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[pepijopa]

I try to pretend redemptions in reach | prints

[doverstar]

can't express accurately how happy it makes me that c.s. lewis did not leave room for many interpretations in narnia. it's christian and you can't get around it. susan chose to care more about worldly things than what matters and he said what he said. the lion is Jesus. evil is evil and good is good and people have to choose. and that makes some readers angry because it's nearly impossible to ignore and they want to ignore it. they want it to be something else and they can't make it something else without making it not narnia. love that. that is doing it right

[case-files-and-wine]

thinking abt maya seeing through trucy's facade because she's ALSO been a young traumatised child who grew up wanting to please the adults around her and having to be grateful to be taken in. about her accepting that this is something trucy will continue to do because as a child with no real agency it is the one thing she has to protect herself. and she doesnt try to fix it but instead reassures her as often as she can that love can be unconditional

[sunlight-shunlight]

i truly think solas should have been bi for several reasons:

it's equality, he's literally an immortal being who cares more about The Soul of his lover than anything else, if he's elf-locked anyway then why not guy elves. let male lavellans be lovelorn and miserable. the dialogue would be the exact same.

deters the type of person who gets upset about their fantasy blorbo theoretically being attracted to other genders. goodbye toxic heterosexuals.

deters - and this is crucial - the snide condescension towards female (generally) fans for liking "a morally complex antagonistic protagonist". as well as deterring the devs from writing a romanced lavellan in veilguard as an unfortunately wet blanket who's on that "uwu but i still love himmmm... 🥺😔" type of YA novel mindset, regardless of how you wanted her to react to such a difficult situation. either all lavellans should be written as equally pathetic about it and their players derided by the developers, or people register how weird it looks when it's about a guy (clearly it did not bother them to write several previously strong female characters as suddenly mild and soft, and call mostly female fans stupid 🙄) and stop.

solassan could be Real and Extremely Heartbreaking.

i'm bi and i endorse this.

[arxhafleu]

ever since i saw stoick and hiccup being edited into this trend, that's when i fully realized that everyone who said "stoick's death could've been prevented if he just listened to hiccup" IS DEAD WRONG. because i believe it's not a question of possibility or choice. the one thing that could NOT be prevented in that moment was his "instinct" to protect HIS SON. and it's an uncontrollable instinct, not something you're thinking through at the moment. you can't prevent that shit, that's why it's an instinct. unstoppable one. that was his SON in danger. you can't expect a father, much hel of the stoick the vast himself — to just stand there and watch it all unfold. it's not a fucking matter of trust and decision (bec ive seen ppl say he Didn't Trust hiccup enough to listen and that's what killed him) ((WHICH IS A STUPID STATEMENT imho)) — again, it was an instinct, a reflex, with love and desparation all in one. stop saying his death could've been prevented when his instinct to protect and save his son is UNAVOIDABLE. so no. his death wasn't escapable in the way y'all think it was. because there's no universe where stoick lets his son get blasted right in front of him (even tho let's say, hiccup could've dodged it) while he stands there and does nothing.

[mr-krinkle]

there’s is something to be said about johan from monster and the judge from blood meridian à la the cycle of consuming then destroying humanities knowledge

[artbyblastweave]

The news montage sequence from Batman Vs Superman remains, to this day, one of my favorite three minutes of superhero fiction

[thegreatyin]

mr candles/mr eaten is a lord of doom. do y'all understand my vision

[gothicastles]

MORE THAN GOD LOVES THEM!!!!! GOD!!!!!!

[aboxofcereales]

I think there should be some magnificent writing done of the looming moral dilemma of Elspeth Rook Mercar, the Breaker of Bonds, the firm believer in heroic nonsense, falling for a Lucanis Dellamorte, whose calling is death, the First Talon of the Crows. Because no matter how big and soft his heart is, he’s still unavoidably will lead the organization who helped to save Thedas, yes, but also is intertwined with many of the horrors that the Shadow Dragons oppose. And yet, still she will always choose Treviso, instead of Minrathous.

[infamouslydorky]

I think what's most upsetting about getting into arguments is most of the time the advice is to always stay calm and be rational to actually communicate maturely, which is lovely in theory but complete ass in reality, especially when the person with whom you are at the mercy of debating with does nothing but escalate and not even listen in the first place

[crehador]

brother crab's spring 2025 parting thoughts: wind breaker s2

ok. so. there's a lot i really liked in this season (and the series overall) and one thing i really don't. but the one thing i don't like is, tbh, not exactly something the series can do anything about or even its fault per se (will get more into that later)

first, the good: i really liked sakura's development in the first half of this season, as usual i love the more slice-of-life type moments with the group just hanging out together (team mario kart, bullying suo over team lunch, etc), and the fights stay beautiful. well-animated and well-choreographed, nothing to complain about there

the one thing that has me going ehhh is just...

basically what wind breaker feels like to me is a sports anime where the sport is beating the shit out of each other, and that should be a great thing because i love sports anime. one of my favorite genres for sure

the problem is, in a sports anime with a typical sport, they don't really need a reason to keep introducing new rival teams for the main team to compete against. a reason as simple and straightforward as "we want to make it to nationals" can carry a whole series when it's basketball or volleyball or what have you

but tragically there are no nationals of beating the shit out of each other so wind breaker ends up having to keep coming up with new reasons to introduce each new group to fight

and to me that part, the transitions between fight arcs, is just a bit... goofy. and repetitive. it feels like it's been an endless cycle of a weird guy appear -> weird guy likes to fight -> we disapprove of weird guy's reasons for fighting -> we fight weird guy -> we defeat and/or domesticate weird guy -> a new weird guy appear

i don't think there's really anything that can be done about that, like yeah they need to keep introducing new teams. and they need reasons because it can't just be the next team we need to beat for nationals. but at a certain point it just gets tiresome and silly, especially when the stakes feel a little forced

besides the weak transitions between fights though, i still think it's a really solid series. the character bonding moments are the strongest to me, the cast is cute and endearing and easy to like. the fights, visually, are excellent and fun to watch. there's just that one. inevitable. flaw

tl;dr these guys need the nationals of beating each other up. tbh.

[mint-ty]

Jere seems like a guy who would berate his own dick so that others would go "I'm sure it's not that small! 😕" and then ask to see it so they can compare and compliment it. It's all a plot

[zakiyah]

the desire to remain in a small tumblr community vs the desire to go completely offline forever and ever

[keeper0f-k3ys]

can someone please please please give me a good reason or like way to disassociate or motivation to get me to shower. I like. I rlly need to but for some reason I just can't and I'm rlly upset rn so I'll prolly just end up harming myself or sum shit if I do and I rllllyyy don't wanna do that but I. don't know. what to do idk

[rosehippiefield]

Santa and/or ranmaru with 4, 10, 25 for the ask game ✨

Spoilers for 999

4. If you could put this character in any other media, be it a book, a movie, anything, what would you put them in? Santa

I've thought about it for some time and honestly I'd really like for him to be in Zero escape Virtue's last reward lol. It's not exactly different so it's prabably cheating but come on! Santa was helping Akane with scheme this grand in 999, maybe even he was the one who did everything because she was being dead (depending on interpretations), but he's not even present in the sequels? I crave closure wiht him. He drove away in the end of 999 and that's it?

Also, my little ponies for healing. I think he deserves to just have fun and be a pony

4. Ranmaru

So originally I wanted to use my little ponies for Ranmaru because he clearly needs friends. He's not entirelly hopeless in communication so if he has enough positive experience he'll maybe have better outlook on life and he'll find his purpose. I can imagine him not having cutie mark initially and being really moody about it so Sara and Joe decide to help him.

As a second option, Winx! To be honest, it's more me having plans for yttd and Winx crossover so I'm still kinda interested in it. There Ranmaru and other dummies were supposed to play the role of pixies. Well, kinda because they were connected to their partner. The rule of killing partner still applied and thus the dummy would return their "humanity" (which they also would return by sacrificing themselves and earning enchantix but Midori the Darkar never mentioned that part). If we're talking about canon Winx, I think Ranmaru would make an interesting mage/specialist character who's gloomy but can develop and eventually with gained power of friendship finally living happily.

10. Could you be best friends with this character? Santa

Maybe not best friends, but I could see us as friends. I don't really know how much of his personality in 999 was a facade and how much was genuine (though I suppose he didn't fake absolutelly everything). I think he could be caring and kind if I reminded him of Akane. And even if it'd be draining for me to be around someone this agressive, maybe we'd get along. I like old siblings that care about young siblings by default. Not as best friends though.

10. Ranmaru

Once again, not really best friends but we could be friends. He's a bit negative and cynical, but he can also be inspiring and determined. I'm irked by his obsessiveness with Sara and I wouldn't want same for me. On the other hand, it was partially influenced by the fact he died and wanted to feel all those moments of friendship he never had being alive. So maybe we could be friends and eventually he'd become happier? I don't know what we could do together and like I'm introverted too so I don't know if Ranmaru'd want to befriend me.

25. What was your first impression of this character? How about now? Santa

At first I thought he was twink with the attitude and agressiveness so it's better to not anger him but he could be helpful. I didn't exactly like or dislike him, I think it was more of a positive impression

At the end, I like him and I really wish there was more. I have one small problem with the ending because our kidnappers just leave without explaination and while Akane showed up later in sequels he never did. It was supposed to be this way I guess... But I really like how he was way smarter and more complex than I expected, that he was part of this elaborate scheme to save his sister, that he cares so much for his sister. I love tragic siblings

25 Ranmaru

At first I didn't understand all the hype about him because he was the most popular dummy and I thought he looked boring

Now he's still more on the neutral side in my grading system and he's not character I think about often but I acknowledge that he's a complex character. I think I was really irked by his logic route betrayal so I can be a bit biased against him: like Yabusame tries to reassure him, then all group members agree to subject themselves to pain to save him and the thanks they get? He murders a Yabusame and plans to continue the same with the rest. I understand that he's under pressure and he's dead and he doesn't want to kill Sara but like... These people saved (or tried to save) his life. He can be self-sacrificial to the absurd degree too when he tries to download Joe AI in his body in emotion route, basically commiting suicide, which is less morally bad so he's not absolutely irredeemable scum but that logic route kill makes me like him less as it stands