#wait...it's making sense now WHAT

[jangmi-latte]

WHAT IF I FALL FOR FLOYD WHAT THEN HUH

[fairylando]

i don't know why this picture made me particularly emotional about carlos today, but my mind went directly to you're on your own, kid.

[ivysos2001]

I still can’t believe marvel had Steve tell Natasha he could only really see himself with someone with ‘shared life experience’ (5 seconds after they literally kissed) and then had the two of them practically glued together for literal years (in this movie and in every other movie after it), only to not even seem to consider them as a potential couple/love story

[lightgamble]

DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN | 1.09

Hey, this is it.

[samglyph]

I can’t be the only member of the unhealthily obsessed with gravity falls as a kid to unhealthily obsessed with malevolent as an adult pipeline

[coern-art-very-cool-and-nice]

“An abnormal heat is occurring within the ceasing remnants of my mind”.

[anexplosionofchaos]

yeah so like i see shin soukoku as like dating romantically involved whatever but they never figure out THATS what theyre doing. your telling me a kid who was practically locked in a cage his entire life and who probably gets all his romance knowledge (if he got any) from the few moments he was able to read in his orphanages library knows how to date? your telling me the kid who grew up in the slums with likely zero knowledge of how romance really works who then proceeded to join the mafia knows how to date?? there is no way they figure out thats whats happening honestly i just think theyd maybe make out after missions after kissing once (and getting embarrassed theyre not that oblivious) and figuring out they liked it, and endlessly pine (with no full knowledge of how to resolve the romantic tension) while maybe going out for food when atsushi gets hungry after they finish a job 😭 basically there just ends up being no concrete label to their relationship, its just partners and thats what they see eachother as yk

[wishchip106]

missing old cherik BAD rn gawddamn…

literally THE tragic gay grandpas

guhh i don’t see enough about them 🙁 WHERE’S THE OLD CHERIK APPRECIATION???!!!

[egophiliac]

LEON

LEON YOUR EYEBALLS

[iwritenarrativesandstuff]

Suddenly remembered something I wanted to say re:Akechi, because I think it's really core to his character (at least the way I interpreted him?) and I feel like it explains a lot of his contradictions. Essentially, he is incapable of seeing himself as just a person - he's either the greatest hero/detective ever, or he's some violent monster, and it's like there's no in-between. It's very in keeping with his obvious superiority-inferiority complex, but it goes deeper than that too; when he's in a role, it seems like his self-perception kind of changes too depending on how he is perceived by others. He really does get a confidence boost from being the Detective Prince. He really does shut down emotionally as the Black Mask.

They're masks that he's made, and it's not that aspects of them aren't based in truth to some extent, but I think it goes to show why he's not actually that fantastic a liar (imo, I found the outright lies pretty obvious), but he is a very good actor. He's either an angel or a demon, and never a person, but there are conditions to that. He is an angel when he is perfect - to society. He is a demon when he is vengeful - again, to society. He is never a person, because he never was seen as one - to society. He was disregarded. To be anything of value or notoriety, whether that's hero or villain, he has to be wildly more or less than who he actually is, and he's been building these masks up for so long that I really think he lost sight of the actual person behind it all. And I don't think he wanted to see that person anyways, because that person "wasn't good enough" and I do think he'd rather be anything other than himself. That trickery, that deflection from the person within, in itself brings him pride and satisfaction. He wants to be loved and needed instead of being cast aside, but I also think that if he can't have that then he'd much rather be hated than never have mattered at all. He weaponizes his own loneliness - if he can't ever be accepted then he'll build his own pedestal apart from everyone else.

It's so fascinating too, because I just wonder how much of this he was consciously aware of pre, during, and post engine room. There's this recurring thing with him where he goes "I can only be myself" etc but I just want to shake him because, well, who is that, Akechi??? Or, who do you think that is? Do you actually have an answer? Is it predicated on your actual feelings or solely on your success at fooling everyone around you? Is there any part of you that you actually like that isn't based on a painstakingly constructed mask? Isn't it all mostly lies to deflect from the truth? Isn't it all founded mostly on truth, nonetheless?

It drives me insane. And I think this is a big reason why he breaks so hard in the engine room, because so much of his mask requires his "audience" to perform in a particular way. And here he is, and the Thieves have beaten him, so there goes the first mask, because he's no longer "perfect". He swings wildly into the ugliest sides of him, but this mask is broken too, amidst him vehemently and desperately denying that he has any other emotions than hatred and rage, or any other needs or desires than vengeance. And after that, it's just him. And they should reject him, right? That's what happens. He's not useful, he's not needed or perfect, his hands are stained with blood. But the Thieves, again, don't play the role he expects them to. They, despite everything, relate to him - because he is in fact very similar in a lot of ways and they acknowledge him as a person - not a hero, or idol, or villain, or tool, or unwanted child - but as a damaged teen like the rest of them. And he does not know what to do with that. His identity is intrinsically dependent on getting the right reactions from other people as a form of ingratiating himself - if he does not get that reciprocal reaction he's looking for, his act falters, and, I really do believe that so does his self-perception. That's why you see different aspects of him seep out when he's spending time with Joker, because Joker does not react the way he expects, and Akechi both does and does not like this, because it leaves him feeling both intrigued and vulnerable.

I do think this particular aspect of his character is something a lot of the Thieves don't fully grasp - certainly, I think Joker "I need the mask" Persona 5 understands to a degree, but the sheer degree of reliance and the level of pride attached to it is something that confuses him a little, I think, especially in Mementos Mission. I think the thief that comes closest is actually Morgana, who has a similar superiority-inferiority complex and a desperate need to be seen as competent and useful lest he be discarded. (This is a big part of why the rather lackluster writing with Morgana's arc frustrates me so much because I really do feel it was meant to be contrasted with Akechi's, but I digress.) Morgana is the one to make that emotional appeal to Akechi, which makes a degree of sense - Morgana struggled all along with finding a place in the world. His form leads others to underestimate him; he visually doesn't fit in. He's acting out the role of a chivalrous and cool phantom thief but is more pragmatic with how he views relationships, at least at first. He wants a place to belong where he is appreciated more than anything but his pride won't let him spit it out. Accepting that he belongs and that he is loved even if he really did have nothing of value to provide is a big part of the resolution of his arc. He tries to offer that learned lesson to Akechi in turn ("Follow your true feelings. Even if you think people hate you, or don't want you around-"), but Akechi just wasn't in the right space to listen. There's also an important distinction between the two - Morgana envies humans and looks up to them. Akechi envies humans and looks down on them. Morgana is perfectly happy once he is assured a place amongst the group, but Akechi see-saws wildly between wanting to belong and wanting to be a step above the rest and separating himself further. So while Morgana actually really did cut to the core of the issue, his appeal would never have worked at this point because a) Akechi's pride is dependent on him maintaining his solo act, and b) he just got outed as not actually hating Joker in front of seven other people including Joker himself lmao.

So, uh, sorry, Morgana. Points for trying.

[semiotomatics]

*note: im only talking abt delivery people, AKA ppl who had nothing to do with making/collecting whatever you ordered. their only job is getting it to your door.

[anxiouslowercase]

sas rh: let eoin survive the fall au » the astronomer philosopher, the earth and the moon

[mythalism]

When playing veilguard I though I sort of liked it while playing, maybe a 6/10. But the longer it's been the more I actively dislike it? I don't even really know why exactly but there was barely anything memorable. It's just fodder to me. No replay value at all. I've put over 300 hours in it trying to make the game different but even without the da keep it's just so limiting. Nothing matters. Looking back on it I'd have to adjust my score to a 3/10. Doesn't help that I find Rook the most insufferable protag I ever had the displeasure of playing as. What a shallow unfunny child. I don't I'll ever play a new bioware game again.

agreed instead of marinating in my brain like a juicy, complexly flavored steak (or tofu) that truly ripens and deepens with time, it has rotted and soured the longer it sits. the artbook showing us what could have been didnt help

[alukaforyou]

i call this one,, princess and the blobkuna 💀

[aroaceleovaldez]

full on feel like pjo tv s2 is not gonna hold up so they need to drag as much attention to the series as they can by using nico as a sock puppet w tsats2

im fully expecting the show to go the way of the movies. it doesnt help Sea of Monsters is almost unanimously the least favorite book of the first series. People frequently forget it even exists or what happens in it, especially more casual fans.

Heck, just look at how little fanfare the second season has gotten so far as compared to the build up to s1. I wouldn't be surprised if s2 totally flops. It would be a little funny.

[justanintrovertedweirdo]

My Headcanons for Vox 💙📺

(I am totally not obsessed with a flat-screen TV)

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○ First and foremost, this guy has ADHD. It's not severe or anything. He may or nay not take medication for it, but he definitely has it. He will yap for an uncomfortable amount of time if someone lets him, and you cannot tell me he is not constantly, and I mean CONSTANTLY thinking about stuff. He mumbles and does leg bounces, AND YOU CANNOT TELL ME OTHERWISE.

○ He treats his sharks like his children. He will go all day hating literally every single person he interacts with, but the second he sees his sharks he gets all soft and starts talking to them like you would talk to a dog or literally any kind of pet. I guarantee he treats them better than any of his employees or literally anyone else he knows. Also, he definitely goes swimming with them sometimes. Now that we know he has gills, that's pretty much been reinforced as a theory.

○ His 1950s mindset comes up every now and then. He's trying to be progressive, but he just cannot escape it. It doesn't help that he was most definitely a rich, American, white man when he was alive. That very much continues to shine through. Whenever he sees men doing usually "feminine" things, his 1950s mindset comes through, and he gets uncomfortable as he tries not to judge them. He's gotten a lot better with that since he met Val, however, for oncious reasons. He also has to make sure nothing possibly offensive whenever he sees a woman in revealing clothing or anything else along those lines, but he's also gotten better at that because of Velvette. He's gotten a lot better, but every now and then, his ideologies from the 1950s will slip out, leading to a lot of disappointed looks from Velvette and Val, which makes him immediately realize he said something wrong. (Also, just as an extra thing, Val and Velvette NEVER let Vox forget just how old he is. Compared to them at least.)

○ Vox. Wore. Glasses. Before. He. Died. This is something I will wholeheartedly believe until I see otherwise. I don't know why, it just makes so much sense. He may not wear glasses anymore either cause he just doesn't want to or cause his TV head makes his vision better somehow. I don't know, but either way, he wore glasses when he was alive.

○ As for the way he died, I personally think he got drunk one night and then was killed in an alleyway due to being alone, drunk, and very obviously rich. I really like the idea of a TV falling on his head (since that would explain the TV head), but I really don't know how that would incorporate into this death of his. :/

○ He worked at a news station when he was alive and would be one of the main faces on the news. TVs were just getting into all American homes during the 1950s, and it just seems so much like him to get involved with this quickly growing business. It would also give a lot of context for how he acts in the show. Acting all arrogant and looking like being in front of the cameras is just second nature to him at this point.

○ He was 31 when he died. I like to imagine he lived from 1925-1956. He's not near middle-aged, but I don't think he's that young either. I don't know. He's definitely not in his 20s. I know that.

○ His favorite drink is whiskey. I don't have a good explanation for that one, it just fits him.

○ He never had kids, and he would divorce his first and only wife before he died. Based on how he acts in the show, I just don't think he's commonly felt romantic feelings for anyone. And other than Valentino, I doubt he's had many strong sexual connections with anyone either. I'm not saying he's aroace or anything, the guy just either doesn't let himself feel anything "romantic" for anyone, or he's just not interested. I'm also fairly sure that this guy is terrified of commitment. There are a lot of reasons as to why this guy at 31, in the 1950s, would be divorced and have no kids of his own by the time he died.

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Anyway, I'm gonna stop this here since this is kinda long, and I should do other stuff. I wanna share more of these, though! I think I'm gonna share what I think his family life was like when he was alive next. That'll be fun. >:]