I do find it a bit funny when a show is like "This is the villain, they're deceitful and manipulative!" and fans go "psh the heroes are so dumb for falling for lies, couldn't be me." But as soon as the villain in question is ACTUALLY deceitful (e.g. unreliably reporting events to the audience, lying about their intentions) or ACTUALLY manipulative (e.g. using their tragic backstory as evidence of their remorse/justification, blaming their actions on other people) and immediately like 40-60% of the fanbase is like "well maybe they have a point and are just misunderstood 🥺." It's like a perfect case study every time.
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I had an idle thought about Medic getting hanahaki disease and then playing around with it instead of angsting about it and then I wrote too many words about it, per usual.
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Title: I think you're underestimating the research opportunities being cursed by a wizard can offer you
Words: 24.5k
Rating: PG-13
Fandom: Team Fortress 2
Pairings: Heavy/Medic
Warnings: Some fairly vivid descriptions of choking and suffocating
Summary:
Merasmus curses Medic to have flowers grow in his lungs until he confesses his feelings to the man he's secretly in love with. Easy. Barely a curse. He could do that any time he wants.
Wouldn't it be more interesting, though, to study the disease as it progresses instead? See exactly what it can do? The things he could learn! The team won't mind, right?
(They do mind.)
(Especially Heavy.)
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Saiki K is frankly fascinating because it's truly such a "technically this is comedy so while it does satire of anime tropes, it's in a comedic tone" and yet, and YET... the Horrors™️ are hiding underneath.
That said, I've been thinking a lot about that one teacher with the weird face (Iguchi Takumi) because that whole mini arc was so interesting to me.
First there's Saiki's comment about how he hadn't realized how different the exact same things were interpreted depending on the face of the person who says it. They were taking everything the teacher said in the wrong way because of his face. It's actually so interesting with the comparison of Yumehara freaking out about him knowing their names (because they were gonna be his students so he learned them) and the boys at school not only being okay but actively wanting Teruhashi to know personal information about them.
The difference looks make.
Furthermore, I think it was fascinating that he was worried about Nendo specifically, because while he was so off about his relationship with Kuboyasu, Kaido and Hairo, he was right on the money about people bullying him. The other students DO ostracize him and a big part of it isn't even that they consider him dumb, it's his looks. Consider that one episode where he gets a different haircut and people start liking him until they see him being "weird" again.
That he paid attention to Nendo in that sense was very sweet to me because he seemed to be such a caring teacher, even if he was kinda bad at making his students understand him (not aided at all by his face), and Nendo too is very sweet and kind. But due to how they look, most people didn't even give them the time of day.
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Final Boss of the previous Arknights event: A dear friend who has sacrificed himself to evil to save everyone. Now the only way to save him is to end his life. Even when he's transformed beyond recognition, he still tries to help us.
Final Boss of the current event: The city's architect won't stop sulking inside his Idiot Box, break it open and slap him until he stops being a self-pitying little baby
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There is only thing I beg of Bioware NOT to include in Dragon Age 4:
Broodmothers
If I have to witness that in 4k, I am walking away from my computer for a week in the attempt to scrub my mind of the memory.
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it’s not pride month if I haven’t drawn 2x3x4 at least once. who up torturing their railway gentlemen
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I feel kinda bad for the big Yoshida fans out there for the way I’m actively talking about how I think he should die in exchange for answers and character development however it’s not my fault you guys hitched your wagons to the guy who is clearly going through the stages of becoming a sacrificial lamb <- said with love and understanding
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