#and his drinking problem

[verday]

It was so important to me that Stolas was able to be sad throughout the entire episode. Usually media likes to rush a character's grief/depression/sadness. Like "Stop moping around" or "get over it already." Depression doesn't just go away. It is a persistent feeling of sadness.

His depression was also presented through various emotions/emotional states.

Lethargy

Crying

Anger / frustration

Self-blame

Not wanting company and being emotionally drained and unable to reciprocate

We even see him Smiling / Laughing which is so important because we see that he is still in there behind the sadness and tears. His laugh is not as lively as it once but he is still capable of smiling and finding joy.

His problems weren't fix in the end and his sadness didn't go away even if he has someone who loves him by his side (and even if he loves him too). And I think this is one of the best depictions I have seen of a depressed character in media in a long time.

[hinamie]

mentor

[outtamynoggin]

It's crazy what he gets away with (and who the ones letting him get away with it are)

Bruce: What Nightwing did might have been... unconventional, but it worked.

Tim: Exactly. I mean, sure, the plan might have involved hacking into Gotham’s power grid, a few strategic distractions, and, uh, some minor illegal surveillance-

Barbara: MINOR? DISTRUBANCES??

Tim: Okay, fine! The plan also had a teensy bit of hacking into the stock market, manipulating a few politicians, and borrowing a couple confidential documents, but nobody was harmed!

Bruce: ...In the strictest sense.

Tim: Yes! See, it's a win-win solution!

Barbara: *furious* You two are insane. You’re treating morally ambiguous like it’s a fun new hobby. He practically engineered an escape from a high-security prison by tricking the entire staff into thinking it was game night. In addition, he orchestrated a city-wide blackout just to steal classified documents, and you’re calling it genius?

Bruce: Very resourceful.

Tim: I mean... it’s not his fault they didn’t know how to play Dungeons & Dragons. Also, I want to see who else could pull off a high-profile heist while simultaneously launching a PR campaign for a new tech startup!

Bruce: *to Tim* Wayne Enterprise's tech gadgets cleared the shelves, we need to speed up production.

Tim: Already on it.

Barbara: You’re defending this? That’s not genius, that’s a psychotic breakdown wrapped in a cape! It's madness layered up in a three-piece suit!

Bruce and Tim: It’s Dick.

Barbara: I swear, if it was anyone else, you’d be throwing them in a cell for years.

Bruce and Tim: It’s Nightwing. He has plausible deniability.

Barbara: Plausible? I think he has a whole separate universe of deniability!

[lindenhe]

the real question is does he become drunk when there is alcohol in the blood

[mobius-m-mobius]

#just let my man plan a full uninterrupted date PLEASE 🥺😭

[planet4546b]

daydrinking in the park in the middle of edgeworth's murder case middle of investigating the case in which edgeworth has been accussed of murder pausing to daydrink in the park on a beautiful december afternoon with his best friend who is reasonably drinking what appears to be a lovely soda clearly holding an open bottle of wine despite the fact edgeworth is currently being framed for murder middle of the afternoon drinking wine straight from the bottle wine appears to be his drink of choice despite the fact he is twenty four years old and he could be drinking a bud lite or maybe a white claw and its the middle of the afternoon and hes in a park and edgeworth is currently being framed. for murder.

[ruporas]

feast (ID in alt)

[lookstairs]

I think one of the most realistic parts about Baby Reindeer (2024) is how much Donny downplays the abuse he faces

I know everyone wants to hate on him for being “stupid” and blame him for everything that happened because yes from an outsiders perspective he made questionable choices but isn’t that what HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE DO?

I know so many people who’ve “played nice” or tried to downplay abusive behavior. You try and tell yourself “It wasn’t that bad”, or that it was just some crazy experience that should be forgotten. It seems so much easier to stay silent and just try to move on.

You don’t wanna start problems

You don’t wanna be mean

You don’t wanna be the bad guy

[crows-of-buckets]

Rook: I'm really worried about Davrin and Lucanis, they keep arguing with one another... Its very bad Varric, what if it effects them in battle?

Varric, remembering that one time Fenris broke Ander's nose then took a knife in the back for him in the same night: I'm sure they'll be fine kid. They're barely even arguing if you ask me

[moonsnqil]

aftg au where bee adopted andrew and later aaron when they were teens. she owns an apple orchard that the twins and occasionally a few of the foxes help run but it's almost harvest season and she needs help prepping everything for the town's fall festivals so she decided to put up a help wanted ad. neil, tired, alone, and running out of options, decides to apply. bee let's him use the renovated barn loft as residence when she learns he's homeless. andrew is wary, his family means everything to him and neil is a flightly little thing that could only bring bad news, but something about neil is familiar. maybe it's how he checks all his exits or how he flinches when people touch him or how he cradles the key bee gave him in his palm like it was a treasure instead of a piece of metal. he asks neil for truths and it's like bleeding a rock but he finds neil is more willing when truth is reciprocated. they spend their days walking down the lines of apple trees, harvesting and talking, and andrew is only a little mesmerized with the way neil's auburn curls blend with the red of the apples and his eyes match the sky like something deliberate, like he was meant to be here. andrew thinks that maybe he doesn't hate how neil looks at him like he's worth something. andrew thinks that maybe he doesn't want to lose this. he's still learning how to accept that not everything is transactional, he doesn't need to make deals to keep people close, hes still figuring out how to want things without the fear of them being snatched away. his mind screams at him to turn away and push any feeling aside but then neil is handing him an apple and smiling and telling him stories he says he's never told anyone else and andrew doesn't think he deserves this but he wants it

[starkrebellion]

Aegon II is for the dumb people (me) because this is actual representation of me trying to speak my country's other official language that I've been studying at school for nearly 10 years

[see-arcane]

One thing that I really liked is how the Juke's spiritual dance scene was so vibrant and diverse, not a single person was dancing the same, different ancestors from different cultures and different music styles yet so clear that the meaning of the music evolved despite being severed by colonialism, even the chinese spirits were opera actors! The fire burning through the physical dimension of the wood, representing unity and freedom powered by Sammie... then the irish vampire dance comes, and it's just so so flat.

No one is irish, not a single person (except Remmick) there knows what the rocky road to Dublin means culturally yet they sing it in a shrill tone, he is the only one dancing in the middle of the circle, and suddenly everyone forcibly moves in a hivemind around him to worship HIS culture. There are no dancers, no different music rhythms, and certainly no ancestors nor future people.

While Sammie brought both alive and dead with his voice and music in harmony to celebrate past present and future in a space of true community, Remmick could only imitate it in a desperate attempt for community while gleefully colonizing black and brown people just like how the english colonized his.

1000% this.

Sammie's gift manifests what community actually is, weaving together a collection of multiple identities with a shared culture, history, and heart at its roots. It's celebratory and a revel of everything past, present, and future. Identity, but not identical.

Remmick's imitation is only a showcase of himself and the warped vestiges of his own culture and past, leaving room for nothing else, all of it forced onto unwilling participants to play along in what amounts to a puppet show performance to make Remmick alone feel better. We see proof in the end credits with Stack and Mary that, while still monstrous, vampirism here is not a thing that innately causes you to colonize on impulse. They were only themselves, independent as a simple duo.

The full colonizing/conscripting route comes strictly from Remmick. He is the one choosing to actively violate and force his will onto trapped souls the way you'd playact with dolls, all the while willfully blind to how he's repeating the same evil that the English forced on him and his long-dead community.

I honestly wonder what would have happened if Remmick had got hold of Sammie in the end. Either forced him to turn or wrung some pity-performance out of him, calling up Remmick's ancestors and descendants...only for those spirits not to dance and commune with him the way the spirits reveled in the juke joint.

The spirits Sammie conjured with talent, love, and joy were there to celebrate among their people. And Remmick's community, if they deigned to appear, what could they possibly have to celebrate in that bloodstained night, seeing what this member of their kin has done? This distorted funhouse mirror version of the same bastards who stole their land and their culture and their lives, making those sins worse twice over with an existential undead hell of souls enslaved to his hive mind will? No. They wouldn't dance. They wouldn't revel.

Remmick's lucky he died before he could drag Sammie into his hell and coerce a summoning song out of him. The stake and sun took him before he had to see exactly what kind of reception his dead and future community would think of his work on earth. (Though I imagine all that is waiting for him still, wherever he's gone.)

[silver-horse]

Henry got a little tipsy

[vampyrmar]

girl I love you

[wide-eyed-freak]

I loved The Residence so much but why did we never find out what was going on with the fuckass calligrapher

[thefallenangel2008]

You know what I did at school today for that 1 hour I was there instead of paying attention to a video? I thought about Gravity Falls. About Stan, to be exact. And I came up with an AU cause yes, and y'all gonna love it (I'm delulu).

An AU where Stan finds a job in a library. You know how libraries give out food to homeless people? What if Stan while he was homeless went to a library to get some food, and idk, ig he met the owner, a sweet old lady, and they talked, Stan vented a little to her, she comforted him, and badabim badaboom, she gave him a job there. It didn't pay that much but it was a stable job and if he didn't spend his money on drinking and gambling, he would be able to buy a small apartment in a couple of months (but bad habits die hard, yk?)

The owner, whom I'm gonna call Miss Green, would see Stan's car parked somewhere near the library, and see Stan sleeping inside it. She would feel bad for him, a young man like him living such a life. I imagine their relationship being: "Hello dearie, you see, I have some of my son's old clothes still in my house and they take up such space in the closet, why don't you have them? :)" "Oh honey, you look so tired, did you sleep last night? Have you eaten anything today? :(" "You seem to really like this book. You can have it. ^ ^" "Oh, you like this dress dearie? *pulls out her wallet*" Basically her being a parental figure to Stan. And Stan being protective of her because she's the only person who has shown genuine interest and kindness in him in years. He would soooo take advantage of his scary dog privileges. You're being loud in the library? He's gonna walk towards you, give you a glare and put a finger infront of his lips to tell you to shut tf up. You're being rude to Miss Green? God save you man because BOY, he's about to throw hands.

And do you know what would be funny? If Miss Green was a siren. For no real reason, just for shits and giggles. No, no, she doesn't seduce humans anymore, she's an old woman now, she's been in retirement for years and now lives far away from the ocean, deep in the city. But they would bond with eachother while talking about the ocean and such. Stan yapping about the facts his knows about the ocean and Miss Green just silently listening to him and thinking "wow, such a talkative boy, and he sure knows a lot about sea life. :)"

So basically Stan getting unofficially adopted in a similar way as to how he unofficially adopted Soos in canon.