#without being tragic

[profounddefendorcrusade-blog]

I feel bad for Starlo. (pt. 6)

I think the main thing we were supposed to see as Star's character flaw wasn't that he was acting proud/arrogant/reckless/badass (I mentioned that it's fine for him to act that way because he deserved it after everything good he did and obviously I still mean it 110%), but how that proud, charming guy was never the real him. He literally lost himself trying to feel worthy and please everyone in town. For years he's been acting the role (for a noble cause) but the price was him losing touch with the nerd he is.

Yet STILL, if only everyone had been a bit more gentle with him, I bet he'd have toned it down during the WE section, and even before that. But they all decided to let him know the truth at the worst possible time, right when he was supposed to make Clover his deputy. Right after they attacked the kid because they were jealous. It was supposed to be the PEAK of Starlo's day and they randomly threw the "we never liked any of this" bomb at him instead of trying to talk it out BEFORE things escalated. I'd be pissed too.

Oh yeah...

... his brother doesn't take him seriously apparently and doesn't realize that staying positive and strong 24/7 is tougher than it looks, especially with Starlo's insecurities (and yeah being a farmer is hard work, but so is being in Star's position; on the contrary, it's even TOUGHER) ...

Orion should try being an entertainer for a day and see what it's like, let alone doing it for years

...Solomon says how Star thought him and Crestina didn't support his life choices...

... and how he rarely talks to his family...

...and it suddenly came to me: in all these years, they didn't ever bother telling him that they did support him? They didn't bother trying to reach out to him more? Understand his passion (Ceroba doesn't get it either; once again, I don't blame Starlo for caring about Clover so much, that kid understood)? Have an honest talk?

No wonder Star stopped interacting with them for the most part. Maybe him feeling worthless came from his family? Who knows (or he was bullied as a kid for being a nerd). In any case, he clearly had to deal with these feelings by himself.

This man's been through some stuff.

P.S. I know he has flaws like everyone, but you've gotta ask yourself the important question: WHY? where did all this come from? But clearly nobody in his life ever asked themselves this. So it all kept building up till he almost killed his deputy for... status. He was SO desperate to feel valued and get his friends back (who made him feel less alone.. but ultimately just left when he needed someone the most, at least ONE person) that he was ready to go all the way to achieve what he'd been lacking his entire life: *feeling like he MATTERED.*

I wonder If he'll ever go 100% back to being his true self. Slim chances :'( this is him now. Half farmer half sheriff

[r0setyler]

thinking about how the memory tardis had one piece of rose in it, her missing poster, and how that is representative of rose's narrative, she's missing... there are pieces of all the other doctors, of yaz, of river, but rose's thing isn't the jacket donna found, isn't some sort of actual rose, but is literally just her missing poster, because even to the memory tardis, to the doctor, she is missing. where is she? have you seen rose tyler?

[mobius-m-mobius]

#the Nowhere Man who waits and the God of Stories who watches

[phosilli]

eye of the vulture king

[iizuumi]

Kpop demon hunters changed something about my brain chemistry

[thekittyokat]

you ever just have a lot, a LOT of feelings all at once about a character and not even remotely enough words or brainpower to FORM the words to describe everything you're feeling. so it feels like you may explode. yeah

[idolomantises]

Sometimes I get messages about certain dialogue in my comics about how a character is being passive aggressive when I'm just writing them as straight forward and blunt.

idk, as an autistic person who's dealt with genuine harassment several times (including a few months ago) because his straight forward and blunt demeanor was misinterpreted as being "rude", "ungrateful" and "bitchy", its just kind of interesting seeing people interpret dialogue in a more hostile way.

it's not a complaint, i prefer those fictional interpretations over terminally online twitter users who need to be coddled over everything but it is kind of fascinating seeing how people interpret certain dialogue.

[illmoraineakoi]

I often see a lot of posts talking about Dark’s mission code, and in nearly every single one of them, Dark is aware of the Mission Code.

But what if he wasn’t?

What if Dark didn’t know about the code Alan implemented into him? What if he couldn’t see the panel Alan was typing in, couldn’t see the text?

The panel was in front of Dark, covering his legs, facing towards the screen. AvA11 showed us what the backside of an application window looked like:

it’s plain and opaque. Presumably, this applies to in-application windows too, which is what the panel Alan uses for the code is.

I don’t think Dark saw Alan typing the mission code. He couldn’t have, from his position/perspective.

Which means the only other way he’d know about it is if it made itself known to him after it was applied, somehow.

So what if it didn’t?

What if the code simply began working, influencing his behavior, as nothing more than an urge, a need, a drive, a compulsion. So subtle Dark had no reason to believe it wasn’t his own thoughts and desires besides how suddenly it took hold in the beginning? But he was so fresh to life, would such a thing have even stood out as abnormal to him?

What if he lived his whole life never knowing that he wasn’t really who he was supposed to be, but a mind controlled version of himself?

[let-them-sing-of-others]

one of my favorite things about kevjean (particularly kevjean while they were at the nest) is how it doesn’t really matter whether or not it was requited — nothing would change either way. a kevin that does return jean’s feelings is hardly different from a kevin that does not. there may be a world where it’s completely reciprocated, but there is no world in which that makes any significant change in their dynamic. they are ravens, and the ravens have rules, and the rules must be followed because if they are not ravens then they are nothing. maybe they were both in love. maybe they weren’t. does it matter? there is only one way this story can go. you can change the variables as much as you’d like but the ending will always stay the same

[drenched-in-sunlight]

im also crazy about Gojo telling Geto he’d be satisfied if Geto had been there to pat him on the back (before the Sukuna fight)… but probably not for the same reason everyone else does…

Gojo only wanted Geto’s encouragement, he doesn’t want Geto to fight by his side.

this is about him showing Sukuna how much his love amounts to, no one is allowed to participate in that. If someone did it’d have been insincere.

Maybe if Geto had stayed & become a teacher + grown together with Gojo, Gojo would have wanted him to fight by his side. As an equal, as a partner, as two halves of a whole. But he didn’t, which is why the Geto that Gojo merely wanted a pat on the back from is the monk one.

And I think Geto KNOWS that. That the little tear he shed is not just because he couldn’t be there, but that even in the end he knew the position as Gojo’s equal is forever lost to him.

[laurrelise]

quick question because i’m curious:

[jacenyra]

what if we all just k*lled ourselves? 🙃

[blue-eli]

Ink October day 29: Heir

A person who succeeds or is in line to succeed to a hereditary rank, title, or office.

One who receives or is expected to receive a heritage, as of ideas, from a predecessor.

[rosesapphire2323]

Just had a horrible, terrible thought. Have you ever tried taking a child from their mother, like to hold them or whatnot? after a certain age kids understand that taking them from their mom isn't gonna be permanent and you're not gonna kill them, but before that they cry and cling. And so it occurred to me that lwj may once had been at such age, small enough to think that being taken from his mom is the end of the world and had at least once reacted accordingly.

Think about that. Actually envision that moment happening with a tiny baby a-zhan clinging with his life to his mom when they're trying to take him away.

Now your day is as ruined as mine.

[uncertaininnit]

I left tags on a post saying something like this but I wanted to talk about it some more….

If only Danielle had lived to see Sayid’s fate. To see him become ‘sick’. ‘Infected’. How poetic it is that the first person she saw and confided in in 16 years ultimately befell the same fate as her loved ones whom she had to kill for her own survival, the last people she had talked in those 16 years before she captured Sayid.

Do you think she would have been able to shoot him? I think she would, but would she hesitate? The way she hesitated with Robert? Or would she entirely give up fighting, seeing that her first sign of pure life and hope in 16 years had, too, succumbed?

[cyborgpluviophile]

the thing is, FFXV is poorly written in myriad obvious ways, but when people say "well it would have been better if we had explicitly known Bahamut/The Six/The Prophecy was bad from the beginning" I mean, I'm pretty sure you were supposed to get that from the fact that the game is explicitly a tragedy and everyone is grieving each other and their youth at all times