#it doesnt feel like it bc the show is so insane but it does actually require ...a lot... of knowledge / memory of events sdkfj

[brilliantfantasticgeronimo]

two things...

i remember discussing with people last series that there was a heavy implication in a line / scene that the doctor hadn't actually had their daughter / kid yet... but i don't remember which episode / line it was anymore klsdfjd but i do remember the discussion

in light of the timeless children reveal, is it possible the infinite regenerations carried on to susan? would they carry on to jenny?? WOULD THEY CARRY ON TO DONNA AND ROSE NOBLE????

i thought the rani knew about that but it doesn't seem like she knows (maybe she wasn't in gallifrey went the master went Off). but omega has to know for sure. right?? i feel omega and rassillon would have to know to fund time lord society.

[menofprogress]

I saw someone say that Viktor constantly reaching out to Jayce and trying to get him on his side after he initially left him and after Jayce fought, rejected and shot at him makes no sense but i disagree.

Imho jayce and viktor are incredibly, INSANELY codependent, they were each others closest contact for nearly a decade, saw each other every day, single mindedly worked towards the same goal, etc. Their lives immediately take a nosedive once theyre even slightly separated from each other (viktor nearly dies, jayce kills a kid, viktor atomises sky and then nearly kills himself, jayce lands in apocalypse land and viktor starts a cult). They instinctively always act like theyre still partners, even when theyre clearly supposed to be enemies because not being together feels unnatural to them.

Jayce doesnt act consciously when reviving viktor using the hexcore and YES viktor is hurt and distressed bc he was essentially turned into rio and he feels like he needs to leave, but then what? He probably finds out about jayces disappearance a few days later and is like "oh no, oh fuck, i know I left HIM, but i didnt want this" i mean he probably thought jayce was dead.

So for a few months he builds his commune and deliberately integrates sentimental things about his and jayces partnership (his 'home' looks like the hexgates, hes still wearing the blanket, for some reason theres a forge in the commune) which, imho, shows hes mourning and missing jayce in his own way. (A special personal hc of mine is that he grew out his hair out of grief). And in the pit we have jayce sobbing and crying bc he misses both mel and viktor so much.

So jayce reappears and viktors like "heeeyyyy bestie, oh my god, i missed u come visit me!!!" And jayce is rightfully confused like "didnt YOU break up with ME?" and viktor is like "nooo, hahaha, i was crazy back then, just forget about it, pls visit me?" And is only mildly concerned by jayce killing one of his followers (and then hes also mostly concerned about jayce, not salo lol)

Then jayce arrives and shoots him and its very painful bc viktor fully didnt expect jayce to hurt him! Hes so shocked 😭

Anyways after that Viktor "attacks" (more like "does a mating dance for") jayce in the council room and AGAIN asks him to join his emo band and is AGAIN shocked and hurt when jayce genuinely fights back and rejects him. Viktor is temporarily hurt and gives singed the ok to start the process.

And then as the fully transformed herald he STILL talks about how happy he is to see jayce and doesnt really put any effort into neutralising him. Like he could have just shot him hbxhnxgkhfj

All the while we have jayce talking big talk about stopping viktor, but when it comes down to it?? He doesnt manage to take him out and still talks to him. And then he sees Viktor in the astral realm and once there is a SLIVER of hope hes immediately like "oh thank god i can stop trying to kill him, this was never going to work"

All of this isnt contradictory to me. It means that both of them actually know that they should be on opposing sides now, they start acting according to the idea that the other one is now an enemy, they make plans accordingly, but when it comes down to it theyre reluctant to actually follow through bc that would mean a life without the other and thats worse than staying enemies forever.

Viktor kept reaching out, hoping to be partners again after MULTIPLE rejections and jayce couldnt bear to kill viktor or to let him die alone. Being apart from each other is quite literally the worst thing for either of them, so the instinct to reach out to each other will always take over.

[exyrpf]

Exyblr Dashboard Simulator based on what I personally see on sportsblr:

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👑 girlbossriko follow

how many bro jobs do you think it took before riko moriyama and kevin day realized that uh.....maybe this wasn't just a bro thing

👢exyinaphonebooth follow

how many times do they have to come out and say they're like brothers before you freakos stop shipping them

👑 girlbossriko follow

????? do i know u

#it's a tumblr post about two exy players that you'lll never meet in your life it really isn't that deep

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ngl that newest fox is kinda 👀

#psu lb #exy lb

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👨🏻‍❤️‍💋‍👨🏻 talk-exy-to-me

The NARRATIVE that kevin day and neil josten have........son of exy! scouting the rookie-est of rookies from fuck knows arizona........no listen you dont GET IT winning is EVERYTHING TO KEVIN and he would risk it on the foxes? And NEIL? who has only played exy for a year! NEIL Gets his attention!!!!! And hes good and he's getting better every game and he keeps bitching about kevin's ex on live tv BUT WAIT!???? NOT QUITE WHAT YOU EXPECT! Bc then neil shows up with a number on his cheek BECAUSE WELL it turns out they've known each other since they were KIDS! how is everyone not insane w me THEY'RE LITERALLY PERFECT

#where r my fellow njkd truthers #how r u all not here with me this isnt even the start #kevneil #210 #psu #njkd

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☀️ usctrojanny

every smiley blonde striker (jeremy knox) needs a brunette wet cat emotional support backliner (jean moreau)

#jerejean #usc trojans #i'm just saying 🤷‍♀️

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👸🏻 kevindazed follow

did he just......

👸🏻 kevindazed follow

guys please tell me i'm not insane

👸🏻 kevindazed follow

HE'S NEVER BEEN????? SKIIING???? KEVIN WHAT DOES THAT MEAN ?????? KEVIN PLEASE

#i i'm going insane i will literally die if someone doesn't explain this to me HE'S NEVER BEEN SKIING?!!!!

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🧚 goalie-stan

oh....i'm feeling so weak......it'd sure be nice to have a big strong goalie (renee walker) hold me up (renee if you're free on tuesday i am also free on tuesday.........on tuesday this tuesday, any tuesday?)

#literally passing out just thinking about her holding me don't call don't text i'm busy

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🌄 softkevinday follow

do u think if u offered kevin day essential oils to heal his hand he'd beat you to death

#it'd be hard for him bc he only has one hand but he could probably do it #legally this is a joke don't do this

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feeling normal

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📜 realexyblog

actually exy rpf is fine, i asked kayleigh day herself and she told me it was fine

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🐋 sexyexy

'exy is a stupid name for a sport' have you considered that a) i don't care and b) it's named that solely so i can make sex jokes about it

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is he, ya know *mimes jerking off* an ncaa exy player

#i don't believe that straight exy players exist

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Andrew Minyard!!!!!!! 🥰🥰 short king!!!!🤏🤏😋😋 Awwwwwwww the scrunkly!!!!! 🤗🤗🤗 My boinky boy!!!!!🥺🥺 Crinkly doo,,,,shronkle scrimblo......🥺🥺🥺 rb if you'd scrunkle!!!!!!! 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

📖 sapphic-exy follow

he literally killed someone

🙈 ittybittyminny follow

And? God forbid women do anything

#also no proof he did that #yeah there's proof his twin bro killed someone but that's not the same bc theyre different people #almost killing someone doesnt count

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🐦‍⬛ edgarallenexy

got told i'm problematic for liking the ravens? THAT'S LITERALLY MY SCHOOL OH MY GOD

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🌸 softexy

Kevin Day - A Study

#kevin day #psu foxes #palmetto foxes #exy #web weave #poetry #psu foxes #palmetto #edgar allen

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[moonshynecybin]

What would happen if Marc woke up in a world where sepang never happened...

ooh the classic what would happen if you got everything you wanted scenario… idk i think we could do a time travel sitch, where he gets his ass dumped into his 2013 body and has to set about preventing one of the more` significant little tragedies of his life, but that would also count on marc having the emotional intelligence to think he did ANYTHING wrong in his relationship with vale, and i don’t think he can do that quite yet lol… maybe it has to be a story where he realizes that he couldve handled things differently? in that clip from his recent interview, he talks about how when he was younger he would go flat out every training session but he doesnt feel the need to do so nowww, so maybe hes processing that sort of internal shift while also looking at vale from the perspective of an injured, post-honda marc who has personal knowledge of how hard it is ego-wise to mount a comeback... maybe this inspires some empathy w vale (he's looking at him and realizing THAT vale is only 4 years older than him and hes like. hm...) and the fic ends up being a character study on baby marc vs marc now PLUS actually internalizing all of the lessons he thinks he’s learned… i don’t wanna make this sound like sepang is marc’s fault lol like to be clear i don’t think he did anything WRONG per se, he was just marc level abrasive in ways that specifically rubbed against vale’s tender bits, but i also think that if he handled vale with more care than perhaps some parts of this could have been avoided ! so maybe older marc's presence removes the ranch nasty and the assen nasty (“marc is only my friend when he wins”) and gets vale out of the 'well clearly marc is sabotaging me' mindset. and then at some point marc has to like. TELL vale about all this after sepang has technically passed and vale. perhaps does not handle that well in conjunction w his title loss anyways BUT this version is closer to marc and its a different sort of less public sexy mess....

OR it could be marc gets sent to an alternate reality of 2025 where sepang maybe doesnt happen, but him and vale still kinda implode a little less dramatically and marc is like well this IS what i wanted but it feels hollow as fuck lol. no new, frothing vitriol between them really, like vale will shake his hand and do the same kinda stuff he does w jlo or whatever (vale shows up to the paddock and takes a pic w marc to get reposted on socials bc the press ask and marc is like ??? bc he has never been a somewhat neutral topic to vale before ever in his LIFE… unsure how to deal w the rivalry treatment that jlo or casey or sete get handed. little does he know vale is still insane, he just has less cause to go nuclear lol) butttt marc still had to leave hrc, still alienated from the academy, still breaks his arm… like realizing that sepang isnt this huge axis that the bad things in his life kinda spin on.... and maybe he sets about interrogating all the ways they would’ve broken up even without the heightened melodrama of the sepang race… starts hanging out w vale even though that’s something they Don’t Do Now and vale is surprised but likes it (and is also. still somehow DEEPLY hurt by how everything went down maybe just less specifically delusional/paranoid to cope in conjunction w title loss. idk maybe he won 2015 here and marc was injured for the back half of the season and they both feel weird about kinda drifting apart)... this fic would have lots of fear from them both about the other leaving, the injury stuff, the age stuff--- all the reasons why sepang happened that they never delt with, just without the actual sepang… and i think it could be sweet idk i like it when they’re fucked up but they spend time w each other and it’s like oh it’s you… of course it’s you…. its always been you

[spaloonbabooguuscooties]

You could drink your whole life away and still never get that taste out of your mouth.

half commission for @salempie half completely self indulgent dreck pieced together from our insane conversations abt franke and elka. told myself id finally write a big explanation for all of the dum shit between these two for context so Thats Under The Cut.

so I already wrote some stuff about elka and franke's relationship back in whispering rock so feel free to look at that too . it goes over elkas blindness/‘seeing’ with clairvoyance and how her and franke started talking & all that good stuff

SO FOR STARTERS. a lot of thsi wont make sense without a big breakdown of elka herself. because elkas potential as a character is like insane to me. like just the idea of her in the long run of her life reads as something so potentially tragic; a young girl whos plagued with visions of doom and destined to be an outcast even in her own home for things she cant control and clings to the One vision of her wedding that she thinks is 'happy' even despite the fact she doesnt really love the person in it. im choosing to take the li-po doc as canon here because its funny shes the only one with backstory-

but my fucking god even the smallest look into what her parents are like is soo fucked up to me. and i do think elka especially gets a lot of influence from her mother; its funny how easily you can fit mabel doom into a box just from what elka says about her. knees deep in an avon-esque pyramid scheme and leaning into her daughters depressing ass visions & taking her to therapy at age 11 (which would be good if not for the kind of person you can already assume she is & so i doubt the therapist she has really does her any good. i think they share one). she reads as a very I Am My Daughters Best Friend type of mom to me and i can see elka being a centerpiece of the conversation when she has her Amway Girls over for drinks. wine-mom that lets her kid sip from the glass so she can feel like a big girl type deal.

and you can tell that elka is trying to hard to be too mature for her age even in her campster posts. how she writes letters to nils' mom and exchanges baking recipes with her and that feels like she really only interacts with middle aged women and not really many people her own age outside of camp (like her moms friends). which makes sense shed feel the need to ‘grow up’ early when shes probably had to process so many hard things at a young age bc of her visions.

theres a lot of filling the blanks here of course.

elka obsesses over nils to an overbearing degree even despite the fact he treats her like shit ('you promised no talking' and so on) and she treats him bad right back. she leans onto stereotypical heterosexual ideals like taking care of him and overblowing how Manly and Protective JT is and she admires romance stories like pride and prejudice and it feels like she Projects Soooooooo much of what she wants onto boys she barely feels anything for without knowing what its actually supposed to feel like. and clearly she WANTS that ideal future, a happy marriage, an actual romance- but according to nils even when they were dating she ignored him most of the time, which just seems Very Telling

like shes filling a role, overcompensating for emotions and lacktherof she cant digest quite yet, and it only makes more sense when you know shes had visions of their future together. how could that be bad for her? shouldnt it be like the books and movies? but she doesnt really connect the fact that her visions are only for Doomed futures, and if she does she certainly doesnt show it. Doomed relationships. it's been a part of her family for generations and she isn't turning out much different, is she? i dont think she even realizes thats all she ever sees yet, just that its Going to happen. that it's Her future, and it always will be

and like, her only reference for a real marriage so far has been her own parents, and she already Knows they have an affair, and theyre doomed to split, (and i actually like to think they were in rough waters anyway and elka was a child meant to mend a crumbling marriage but thats a whole other thing) and so without a framework for what an actual healthy relationship is supposed to be like she cant really grasp that her relationship with nils Isnt that and isnt ever going to be. she can only cling to this one happy idea of the future, and thats why she keeps chasing him, self fulfilling the actuality of her situation and creating and fostering the unhappy life they will inevitably live together.

and that bleeds into everything else in her life, of course, because as the years go on, as the visions grow in number it just makes sense for her to fall into the predictability of her life. she always knows whats going to happen, her visions are Never wrong- so why try to change things? shes had time to process tragedies days, weeks, months, years before they happen, shes had time to settle into every crack of her life. her parents divorce, her various break ups, her future with the psychonauts.

“and she's already seen so much of a future with [nils] she feels trapped almost. Like she has to be happy in it or else it just means her life is miserable. And it's a mixture of pride and fear of the unknown that keeps her clinging to the One thing she knows. BUT LIKE!!! She knows what's gonna happen! It's easier to grieve when she's been grieving for years... She wants so badly to be happy, But to do that she has to step into the unfamiliar. And that's more terrifying than staying the same miserable person she's always been.”

and thats where franke comes in— and yeah you Do have to take a lot of liberties for frankes character since it’s basically, like, all the info for her is just that shes a Supreme Baby Dyke but thats enough for me. i think she has protective butch itch in her . on campster shes defensive over other women evidenced in the way she keeps watch over the girls cabins for lili when elton is pursuing her . but shes also eager to please and constantly trying to make kitty laugh and also Very naive. but she tries! and i think it only solidifies more as she gets Older and really gets a hold of her feelings & her powers. this is incredibly franke to me

and i think as they grow older together— because i think franke and elka Do stay friends, both because elka is just pathetic and needs that positive connection even if she doesnt realize it and because i think franke is a very Loyal person & annoyingly persistent if you let her be . and i am also a kitty/franke truther. because kittys also important in this web we weave

because i think franke and kitty stay together after camp, to a point— theres a falling out facilitated on kittys end and they break up, but reconnect, and franke kind of... saves kitty from herself a little, from her strict military father whos love only extends thru finances , from her own stifling future , she drives all the way to bakersville in her shitty van handmedowned from her dad and they move in together eventually . they get jobs at the motherlobe , because it’s a pipeline to a decent job, because it’s whats easy, because franke doesn’t really have a future, because she’s never really been good at much, because shes never had much sense, because franke doesnt really care as long as she can live and help, sometimes, if she can, and because kitty’s there, and because elka’s there, and shes so used to being elkas eyes now and shes good at it. shes good at being the muscle of the missions when her colleagues lack it, when hypnosis and predictions arent enough. she likes it that way.

and elka appreciates frankes company. she listens, shes sweet, she does little things for her that no ones ever really put the effort for before; she likes her. franke is strong and bold and makes her laugh and shes always there but god elka cant let go of that future, of that box shes put herself in, that her mothers put her in, of being a Good Wife to a Loving Husband, of getting married normally and falling into unfailing familiarity. thats all shes ever wanted and shes not going to jeopardize that . not for franke, who may not be a boy but is handsome like one, whos always held her after every break up with nils and the men that filled empty days inbetween.

and elka is too stubborn to recognize those feelings anyway. too prideful to accept a way out. too set in her cycle no matter how much she hates it, her little self fulfilling tragedy of her own making, wallowing in her own doom. she struggles for control of her own life when she feels like every choice has been made for her anyway, she puts up her walls and carefully constructs what people see. but franke was always harder to trick, because while empathy isnt a particularly useful psychic power it’s certainly an inconvenient one. all franke has to do is get too close and all those carefully crafted walls fall apart, and elkas control is gone, and thats all she really has. and she tries to distance herself, really she does, but franke is also too persistent. and elka wears gloves, keeps contact that would make her walls crumble from happening as best as she can, but she cant really keep herself from the brief moments where she feels like someone actually fucking cares about her.

and that slightest lack of control, the need to wrestle it back is why she proposes to nils the next time theres a falling out— she knows how it happens, she plans every detail. and he accepts, despite everything. gets her a cheap ring and it feels like lead on her finger and its nothing at all like how shed thought it to be when she was a kid, theres no feather light feeling in her chest, only that dreadful reality that she cant turn this back. BUT WHAT CAN U DO LMAO

elka doesnt tell franke about this engagement until later, on their way back from a mission. late at night when neither of them can sleep, and franke invites elka to smoke in her van, because its been so long since theyve been alone like that, because elkas been so strangely absent lately. and because of everything, because frankes always so damn nice, because elka hates the feel of the ring on her finger, because she let herself get high alone with franke fucking athens whos always been so good at pulling her apart— the truth of it all spills out and its messy and emotional and she hates it, she hates the life shes made for herself, but franke makes it easier to bare and now shes here and shes so close and god she wishes she could see her smile again, she wishes she could see franke, thats all she needs right now and she cant but she can touch her and she can hold her and for tonight, she can be known, she can let those walls crumble, she can be something else just for once here with franke . she can kiss her here in this van, touch that happiness for just a moment, and forget the future that waits for her outside of it. franke begs her to forget the wedding, to just let herself be happy— and god, she wants to, but it means turning her back on everything shes known and everything shes saw to be inevitable, and franke has never been in her future, so if it were supposed to work out why hadnt she seen it and she cant, she cant take that risk but she can have this, even if its temporary, she can have it.

and just as soon as she gets a taste of it, its gone. after that night, after the missions over and theyre back at the motherlobe and have to pretend like nothing happened (franke doesnt, of course she tells kitty about it, she tells kitty about everything.) but that brief moment together haunts elka every time she sees franke, sees herself through frankes eyes, sees herself in her wedding dress because god its all franke can think about! of course it is! she knows how much elkas destroying herself she knows how much misery shes wallowing in that kiss in the van felt like an emotional punch to the teeth and she hasnt ever forgotten it and all she can do is sit and watch while elka throws herself into a loveless marriage. she can come to her wedding and see the way the bride and groom kiss with the emotional weight of a wet towel no matter how hard elka tries to hide it under a pretty dress and bouquets of flowers and meticulous planning.

and elka resents nils but she cant really hate him, its not his fault, not really. he feels trapped just like she does and his feelings of misery only cycle back into hers . they fight and gnash and wear away at each other and its a relationship thats crashed and burned a million times before elka even said i do. and its inevitable that she falls into her mothers habits, a sip of wine here and there to loosen up, until it turns to a glass, until it falls into a bottle on nights when whatever work nils does runs late.

but franke’s still there. shes always been there, hasn’t she? always trying to play knight, always trying to save her, dragging her home when shes stumbling over herself because god who else is going to do it but her? who else is left to care? certainly not nils. never nils. because franke knows her. because franke pities her. shes always pitied her. shes always known. and elka hates it, she resents it, but god in the same breath she’s desperate for it, she envies it to her very bones. elka is a mess but after frankes done with her she has someone to go back to that loves her. and god what elka wouldnt do to have that. to take it and keep it for herself because shes never ever got to have that movie romance shes always wanted.

so now comes this.

because elkas particularly miserable and particularly spiteful and she needs to get franke to understand, just for a moment, drink with her and get on her level and she needs her there with her no matter how her pity makes her feel. no matter how much it makes her shake with anger and envy and desperation, but god the way franke looks at her, the way she still tries to salvage what they have, the soft, slurred way she tells her that it’s okay but its not okay, none of this is okay, it never has been and she just wants franke to shut up and see that, and if she cant then she’ll show her, she’ll show her all the raw angry desperation, with too much teeth and hands that claw and grab and she’ll know why everyones always said she’s too much.

and she knows this puts her on nils’ level too. that this makes her a cheater, that shes no better than he is now. no better than her father and his affair. but god, she wants to be selfish. she wants to be in control. just for once. she wants to feel right and she wants to feel happy and she wants to feel loved. thats all shes ever wanted. and franke will let her have that, just for a little while, at the very least.

anyway. sorry. sorry for being crazy . this isnt even getting into the shit after the comic takes place . elkas stupid brainworld thag she has to overcome in order to finally be allowed in the polycule and live happily ever as worlds first lesbian divorceman

sorry for all the shit i make up instead of caring about actual characters with screentime . bye !

[gold-rhine]

like its literally insane how beat for beat this lantern rite goes into the same notes as natlan final act, but just does it well. the contrast is crazy-making. SPOILERS 2025 LANTERN RITE i guess

like. oh its a story about pyro girlie who had to lose her family very early and tragically, and then she came under huge amount of dire responsibility, but she didn't let it break her and she stayed positive and bright. she is now confronted with a critical situation where she has to do hard decision and be ready to die to save her country. she says goodbyes to her friends, trying to not let them know she's going to sacrifice herself, but they realise it and do everything to save her. in the end, she realizes her life isn't over, its too early for her to go, has heartfelt reunion with ghosts of her family and is saved by unified efforts of her friends, showing how much she's loved and wanted in the world of the living. (im joking, last part didnt happen to mavuika lol, i'll get to it)

but like you can actually see how liyue kids are ACTUALLY friends and how they like each other, they have palpable chemistry that is shown, instead of just like. flatly declared in natlan. hu tao pestering embarrassed yun jin into performing her silly cringe hilichurl song in operatic style has more character than mavuika had in all acts of natlan and her story quest COMBINED. and hu tao visiting friends to give them goodbye gifts under the guise of holiday tradition with half-jokey heartfelt well wishings is what i think natlan tried to do with ancient name thing, where characters like say why they like traveler. except in lantern rite it works because its personal and meaningful, and in natlan its just flashy anime poses and random cliches. "i love being traveler's friend!", "surely she comes from a good home!" like??? its fucking nothings that coworkers awkwardly say at the birthday party because they don't know you.

and suddenly in liyue they know that characters can have differences and STILL be respectful and well-intended, with hu tao and baizhu exchanging jabs about being archenemies, instead of entire cast being blandly okay yay all the time in natlan. hu tao's conversation with zhongli exploring her mental state before going into danger, bittersweet, but finally honest, just straight up doesnt have a parallel in natlan because they never give mavuika any fucking way to express herself. not to mention that hu tao has more conflict and complicated feelings about her lost family and grief than mavuika ever has with her sister where they talk about fucking nothing and just like politely nod at each other.

and the theme of unity actually works in liyue because it does have all other characters uniting to share hu tao's burden and save her, instead of capitano ex machina just showing up and solo taking her place bc he's here to hijack the narrative and make it about khaenriah instead of natlan. so natlan's theme about unity just never goes anywhere except of characters standing in the circle and yelling "for natlan!!", there is no tangible effort for this unity, nothing they have to overcome together. they just wait for everyone to awaken their ancient names, stand in a circle to power up mavuika, and then she solo finishes everything with carpet bombing. and then she solo beats up abyss boss. and then capitano makes it all about himself. like. much unity.

and even traveler being a descender isn't really used in natlan despite making a big deal out of it, her ability to challenge fate or whatever literally never actually comes up. meanwhile in liyue it is used within established lore reasons - not being connected to irminsul, BUT, very importantly, just being special descender would not be enough to save hu tao, its the fact that they are friends, they share a bond and care about each other, i.e. only by using the plum's branch traveler is able to connect and find hu tao.

[foureyedfella]

☆ More Specky stuff!! I love this goober so much he has really grown on me (wild to say for an oc but listen he went from A tier to SSS tier in my head...)

☆ Heres just a couple things to know about him, but at some point I'll make a mass post about him :)

☆ I also realized I hadn't given him a character relationship chart yet!

☆ There is a lotta yap under the the image fair warning

☆ Any characters with a complicated arrow get a little doodle bc I wanted to explain why but I literally couldve just typed it out 💀 maybe I'll go back one day and do everyone else!

Glass Joe

They're just buddies! Specky can sometimes find peace just engaging with Joe, even if it's just a little back and forth between matches and such! Specky also must likes hearing him talk sometimes lol, like yas I don't understand french but it sounds great just keep yapping 🙏🏼

Von Kaiser

Specky enjoys his time with Kaiser but is also equally frustrated. Boxing instructor will do what a boxing instructor does, and while Specky was pretty open about being okay with taking pointers, from Kaiser it stings a bit more. Specky isnt good at reading people either, so Kaisers rough demeanor just makes him think that Kaiser is always mad at him even though that's his default 😭 at the same time, he appreciates every correction, compliment, reprimand, whatever he know will ultimately make him a better boxer at the end of the day!

Disco Kid

Who isn't Disco Kid friends with? While Disco is incredibly extroverted when compared to Specky, it gives him a glimpse into that super energetic and extroverted life that he isn't used to! Disco also likes to put Specky's "I listen to anything" statement to the test by putting on anything and everything and seeing Speckys reaction 💀

King Hippo

It's a total surprise to Specky that he would engage with someone as daunting and regal like King Hippo, especially since his ticket out of the minor circuit is in King's hands. What started off as Specky mumbling his frustrations under his breath after a match led to starting a conversation with King, the one he was mumbling about in the first place 💀 Specky had not realized that well 1. He can speak and the roars were for show and 2. He was insanely flowery in his speech, saying stuff that would leave Specky feeling like an idiot sometimes- they always speak after matches now, and it can be either 5 minutes or an hour in the poorly lit locker rooms, just listening to the minor circuit champion.

Piston Hondo

Barely spoken, they know eachorher by name, but Hondo doesn't really have business with Specky and Specky feels too dumb to be near someone so grounded.

Bear Hugger

That's his work dad, what can I say? This relationship is the most natural to come to Specky, Bear Hugger just radiates that energy. Specky is the one and only goober to laugh at his dad jokes. And Bear Hugger keeps all the stickers given to him ^_^

Great Tiger

Also have just spoken like once, but it was long enough of a conversation that Specky is like yeah he's a friend now :) Tiger still sees it as just acquainted

Don Flamenco

One might say that Specky is a little bit looney about this guy 💀 he dislikes Don's overbearing ego, but loves his confidence and wishes he had it. Hates that this guy thinks hes some pretty boy but guess what Specky also thinks Don is a pretty boy so clearly that must be the case then. He is so annoyed that he thinks he likes this guy bc never in a million years would he ever fold for a casanova- and then he did 💀 Don noticed the stink eye and was like man screw this guy so he doesnt really like him, despite having a few words actually exchanged between eachother

Aran Ryan

Specky is the perfect prank victim. He is incredibly gullible, too soft and shows his frustrations wayyy too easily, perfect for Aran! He clocked him immediately and has been pissing off Specky ever since

Soda Popinski

He only "dislikes" him because Soda is so incredibly huge and fear imposing that it activates his fight or flight (he's taking flight). Soda is none the wiser bros seen him like twice

Bald Bull

Doesn't know him at all, has seen him most from attending his matches. He is terrified though. One of Aran's "trolls" was just tricking Specks into being face to face with Bull- fastest hes ever run in his life 💀

Super Macho Man

Also terrified of this absolute giant, but Macho noticed and this isnt his first rodeo with people like this- he wanted to poke fun at Specks by telling him to fetch him stuff 💀 Specky isnt good at reading sarcasm or when he is being made fun of subtly, so he just does it anyways because why wouldnt he listen to the guy who could snap him in two? So when Macho sees that this goober did in fact get him what he asked, he continues doing it as a running bit- Specky is his little errand boy now (oh and he is Little Dude to Macho, he never got his name )

(Specky he is literally rich why would you buy that 25 dollar box yourself man, that's the price of 2 double cheeseburgers 😞)

Mr. Sandman

Well I wouldn't say quite strangers, Specky knows him alright 💀

(Sandy's intro lives in my head all the time and i just like to think that even like OC's and stuff got absolutely decimated by him lol)

In the "engaging with another person" standpoint though, they're strangers they've never seen eachother apart from that match.

Doc Louis

Knows him as Little Mac's trainer and as the guy who said something a little too mean about him during intermissions.

Carmen

Knows her as Don's girlfriend. He had a pretty neutral view about her and why she would be with that troglodyte of a man (his words not mine). When they actually exchanged words at some point he was even more dumbfounded this sweetiepie is with Don (he just doesnt get it smh 🙄😒)

The Ref

Specky has always liked lingering around after matches and speaking with the refs there, which pretty much always includes the ref. Much like Great Tiger, just exchanging words is enough for him to be like "friend :)" but the ref is just acquainted.

Little Mac

Just knows him at the newbie that kicked his teeth in. No hard feelings though.

[mymoshangthoughts]

the amount i wanna explore the immortal alliance is just So Much

okay there are LAYERS to how i feel about these events

because look guys, so far as we understand, airplane is a pretty normal dude. a bit of an internet troll (ok a lot of an internet troll), a horny writer, and an immature punkass who's completely shameless, but like... he's not a mass murderer ya'll.

it KILLS ME that we never got an airplane extra about the immortal alliance because dude HOW HE FELT ABOUT THAT IS A LOT

yeah, he's grown up in this world and yeah he might have had no choice either via the system or via mobei jun or a mix of both, but its absolutely bonkers to be able to just walk off "yeah, a bunch of CHILDREN died in really brutal ways directly because of my influence". like shen yuan was wracked with guilt for years and he only 'killed' one kid and he knew that kid would walk it off.

and i dont buy the explanation that airplane wasn't treating pidw like a real world because frankly... i just dont think that makes any fucking sense if he was born there. yeah, it's gotta feel a bit wonky and unreal with the system in his head, but dude he was BORN here. suspension of disbelief that this world wasn't 'real' wouldnt last a few years, much less several decades. the sheer number of people he would have met, interacted with, and knew were REAL wouldnt make it possible. i do think that he made a huge effort not to get attached to anyone, knowing that bing-ge was gonna kill the fuck out of basically all of them, but theres a big difference between "ahh yeah that guy is gonna die so imma try not to get attached" and "lol ive lived in this world for thirty years but i dont actually think any of this is real"

so look, theres two possibilities for airplane's reaction:

he really does have a seriously fucked up side of him thats 100% okay with murdering children

he was VERY not okay with what happened but he had no choice and he's just Coping the best he can

there's also some answers in-between, but fuck i need to know this answer so badly because knowing the answer to how airplane reacted to the immortal alliance is SO character defining and it drives me insane. characterizing a person who can justify children dying because "not my problem, idc" versus someone who's horrified and traumatized over the part they played in child murder IS KINDA A BIG DIFFERENCE

personally, im coming to a headcanon somewhere in the middle. because tbh none of the airplane extras really spend any time addressing him feeling any sort of guilt over the situation. which does make it seem that he really does have a seriously dark side to him. and he did walk off his fellow disciples getting murdered by mobei jun very easily. but also, i headcanon that he is just the Master of compartmentalizing shit that fucks with him. cant deal with the events of the immortal alliance? thats fine, imma just put those feelings in a box and Never Think About Them.

i actually like to think that airplane's issue with the immortal alliance is the exact reason that mobei jun showed up in person. airplane is doing the immortal alliance thing because the system isnt giving him a choice and he's trying Very Hard not to think about "oh wow, theres gonna be a lot of junior disciples dead by the end of this haha, wow, they look so young ahhahaha, did teenagers always look like toddlers??? bc this is fucking me up REALLY FUCKING BAD" and mobei jun notices that something is Really Wrong with airplane and he cant decide if he's worried or suspicious of airplane's behavior

so he decides to show up in person, just to make sure shang qinghua isnt gonna pull anything but also that the idiot doesnt die while he's acting So Weird

but i think that airplane is like hyper pragmatic

so he's horrified in the planning stages and maybe even in the execution stages, but once it's over he's very much "they're already dead, theres no changing that, theres no point agonizing over it" and its not that he's OKAY with what happened but he literally cannot justify tearing himself apart over people who are dead because that isnt going to help anything. they're not alive to see him upset over it and even if their ghosts could see him, they're not gonna really feel better over dying bc "the guy who killed me feels really bad about it"

i also think that the years airplane spent growing up as shang qinghua play into it A LOT. he's had decades to come to terms with the immortal alliance happening. he knows its a major plot point, it's basically one of two major plot points that shang qinghua has a part in, and the system is unlikely to let him get out of it. so he's spent a longgg time numbing himself to the reality of "im going to murder dozens of children"

this is all my speculations tho and i just wanna rip my hair out that we dont have an immortal alliance extra!!!!!! i just want to KNOW instead of guessing where his head is at. literally, if he doesnt feel any guilt over murdering children, that's kinda a Big Deal characterization-wise. and if he does feel guilt but he doesnt express it thats ALSO a Big Deal characterization-wise!!!

I JUST WANNA BE ABLE TO ACCURATELY PORTRAY HIS PERSONALITY FFFFUUUCCCKKKK I HATE THIS

anyway, im obsessed with the idea that mobei jun is the one who notices when airplane is Not Okay even when he's compartmentalizing like crazy. like airplane is so far down his hole of "its nbd and idc" that he actually believes it. he has to believe it to be able to live with himself. but the way he's fucked up shows up in other ways, maybe he's more forgetful than normal or scattered or clumsier or some mixture and mobei jun just Knows something is wrong, even when he doesnt know exactly what that wrong thing is

and like it becomes this thing where sometimes mobei jun knows airplane better than the little shit knows himself. airplane is so busy lying to himself to cope with his new reality and mobei jun sees through the lies that airplane believes.

but heres where mobei jun hits a problem lol. like, he knows theres something wrong, he knows how to read shang qinghua suupperr well, but does he know what to DO about any of that? absolutely not lmfao

"hm. qinghua is not okay. i should beat him four times today" LIKE THIS MAN DOES NOT KNOW HOW TO HELP EVEN WHEN HE UNDERSTANDS THE PROBLEM AND THAT'S HILARIOUS TO ME

like mobei jun shows up to the immortal alliance like "qinghua has been in pain over this. i'll show up unplanned and beat the shit out of him in front of everyone. that'll help."

i just think these two are an absolute disaster area and i love it

btw i am desperate for mobei jun's pov during the immortal alliance okay because LOOK

I'VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT IT ALOT

AND IM CONVINCED THAT MOBEI JUN /DID/ HAVE FEELINGS FOR AIRPLANE DURING THAT INCIDENT

BUT ALSO

ITS COMPLICATED

like i dont think mobei jun is simping like binghe, i think he's got some weird mixture of denial and affection and frustration and pining and hatred and suspicion thats all mixed up in all the best ways that during that time he is super in love with airplane but he's also got a lot of other Complicated feelings toward him AND I JUST WANNA SEE HIS POV TO PROVE MY HYPOTHESIS SO FUCKING BADLY WHY THE FUCK DO WE NEVER GET HIS POV IMMA SCREAM

mobei jun's fb status "its complicated"

airplane's fb status "single"

mobei jun: ...........im going to murder him. im going to murder him in his sleep. omfg i hate him so fucking much. WTF DO YOU MEAN SINGLE, YOU ASSHOLE

[menuliso]

i actually think i have some sort of brain damage from chapter 403 because now ive taken my bkdk obsession to a whole new degree. like, i was insane before, but now i feel as if i should be genuinely put into an asylum.

ive gone through a full on awakening.

before this chapter i refused to believe that bkdk would become canon/hinted bc like its wishful thinking. but now? ive fallen into the fucking deep end. i am of full belief that bkdk will become canon or at least be hinted bc horikoshi is cooking something and im so glad im not the only one to see it.

there is no way that man doesnt know what hes doing. bkdks entire arc has been fucking perfect and this man just keeps BUILDING UP. like all this talk about feelings, and how bkdk have never really spoken about them to eachother before??? this is like, building up to a fucking love confession i swear, because katsuki DIED for izuku, and izuku cant control his heart when it comes to katsuki, and like… what other explaination is there? atp i consider it canon that theyre in love with each other.

and the other most likely ship that i thought was gonna be canon, izuocha, just is not feasible. its not like i dislike the ship, no hate to it at all, but making it canon would be so fucking harmful to izuku and ochakos characters and we dont talk about that enough. it would a dissapointing, flat conclusion with barely any build up and itd be the bland, predictable formula. like, ochako has already basically wrapped up her thing with izuku with that entire fight with toga. shes admitted herself that her crush on izuku was more admiration than anything of massive substance. and dont even get me started on izuku. barring some fluster and embarrassed blushing in the early seasons, this boy has NOT reciprocated AT ALL. its actually ridiculous. izuku has been focused on like, two things only: hero work, and kacchan. izuku does not show ANY romantic feeling to ochako whatsoever.

surely, surely if horikoshi were to make this canon, he’d put in a little more effort? add some more chemistry, more development, more than just ‘boy meets girl. blush and get shy. little crush. get married. the end’?

that is bad storytelling, and horikoshi is anything but a bad storyteller. this guy adds foreshadowing YEARS before the chapter. horikoshi is INSANE when it comes to character + relationship + plot development. if horikoshi throws all that out the way, and makes izuocha canon, id be extremely, extremely disappointed. not because i hate the ship, but because itd be out of nowhere, disregard practically ALL development, and be nauseatingly dissatisfying.

talking of which, for the entire day ive been thinking about the foreshadowing for bkdk.

there. is. so. fucking. much. it feels like everytime i read like a new section of the manga, their relationship is described in the most frutti tutti rainbow gay way. im sorry, shigafo, did you just say that katsuki is closer to izuku than ANYONE else? excuse me, aizawa, did you just describe them as pair, a pair that the class revolves around? dont even mention the shit that izuku and katsuki say referring to each other. i cant even choose one to add in here, but every out of context bkdk quote has like these SEVERE more-than-platonic undertones, especially when you consider their past and their development. i feel like horikoshi has been doing some fucking insane foreshadowing for something MORE.

yk, i keep on thinking about how in the double spread in 403, the words ‘the beginning’ are displayed right over bkdk, as they find each other. call me delusional, but that has to be on purpose. i also keep on thinking about izukus green and orange gloves in so many official arts, and the light in both their eyes when they see each other, and the way theyre both always observing the other, never speaking about how they feel directly.

their relationship is just so, so……. and i feel like the only next step is for them to talk. just. fucking. talk. its been hinted at for so long, and horikoshi is doing SOMETHING.

them simply being together would be the most satisfying, developed, beautiful ending.

if they arent canon, i will die. ill say it now. bkdk canon. there is too much proof. as a writer, i know for a fact that i write everything for a REASON. why would horikoshi write this, if he wasn’t going to do anything with it?

bkdk will be canon. i dont care if i sound insane, or get proved entirely wrong. i now fully believe that the last page of the manga will be bkdk at a theme park eating crepes.

thank you chapter 403 for driving me off the rails.

[lex-catto]

lex's systemic rant review of issue 1 of robin & batman: jason todd

tl;dr: this is really fucking bad. do not read it. jason is drawn cute though, hes a little guy. the art does not make up for this dumpster fire.

spoilers for the entirety of this issue!

TW FOR SHITTY HANDLING OF DRUGS AND ADDICTION AND ALSO A LOT OF CLASSISM

do not buy this even to hate read, its not worth it. im going to be hate buying it so you dont have to!! tune in next month for more of whatever this was.

are yall ready? im not. i hated every second of this. we're doing image and then my text reaction/rant.

first word of this issue. "revenge." "i finally get revenge. i finally get to fight back." i am not super well read on jason's original appearances but i have a feeling this is not at all close.

jason couldve and shouldve won that fight i fear. this criminal bitch had like, a sharp knife attached to his wrist. he gave jason a tiny cut on his cheek jason wouldve bodied that man. i couldve bodied that man and i cant fight

establishing jason w anger issues and not being able to handle like, one word of criticism. they then show bruce also resorting to violence, maybe attempting to establish bruce as a hypocrite? or to be like "bruce is teaching him violence so ofc hes violent" but that requires depth and nuance in writing that we are not getting from this comic i fear

this whole conversation filled me with rage. jason outright saying hes not their son and that hes only there to be trained and to be robin and to be a soldier/weapon. alfred snd bruce being terrible. bruce "idk what he needs 🥺" therapy and a loving parent idk bro. alfred "that boy... there is just something not right." LITERALLY SHUT UP??? HES LIKE 10. OH MY GOD. directly going "dick was amazing and jason is deeply troubled" is crazy in the yr of our lord 2025.

"that boy... he doesnt know light. and im not sure he wants to" HES LIKE 10?????????? THE CLASSISM IS FUCKING CRAZY. AND JUST. WHATEVER ELSE IS GOING ON HERE IS SO BAD.

alfred: "we should give up this child weve been caring for ☺️"

bruce: noooo he has no one else...

alfred: "i fear even you may not be able to save this one, master bruce." THAT IS A CHILD. A LITTLE GUY EVEN. HELLLLLOOOOOO

bro the littlest guy :( ADN IM SUPPOSED TO BELIEVE HES INHERENTLY EVIL

these pissed me off the most. pill box red hood one, looks stupid, and two, JASON WASNT DESTINED TO BE THE RED HOOD. HE DID NOT HAVE SECRET EVIL. and again. how am i supposed to believe that little guy is evil.

"i am a weapon" YOU ARW A CHILD!!!! throwing the comm out of ear is acting kinda iconic

jason also having a trauma response bcs the criminal dude was using couldve been really interesting instead of (spoilers that will be revealed in two seconds) evil villain of the week murdering the dude in front of jason.

the "all my life ive been the one getting hurt" (and now he can fight back) on a panel of his mom ODing and being dead is absolutely fucking insane. why would they do that.

like. jason is overlaying this random dude injecting himself w images of his mom,,,,,, and then evil villain with a vaguely similar vibe to red hood killing the dude. "now ill make them scared of me" (says jason) and the them is like, drug victims? what a message the writers are sending here.

"i am a weapon" YOURE A BABY. YOURE A BABY!!!!!

jason drenched in blood :(((((( poor baby :(((((((((((((( devastating actually. how many bets that the immense trauma of someone you were beating up getting fucking shot and killed in front of you is never addressed!!!

this is the only time bruce calls jason his son lmao. and its "WHAT DID YOU DO?" when yknow, i dont think jason is capable of blowing someone's brains out. i have a Feeling. and also B's direct assumption that it's jason's fault.

WHAT THE FUCK DOES THIS EVEN MEAN. LAME ASS VILLAIN. wraith is talking abt general criminals, but it can easily be overlaid onto how bruce is treating jason. "youve been too lenient" jason is a child. "the animals are running wild" JASON IS A FUCKING CHILD. LETS NOT COMPARE HIM TO AN ANIMAL MAYBE? JUST A THOUGHT.

ok thats it in conclusion this is the worst thing ive read in awhile and i hated every second.

also ty to marz in the birdwatchers discord server for clarifying some stuff i misread :3

i was ranting to my dad in the car abt this comic actually, and he was like, "if jason had a secretly evil plot… that wouldve made him interesting." and i went "he would not have died in the first place 😭" and my dad agreed.

ok thats it bye im not thinking abt this comic until next month.

[its-phi]

okok obx4 part 2 spoilers !!!! like major so don’t read this until after you’ve finished or are okay with spoilers but it won’t make sense for you i don’t think.

i need to rant here bc no one i know has finished it.

i feel like this season , despite having some amazing moments, was just a bit lacklustre in a lot of areas. the relationships seems off and i feel like there was a massive disconnect between part 1 and 2. im going to go into more detail below.

so the things i really enjoyed:

- episode 6 had some of the best cinematography i’ve seen in a tv show in fucking ages! they way they included everyone’s reactions in the court scene whilst still focusing on jj was incredible. and then the scenes following that where the riot took place was so amazingly done i loved it

- i LOVED that we finally got to see jj actually let loose the way they described him in all the previous seasons. like we’ve obviously seen him act out and let loose but the raw emotions that jj produced was insane. he went full loose cannon and i for one fucking loved it.

- i really did appreciate the rafe and sarah reunion and i enjoyed seeing rafes character development (at the hands of sofia might i add). to see how she was the only one bringing him food on the boat and the small smiles they shared before the actual reunion, like when her and jb told pope and cleo about their pregnancy and she smiled at rafe. loved it.

- knowing that kie and her parents are at least on speaking terms made me really happy! and seeing her dad stand up for jj with the cops made my heart smile. they could finally see that just bc they might not like kies friends does not mean they aren’t amazing people that have so much care and love for each other.

- i am intrigued to see how they all deal with their grief and how the revenge plot pans out. i think there is going to be some emotional turmoil between jb and kie bc i have the feeling that jb holds kie partly accountable for jj’s death and i’m interested to see how they work through that.

okok now onto my anger with this season bc there’s a lot of it…

- we will start with the obvious here… jj. look i know there is so much speculation and assumptions surrounding rudy leaving or being written off the show and i’m not going to comment on that for the most part bc we will never know the truth. BUT i do think they didnt handle it the best either way. jj hated being alone and for the pouges to bury him in the desert… idk doesnt feel right. (yes ik logistically how could they bring him back to the obx? idk they have done more fucked up shit)

- the disconnect between part 1 and 2 was STRONG for me at least. it just felt really separated and like we just got over some major plot points in the characters between the two. like jj was having a major identity crisis and then we just kinda moved on. and i know is a pretty fast paced show especially with the amount of moving around they do but like huh?

- (this is a big one for me so strap in) THE RELATIONSHIPS OMG! they felt so off this season as a whole. and i don’t just mean romantically. i know it was to kinda set up jj’s death but the way all of the pogues had this significant drift between them and jj just felt odd and not like them. romantically speaking, jiara was lacking majorly. you’re telling me they had barely any physical interaction but they are meant to be together? it just didn’t feel right. if you’re with someone, especially someone you’ve known for as long as they’ve known each other, even with being less physical people, you’re going to hug and kiss and hold on to that person when they are dying or injured or even just going through everything jj was. didn’t like it. wanted more jiara scenes ( especially seeing them alone and how they interact when it’s just them. THE PREGNANCY TROPE? REALLY? after sarah was so visibly uncomfortable when jb brought it up previously… and i know it’s common when you lose a character you fill it with someone else but like what the fuck. it’s rushed and it’s so cliché. and it’s predictable. even without jj making that comment about naming their kid jj, it’s obvious they are going to honour him with that. cleo and pope are gorgeous and amazing and i love them. my only complaint is i want more cleo. she’s too stunning to not have more screen time. I WANT CLEO BACKSTORY IN DETAIL PLEASE.

- despite the feature episode and the part 2 episode being longer it still felt kinda rushed and like they were just skimming over things quickly. like i wanted some dialogue between jj and gr**f about luke and the abuse jj experienced but oh well ig. (i’m upset)

anyway, im kinda bummed with this whole season. i will watch season 5 but i’m not going to be anywhere near as excited. jj was such an integral part of the show for everyone but for me he really tied things together. the interactions all of the pogues had with him really made it so enjoyable and kept the lighthearted, teenager thing alive for me. like without him it’s gonna be hard to remember that they are still young adults that just want to have fun and live their lives to the fullest.

please discuss your thoughts and if you have any differing opinions let me know! i love hearing everyone’s thoughts on it all and am so open to discussions about it all bc at the end of the day it is just a tv show but it’s also so much more to so many people.

love you all

[crguang]

suprise baby with kafka is so insane like how would she react? she's prob perfect if r tends to panic under stressful situations, her cool nature would balance their panicky nature.

if we’re real, she just might dip :/ yall know im a firm believer in kafka would pay child support but she’d likely still be an absent mom cause of the stellaron hunters and all of that. first thing she’d say is “…are you keeping it?” in a tone that lets you know she already has a preferred answer to that question bshdjfmfg imo she would just freeze when you tell her youre pregnant. like her movements are a lot slower and she’s manually fixing her face back into that neutral expression, you can see the effort it takes her instead of it being seamless as usual. she asks if you’re sure 3 times, looks at the test herself then just kinda falls silent. her mind is working 100 miles an hour thinking of how much a baby complicates things and what it all entails and her first instinct is to run but she just stands there. not the most immediately comforting, but if she sees youre in visible distress at the news she’d come to you and reassure you that things are gonna be okay whether she believes it or not

if she’s truly deeply in love she would stick around… wouldnt be there 24/7, again, the SH thing, but she would be involved and she’d be so cute about it. she calls (not just texts…) every day to see if youre good and when shes free she just shows up at your place to ease your anxiety in person (and watch her baby grow even tho she doesn’t rlly say it). kafka herself would need a lot of reassurance that this is something you can do together and that she’ll be a good parent because imo she never thought about having kids, theyre too messy and dont fit with her lifestyle (even back on her home planet) so she’d have a lot of reservations about it. but you’re absolutely right that since she doesnt really feel anxious, her energy would rub off on r. she seems to always know what to say (she’s freestyling on the spot) and would just be the most chill one of the two (she smokes a LOT. though shes trying to quit) so it’s refreshing to have her around. if anything, shes always one call away. i think kaf would be a good parent like thats my biased opinion bc i’d force her but she would care so much and it would show in everything she does for you and your kid and now i want her babiesssss😭😭😭😭😭😭

i actually have this whole angsty story in my head about kaf having a kid she doesnt know about and meeting them coincidentally when theyre a toddler bc she recognizes r but not the pink eyed baby next to them………

[girldriveroscar]

"Have had Real conversations w IRLs about my Hopes for lando fumbling next year bc he is gracious to Oscar in a way that's not reciprocated. okokSorry I am getting my racing discourse out of ur horny ask. Nobody want the toxic 2025 MCL crashout like I do. My Bad. My bad."<- you got me here, i think the same thing! it's insane because most landoscar shippers think the opposite. i dont know to what extent lando is gracious with oscar, but it's definitely not reciprocal xd i think thats the reason landoscar is not compelling to me at the end of the day, because even though lando is kinda receptive, it doesnt matter because oscar doesnt care (eg they cant be friends). more than wanting lando to fail this year, i want oscar to improve, i know they're not mutually exclusive things, but the only way for mclaren to crash out is with both drivers fighting for wins, literally the worst management of the team was when they got 1-2 in qualy 😭 i hope you answer this, i mean, i'd like to hear more of your thoughts on this outside of rpf

BIG BRIGHT NEON BANNER. this is not rpf. will be critical of landoscar and mclaren That Does Not Mean send me nonsensical hate about the two I will delete it irdgaf be civil

also you will. Have to begrudgingly understand in Real Guy Life. I am approaching the 2025 season as a Ferrari fan el oh el. sports is for fun I can cheer my fake team on here and have real opinions with the ppl I actually talk srsly to about f1. ok. disclaimers over end of the day its just not that deep I am having fun bashing my ken dolls together yayay.

Honestly. In all of the different media clips written interviews etc. ive gotten the biggest vibe that lando is too hung up on being perceived as mclarens golden boy, to make the split second decision that puts oscars life at risk to be ahead of him. Alternatively Oscar has literally shown he will pull the trigger in a low stakes scenario (monza) (and I use the words putting his life at risk bc I do Genuinely believe a part of it is overcoming the fear of crashing/dying lmfao. ie. lando sounds nearly scared when hes racing max [mexico] while oscar says fair play [ad]) (maybe not a fair analysis cus Oscar doesn't show his temper on the radio sure., but that's deliberate too in not peacocking a big persona to attach to) so put him in a high stakes scenario? yeah.. I think he's going for it with a much smaller margin of safety than lando would.

having spent his entire career at mclaren, lando appears to me like he feels like he owes them All The Time. when its like yeaaa I mean they got you here they're a big part of the success but. at the end of the day you're the guy behind the wheel. I think he tries to undermine his own abilities because he doesn't wanna seem big headed but then it just backfires because how could he justifiably defy the people he owes everything to. if mclaren tell lando to jump lando will jump. whether that's because lando feels he owes it to the people inside. or because its the public image hes built and feels a responsibility to uphold, or both. well. wtv it is its holding him back lmfao

im not just pulling out of my ass too. Points At Hungary. lando was gifted the Perfect Opportunity to defy all expectations and take a selfish win. and he didn't ! kinda hysterical to me how blatant those radio messages were, it was honestly mclarens worst show of cards. totally revealing in Broad Daylight they still think of him as their pawn: neither lando nor mclaren believe lando has any leverage here. (even though he does lol. he has All the leverage) for as long as lando acts as a servant to his team rather viewing his team as the extra crutch needed to dominate, I just don't see him as being selfish enough to win at all costs.

now oscar on the other hand doesn't have this history w mclaren. its not his family in the way it is for lando, its still Just a contract. its the stepping stone to boost his own ability but at the end of the day I think Oscar could confidently move to a new team feeling like mclaren isn't the be all end all of his successes. like. im using so many words but to simplify, im just saying I think the difference in longevity really has a significant part to play in how both react to Andrea and Zack's teamwork gimmick.

its obvious, as of now, landos got the technical advantage over oscar, but Oscar has shown no signs of plateauing on improvement. at the end of the day who comes out on top will really just be a race of lando gaining a mean streak or oscar out-driving him, and Lets Be Honest. if landos been in the game what 6 years and its only now he's gained Real confidence in his ability, well. I would say its quite easier to train a skill and get good than it is to reprogram the way you approach your teammate and team. I do genuinely believe landos got skill. but the challenges they face individually aren't comparable, and well. for any person in the world, not just lando, I think oscars climb is one easier accomplished.

and when he does inevitably qualify better. (this is situational. imagining the car is decent) and they have front row starts, and they're told to play nice. lando will, cus he owes it to everyone to. Oscar though. Oscar doesn't owe anyone anything, and he especially, doesn't feel he owes lando Any kindness. ripping my shirt off. lando feeling like he owed Oscar for the sprints was His biggest card reveal. were the situation reversed I don't think Payback would even be a factor on oscars mind. Its racing. u win and you focus on the next win. why would you risk a 1-2 to even the cards. there are no cards girl. Points back up top, lando feeling like he owes his wins to people. feels hes owes people loyalty and kindness in exchange for winning. the teamwork is viscerally real to him.

think a big part of this stems from his first win being . Lets Be Honest. gifted. the peak of his career and its immediately chased with, he owes the win to luck not skill. holds peach Snapple to landos lips there there girl. its okay.

anyways yeah. hinging on mclaren having a decent car, I think Oscar isn't tied down the way lando is. he's not tied down to a strong public opinion and he's not tied down to mclaren. so if hes a little evil. well. so what. no friends only enemies :D

and when lando is watery eyed realizing he's not Oscar's Carlos and they aren't gonna have dinner together at the end of the day. calamity at mclaren headquarters. (#thisishowlewiswinshis8th)

[rei-does-stuff]

Ever see a tumblr post that makes you so mad you make a whole mini essay about said character

Thats me, with Casablanca Memories and why Rei Hino doesn’t like men and WASN’T in love with Kaidou

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Rei starts off right off the bat saying SHE DOESNT LIKE MEN and has no interest in them, this is mainly because of her father, who’s fucking awful

Rei “liking” kaidou not because she is actually in love with him, but moreso it’s what’s expected of her, the whole chapter everyone is talking about love and their boyfriends but Rei isn’t attracted to men but she still thinks she’s ‘supposed’ to be

Hell she only “likes” kaidou bc he isn’t like her father he’s nice and kind and understanding, but it’s not real love. She even says hes like a big brother to her, because she has never had any sort of good man in her life to really compare him too, he’s basically the only real father figure she ever had that wasn’t a complete asshole, so she clings to this idea of him.

Like chibiusa (i swear to god it always ends up tying back to her—) she confuses these feelings with love, BUT NOT BECAUSE SHE DOESN’T UNDERSTAND THE DIFFERENCE, she does, but everyone around her talks about this feeling, of love, of having a boyfriend, she thinks she needs that, that this feeling of “love” is what she needs.

She sees Kaidou with another woman and feels betrayed not because of love but because she believed he was abandoning her just like her father,

Rei craves connection and she believes that romantic love of a man is the only way to find that connection, not it’s not true, this image by the spirit of her kissing him also isn’t true, it connects to her past life where she was with jadeite, but it was only her past, not who she is now

By the end of the short story it seems as though she never wants to fall in love period, but heres the thing, this takes place before the stars arc, before minako and her rlly get to know each other,

Now this isn’t just my Reinako brain being insane, it directly ties into the “we don’t need men” because that is the moment Rei realizes that she really doesn’t need men, that she doesn’t need a man in her life to be happy and fulfilled,

The story ends on a bittersweet not because its bad she doesn’t wanna fall in love but because she feels like falling in love = being with a man, which is why she doesn’t want it

But its by the end of sailor moon where she realizes that love isn’t just getting married to a man, that she doesn’t need men in her life to really be happy, she says it there in the story but she doesn’t fully realize it until the end, she found happiness without getting with a man

Its also through that whole kiss scene that she realizes she doesn’t want it, it upsets her and makes her unhappy, its a nightmare

Though its not as explicit as Chibiusa’s arc it’s still very clear because IF this was here to show that her not liking men was a phase she would’ve gotten with a man by the end, or show signs of starting to like men, but no!! She doesn’t, even by the end it’s clear, she doesn’t like men.

The whole story in my eyes, is a sort of metaphor for comphet in a way.

A less wordy/more condensed version here

Tldr LESBIAN REI IS REAL AND PPL NEED TO READ!!

[moonshynecybin]

your regency omegaverse au makes me feel crazzzzyyy. How tha HELL is Vale, grief connoisseur, lost so many people, dealing with Marc coming BACK from the DEAD!!!!  Also so interesting to give vale rational reasons to feel betrayed, Italian finger waving at Marc like a) you faked your death b) you faked your death bc you were Pregnant with Our child c) you have turned my ward (franky) against me and are manipulating him to lie that the very blonde toddler is his!!!

contexttt. so i think the franky betrayal answer is SO interesting like. will franky actually help keep it from vale (did he know this was the plan, or did alex iron it out w their family/exclude him from the convo and then guiltily blindside him and HATE himself? loves franky but cant kick codependency that easy...) and one of the fun things about a historical setting like regency is that communication is limited, like there is virtually no way to verify information. so i think the marquez alenta parents are like hey vale marc's DEAD and it just stays in a vale-shaped blast radius lol. like franky knows marc is alive (maybe thinks he was ill for a bit/had a hard pregnancy and needed to go away), but does he know that vale who lives several hours away from him by horse and represses emotions like crazy thinks hes dead? no. like literally canonically to reach franky you have to call his gf. well what if his gf is alex marquez and he HATES YOU ? and phones have not yet been invented.

so when marc shows back up, vale maybe thinks he is going insane bc not many people are reacting... truly like on-and-off unadressed grief hallucinations for years but he still smiles and still goes through the motions with the boys even though theres something empty there, something hollow (marc got to die young and unblemished remember!! pedestal forever!!) and then when its revealed marc's aliveeee, its this huge betrayal and vale cant BELIEVE the suitor that franky was being cagey about was a marquez and he cant believe marc LIED about something like this to him and then when he DOES figure out about the kid its such a nastayyy wound on top of everything because MARC still thinks vale didnt want her/finds out what his parents (and alex?) did and vale has 21330248 tender complexes about parenthood and legacy and its just a MESS...

so vale goes to the first ball of the season bc he loves people/loves a shindig/thats where all his young wards are gonna be/franky's coming back to town w his new husband/he DOESNT want to think about marc's stuff that he keeps in a sentimental little box in the bottom of his closet that he doesnt let the housekeeper touch and only drags out when hes drunk and feeling sorry for himself... and hes closing his eyes trying not to think about how much marc liked to dance, when he turns to grab a drink and marc. is just there. in fine, dark red silks a little too-open at the chin. meets eyes with him across a ballroom. and he feels a ringing in his ears, and the world narrows, and he knows its not grief-hallucination-marc because he looks different (older, more tired) and oh yeah this is an omegaverse story so he can also SMELL him for the first time in years (pre-invention of gasoline here, so what does marc smell like. fire?) and he couldnt smell him in his dreams... truly knocked on his ass but kinda still famous and in public so he has to put down his drink and grip the back of a velvet couch very hard w his scandalously un-gloved hand and marc doesnt look away from him yet until a child runs up and tugs at his sleeve... says something that makes him laugh, open mouthed, and bend over so she can talk in his ear, eyes hot and kind of sad on vale the whole time... and then he picks her up and vale thinks-- maybe. and then franky and alex walk up to them with alex's hand in franky's arm, and the kid smiles at them like she knows them and marc hands her over and then entire world begins to tilt sideways....

[sillyyuserr]

ever since chapter 108 tbhk has been getting progressively worse, after reading chapter 112 i had to take an hour long lap around my room before i could write this 😭

Chapter 112 analysis/thoughts

❗️obviously, chapter 112 spoilers❗️

aoi is seemingly less popular, and the burden of that has been lifted, her and nene also being much closer.

ALSO WHAT?? Like ok lesbians

Mei’s alive, which kind of confused me because she died due to illness?? But i guess not if shes here

This page really intrigued me, not because of kou or anything but because of what aoi says

She refers to teru as “teru-kun” differing to that of what she used to call him

Which i guess means she’s close to him too

after kou runs back to the stand it shows this

Kou and mitsuba??? HE’S ALIVE?? This is literally all we get of them so i don’t have much for this part

Nene singing at the play, having a thought just at the back of her mind, thinking she was wanting someone to watch her, but not sure who

Until they’re finally done, everything’s quiet, she looks up at the crowd to see

Hanako?? Im not quite sure if he was actually there or if she was hallucinating or something but she remembered him, enough to remember his name. ALSO HE KEPT HIS PROMISE AUGH 😭💔

i dont have much to say for this because i really dont know whats going on but im interested to see what happens next w/ them

This next part especially killed me

Teru is distressed, he’s fucking devastated, he feels betrayed and hurt by the only person he’s trusted as much as he has, teru reacts impulsively when it comes to something that weakens him. akane was right when he referred to him as a little kid, he is like a child, he does not know how to control his emotions since he wasn’t taught, and sure as hell not having a mom made it worse

also his face 😭 my mans is HURT

Him not knowing if he should treat akane like a human or like a supernatural hurts me. this reminds me of the picture perfect arc with hanako and nene, akane being in hanako’s place and teru being in nene’s. akane making the decision for the greater good that he doesn’t even fully believe in, just as hanako did when he made shijima make the painting

I have so much to say about this panel its insane

The tension goes CRAZYY but also wtf

The demotion from “aoi” to “clock keeper” back to “aoi” shows he really doesnt know. Also showing he really did trust him, but now that he’s done what he did, he doesnt know how to feel about him. The “you really let me down” again suggests he didn’t at one point, and he did like him. GOSH AidaIro sleep with one eye open tonight

Akane looking worried like that shows he really did care about teru too, and what he thinks of him, i mean like look at him he looks disappointed too, but in himself

His face he feels so bad 😭😭

Teru gripping his tie like he’s onna run away 😭 my mans ur ON TOP OF HIM i think you got him

Teru looking progressively more worried/concerned as akane continues explaining whats happened

Teru’s perspective shot on the top left is painful like the rest of this chapter, him looking down at akane with a face of disbelief, as akane removed his hand from his tie, and redoes it, explaining the rest.

again, reminding me of the picture perfect arc, with the whole “be here long enough and you’ll forget your past life” with again, akane in hanako’s place and teru in nene’s

Akane says this could be a better present for Nene, and we see her initial hope of being popular come true (also taking aoi’s problem away, as stated at the beginning)

but he also says this could be a better/more preferable present for teru aswell, which makes me want to see how teru’s life changed, and what akane considered something teru would want, and what he lost to gain it. (like how nene gained popularity but lost hanako and the connections she made bcs of meeting him)

Fuck i just realized something. Akane was under the impression teru has a crush on aoi so what if he made them closer as in like dating closer SHE CALLS HIM TERU-KUN is this what akane meant by “some people might prefer this ‘present’ over the former one. could be you president.” HUUH

i have a problem with saying “this will never happen, i know it wont, and i wont even consider it” and genuinely will be under the belief that it wont, but then it fucking happens and if thats what happened here i might as well archive my acc

Back to the current topic, as a wielder of time, an important part of making this present, is making sure there is no way his memories will be replaced too, or so im guessing. He says "some" and “their” instead of "we" or “people like us” when talking about the people that will forget the old present. Meaning if akane des remember, he will be so indefinitely alone and self aware (him knowing so much more than the rest of them) and have to play along with everything. Everyone else has the comfort of forgetting, which will make it much easier to adjust, meanwhile if things stay the same, akane will be the only one to remember and will be like this for as long as they stay like that.

Which i like this new one, as mitsuba and kou can be friends without one of them literally being dead, and how aoi can be more open and is closer to nene, but if this is how it ends (obviously not this chapter but if it ends with them staying in the new present) tbhk is so fucked.

its kind of a win-lose, lose-win type of thing, but either way akane’s cooked.

Todays a rough day for everyone 😭