#is there a tiny bit of hope? yeah

[the-jam-to-the-unicorn]

Words can't begin to describe how much I hate that he has to write this and has to deal with that lunatic again and has to play nice.

[eona-art]

AU where Adrien was a model from the 90's that disappeared, only for his ghost to be found by Marinette on accident and now he wont leave her alone

[rox-of-iu]

doodled some disciple era peak lords because i needed to take a break and chill out lmao

and also a little bit more aged up ↓

[moeblob]

She's so wonderful, I love my daughter.

[aria0fgold]

With a glass body

You bear the weight of the world

Praying for safety

[waterme-stories]

B-15 and that face.

(Loki s2e2, “Breaking Brad”; “Deadpool & Wolverine”)

[lis5664]

Ever since I saw that post that was going around on here a little while ago, I have really been trying to embrace the "leave comments on fics with the enthusiasm of a drunk girl in the ladies' room at the club" approach and it is fun and I don't regret it.

[megamindsupremacy]

love the idea that stan, pre-realisation, would just put any “my brother-“ thoughts that popped up into the ‘shermie’ category into his head

my brother… the genius … always won the spelling bee… we were so close… i learnt to fight because i was uh. protecting my…. (much??) older brother? damn was he a wimp or something

stan, calling shermie up post everything: do you happen to remember like. a flying dinosaur from our childhood or is this another ‘wrong brother’ situation

shermie, who was very much not there: what.

aksdjfhsd yeah!! also I imagine there being a ton of angst potential because Stan remembers ("remembers" my ass, he doesn't remember shit) himself and Shermie as being fairly close as kids, because everything involving "my brother" is conflated with Shermie, until the Mystery Incident got him kicked out. But Shermie wasn't super close with either of his brothers because of the age difference, and also because I hc him as not being home very often and getting the hell outta dodge as soon as he was old enough. So poor Stan has an imagined closer brotherly dynamic with Shermie, who isn't maintaining this dynamic into adulthood because to him Stan is his younger brother who dropped off the face of the earth (sad) at age 17, popped up a few times in newspapers to get arrested and/or scam people, and then dropped off the face of the earth again at 27.

[russellius]

I know so much has already been said about his (lack of) social media strategy but seeing some people say there wasn't that much support for him at the track as there was for other drivers, it stings 😔I want him to be celebrated too and he deserves to be

yeah, i've seen a few of those posts 😞 i feel so sorry for him because he loves that place so much, it means so much to him and you can tell he wants a win there more than anything. it's literally his home crowd, and at times it just felt like it was any other random race on the calendar.. idk. it makes me quite sad, especially right now, when it has been such a shit couple of weeks with these rumours.

to think of the love he got there in 2021 through that qualifying session...

[the-jam-to-the-unicorn]

A Christmas Volena event! Merry Christmas to all of us! 😍😍😍🥹🥹🥹❤️❤️❤️

[smol-soop-spoon]

imagine being the guy who supposedly inspired Henry's character and discovering thousands of complete strangers on the internet are violently thirsting over your fictional alter ego

[cowardlycowboys]

it's actually super rude to say and do a bunch of really sweet and nice things say you want to be with me and that you will visit for my birthday and a bunch of other stuff and then two months later barely speak to me but confirm you still like me and thinking of me you just are busy and going through stuff and then to go to ignoring me to the point I have to reach out to you for you to go oh yeah sorry I'm seeing someone else like you spinless chickenshit of a person I outta strangle you

[supersnaill]

damn. the one time they make a character with dark skin who isn't the villain or fetishised to high heaven they have to whitewash her in their twitter posts

[eissaphir]

I thought of this with a carnival in mind but feel free to interpret this any way you want. Looking at you, Radioapple shippers

[vampiric-fangirl]

okay i want to take a minute to talk about the exact way in which i think lute hates herself because i don't think i really have yet.

(this one ended up pretty long so i'm going to put it under a cut.)

the blueprint (and part of it) is her exact flavor of internalized misogyny. she's a pick-me girl - any woman with even just an amicable relationship with adam is some level of that by default and lute goes the extra mile. and, according to my understanding of the subject, the pick-me girl is characterized by her hatred of women despite being a woman herself and, as a result, desperately trying to distance herself from her idea of shameful femininity and mocking women who don't, often for the purpose (whether conscious or not) of being accepted or given attention by misogynistic men. the pick-me girl forces herself to be a certain way, perhaps a way she didn't really want to be in the first place, because she wants to be able to love herself and be loved in a patriarchal system and doesn't have the awareness or the willpower to fight it. she hates what she is, hates herself, but warps herself and her view of herself and others to escape it.

now i'd like to argue an extension of this principle when it comes to heaven vs. hell.

the storybook opening, regardless of how biased its author may have been as so many people in this fandom like to argue (and they do have a point but some of them take it too far and use it as an excuse to ignore - not the point), presents a clear theme: heaven represents order and obedience while hell represents chaos and freedom. lucifer and lilith are "rebellious dreamers". however, with the way the conflict between adam and lilith is presented, gender is woven into this dichotomy as well. heaven is the patriarchy; hell is the feminist rebellion against it.

(queerness could probably also be incorporated into this model as well, but. this is already an entire fucking essay and it's not extremely relevant to the topic at hand. but it does mean a homophobic homosexual lute would track.)

with this added context, adam and lute hating hell as vehemently as they do - especially with the subtle differences in the way they each do - can be read as, at least to a certain extent, a symbolic + abstract representation of their misogyny.

(something important to note here and maybe something that i just want to talk about, also, is the way vaggie embraces femininity after falling. after falling, she can finally be feminine in the way she want to, not the objectifying and restrictive way that was forced upon her as an exorcist. after what may have been years of healing and encouragement from charlie, she wears a giant puffy bow and does not give a damn. and it's beautiful and i love her for it and i love her so much and - oops got sidetracked there. basically: hell allowed vaggie to express her gender freely. heaven did not. patriarchy. freedom. big bow. pretty woman. i bow and walk off stage.)

and you can kind of see something similar to her internalized misogyny in her hatred of hell. i mean, it is, of course, not a 1:1 comparison given she actually IS an angel, but some elements persist. there is still that desperation to distance herself, even at the cost of basic reasoning ("Angels don't make mistakes"). there is still that forcing herself to be a certain way. there is still that warping of her view of herself and others to escape her self-hatred - or maybe, in this case, a more accurate way to put it would be: to escape her self-hatred-inflicting-guilt and the doubt threatening her unfathomably thick defenses against that guilt. there is still that apparent fight for male - or, in this version of the conflict, angelic - attention, specifically from adam.

(side note 2. a lot of the comparisons i drew here also are/related to stuff characteristic of many cults, which the exorcists - at least as far as the mental and emotional effect on the members goes - functionally are. maybe there is something to be learned there, about the intersection of cults and misogyny/sexism. maybe not. i don't know actually sometimes i straight up have no idea what i'm taking about.)

although, this method of analyzing lute only REALLY gets interesting when you look at her hatred of vaggie with it. vaggie, who was an angel - just like lute is! - once, but is now fallen (for daring to step outside the violent orders that police them, another thing that's mere possibility terrifies lute) - just like lute could be! vaggie, who is happy in hell. who is happy being all of the things lute hates, from perhaps both a heaven vs. hell perspective AND a gender perspective. (and possibly a sexuality perspective too.) and if it is not only possible for an angel to be like this - hellish, and perhaps more importantly FREE - but also for an angel to be HAPPY like this, then. that's fucking horrifying! so she of course doubles down on her hatred and tries to maim/kill vaggie. so that she never has to face this - the reality that the hatred she is consumed by could so easily include herself. that maybe it already does.

and THAT'S why she begs to be killed when she loses the fight in ep. 8, i think. it's a combination of two things: 1. she does not want to face reality and 2. she hates herself. (also she has self-worth issues. did i mention she has self-worth issues? yeah she has self-worth issues. at least when it comes to her compared to adam. natural consequence of being a loyal follower and dedicated lieutenant of someone like him. her self-hatred and self-worth issues are thoroughly intertwined, though, just like vaggie's are.)

that's also why she just fucking. tears off her arm as soon as vaggie leaves, too. she does not care about physical pain or keeping all of her limbs attached, she is far too wrapped up in a. trying to preserve her intensely unhealthy mental state by Not Thinking About Things b. wanting to sacrifice herself in some way, even if it's just losing a limb, because of said mental state c. trying to get to vaggie so she can kill her and be rid of this plague on her conscience d. trying to get to adam too so she can fulfill her desperate (after?)lifelong mission to be of service to him to fill the void inside her caused by her deeply repressed doubt and inner conflict. probably? but then again i'm just a fallenwings girl at heart so idk honestly.

tl;dr: lute hates herself. she makes herself perfect in the way she understands perfection to avoid this. after that, she shoves her hate onto others to distract herself from her own internal conflict and, in some cases (vaggie), she hates others (vaggie) because they (vaggie) exhibit the traits she hates that she has driven out from herself. (although, despite my fixation on fallenwings, this probably extends to other exorcists showing weakness/making mistakes in general.) finally, she works feverishly for approval to reassure her of her place in the grand scheme of things from the man whom she, for reasons brought about by her blind, unquestioning efforts to cling to the version of right and wrong forced upon her and that she has also forced upon herself, views as the paragon of everything she strives for: adam.

she does not fight the system. she breaks herself apart to fit into and work for it.

[elle-p]

Some thoughts on the characterisation

Kanata: It's cool. I really like how it deviated from Makoto to be closer to game Hero, like with him asking Yukari about Pharos' contract. He's very man standing emoji especially in the scene in the hospital which is on point but it was really funny. He also dreams about 10 years ago after awakeing his Persona which was really cool. His actor sounded really close to Ishida's leader which is wild.

Yukari: It's Yukari! WM made her character a lot different, but this is just Yukari! I mentioned Kanata's body language too but it's on point all around. Despite Kanata just introducing himself he must look at her evoker because they do the 'why do you have a gun' bit but they really play it up the game's is kind of lame I kind of prefer that. One thing they added I really like is that at the start Kanata calls her Takeba-san, but she tells him to just call her Yukari. It's a really nice way to clean up how he refers to the girls. They really did make her a lot less suspicious of him, but it actually makes her characterisation a bit more consistant since she is nice to him, and that suspicion just kind of goes away after those first 5 seconds and nothing's done with it.

Junpei: Keeping the trend of Junpei's actor being great why is that so consistant. I think maybe Junpei's just a fun character. He is less jealous than usual, but like Yukari being softened, I think people are just exaggerating something that, while it is there, both doesn't really affect anything and isn't bad. It probably doesn't get as much show just because the full character arc doesn't actually happen here, so it would just end up not going anywhere.

Fuuka: She's really soft spoken here, but that's just how she sounds. Again it's just Fuuka! Not really much to say. Oh they actually had Natsuki here and when she and Fuuka reconsiled they played Gentle Blindfold from WM which made me really happy.

Mitsuru: She also sounds oddly like Tanaka it's so strange. Mitsuru doesn't actually do much early game so there's not much to say.

Akihiko: He sounds really weird it's actually quite similar to Saab's Akihiko but I got used to it. Yeah again it's Akihiko!

Ikutsuki: So I can't speak Japanese and a lot of Ikutsuki's characterisation comes from what he says. But it was really weird? Him and Pharos are the only ones who really have anything to say, which is actually really cool since they never get anything else. But yeah they used him as comic relief I think which like yeah he makes his puns but when Kanata first meets him he's like making a joke with Mitsuru? It could be good with showing how he can change like being jokey and fun then serious I'm both missing conext and waiting to see where they go with it. It just kind of ended up being dissapointing what they did with him because again Ikutsuki's just. Not had anything in any other version, so there's a lot of potential.

Pharos: I have lots of thoughts about Pharos' character I'm the only one who's right about him and while it went in a different direction, it's a really interesting direction. They emphasised both him being ominous and him being a happy little guy so he swaps between them it's so interesting. One thing that was really cool was that he puppeted Kanata and that's why he found the monorail break, I'm so invested in this version of him it's so good. He sounds bad though but it's Pharos I'm not sure there's a way for him to sound good.

Uhhhh idk what my conclusion is. I really liked it it was fun.