLOCK SLIDING PUZZLE
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Tomarry AU
Where Tom wakes up in a world as a canon fodder, no named villain who is fated to die a horrible death in the hands of the hero. He is that one villain that is just destined to die and oh boy, does he hate it.
And so, like the logical man he is; he decides to kill the hero. Or to be more precise, he tries to. But, he is stopped. No, no not by the hero. The hero is weak, still. He hasn't gone through his “character development arc” which happens after the hero's best friend dies. And you see, that is the problem. The problem is the hero's best friend. Everytime, every single time, when Tom is sure that he will be successful, that damn Harry Potter has to come running.
Poison? Harry is the one who gets poisoned because he decides to eat what was meant for the hero. Assassination? Harry pushes the hero away. A burning tower? Harry jumps in and saves the guy.
And Tom hated that guy. The guy who literally wasn't given a personality in the book. The guy who's personality was basically "sacrificed himself for the hero". The guy who looks at Tom like he knows what he is doing. The guy, Harry Potter was infuriating.
But does it stop Tom from killing the main character? No. Cue to him making the most convoluted plan there is to get the hero to die. And the plan? Get Harry kidnapped. And lure the hero into a place where he could finally get him to die.
Alas, as always — it doesn't work. And just like always, Harry Potter finds a way to destroy his plans. Again.
Because,
“I know what you are, Riddle.” Harry, with blood dripping down his chin and green eyes glowing (always glowing), says as he stares at him from the place Tom had him tied.
#like everytime#its harry or tom who's the villain or the hero#why not there be a twist#why not make harry that one best friend (bc let's be real he is) whos always dying for his friends#and why not put tom in a situation#where he has to obsess over killing someone else for a change#but somehow#its harry still who ends up becoming the reason why his plans fail#like always#as if they are fated#hmmm#tomarry#harrymort#tom riddle#harry potter#also why dows he not kill harry?#bc he cant lolol#harry doesn't die sadly (for tom)#like all the traps for mc? are stopped by harry because he stepped on them not because he somehow intercepted them lol#or maybw he did intercept them by turning himself into a shield#hmm#who knows#if it makes you feel better#tom does either
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Not to sidebar from Doc Who again but I’m rewatching Much Ado 2011 (again) and I’ve just noticed how several times in the wedding scene Benedick moves to physically intervene on Hero’s behalf and is ordered to stop by Don Pedro. He is told by his prince to stop and then to leave and yet he still rushes back to help as soon as the others are gone how does this scene keep getting better Jesus CHRIST
#much ado about nothing#much ado about nothing 2011#wedding scene my beloved#like listen#listen#I’ve been hung up on how Benedick shields Hero from Leonato in the next scene#since the first damn time I watched this#man self-admittedly doesn’t know WHAT is going on#but knows that it’s wrong#and steps in to protect both Hero and Beatrice#(and don’t get me STARTED on Beatrice in these two scenes and how she’s doing her level best to do the same as Benedick but can’t)#(Beatrice my LIFE)#and David Tennant’s ability to go from joking to observing to ‘don’t fucking try it’ instantaneously#is just#beyond comprehension#but I hadn’t noticed this bit before#Pedro at one point physically holds him back#which#fuck you pedro#fuck you your shoes and the horse you rode in on#but that’s another post#man Benedick rushing back to help has always been great#but now with not just the implication but the CONTEXT that he’s been TOLD NOT TO#even better#11/10#no#1100/10#fucking hell I love this play
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I just rewatched The Winter Soldier for the nth time and it's just such an amazing movie. The perfection of the weapons designed to 'stop threats before they can happen' shooting themselves down because they, and the philosophy they symbolize, are the real threat, and that Captain America, who uses a shield instead of a weapon, leads the charge against them. It messes me up every time.
#it's the only marvel movie i still care about#something about the way friendship is at the center of a movie all about betrayal#as SHIELD realizes it's own philosophy of compartmentalization and lack of trust lead to it's own downfall#when infiltrated by an enemy who uses it against them#and then there's all the people who step up and try to fight back anyway#thr tech who refuses to launch the helecarriers#the pilots who try to help bring them down#the guards who block the insight crew#and I literally just realized this watch through that#the reason hydra needed bucky barnes for the winter soldier#is because the super soldier only works properly on truly good people#otherwise it gives you the red skull treatment#i knew all this i just never put it together why hydra would prefer a mind controlled good guy to one of their own#winter soldier#winter soldier meta#winter soldier analysis#fandom#fandom stuff#fandom meta
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Every single video I see abt “fixing” the companions specs makes me roll my eyes a bit. Trickster cleric isn’t meant to be a frontline class, it’s a super versatile support class. Rogues have fantastic damage output if you only make sure you know how to maneuver your characters for advantage. I think multiclassing and changing classes and stuff can be super fun and always go for what is gonna make a more fun game for you, but it’s not “fixing” it if you just don’t understand how a class is supposed to be used
#like my main party is karlach astarion and shadowheart bc karlach and astarion are lethal in terms of damage#all karlach has to do it stand there in astarion can pick off everyone around her with sneak attack#and I just keep a shield on shadowheart to bump up her ac to a ridiculous amount so she can stand there and mass heal and provide buffs and#debuffs while piff immediately misty steps to a high place and deals damage/uses her arcane ward from there#and I don’t use heavy armor bc I’m all about that rogue lifestyle but shadowheart is so equipped to help with that play style#change her into a war cleric if you just want to point and click kill go for it. but don’t insult my very good classes#ramblings
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let me start by saying, I'm okay to agree to disagree on this, and I respect you greatly as my queer elder. I hesitate to even send this because I don't think this cause is worth dogpiling (and not even the fun way) on anyone against and , like , I will continue to follow and admire you as a mutual who has been through a lot of the hell that I'm going through right now and got to a place I want to someday be. (for context, I am currently housing & food insecure and am trying to live in a queer-accepting city)
Posting will never be praxis, you are my brother in arms no matter what you call trump or cops or whatever. There are some fat liberation blogs that take issue with calling cops "pigs" for a lot of the reasons I bristle at calling Trump a fatass, and like, if someone is actively fighting cops who can and will actively hurt me and my found family, I don't care what names they shout while doing it. So I see where you are coming from and I'm glad you fight for me. I fight for us too, in what little ways I can while I keep me and my found family afloat. I do better work in the community just by existing around people as a living breathing transgender than I could do in a million posts on this website.
I do think that this is a valuable conversation to have, though, even though you are completely right that this is a trivial thing and not at all the bigger, more real issue at hand. I think it's still important, on online platforms such as this, to talk about how we refer to the other people on this planet.
Think about why you didn't call Trump a "retard". You certainly could have, it doesn't *not* apply to some of his behavior. I know people of our generations once used that word a lot, and we don't anymore. Why and when did we change that? I honestly don't remember. For me, my aunt was medically classified as "retarded" and she was the best person I'd ever met, so I decided that word shouldn't mean bad things. The first time I ever hit someone was over them using that word in a derogative way. it wasn't about "mental illness positivity" it was about humanizing the people that word has been used against - people who have been stigmatized and oppressed with that word.
Right now, hopefully, the same thing is happening to the word "obese". Fat people are less likely to be hired, granted loans or secure housing. they can be kicked out of airplanes and fired from their jobs because of their body size. There have been laws proposed to take fat children away from their parents and "treatments" proposed to wire children's jaws shut and starve them to make them thinner. They are often medically mistreated and misdiagnosed. I once went to a doctor with an ear infection and instead of antibiotics, he prescribed me *bariatric surgery.* I have been refused transgender top-surgery because of my BMI, which keeps me at a passively higher risk for self-injury and worse.
I do not care about body positivity. Honestly, between being fat, trans, and poor, I'm at a point where I've given up on ever feeling good about my body again. All I care about is getting jobs and meds and keeping a roof over my family's head and food on our table. Normalizing the idea that fat is a bad thing that anyone can change continues that stigma. When you use Fat as an insult, you are saying fat=bad. Fat is a neutral thing that some bodies can be, like short or tall or lean. The revolution needs to be intersectional, and body size is another axis of oppression that needs to be acknowledged, just like sexuality, gender, race, class, disability, etc.
If you've gotten this far, thank you for hearing me out. I'm sorry that others are just performatively parroting the same things over and over. Civility is bullshit, and if you still want to use body shaming as one of the ways you fight against bigotry, it doesn't really matter to me. Just as long as you acknowledge anti-fat bias as part of that bigotry too.
Thank you for writing and sharing your life experiences with me, and for your solidarity as well. You're striving to make your way as part of a despised minority in a world that's turned unspeakably harsh toward you in an aggressively mean way seemingly overnight, and I admire you for the life you have lived, for your courage and perseverance during this difficult time where resources are scant and your housing and food security is uncertain at best.
(FWIW, after I was bombed out of my Lower Manhattan home on September 11th, my income went from six figures down to nothing overnight, and I was homeless and destitute for years. Twenty years ago, I was where you are now, and I can tell you that what you're enduring today will not last forever, that there is light and hope and blessing in your future, that you're not as alone as you might think, that you must never give up.)
What more can I do to make the point that "fat" has nothing to do with this? As I've said, I grew up obese, and it wasn't until I enlisted in the Army at age 17 that I was able to free myself from my violent and abusive family and unlock the potential of the body that had been hidden under layers of fat and shame all my life. I know that my path is not for everybody, that many others are not so fortunate, and I ceased long ago to think that fat equals bad or lack of character or any other pejorative attitude that society has attached to it for generations. I hope I've made that clear and that you take my word as truth.
I am not saying "let's fat-shame Donald Trump to make him feel bad." I am saying that I'm deeply troubled by the LGBTQ+ community prioritizing hurt feelings over the very real damage that's being done to us right now all over the country by Trump, his minions, his proxies, and his cult of bloodthirsty followers and worshippers. Trump's accomplices in Congress and state legislatures and Moms For Liberty are taking over school boards all over the country, banning books and emptying library shelves and harassing teachers and librarians to the point where they're being run out of town, where the State of Missouri has defunded its entire public library system rather than follow a court order to restore books banned just for featuring LGBTQ+ characters.
DeSantis and Abbott have put in place policies that are unspeakably brutal, that are forcing trans people in Florida to slowly and brutally revert to their pre-transition state, that have given health care providers in Florida the right to deny treatment to you and me and all LGBTQ+ people because we are gay, lesbian, non-binary, trans... but God forbid we should call Trump mean names!
We've seen what happens when we buy into the "when they go low, we go high" fantasy pipe dream. This is not the way the world works, it has never been, and we need to put this loser idea in the trash bin where it belongs once and for all.
We're being attacked and harmed in unspeakable ways that are happening now. This is not theoretical or hypothetical. It's happening to us, to those we love, this minute and every minute of every day. And worse is in the pipeline - they're writing laws that will place us under virtual house arrest, that will regulate where we're allowed to go in our own cities and towns, when we're allowed to be seen in public, when and where we can shop, how we're allowed to dress, even what we're allowed to say and SING, for Christ's sake!
And I'm supposed to be concerned about some minuscule hypothetical percentage of my own people being OFFENDED because I'm somehow being insensitive and violating some trivial picayune social justice warrior philosophy, because there's a possibility of some fragile flower taking it personally, and that I should shut my mouth and let the MAGA nutjobs run roughshod over us? Oh, come let Daddy kiss it! while our brothers and sisters are suffering in real time. Sickening.
Anyone who has a problem with my stance doesn't have to follow me or emulate my proven effective tactics as an activist with 37 years of successfully defending our rights under my belt if they're so dainty and delicate and easily bruised. Everyone else that sees this for the strawman bullshit it is, get ready to hit the streets with bullhorns and whistles once again. We've got work to do.
Your arguments are strong and well-reasoned, and I accept and acknowledge everything you're saying. We can disagree on this, certainly, and still work together to turn back the progress that the MAGAs are making, restore our rights, and protect ourselves and each other. But that will require the snowflake contingent among us to get their collective head out of their collective ass, stop whining, and get with the damn program. Calling me names and telling me I'm being a bad gay activist is a waste of time and energy that should be spent fighting the fascists and the haters who are out to kill us.
And to you, my friend and fellow traveler with a radiantly beautiful soul and spirit, I urge you to hang in there, to keep the faith, to keep caring about life, to work with me to secure our own future and the future of our kind. I send to you my very best wishes, energy, and prayers that you will find your way to a place of health, security, stability, and love for yourself and for this precious community to whom we've both dedicated our lives, who mean the world to us.
Yours In Service, Animal J. Smith
#what more can i do to protect you all#to get you to realize the mortal danger we're in#to put the suffering of our own people ahead of our feelings#to join me in this fight that's eminently winnable#to get you off your butts and your high horses and get to work#to do something - anything - to help save us and save yourself from what they're planning to do to us and are already doing#to think of anyone but yourself for a damn change#to show me and the world your incredible courage in the face of evil#to restore our rights and roll back this tide of hatred and death that's about to overpower us#to make sure that my life's work these past four decades has not been wasted#to let me at long last step back from the front lines and cherish my time left on earth at 61 with AIDS and love my family#to be the dog and the man they need and deserve and long for#to lay down my sword and shield at last#please please please do this for me - it would be your greatest gift#for god's sake wake up#queer activism#queer is not a slur#it's a fucking battle cry#god i am so scared for us all#information gladly given
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I'm not done yet but hey are you giving zuko eldest daughter trauma because I'll fucking kill you I read ONE line it's probably the first of what's to come but I'm sending the hate ask now xoxo
ofc i wouldn't do that! he's just fistfighting a saviour complex and is eternally burdened by the responsibility of raising and caring for his sister while simultaneously being a child himself and always putting himself before the worst of the war so that azula doesn't have to all the while growing more and more rage towards the situation until it all comes out in a very cataclysmic scene that i will definitely cry at when writing :)
#he's got that fiona gallagher in him#big thief rlly went to town with mythological beauty and 'there is a child inside you who is trying to raise a child in me' v tams zukocore#the funny thing about zuko and azula's relationship is that yes it's kinda wholesome but it is still ultimately fucked#and yet i find them pretty easy to write bc i literally just go 'what would me and my sister be like in this situation'#like ive said before how my sister never really stepped up as the eldest and ive always felt like we shared that role#like i'll give it to her she's better at being the eldest in certain situations and im better in others#and it's always been us helping our mum bc as capable and brilliant as my mum is she's also doing everything alone#and her temper is... not great. so me and my sister took care of each other in our own way#and by 'our own way' i mean we have NEVER had a stereotypical relationship. our age gap is too small and we're both too mean#literally zuko's ch1 quote about 'they'd never been protective of each other' is directly inspired by me and my sister#i dont feel protective of her i dont feel a need to keep her safe and happy and it's really odd bc i KNOW im supposed to but i just dont#and she doesnt for me even though she's the 'eldest'. and yet i love her and would kill and die for her#and also if we were in this situation and we were trying to shield each other#from certain horrors that we thought the other couldn't handle then we'd have to be SO CLEVER ABOUT IT#bc just like zuko with azula if i caught my sister trying to patronise me/protect me i would HIT THE ROOF#like i am thoroughly convinced there is nothing she can handle that i cant and vice versa so we'd have to be soooo slick about it#and while with zuko and azula that only holds to an extent bc azula is ultimately YEARS younger than zuko#and whatever you think of her personality she just straight up should not be exposed to certain things#(neither should zuko but yk what i mean)#it still stands and we see throughout tams the v clever ways zuko has learned to protect azula so that she doesnt catch on#like either the next chapter or the one after (probs the one after) there's a really horrific scene#that's just super dark and gory and while with a normal younger sibling you'd do something to keep their eyes on you and not on the scene#like lie to them or make it into a game or something so they're unaware of what's happening#but instead zuko sees what's happening and before azula can he quickly gets her to check their supplies and count their money or some shit#like giving her a job to acknowledge her capability and not patronise her while still shielding her from a really brutal scene#and it just goes over zuko's head that at sixteen he ALSO SHOULD NOT BE EXPOSED TO THAT#but long story short i just think that's so funny. like the fire hazards are sooo fucked and for good reason#but it literally just boils down to me and my dumbass sister#so yeah. very niche eldest daughter syndrome emanating from tams zuko#ask
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the maister system and the new 'find vocations out in the world' system is...ok, but I prefer the old colour system
#saint plays dd2#like coming in as someone who knows nothing abt how DD:O worked DD2's vocation system feels like a major step back#95% of the augments are useless and aren't worth using so there's no real build variety anymore#nor is there any real weight to choosing what to run in terms of combat effectiveness and QoL stuff like carry weight anymore#bc there's only like 5-8 augments worth taking bc the stat bonus are insultingly low for the effort of leveling the vocation#and the colours feel arbitrary bc it's not a tree system anymore. thief is green bc it's green and there's no hybrid green#whereas in DD1 every base vocation had a hybrid colour mix and it made logical sense#strider (yellow) and mage (blue) became a magick archer. strider and fighter (red) doubled down on the melee and became assassin.#while keeping the bow as a sidearm.#pure red became warrior and dumped the shield for 2h colossal but slow attacks. pure blue sacrificed utility for highest tier damage spells#and so on. it just felt so much more intuitive and felt like actual growth when you could 'upgrade' to a hybrid vocation bc#you actually needed to have X number of ranks in both colours before you could take it whereas in 2 they're all just standalone classes#and the meister skill systems are....ok. I don't know how I feel abt all of them being connected to optional sidequests you can fuck up#or straight up just miss bc this game still has the weird design flaw of having points of no return where quests autofail#also like I feel to get the meister skill either you or your pawn should actually have like. maxed the vocation out.#like it feels weird when I get magick archer and then immediately unlock the meister skill at the same time#when I haven't even bought the vocation yet.
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Need a windrunner who's scared of heights and is bitter that on this planet a drive to protect is apparently magically linked to flying instead of like, getting to summon shields or blast lightning because yeah they'll keep their oaths! but can they just do that from the ground, thanks, please?
#i mean i think they'd come up with some new creative uses of gravitation that keeps their feet on the ground#and probably master adhesion faster#but mostly i want rep for me: someone who knows she won't die ziplining and may even enjoy it#but is frozen in fear for a good twenty minutes before letting anyone convince her to step a little closer to the edge of the platform#Windrunner: my oaths to protect should give me the power to teleport others to safety. why does it just make me fall upwards instead.#what's protective about that??#Spren: you know i think you need to trust me and our bond to protect you from getting hurt while practicing this surge.#Windrunner: >:( ok but I'm going to do it scared.#actually hold on i know i said 'summon shield' in the post and well actually. Kaladin kinda does do that with [YOU KNOW WHAT] but like#that was a separate thing. arguably any order might have managed it#I'm talking like. a big red energy shield or whatever#doesn't matter!#point is!#there probably is actually already a windrunner who's scared of heights#but i don't remember them#just my darling beloved Sigzil and wanting to be the first in the sky
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spending your whole life doing everything you can to keep your sister safe and protect and shield her from the worst of your parents -> she has a better relationship with them because of that (in part) -> they go to hug her and you have to wrestle with the urge to pry their hands off her
#like. she's mine. I took care of her and all you did was hurt her#just fucking. back off.#idk I know this sounds weird and insane#but every single time I feel my insides twist it's so fucked up#glad they all love each other though I guess#mine#and i mean like physically shield her too#step in front of her to cop whatever was coming. push her out of the way etc etc#aaaanyway#abuse#(for blacklists)#it's weird I'm not even a possessive person by nature like even in relationships it doesn't really bother me
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Selena really blowing mind rn. She gonna delete her ig and saying she taking a break from social media. Because she was caught liking a post in support of Israel and avoids taking a stance. She really making this genocide about herself when she could’ve spoken about it on her big ass platform. Or use it to reach out to people who actually have the power to actually help Palestinians. I thought she would do better smh. Pls tell me what you think about this.
girl she makes the same boohoo ass post every month like you’re 31 babes!!!! Get a grip!!!
like u don’t need to announce ur taking a break every single month 💀… just do it… like idg the point of announcing stuff like that… girl just take the break… u dont need to explain it every time lol it’s giving loser feel sorry for me and my troubles as a rich (white) powerful person as I sit and cry in my mansion
but yeah she has doodoo for brains, and her commitment to keep centering herself in these types of instances, playing innocent and both/neither-siding shit just shows how complicit she is in regards to injustice and does not actually care bc it doesn’t affect her
but this doesn’t surprise me she did the same thing with the BLM movement and it’s like okay girl just say u hate poor ppl and blk ppl and go lol
#anon#she’s just like any other rich white hollywood cushioned celeb who hasn’t stepped outside of their bubble their entire life#yes I know she’s technically Latina but she operates with whiteness as a shield constantly…#like being a unicef ambassador and donating to charity to keep up your reputation doesn’t mean ur a good person lol it’s about your morals!!#and using your celeb/rich status to help those in need!! to help other have their voices heard#like u cannot avoid being political in todays climate: it’s just impossible you can’t get away with it anymore and you shouldn’t!!#politics show where your morals lie and people deserve to know that if they’re supporting u
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Of course the real spicy discourse Versus is Nero Fateseries discourse VS Egg Guard discourse. Because 99% of the time the people talking about Nero Fateseries are fucking normal about it, everyone understands that her character writing tends to go down the toilet for fanservice and Waifu Marketing’s sake and we all hate the character shilling and borderline apologia going on with her, whereas it’s such an absolute struggle to get people to understand how bad the Egg Guard’s writing is and way too many people are unironically gung-ho for justifying every single horrible thing she has done ever to the point of spewing IRL reactionary arguments. But then there’s that extremely hyper rare 1% of the time where someone does get weird about Nero, which takes on a very special undertone given that she’s a fictionalized version of a very real and very horrible IRL person, and OH BOY
#thinking about this one post i saw years and years ago where someone said that nero killing christians was okay because fuck the christians#and OP had to step in and say 'hey what the fuck???????' because that genuinely was a horrible thing to say#and like. imagine if that shit happened way more often in the context of nero fateseries discourse.#Egg Guard discourse has it all the fucking time but it at least has the tiniest shield of 'this is about a purely fictional scenario'#so there's the SLIMMEST benefit of the doubt that maybe the person arguing is too caught up in the fiction#and doesn't Realize the kind of arguments they're making#when this happens with nero though there is no shield. there is no defense. because now we're talking about what's basically anime RPF.#you cannot do apologia for the funny anime roman lady without hurtling into some buck wild IRL apologia#thank got it only happens once in a blue moon at most#imagine just how nightmare-inducing it would be if it DID happen way more often
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i want to do the mg power swap but my brain so isn't braining argh you completely hit the nail on the head with ranger getting pg powers ... nodding
What is Beta's deal? Still lasers and being the techie?
#Glad to assist in putting the guys in situations#And for Seraph's shield is it more towards like constructs/barriers or like force field bubble or do we have a new idea for them#Mochi forgets they can't do that right now and gets THIS close to receiving a grade four concussion#Freaking the fuck out over their lack of ability to protect others is worked in somewhere#I assume the largest issue that would arise for Starshine is literally just not being able to get around as quickly#And there might be a lesson in that of having the make the best of the situation you're dealt you can't always line up#the perfect shot but you still have to take it etc etc but the more significant impact would pertain to whoever's powers they get#Idk if Beta would even be involved in the power swap#But I just imagine whoever gets its just spends the battle ducked in a corner furiously tapping on their phone#And I'm really drawing a blank on pg. Is it more of a relief for her?#If she get's Starshine's I think she'd adapt pretty instantly once she gets over the whole how the fuck do you control time dilation thing#Because like. Isn't that just what she needs? A second to breathe?#Also I may be severely miscalculating Beta's mortality but literal robot and shield and can't hit a target you can't see x2 vs. Look Over T#Look Over There#No matter who's she gets it's a step up in terms of self-defense
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thinking about your older bf!simon that cannot cope with being far from you.
when you’re in the shower, he’s sat on the lid of the toilet on his phone (watching those rug cleaning videos) enjoying your faint singing under the stream of water, the smell of your body wash on the cloud of steam- ready to pass you a towel or get your back.
when you’re at your desk, working from home or studying, he’s just on the other side of it reading the paper with one outstretched leg tangled with both of yours. he’s dead quiet when you’re on a call, just happy to be around.
when you’re doing laundry, collecting the clothes in the hamper and crouching to stuff them into the washer- turning around and accidentally colliding with a thick wall of muscle.
“sorry, love”
he steps aside but you can hear his soft footfalls as he continues to follow you throughout your home.
when you’re both watching something on the couch, what starts as his pinky locked with yours turns into his arm around your waist. that turns into your head on his chest, which culminates with you falling asleep in his lap with his cheek on your head and soft snores emanating from his lips.
when you grocery shop, you push the trolley but his chest is to your back, arms either side of you and hands clasped over yours on the handle. you can thank his military training for his uncanny ability to tell exactly when you’ll stop walking.
when he wakes up in the middle of the night, on a rare occasion when you’ve managed to slip out of bed without him realising, he’s immediately in a panic calling your name.
“in here, my love”
as soon as his heart settles, he realises the bathroom light was probably a dead giveaway. you’re taking a wee, you’ll be back in a minute.
that doesn’t stop a sleepy simon from leaning in the doorframe, shielding his eyes from the big light as he waits for you to finish up.
even on the short walk back to bed, you can feel fingers twisted in the back of your shirt- almost like you’re leading the way.
minute you’re both on the mattress, you’re being wrapped up in his arms, slotting you perfectly into the curve of his front- almost like you’re made for him.
(and you are)
#idk idk IDK i just want to he needed by him#he’s so big and strong and independent he spends his whole life doing things himself#doing the hard stuff on his own- i like to think at homes he’s needy#and i like to think you let him because he deserves it#doesn’t have to be big strong soldier at home he can be a little whimp#older bf!simon#simon riley x reader#simon ghost riley x reader#simon riley blurb#simon ghost riley blurb#simon riley drabble#simon ghost riley drabble#simon riley headcanon#simon ghost riley headcanon
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