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[gin-juice-tonic]

Well... vegetarians might find it a bit harder to stick to their diets, but it's a step up from feeling tempted to eat humans.

[britney-rosberg06]

it’s actually cruel and unusual of rbr and the fia to force max to race in miami right after he gave birth!! new mothers need to recover and attach to baby! not race in cars!

[c-sand]

hI! How you doin? Been thinking about show jonsa lately and they really fucked up Jon's character. According to show canon, it's implied that Jon bent the knee to Dany for love and means he gave away the North which he's the King of but its not technically his by birthright. It really makes him a lying asshole to Sansa. Pol!Jon makes Jon a lying asshole to Dany. Pol!Jon is really important because it's conditional on what kind of man we expect Jon to be post resurrection. Requited jonerys is dependent on a dumb Jon when it comes to Dany while unrequited is that he got smarter after his stabbing.

Hiii! I've been okay. Nothing extraordinary, nothing terrible lolol

I know a lot of people do think it, but I honestly don't think Pol!Jon makes Jon a lying asshole to D. Jon will lie if it will ultimately achieve the morally just outcome. But, if he doesn't have to lie and can just be straight up, I think he'd prefer to do so. Having to go that route with her is really dependent on how much he can't reason with her. And if she's being completely unreasonable, to the point that people need to lie and play parts to get her to focus on the bigger picture, at a certain point that's a her problem.

(At least show-wise -- I need to reread the books, they're totally gone from my brain). So, Pol!Jon is founded in the idea that he looked at his captor host, looked at his surroundings, looked at her words and her atrocious actions and her pride in committing them -- how she tries to justify all of her mass murder, as something that needed to be done -- and knew she was completely unreasonable and dangerous and couldn't be dealt with rationally. I don't think that makes him an asshole -- I think that's just using his brain, one last time, before they vacuum it from his skull.

He literally couldn't of been honest with her about how he was feeling. She was so dismissive and so focused on her goal of conquest, that he only had so many avenues to take to get her mind on the more important fight. (Or, at least, what should've been the more important fight. Not a single night fight that barely matters 😒) So, he utilized something he knew she (and every single person who worked for her) wanted from him. She was not subtle about what she wanted. Her followers were not subtle about pushing for the union, because it benefits her and only her to have the King abdicate and hand over half the continent without a fight. And then gives her the stamp of approval, to all of Westeros, from an ancient and respected house.

And I think all of that is still in line with Jon's character. He's played roles before, I don't think he's against doing them again. The idea of him actually being in love with her (which he clearly wasn't) is the part that feels out of character and a ruining of him. She's literally a monster and doesn't hide it. We literally watch him being disgusted by the moves she's making the entire time he's held on that island.

I don't necessarily think Jon being willing to be Pol!Jon is conditional on what kind of man Jon is coming back as, because I think this is something he would of been willing to do pre-murder, as well. I do agree that how, though, he does it will be conditional on how he comes back. We've already seen how pre-murder Jon operates in a infiltration, but post-murder Jon could be something else entirely. lmaooooo hopefully, yes, hopefully he is smarter post stabbing.

Requited love is absolutely dependent on Jon being a moron, though. He has to rise from the dead, as a literal brain dead idiot to watch this woman come back from slaughtering an entire army in the span of five minutes and think, "Oh yeah, she's the one for me." Be so for real. This is a dude who's tired of fighting, he's not swooning over someone who breathes murder from the skies.

[ex0skeletal-undead]

What's a movie you sorta consider a Christmas/holiday movie even though it's not at all?

Star Wars A New Hope has Christmas vibes for me because I used to watch it (on VHS) on Christmas vacation when I was in school 🎄

[aesthetic-uni]

Okay Arcane Season 2 Final reaction -Episode 7

I am freaking the FUCK out

In case anyone is wondering, Jinx is my favorite, I want happiness for her, don’t get me wrong I love all the others but if she’s not happy by the end of this you won’t ever see me again

Opening vinyl-I literally stopped breathing ID THAT EKKO AND JINX AGSJRBLDJ?!?!

My king Ekko, where have you been all this time. Please come home we miss you

EKKO?! And is that little drawing Jinx??

OH ALTERNATE UNIVERSE TIME BABEY so many fanfics are going to go off this I can tell

EKKO!! He looks so handsome and alive!!! (My hopes for these characters ARE VERY LOW AS YOU CAN TELL)

Jinx looks so cute!!!

BENZO!! Oh my fucking god is this going to be a Happy Universe that NONE OF THEM ARE GOING TO GET?! I’m going to throw myself off a cliff.

Oh my god no one ever address Ekko’s trauma with Benzo I’m so glad they’re doing it THAT WAS HIS DAD!!

This is cruel. This is just cruel how DARE they give us a happy au

No Netflix I will not skip the intro fuck off

AAAAW EKKO NOO SEEING EVERYTHING THAT COULD HAVE BEEN

God Jinx looks SO CUTE I need so much fanart of her

Ps I know this is technically Powder, I’m too lazy to constantly switch names so Jinx

Also does she have a pink streak in her hair? I don’t like the implications of that

Aaaaaw they’re partners :((((

MYLO AND CLAGGOR HOW FUCKING DARE YOU HOW DARE YOU HOW DARE YOU OH FUCK OH GOD

Wait omg “Trouble in paradise” TIMEBOMB?!

I have gotten through THREE MINUTES OF THIS SHOW

Oh that cute Jinxer is here woo! Lmao Mylo is so real.

Aaaw Claggor he’s trying to help the city and he cares about his little sister AND HOW FUCKING DARE YOU ARCANE

AAAW JINX TRYING TO HELP MYLO FUCKING HELL ARCANE

“WHAT WOULD THEY DO WITHOUT YOU” JESUS CHRIST ARCANE

Okay this isn’t funny anymore where’s Vi

Okay but is it OUR professor?! (I can’t spell his name)

IT IS!!

Okay but WHY what’s happening with Jayce?!

VI VI VI VI VI

OH NO JAYCE WHY CANT HE BE HAPPY TOO?!

Ooooh his HAMMER is why he got sent to the apocalypse au huh

Is that evil Viktor. Is that the Machine Herald? IS IT TIME FOR GLORIOUS EVOLUTION?!

Wow I was just joking with the apocalypse au but it really was it huh?

Aw I like that Jinx kept her workshop

Is that a heart. Around a picture of them. IS TIMEBOMB ACTUALLY CANON IN THIS UNIVERSE?!

Wait, is this THEIR WORKSHOP?!

FUCK I KNEW VI WAS GOING TO BE DEAD GOD DAMN IT

Oh this isn’t happy at all :(

OH FUCK THIS ISNT HAPPY AT ALL

WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU SHOW ME THAT HOLY HELL?! OH MY GOD THERE WAS NO REASON FOR SHOWING ME THAT

Way to hammer it in Arcane for no fucking reason other than MAKING ME CRY YOU PIECE OF SHIT. LIKE I GOT IT. VI IS DEAD IN THAT UNIVERSE. DIDNT NEED TO SHOW ME HER SIBLINGS REACTING TO HER DEATH

GLORIOUS EVOLUTION HORROR

Oh god not doomed Timebomb IN THE FUCKING HAPPY AU

Poor Jayce just has to fucking go through it huh

Wow that is an understatement.

Okay but MelJayVik crumbs ILL TAKE IT

YEAH THE PERSEVERE JAYCE!!!!

NO STOP MAKING ME CRY WITH THE HAPPY AU

There’s not much I can say with Jayce other than holy fuck this poor man

God they could have been partners. They could have been the brightest minds in all of Zaun. They could have been HAPPY. I fucking hate this show why would you show me this. I’m never going to recover

HE BROKE TIME BABY!!! FOUR SECONDS BACKWARDS LETS GOOOO

God they are so in love. God this is going to kill me

Oh my god the fanartists and editors are going to MURDER me with the “Do you think we together in every universe” trend aren’t they?

SILCO?! ZAUNDADS CANON?!

Ekko hold on. EKKO HOLD ON.

Oh my god this reference to season 1 episode 4 how fucking dare you

HOW DARE YOU MAKE TIMEBOMB CANON LIKE THIS?! AURRRGGGHHHH

Ripping my hair out. Clawing my eyes out. Beating my chest until it caves in. This is everything I could ever want. HOW. DARE. YOU.

I love them. I love them so much. Why would you do this to me.

IM GOING TO BE FUCKING SICK

[fanfic-lover-girl]

PJO fandom is truly sleeping on exploring Luke's relationships

Luke and Hermes? Luke and the Hermes cabin? Luke and the TA?? Including the monsters, like Kelli?? But no, let's just have more Lukercy, Thaluke and Lukabeth 😁. People who didn't give much of a damn about the guy after he died.

But let's forget those for now! I present to you the crackship of Luke & Atlas!!! Platonic of course 👀

"Let me take them," Luke said to the General. "We have more than enough—" "Patience," the General said. "They'll have their hands full already. I've sent a little playmate to keep them occupied." "But—" "We cannot risk you, my boy."

"Now, my boy." The General turned to Luke. "The first thing we must do is isolate the half-blood Thalia. The monster we seek will then come to her." "The Hunters will be difficult to dispose of," Luke said. "Zoe Nightshade—" "Do not speak her name!" Luke swallowed. "S—sorry, General. I just—" The General silenced him with a wave of his hand. "Let me show you, my boy, how we will bring the Hunters down."

Atlas calling Luke "my boy"! The difference in how Atlas speaks to Luke vs Dr. Thorn!

"Soon," the General said, "I will show you, Luke, soldiers that will make your army from that little boat look insignificant." Luke clenched his fists. "I've spent a year training my forces! When the Princess Andromeda arrives at the mountain, they'll be the best—" "Ha.'" the General said. "I don't deny your troops will make a fine honor guard for Lord Kronos. And you, of course, will have a role to play—"

The power imbalance and demeaning attitude, yet...

"Imbeciles,' muttered the General. "This is why I don't use mortals," Luke said. "They are unreliable." "They are weak-minded, easily bought, and violent," the General said. "I love them."

Casual trash talk about mortals lol!

Fans in other fandoms have created entire tropes out of less! Ugh! I wish I was a better writer so I could write all my Luke stuff myself and pave the way for some new Luke content 😭😭

[vellichorom]

[foryoupeko]

Happy Valentine's Day!

I was too ambitious with my Valentine plans ^^;

I won't have time to finish any of these sketches but I hope someone likes them!

[wooteena]

I fear I'm in the minority but here's my take: cwilbur in dsmp has a lot of similarities to real life abuser will gold. It's the same way his nice guy series or all of Lovejoy or ok I'm realising he did this in all his art- basically he enjoyed making art where he is "playing" an irredeemable terrible person, which he did with his character, made a character who is abusive and manipulative,, but then he gets to relish a bit in people saying that maybe he's redeemable maybe he's still good, he gets to feel validated that he can be awful and still redeemable.

But the problem is to be redeemable you have to be sorry, and will gold is not sorry for what he did, and he is still an attention seeking misogynist who doesn't care about anything except fame. I just think giving attention to cwilbur is still validating how will gold thinks about himself, and considering how he has continued to refuse to take accountability and actually change he doesn't deserve to feel as though he is redeemable.

Plus as an abuse victim, I am deeply uncomfortable with depictions of cwilbur and I know so many people also are, and I'd hate to miss out on babybird 2.0 because of that asshole :((

IN THE END THO it's up to you if you don't want to write him out I'd much rather you have fun than you cater to an audience, I hope my inane ramblings can give a bit of perspective and help you decide for yourself what you want to do, pls do what you prefer not what other people want, you're who matters most.

Love you wootie live ur best life forever and ever 🥰🥰

honestly this is my exact opinion even though c!wilbur staying won by majority. ive practically halted my writing process at the thought of rewriting what are morinso aspects of wil gold rather than a character; and trying to parse how much im writing a real abuser or a fictional one. so much of bb!wilbur were real aspects of the 'actor' not even the character, you must understand (his first appearance, as i look back in baby bird is not a dream smp reference but a so called 'fan easter egg.') i find theres little degree of seperation, as you said.

the question of whether i could write c!wilbur as someone who either perpetuates abuse as he does in canon (which i never even got to in baby bird og) or not would itches me from an ethical standpoint--can i incorporate the abusiveness of a character that reflects the abuser that created it, or would i mirror how i wrote him in that rose tinted amalgam that represented how i viewed wil gold at the time? i dont think i can do either, as in the end, both represent and pedestalise wil gold.

thank you for being willing to talk about this, your perspective made me more confident in my decision 💚

[tropospheric-vehicle]

I have my issues with how it's depicted in Ahsoka, but I do think the idea of the New Republic falling into the same corruption and brutality of the Empire. I just think in Ahsoka the way they're presenting everything reads as "We need strong war-hardened leaders who are willing to take decisive action against The Enemy without having to wade through red tape!!" which is a pretty common structure in cop/military media to place the scrappy, quick-witted maverick getting things done on the ground against the stuffy, risk-averse higher ups. It creates an underdog story while also basically cheering on militarism and less restrictions on the government.

I think there are interesting angles to come at though, namely that trying to maintain a massive overarching government with a luxurious capital and core fueled by the resources and manpower of worse-off distant states kept in line with military and economic pressure is always going to have a lot of issues baked into it, and in the same way the Republic had failed to live up to its ideals long before the official rise of the Empire, the New Republic is going to succumb to corruption within its inception regardless of the ideals that brought it about without major change.

[vagueconfusion]

The pants that I wanted to try styling with the bodysuits came (the idea is to pair it with either an over-sized or leather jacket but the only leather I have is right now either light brown or several sizes too small)

I think it looks? Decent??

[c-sand]

Because, I use the internet, I already know that in a later season JJ apparently confesses that she’s always been in love with Spencer. I'm sorry, but I already do not buy that, at all. That is an insane reveal. She is so rude to him? She shuts down everything he says, she’s constantly mocking him. Maybe she thinks she’s teasing? But, she is not. It genuinely doesn't even matter what episode you're on, it's a guarantee that's she's going to say something shitty, make some horrible face, bond with the local cops that he's a weird freak. She’s literally awful every single time they interact.

The episode, way back when, where he joked that she was probably a mean girl in high school — I know that’s an accurate take, ‘cause she’s mean now.

[twofoursixohjuan]

Bad Idea Incoming

okay @thelastranger you asked me about favourite Met Gala costumes and I gave you an exceptionally underwhelming answer so at some point after work I will rectify that and attempt to present my further thoughts. on each of the costumes. because this is the first time I've actually looked at anything gala-related and my dad wouldn't let me complain at him.

bear in mind that I am a self-taught amateur wardrobe mistress and I know Very Little about anything technical and even less about the Met Gala generally

and when I say "boring suit" or "boring gown" it's probably a pretty nice outfit and I love suits but it seems a little antithetical to the point of the exercise, which as far as I can tell is The Opportunity To Dress Up Weird.

[inkyself]

Btw I have reached the highest level of enlightenment (I can tell when Natalie Portman is the queen of naboo and when Keira Knightely is in full costume)

[fanfic-lover-girl]

Tbf Percy IS a child. I have a feeling people often has the need to forget about that. He was less than 16 for the entire saga. Ik you are a Luke Stan, but Luke did try to kill Percy... More than once. Right at the beggining he set up Percy for the gods... On purpose. He trafficked demigods, it is in the books. He tricked Annabeth to hold up the sky. He caused the war that was the beggining of the slaughter(Beckendorph, Lee, Silena, the Apollo children... They all died because of a war Luke started.) He sent demigods in deadly quests just like the gods. Just look at Chris. He was the one to come back alive and barely sane at that. (And I am sorry, but for me that is not coherent with all the "I am fighting for the well being of the demigods." You dont traffic demigods to fight a war if you care with them)And even then (even if initially was with a good reasoning. I will give him that.) Percy was: 12 and 13, 14, 15.

For the eyes of a child, yes, Luke would be easily considered evil. And that is what Percy was. A child soldier. He hadnt met Luke beforehand. And in the little time they met, they barely had any connection. (I believe that is the reason nobody saw Luke being the "betrayed by a friend". Because he never felt like a friend. Not really.)

Yes. I agree Annabeth would be the sanest option to be the mc if that is the history Rick wanted to write since the very beggining.(What I don't believe so) The entire drama is surrounding Thalia-Luke-Annabeth after all. And if they needed a child of the most ancient gods, they could just self insert a child of Demeter as a side character. No one would see that coming. But well. Asking Rick to have good writing decisions is the same of asking someone to achieve world peace. It is not gonna happen.

But if you really wanna see more of Percy in a bad light. There is the book in which Alabaster has an entire paragraph of hating on him.

Hey anon. I am not feeling the best so I hope my tone doesn't come off too badly.

Tbf Percy IS a child. I have a feeling people often has the need to forget about that. He was less than 16 for the entire saga.

Yeah, Percy is a child...but by the end he is a teenager and his view of the enemy is still very basic and black and white. It's a me thing but whenever Percy calls Luke his "old enemy" or "evil", it doesn't sound like a child soldier who has been through hell but a naive kid who sees everyone against him as "evil". It does not sound serious to me. I am quite aware that Percy deserves better. All the kids deserve better!

Ik you are a Luke Stan

Bold of you to make that claim. There is no character I truly stan for. Maybe the only characters I see as flawless and my babies and will defend to death would be Zuko and Anakin! I know Anakin is not perfect and he hurt his kids but my guy was done dirty and was manipulated by Palps. I don't see myself as a Luke stan. When I entered PJO I was in a Percy and Poseidon season. Currently, I am now in a Luke & Hermes (and a bit of Nico & Hades) season. I go wherever my fancy takes me.

Luke did try to kill Percy... More than once...He trafficked demigods

Well Luke sucks at killing Percy! He could have easily killed Percy in book 1 instead of going off on that long monologue! Then in book 2, Rick makes Luke look like a joke instead of a truly threatening force. The only time Luke felt powerful to me was his fight against Thalia when he was half-dead! Besides book 2 when have Luke and Percy had a serious fight!? So disappointing!

And I wanted to see greater ramifications for Luke trafficking demigods. It's mentioned, and it hardly comes up again. I don't understand why you feel the need to lecture me on all of Luke's sins. I want to see more of the dealings of the titan army. Including the bad stuff.

He caused the war that was the beggining of the slaughter(Beckendorph, Lee, Silena, the Apollo children... They all died because of a war Luke started.)

I guess the gods have zero responsibility in this war? Let's place all the blame on one mortal being manipulated by a titan instead of Zeus who buried his head in the sand and never took any action until the end of book 3. Or the gods neglecting their kids in the first place. Hot take but the Ares cabin shares a ton of blame for Silena and the Apollo kids' deaths. But everything is all Luke's fault 🤨.

He hadnt met Luke beforehand. And in the little time they met, they barely had any connection. (I believe that is the reason nobody saw Luke being the "betrayed by a friend". Because he never felt like a friend. Not really.)

That's why Luke falls flat sometimes as an antagonist. The connection between Luke and Percy is barely there. If it weren't for Annabeth, Luke would be a shallow villain.

But if you really wanna see more of Percy in a bad light. There is the book in which Alabaster has an entire paragraph of hating on him.

Anon, I don't want to see Percy in a bad light. I am just tired of his character and his writing. There is only so much fanfics I can read about Percy being the most powerful ever and ascending to godhood etc before all the stories start sounding the same. At this point, Percy bores me. I want to see other demigod powers and more fleshed-out antagonists.

But I plan on reading Son of Magic. I recently read Singer of Apollo which was honestly kind of boring so I am looking forward to SoM.

[blizzardsuplex]

Roderick Strong versus AJ Styles versus Michael Elgin versus Adam Cole from ROH All Star Extravaganza VII, 09/18/2015

[at @mobiblackout's request. :) ]