#misunderstand something else

[rocketbirdie]

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[thonkphonk]

Spideytorch high school sweethearts AU except Johnny breaks up with Peter after he gets back from space. Johnny's still in love but his family's safety is now banked on public opinion, and Johnny's terrified what being out as gay would do to that.

Unfortunately he completely botches the explanation to Peter, who only hears that what they had doesn't mean anything now that Johnny has to leave and go be a celebrity. His boyfriend's too good to be with humdrum ol'Peter Parker with the ratty shoes and dead parents. No, it's probably going to be supermodels and brand deals for the Human Torch from now on, and at best Peter gets to be the old friend from high school who calls sometimes. Not even good enough to be seen hanging out together. Well, if that's the case, Peter's not interested in being "just friends" with Johnny who still gets to "talk on the phone sometimes". In fact, he's perfectly fine with never hearing from him again.

Johnny flies away from that conversation in anguish, heartbroken that he has lost the first and only friend he's ever had, his first love. Peter develops a level of spite towards the Human Torch that rivals the future animosity of J. Jonah Jameson towards Spider-Man.

When Johnny later learns about Spider-Man he's enamored with the idea of befriending him, someone who understands what it's like to be a young superhero struggling through life. This hope crashes and burns upon them actually meeting, when Spider-Man makes some extremely personal attacks completely unprompted. Their rivalry is started with the verbal equivalent of tossing a lit stick of dynamite, and from then on it's so bad that Spider-Man is often identified as a member of the Human Torch's rogues gallery.

What really, really doesn't help is Johnny and Peter's reunion a few months later. Johnny, feeling guilty of how it all went down and struggling to get over Peter, apologizes and asks if they can be actual friends again, not that half-hearted stuff he'd initially proposed. Not only does this get turned down, Peter hints that he's been seeing other people after Johnny, and he's not naming any names, but Spider-Man's a better kisser than the Human Torch.

Johnny doesn't take it well.

[gothicrepetitions]

I’ve often seen with children who live in households where they feel helpless and without any autonomy in their households, they tend to verbally lash out for a sense of control, especially in situations where the adult exerts their authority or power over them (such as demanding they do something or making decisions for them without regard to their own wants). Very true for Sam Winchester (from what we know in pre-series and what we see in at certain points of S1) but imo this often gets misunderstood and misconstrued both by fandom and by other characters

[wasabi-gumdrop]

First base is comedic miscommunication. Second base is holding each other when wounded. Third base is being their royal advisor.

wow that’s crazy if you zoom in to Kabru’s notes that’s exactly what he wrote as his grand master plan

[calethescammer]

Headcanon that krs had a reflex of getting in a fight stance when he's surprised. So now, as Cale, he instead activates his ancient powers. Like if he's taking a nap and something startles him, he will subconsciously activate the shield (or maybe throw a rock).

Now imagine this scenario-

Cale was taking a short nap on the couch after a battle took place. Since he was exhausted, he didn't hear Ron, Alberu, Choi Han, Rosalyn and the children entering the tent.

Ignoring the time everyone took to look at the adorable young master's sleeping face, Ron went to wake him up.

And Cale, startled, raised up his right hand, moved further back on the couch, and activated the shield. He himself looked stunned at what he just did.

Then the realisation of horror came and he realised he had pushed Ron off by the shield. Ron just stood there dead in his tracks and his face devoid of any benign smile.

The others looked the same, even the kids had shocked and dull faces. Cale got scared and started apologising frantically to them.

"Cale-nim, was it a nightmare?" Choi Han asked solemnly.

"Huh? No, no it wasn't anything of the sort! It's just a reflex..." Troubled, he decided to just blame the ancient powers.

"Its just something the ancient powers do for sneak attacks."

'yeah, its not my fault'

Cale nodded internally, satisfied by his answer, unaware of the misunderstandings forming.

Now imagine the misunderstandings-

"The young master is so traumatised by the war that he didn't recognise his own friends!"

"The young master can't even sleep in peace! He's always on guard for sneak attacks, even amongst his family..."

"What a terrible fate for someone so kind...he can't even find some peace..."

Many shed tears at how exhausted their young master looked, and how his shoulders slumped down from the responsibilities he carried.

Meanwhile, Cale's shoulder were slumped because of a certain young dragon as he walked lazily across the corridor, unaware of the horrors he would face the coming days.

[ignocubo]

About G3 Nefera... I get so annoyed when people hate on her just because she's nice to Cleo.

We rarely get healthy sister duos in animation (or at least I don't notice many).

Furthermore, I never really understood what was so 'iconic' about Nefera aside from her clothing.

Does she have personality-developing lore in the diaries/books? Because in the show and movies (which is what I had access to a child and no I'm not gonna read them now, I have enough books in my waitlist as is) she's very spoiled and just downright mean.

Not "evil for the sake of evil", like Big Jack Horner.

Not a nuanced mean girl, like Kady Heron.

Just a genuinely mean girl and a poor sister. On Cleo's end it was a sibling rivalry, on Nefera's end? She straight up HATED Cleo at times, it seemed.

'Boo York Boo York' was one of Nefera's most significant and worst roles. It solidified my disdain for her. There's nothing wrong with preferring G1 Nefera, but why scorn G3 for... giving her a better relationship with her sister?

[inksandpensblog]

Still fascinated by how much hate Mitsi gets for the whole "dead fem-coded loved one backstory" thing and all the hangups surrounding that when Purple's mom is arguably a much more egregious instance of the thing everyone is upset about Mitsi for but she ultimately got a pass because...idk, she was The First?

[caterpillarinacave]

I’m just gonna leave this here.

[mwagneto]

david thewlis holmes trailer right after cbs's matt berry holmes it's like there's a competition for worst holmes casting

[j-esbian]

just saw an article saying that the bard’s lament was spur-of-the-moment and that’s part of the reason they didn’t include it in the animated show. lmao. yeah it was super impulsive and that’s why sam had a second character locked and loaded and ready to go in the same episode

[free-luigi-mangione]

you really think he was of sound mind when this happened? I don’t think anybody is diagnosing him. Any average person can clearly see there was some mental break component here possibly drug induced .

anon, your incapability of understanding basic english isn't really cute, in case you didn't know that already. in that post, i said that speculating on somebody's mental health, no matter the situation or reason why, without really knowing that person, all while not being qualified enough to diagnose anybody of anything, is incredibly rude and shouldn't be done. i just pleaded that people treat him like a fellow human being. none of us would enjoy a stranger on the internet calling us something like "had a mental breakdown induced by drugs or something". so why do it?? why not extend the bare minimum of human decency to a person who has been systematically dehumanised by the authorities to make it appear like he is dangerous to the common public?? why not treat him the way we'd prefer to be treated if we were in his place?? why not treat him like any "average person" too??? he's just like any one of us after all. he's a human being too. 🤷‍♀️

[crabussy]

fionna and cake comic I was enjoying had dark/complicated lighting for the first few chapters and then in the most recent chapter the lighting changed to super neutral normal lighting and. dude.

canon simon skintone colourpicked directly from his reference image vs the colour the artist chose for him in their comic.

is it really that tricky to see that he has brown skin? how can you watch every episode and somehow go ah yes. he is white. how does this even happen I do not understand!!! I'm genuinely just perplexed!

he spends 90% of the show standing next to fionna, who isn't even that pale but is still VERY pale in comparison to him!! I just can't wrap my head around it.

[sea-buns]

I understand not wanting your party members to walk into a lake and drown themselves but also Laudna has the fuckin WORST bedside manner lol. Yes, your much-needed long rest was just interrupted in a creepy abandoned town where you know weird charm-shit happened and the LAST thing you need right now is for anyone to lose focus. But also "Can you not wait? You can wait 5 minutes." talking to someone who has waited months and doesn't know if their loved one is even ALIVE and has confessed to you how much he misses them and how much it hurts and they could be outside breathing alive right now—

And on the surface, it looks like Chet is enabling a bad decision when he says "You probably heard Dorian. He's probably outside." and yeahh, okay, maybe he is a little bit. But right after that he's about to protest with something about Orym and it's like yeah. ORYM said he heard something. When has there been a time when ORYM heard something, and it wasn't real? How many times has Orym heard something and it's saved our asses? Before Chet is being hit with his own need to check out the lake, he's giving Orym the benefit of the doubt. And while he is an enabler by nature, he's keeping his voice soft rather than his usual, over-the-top "let's fuck around and find out" energy that he brings to dangerous situations like this.

You can't have everyone in the group treating a dilemma with the same amount of sympathy and care. What makes the BH so fascinating to watch is the variation in responses and different ways they interact with each other. You need a balance of someone who will take the cold, unyielding stance against something that is so obviously a trap, and someone that is aware of the risks but willing to speak up for that person and humor them when they're so clearly struggling.

I have a lot of feelings about Laudna and Chetney's instinctual responses and I think both stances are fascinating and they've both shattered my heart to pieces

[as-kind-as-summer]

I saw a street interview the other day where they were asking people which was better LotR or another fantasy series which shall not be named and one of the people said LotR wasn't as good because "it just has a happy ending so it's not as powerful" and I just...do people think this? First off, if you don't think every one of those characters is not now carrying deep-seated trauma I don't even know what to tell you. But second...that's the whole point?? These stories are about the power of friendship and finding light in the darkness and banding together to overcome the worst evil of an entire age. The characters getting a happy ending after all of that doesn't negate the struggles that they faced earlier. If anything, a happy ending strengthens the message of LotR.

[reblorzelska]

Commented on a Tiktok, got someone extremely pressed over the modicum of sympathy I showed for Jin Guangyao reading Jiang Cheng for filth after he called him whoreson at the most inopportune time EVER (two minutes after he discovered his mom is missing).

I think if they saw my other social media they would pass out.

[corioliseffect]

new curse dropped: having fic ideas but i refuse to write rpf/don't think i even could