#(profoundly braindead)

[hellonerf]

caname sucking and fucking eachother is VIOLENCE while rusame killing and maiming eachother is SEX

[blackbullet99]

Zutara’s Fake @$$ Feminism

Okay so @kidcaroline brought up this weird-@$$ take where this braindead dude says Zutara is a purely female fantasy and an expression of unapologetic female desire. And who’s the nutcase who said this.

Of course only someone as delusional as longing-for-rain could say something as stupid as this. Love or hate Zutara, it being a purely female fantasy is objectively wrong, there are a lot of men who actually like Zutara, one guy on YouTube made tons of videos about them, there were some writers in A:TLA who shipped it, Dante Basco the proclaimed Captain of Zutara ships it. One person who shipped Zutara actually argued that a lot of men ship it and the ship shouldn’t be limited to just women, so naturally longing-for-(acid)rain personally attacked them because they’re a man. Misandrist much?

Let’s look at the reasons why Zutara is such a profoundly feminist ship, shall we…

Okay, so skimming over the fact that Zutara literally started when Zuko captured Katara in “The Waterbending Scroll” and wanting better for Katara is wanting her to end with someone who relentlessly pursued her and attacked her for most of the show. Literally all of these points that supposedly support Zutara literally make no sense and many of which could easily apply to Kataang.

Katara never caved into Aang out of guilt, that’s never suggested at all in the narrative, she was never uncomfortable with Aang, the average ZK might be, but Katara wasn’t.

Where was the passion in Zuko and Katara’s relationship, seriously what passion are they talking about, does OP think constantly fighting each other is passion because “muh enemies to lovers”, do they Katara touching Zuko’s scar because she was going to heal him at one point is passion. How TF is that considered “passion”, it just comes across like you have a kink. You want passion…

THIS is passion.

Ignoring the fact that Zuko never had feelings for Katara. Aang literally loves Katara no matter what. If they’re referring to “The Southern Raiders” Aang never stopped loving Katara, he understood her pain, he was just concerned that killing a guy would take a strain on her mental state. But that obviously means he didn’t care about the “real” Katara, what a jerk, right guys.

When did Katara ever have to change for Aang? Y’all are aware that Katara would have to change quite significantly if she married into The Fire Nation, right?

Aang objectively did support Katara. That’s all there is to it really. He did throughout the whole show.

Katara was never Aang’s babysitter. Darn Bryce for mentioning weird romantic tropes that have nothing to do with Kataang and desperate ZKs taking them out of context. Aang was a kid just like Katara, the latter of whom was often the voice of reason, but she never had to actively take care of Aang. He’s 12, he’s not a baby.

Okay, but like, Katara is attracted to Aang. Not to get all weird on y’all but objectively speaking she is attracted to him (see “The Cave of Two Lovers” or the Kataang images above). Which makes sense because they’re only a couple of years apart. This comment, and really this whole post is just OP admitting that they’re self-inserting onto Katara, they don’t care about what she wants, so they twist the narrative of the show and act like Katara should be attracted to Zuko and not Aang because these 20-something women are attracted to Zuko and not Aang. They use Katara as a self-insert because 99% of the time these b!tches wanna f*ck Zuko and use Katara as vessel to live out their weird sexual desires. Ew.

This final comment, just screams, “White Tumblr So-Called Feminism”. OP seriously thinks saying “I like Zutara” is advocating for women’s rights. She cannot be this stupid and delusional, for real? There’s nothing wrong with Zutara as a ship, there’s nothing wrong with most of the women who ship Zutara. But at the end of the day it’s a fictional pairing between two fictional characters, people who don’t like the ship aren’t attacking women, people who don’t like Zutara just don’t like the ship for whatever reasons. I don’t like the ship because not only is Kataang superior, seeing as they start of a close friends who mutually trust, support and admire each other and gradually develop feelings for one another (slow-burn friends-to-lovers is peak), but also because Zuko and Katara were enemies throughout most of the show, they only become friends near the very end of the show, great friends who do support and value each other, but let’s be real, their relationship isn’t profoundly different from Katara’s other relationships with The Gaang, and going from friends for 5 episodes to making out in the last episode is just crazy-forced.

Additionally there are plenty of men who ship Zutara as a pointed out, but also plenty of women who ship Kataang because these women genuinely like their relationship and acknowledge the love and positive aspects in Aang and Katara’s relationship. But of course longing-for-(sh!t)rain dismisses and invalidates these women by calling them “BoyMoms” (whatever that means) because they don’t share the seem POV as OP. Which leads to the fact that longing-for-sh!tstain really doesn’t care about women and what they want, they’re going out of their way to make Kataang look problematic and Zutara the epitome of female desire, but the only people who would actually believe that are fanfic obsessed idiots who have never left their computer and have no understanding of any real-world issues, in other words dumb b!tches just saying “eXaCtLy” to each other. Really whining-for-rain only cares about what they themselves desire and think their opinion is the only one that matters, hence they attack anyone who even slightly disagree’s with them. Just check the original post and you’ll see.

The only “feminism” they care about is in their weird Wattpad middle-school ship. She don’t care about the real Katara or her feelings if it doesn’t fit her self-insert narrative.

She writes torture-porn r@pe fics about Katara.

She called an actually real-life indigenous women racist because said women hates the idea of Katara marrying into the nation the colonized her tribe, killed her mom and would make Ozai her father in-law, just so Katara, Sokka and Hakoda could essentially be trophies for Zuko. This @$$hole thinks supporting a crackship is supporting women’s rights, but will invalidate the feelings of a real-life indigenous women who doesn’t agree with said crackship.

In conclusion, f*ck you longing-for-fascist and f*ck your fake-@$$ feminist, you objectively don’t care about A:TLA, or Katara or even women, if anything you’re nothing but an insult to women.

[sappymix1]

georges chat is so profoundly braindead it’s a miracle that they can type semi coherently

[otakween]

Digimon Tamers - Episode 14

Oh snap! The plot be plottin'! Yamaki's (finally learned his name) plot to destroy all digimon fails spectacularly and instead he creates a rift between both worlds and -checks notes- Mihiramon (a perfect level) comes through. We also get a bunch of new stuff introduced this time: using cards to digivolve, Takato being "connected" to Guilmon, and Guilmon's perfect digivolution MegaloGrowmon! Still don't fully know what's going on, but there are more mysteries to solve now which means I'm more invested :)

Notes:

That skyscraper they keep showing with the two towers...is that a real building in Shibuya or something made up for the anime? I tried googling this, but found nothing.

The silhouetted digimon flying into their doom was pretty creepy. Kinda reminds me of all of the souls floating around in the Underworld in Hercules (but like...in the sky instead)

So the enemy digimon acknowledge that they were created by humans but they only obey their "God." For a second I was like "but isn't your God supposed to be your creator??" but that's not necessarily the case in a lot of polytheistic religions, so I guess anything goes.

Yamaki casually chokes out Jian and Terriermon barely reacts ("that guy's rude!") lol wtf

Two very ugly digimon designs in this episode: Mihiramon (weird name) and MegaloGrowmon. Mihiramon looks like he was designed by an 8 year old (I had to laugh when they showed his nunchuck tail) and MegaloGrowmon is just profoundly derpy. Kinda looks like it hurts to be him and he's lost a lot of ability to emote because there's way too much going on with his face.

Considering the timing of when this anime came out, I bet Matrix Evolution was inspired by the coolness of The Matrix for sure. I doubt the name has much meaning aside from sounding neat.

Lots of big hits to the digimon in this one, Renamon falls off of a sky scraper and makes a huge dent in the concrete below and yet apparently takes zero fall damage. Growmon gets his entire side chomped on by Mihiramon and is also okay I guess (maybe digivolving to MegaloGrowmon healed him?)

Galgomon is apparently just braindead because he fully shoots at the open air for a weirdly long time during his fight. Also...apparently he can run out of ammo which I didn't see coming. How the heck does that work? Where does the ammo come from? When he runs out is that it until he de-digivolves and then digivolves again? So many questions...

So Takato is linked to Guilmon physically and was able to create him from a drawing...there's gotta be some connection there...

Suddenly Takato's friends are okay with him being an IRL digimon tamer. I guess they had to fully see him in action to respect it. Seems a little two faced of them...

Culumon was pretty prominent in the matrix evolution sequence...(but why tho)

Megalomon's digivolution sequence was in that charming early CGI. Doesn't look fantastic, but it's nostalgic. I think I can see some improvement from earlier seasons at least. Actually I think these mecha-esque designs sometimes look better in the CGI and then look awkward in the 2D animation.

[valeechtine]

I kind of get why hipsters were like that bc the sudden new wave of braindead dunmeshi fans is like making me so aggressive. They would not say that + the party doesn't just Eat Anything stop acting like they would when they have discussed the type of things they'll eat and why numerous times + everyone is so fucking yaoirotted + the misogyny and racism you people keep making me see is horrifying + Laios is a grown man who is well aware of what sex is and has actively mentioned finding things hot + Kuro is a fully sapient person and it is profoundly telling that you people act as if his inability to speak english fluently means he isn't on the same level as humans when it has been made clear in canon that he fully understands common he just can't speak it well because it is a physically strenuous language for kobolds to speak + Oh my fucking god the colorism you people make me see wrt to Kabru + Stop Being Fucking Weird About Toshiro Oh My God like AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA LET ME OUT CLAWING AT THE WALLS

[balteus]

americans in the notes of that post b like "ooo woe is me it's not my poor weedle fault i don't know basic geography 🥺🥺" motherfucker do you really think other countries aren't just as self centered when it comes to education??? you should go out of your own eay to learn about the world around you, you profoundly braindead fuck

[themightyhumanbroom]

So why exactly was Shadow so grumpy? Did it have anything to do with his earlier mission? And was taking it out on the wet cat really necessary?

Will we get to see Belle put her new weapon system to use? And will she go feral? Please tell me she'll go feral.

1. In Fury Oh Fury, Shadow was already having a super shitty day before the mission even started and it didn't get better from there:

Shadow was, to put it simply, having a profoundly shitty day. Fell out of bed face first from flailing around from a nightmare, found out he was completely out of coffee beans and learned they discontinued his favorite shampoo. That was just the first two hours. Then he was suddenly assigned a mission by G.U.N. to investigate an Eggman base to find some sensitive tech, derailing his plans to visit a record store that opened recently. Then when he left his apartment he got drenched by water when a car ran over a puddle near him. It only got worse when on his way to the rally point where he was to meet Rouge and Omega his motorcycle decided to blow a tire and he had to run the rest of the way there.  When they finally got to the Egg base (it was raining intensely the entire time by the way) it turns out the intel was way off. The Egg base was not lightly guarded; it was a veritable fortress! During their assault on it, Omega, in a braindead decision to prove his strength, decided to tank a very avoidable attack from a giant squid badnik. It didn't work out and he lost his left arm and both his legs. After cleaning up the rest of the badniks they found out the thing they were looking for wasn't even there!

The mission was a complete clusterfuck, which only angered Shadow further as they then had to go out of their way to fix Omega when all he wanted to do was go to bed and forget the day ever happened. When you get to that level of anger it could be anything that could set you off, and unfortunately it was Kit innocently asking to see his rocket boots that finally caused him to snap. To Shadow's credit though he realized he fucked up immediately but it was far too late as Surge rolled up right after he yelled at Kit.

2. Yes we will get to see Belle use her weapon system that Omega makes for her. Yes she will have a Rip and Tear Doom Slayer moment where she goes feral. Its more than likely gonna be a shotgun of sorts.

Thank you for the questions!

[sapphire-weapon]

ok i need to be a bitch on main for a bit because i saw a tweet that has made me go “if it weren’t for my horse” all morning and i literally cannot let it go and i just need to get it out

look man i’m hyped about FFXVI’s demo too. the set-up for the narrative is very, very strong with excellent character writing. the preview of gameplay we got is very promising.

but this is a braindead fucking take and a nonsense statement that tells on you really profoundly. tell me that you only care about spectacle without saying that you only care about spectacle.

if you compare the FFXVI opening with the FFVII opening, you actually have no business discussing video games.

FFVII’s opening was iconic because it threw you right into the game with no set-up, no context -- go do a terrorism in the flashiest way possible and don’t ask questions.

FFXVI’s opening was more or less a movie. in that two-hour opener, maybe 35 minutes of it was actual gameplay where you had freedom to move around and do stuff and not just “ok we’re going to let you walk forward for about 15 seconds so that we can say that we had player engagement in this scene.”

those are two WILDLY DIFFERENT THINGS, and i would argue that the opening of FFXVI is actually very weak because of it. there were a few different points where i was like “ok but am i actually going to get a chance to play this game at any point?” and that makes for a bad opener. joe normie picking up this game because he’s seen the hype around it might not even make it to the actual gameplay section that doesn’t even start until over an hour after the game fucking begins, because his time is limited and if the opener is this long-winded, he’s not going to want to sit through an entire game of this.

that was what TLOU1′s opening did well. it had the same flashiness and punch of FFXVI’s opener, but it took under 20 minutes to have the same impact that it took FFXVI two fucking hours to set up.

i just.

imagine fucking making a tweet like this not even three months after RE4make released. RE4 opening with the village fight actually is one of the strongest openers in a video game ever, and it was a huge reason why OG was so successful. RE4′s opener actually was the best opener for a game since FFVII, and people made that point repeatedly when OG released.

you know what other game got praised for doing this? DMC3. you know what DMC3 also did? throw you right into the game in the flashiest, most exciting way possible.

you know what other game got this praise, as well? uncharted 2. take a fucking guess how uncharted 2 opened.

if the FFXVI demo was a pilot for a show, it would be hailed as one of the best first episodes of a show ever. but FFXVI isn’t a fucking TV show. it’s a fucking video game. and as a game, its opening is really, really weak, and it honestly might kill my desire to replay it in the future.

so let’s not sit here and let hype for a story completely blank out all of our cognitive processes and make dumbass, bullshit fucking nonsense statements like this. it’ll hurt the game in the long run by setting people’s expectations to something that they’re not going to get.

[mentalisttraceur-reactions]

It has that rustic charm of making sense in a hyper-individualistic lets-use-the-invisible-hand-of-the-market way where you ignore literally all possible ways that things could go wrong or interplay with the larger system.

Also, I always loved how the punishment for being a couple minutes late to class too often was to keep me from coming to the class at all. The most braindead thing ever - way to show me that everyone involved deserves less respect because they literally either don't care about me attending the class or are too profoundly stupid at moving towards their own goals.

in-school-suspension was honestly so extremely funny because i had undiagnosed Problems Disorder and unironically i LOVED being sent to ISS.

average day of ISS (sent there for 3 days because i was late to a class three times within a 9-week period):

arrive at school and say a silly dramatic farewell to my besties

stop at each of my classrooms to receive makeup work from my teachers which always ends up being some bullshit worksheet or textbook busywork

arrive at ISS portable and go through the daily rigamarole intro of "you are Bad and you should Feel Bad. welcome to Bad Class, a confirmation that you will never make anything of your life, you horrid creature. you are not allowed to speak, eat, or feel joy. no doodling or reading, if you don't have makeup work or homework i will assign busywork to you. fuck you. *spits*"

spend the next 4 hours doing my busywork. it is QUIET. i can CONCENTRATE. the work gets DONE EARLY.

the work only took 2 hours maximum, i spend the other 2 hours writing fanfiction manually in a composition book pretending that I'm doing textbook work. i am having the time of my life.

our lunch time is the 10 minutes between the two lunch periods. there is no line, because there's only ever 5-15 ISS students. i get to EAT instead of STANDING IN A LINE for half an hour and only having 4 minutes to scarf down my garbage.

at the end of lunch, we are led in a big duck line through the school and we each get to stop off at our usual classes and pick up work to do. i already did this in the morning, so i use my time to say hi to my friends and figure out what the homework will be tonight.

for the last 2 hours of the day i do my homework. IT GETS DONE. this is the ONLY time during high school where homework gets done. zero exaggeration. i never did homework unless i was actively in a classroom with no choice but to do homework.

we get the usual outro of "this has been your day in Bad Class, because you're a Bad Child. some of you will be here tomorrow, some of you will not, but i'll see you again in a couple of weeks, because you are Bad and will always be Bad."

the school day is over, i did not encounter any of my bullies, i did not have to 'participate in class'. i got all of my work done and then some. i got to work on my fanfics. i hang out with my friends after school and talk to others on myspace/facebook.

it is the best three days i have in recent memory.

i will be there again, probably on purpose.

[arpov-blog-blog]

..."James Bennet has written a long piece for the Economist about “When the New York Times Lost Its Way.”

Bennet was an editor at the Atlantic who went to the NYT to run the paper’s op-ed page and was fired for running a piece by Tom Cotton that called for the use of the Insurrection Act.

Bennet’s experience is shorthand for liberal-echo-chamber, information-silo complaints: Look at the NYT—they are so militantly progressive that they refuse to engage with both sides. How can you fire an editor for running an op-ed by a United States senator?

The truth about the Times op-ed page is actually worse. Yes, the paper will sometimes make dumbfounding decisions that cater to its progressive staff, as it did when it fired Bennet. Yet other times, the paper platforms bad-faith arguments for conservative/Republican political projects that are designed to purposefully obscure reality from readers.

It’s the worst of both worlds: Fitful progressive intolerance and braindead both-sidesism.

The Bennet piece in the Economist illustrates the first half. A Matthew Schmitz op-ed in the paper today illustrates the second.

The headline on the Schmitz piece is “The Secret of Trump’s Appeal Isn’t Authoritarianism.”

I’m linking to it only out of guilt. I hope you won’t give them your click. Because this piece is trash.

Schmitz, who is one of the Catholic integralist MAGA fans, fills his essay with euphemisms about Trump’s actions. Here are some of them:

Trump is “pragmatic if unpredictable”

He occasionally uses “incendiary language”

And “intemperate rhetoric”

And “provocative comments”

And makes “outrageous statements”

Because he possesses “braggadocio”

And has a “combative personality”

And an “irreverent demeanor”

And is “politically incorrect”

There are more. The piece is filled with both euphemism and the passive voice, all in an attempt to obscure reality from readers and present a sympathetic case for Trump.

Look at this passage:

To be sure, Mr. Trump’s wild rhetoric, indifference to protocol, and willingness to challenge expertise have been profoundly unsettling to people of both political parties. His term in office was frequently chaotic, and the chaos seemed to culminate in the Capitol riot of Jan. 6, 2021.

This might be the most misleading passage ever published in the paper of record.

It was not Trump’s “indifference to protocol” which was “unsettling” to people. And the “chaos” of Trump’s term did not “seem” to culminate in a “riot” at the U.S. Capitol.

Here is an accurate description of what happened in the waning days of the Trump administration:

Donald Trump falsely proclaimed that the presidential election was illegitimate. He attempted, through both legal and extralegal means, to overturn the result of the election. Trump’s maneuverings in both the Department of Justice and the Department of Defense were so dangerous that ten former secretaries of defense penned an op-ed warning that it was not lawful to use the military in an election dispute. Trump then called thousands of people to Washington, assembled them into a crowd which he knew was armed, and personally directed them to march to the Capitol and “take back” the country “with strength.”

If you came down from Mars and simply read today’s NYT op-ed, you would have absolutely no idea that any of this happened. Instead, you’d think that Trump was some kind of a ne’er-do-well or scamp."

[luckybyler]

Many ST fans, including us Bylers, need to tell the difference between uncommon and unrealistic.

There have always been comments by anti-Bylers saying that a gay teen's feelings being requited would be unrealistic for a small town in the 80s, therefore Byler would be too. Generally, the answer I've seen is that it may be unrealistic, but it's a better /more beautiful/more fulfilling ending and we have monsters and kids with superpowers anyway.

Requited young gay love has never been unrealistic - not now, not in the 80's, not in the 1080s, or ever. What it was is less common, which is a completely different thing. Let me give you an example:

Max ended season 4 in a coma, technically braindead. This are the possible outcomes:

Common/expected: she dies or is lifelong profoundly disabled.

Less common: she wakes up and is left with a permanent, but manageable disability (or several) and can lead an independent life.

Uncommon: she wakes up with disabilities but recovers completely or in great part with therapy and discipline.

Unrealistic: she wakes up as if nothing had ever happened.

Unreal/fantastic: she wakes up with laser vision and the ability to fly.

While the less common and uncommon options aren't as frequent, they can and do happen, and are in accordance with the reality of the world, unlike the unrealistic and fantastic options. The same thing happens when we talk about a gay kid's love in the 80s:

Common: Young gay love is unrequited.

Less common: Young gay love is requited, although they don't say anything to each other.

Uncommon: Young gay love is requited and communicated, and a relationship blossoms.

Unrealistic: One boy asks the other out in public and they become Prom Kings.

Unreal/fantastic: One boy takes the other on his spaceship to their home planet.

This applies to our boys, and this is when talking about a completely spherical Byler in a vacuum. Once you add context (and I mean context, not Byler proof specifically), the odds go up: Will and Mike became friends not because their parents were friends, or the teacher grouped them for an activity, or one of them joined a group in which the other was; but because Mike, by himself, looked at Will specifically and something about him drew Mike in. Let's keep in mind that the show tells us that Will is visibly gay or delicate/sensitive, so Mike most likely felt that vibe and either it didn't bother him, or he actively liked it.

There were gay teenagers who got together. Even in the 80s, even in small conservative towns. In secret of course, but it did happen. Even in Rebel Robin she tells us about two boys who seemed to be dancing together during prom in a classroom, so its canonically a thing that can happen in Hawkins, Indiana.

[marianomoreno]

equating "white" with "settler" is SO profoundly fucking stupid I can't even argue about it. im sorry i dont speak to people who are braindead i think its more or less a waste of time

[whump-a-la-mode]

Inspired by that last person's prompt- HERO sidekick shows up on villain's doorstep because of either an abusive family or hero :3

Oooh I like this! It’s a little different from the other prompt cause I didn’t want things to get repetitive, but I hope you like it nonetheless!

CW//Blood, wounds, possible child abuse (depending on how old you interpret ‘young’ to be.)

Villains did not get visitors.

That was kind of the whole point. The whole point of living on the outskirts of society, of constructing a solitary fortress and tucking oneself in the deepest keep. They had raised the walls and topped them with barbed wire for a reason.

And that reason was to keep out visitors. Besides the few Henchpeople and other aides they kept around, Villain had the compound all to themself, and they liked it that way. It was to that exact end that they had installed the most elaborate security system that money (and threats) could buy.

Their fort was impenetrable. Attempting to enter without the adequate permissions would be a profoundly stupid idea. It was impossible to even step foot the property without setting off a thousand alarms and alerting half that many guards.

With all these measures in place, Villain was quite confident, on that Saturday evening, that their nightly rituals would be able to be carried out, uninterrupted. Leaning back in their plush couch, they flipped the page on a novel. It had been a harrowing twenty four hours, leaving their muscles strained and their mind aching to relax.

Just a few more pages, and they would retire to bed, ready to face whatever the next day would bring.

A few more pages...

Just one more chapter.

Maybe one more? It’s only ten.

The chime of the clock awoke Villain from their trance, gaze flitting to the glittering red numbers on the wall.

Midnight. Shit. And, to think, they were just getting to the good part. With a heavy sigh, they inserted their bookmark in its rightful place, placing down the novel. At the very least, their heavy eyelids would allow their transition to unconsciousness to be smooth and quick.

Beep!

Or not.

The sound sent a periled shiver through their form, even though it took them a moment to recognize its meaning. It had been so long since they’d heard the intrusion alarm. In fact, they’d never heard it, not since it had originally been installed and tested.

Anyone with half a brain should have known that trying to enter the facility was a lost cause. Which meant that, whoever had disturbed their bedtime ritual had less mind than even that.

Meaning that, almost certainly, it was a hero.

Why couldn’t they disturb them during business hours like everyone else? Still, even the highest ranking of guards had not the permissions to disable an alarm of this nature-- with an exasperated exhale, they stood to their feet, slipping on a robe to look at least the slightest bit presentable to whoever had decided to try their hand at doing the impossible.

As they exited their private chambers and began to descend the stairs, their pace was matched by a dozen Henchpeople and guards, who had been awoken by the same unpleasant sound as they. Noting one among them to be the chief of security, Villain pushed their way to their side, shouting above the cacophony:

“Do you have any idea what’s going on?”

“Someone’s tried to just walk right in the front door!”

“What? How’d they get over the fence?”

“Unclear, but there’s already people on the scene. We won’t let them do anything, boss.”

Reaching the bottom of the staircase, the flood of bodies moved to the grand front hall, confirming the security head’s statement-- in front of the ostentatious mahogany doors, a body was being swamped, swarmed by a pack of guards, forcing them to the ground with a perplexing array of limbs and weapons. Through the chaos and clatter, Villain couldn’t so much as see who had bothered their peace.

Though, that wasn’t what struck them. What struck them was that it was only... one. One person. One wayward fool. Even the most braindead of heroes would have known that breaching this place would have required a full team, maybe more than one, with all sorts of backup and support squads.

What was this idiot trying to prove? That they were the most braindead out of all their compatriots?

“You all stay back.” Villain commanded, raising their arm to gesture the same. Leaving their guards scattered about the back of the hall, they advanced to the squirming mass of struggling bodies by the door. “Who is it? Show me.”

The pile of guards adjusted themselves, halfway tossing each other in the fray, until their prisoner was held by only two bodies-- one on each arm.

Even so, the captive did not seem to struggle.

Villain bit their lower lip.

In the world of heroes and villains, sidekicks had always held a... unique place. Some considered them to be heroes in training, and treated them accordingly. Others took a more careful approach. With most sidekicks being as young as they were, causing them any serious harm was simply immoral, not to mention it gave them all the more reason to stay in the profession of heroism when they grew up. Villain had always considered themself to be more in the second camp. Sidekicks were pests, more than anything. Stupid kids who had wandered into a place they weren’t meant to be. If they could, they ignored them.

But Hero’s sidekick? Sidekick?

The kid may as well have been simply a younger version of Hero themself. Arrogant, with no idea when to give up. Young or not, their sheer prowess in battle made them a genuine threat-- something that could not be attributed to many in their role.

Was that why they had come here? To impress their mentor? They weren’t that stupid, were they? Maybe they were. Certainly, now, their mentor wouldn’t be impressed when they learned they would have to negotiate the return of the overeager kid.

But...

There was no arrogance to Sidekick’s expression; not even the slightest echo of the overconfident aura they tried so hard to present. Instead, they appeared almost afraid.

It wasn’t hard to see why. The wound above their eye appeared to have been weeping scarlet for quite some time, to the point that it had dribbled along their cheekbone and begun to drip onto their lips.

“Hey!” Villain demanded. “Which one of you did this?”

Their eyes scanned the gathered guards, but they replied only with a collective shake of the head. When one of them finally spoke up, it was with ardent denial:

“They showed up like this, boss.”

The rest nodded in agreement.

Adjusting their robe’s collar, Villain moved until they were a mere foot between the kneeling captive. They, too, knelt down, meeting the kid’s eyes. At such close range, the terror in them was unmistakable.

“They telling the truth, kid?”

Sidekick gulped, averting their gaze. While crimson wept down one side of their countenance, the other side was marked with dribbling tears.

“M-m- Mhm.” They nodded, parting their lips to allow the blood that had fallen within to dribble down their chin. “Wasn’t them...”

Meeting Villain’s gaze once more, a certain glassy quality appeared to have overtaken their eyes.

“Then who?”

“It- I-” The kid shivered.

“Hold on to them.” Villain ordered, looking up. “They’re gonna faint.”

Though the predication came true, before retiring to unconsciousness, Sidekick managed to make out three more words:

“It was Hero.”

[teaveetamer]

Regarding that r*xis guy, "because he only ever seems to want to "correct the wrong message" of male posters" never you worry! There's a biracial female user he constantly reblogs from/tags - won't say the name in case she doesn't like it - who he recently fairly recently accused of defending "accidental imperialism" because she'd said Dimitri/Claude/Byleth ruling over Fodlan as the only leader available who can isn't the same as Edel/gard's willful intent to conquer Fodlan.

He'd also called her a braindead idiot on Gamefaqs a while back because he didn't like how she described how she'd want Edel/gard to be written, tho that's suspiciously been deleted I believe lmao. Our feminist ally everyone! Fuck this guy.

Oh yeah I know who you're talking about.

Yeah maybe we just like. Don't harass people in the name of a fictional waifu. Maybe we do that.

I can't imagine how profoundly lonely it is to be that guy.

[dream-realm]

i’m not trying to be melodramatic, but watching people today at the airport with double masks, plastic face shields, airpods in, staring at phones, etc. terrified me. it seriously felt like i wasn’t looking at humans, not because they’re “sheeple”, but because everyone seemed profoundly indifferent and disinterested. my sense is that virtually anything could be done to the general public, and it would elicit no serious disagreement or dissent. something about the profound non-seriousness of everything nowadays gives me an eerie feeling. for example, the moment of focus on bernie sanders’ inauguration outfit was so absurd and pointless that i have to imagine anyone invested in it is a bit wired. (another example, when congresspeople wore kente cloth for george floyd).  we’re past the point of giving “bread and circuses”; people spin them out of whole cloth now. i don’t know, this is all disjointed. watching people click through instagram stories feels to me like watching a braindead addict. i’m not sure how adults redeem any of this anymore. (but they do because of addict behavior).  

[clairelutra]

Ao3 Datasheet

I was tagged by @miraculouspaon! ♥

What is your name? Hallie

What are your fandoms? i’m uuusually a serial fandom monogamist, though over the years that’s switched from ‘only reads one fandom’ to ‘only writes one fandom’ with no crossover. currently writing mostly for the immortals quartet (specifically daine/numair) by tamora pierce! though i’ve gone through miraculous ladybug, voltron, final fantasy xv, persona  5.

Where do you post your fanfiction? ao3, kinkmemes, anonmemes, fanfiction.net, tumblr... it really depends tbh.

Going by kudos, what is your most popular one-shot? daydream, which... is nearly at 3.5k kudos atm o_o man that shot up when i wasn’t looking;;

Going by kudos, what is your most popular multi-chapter? check yes juliet, as it has been right from the start, which hangs around 4k kudos atm.

What is your personal favourite story, out of your current content? a case of mistaken identity (vehicular, recurrent) out of all the ones i’ve actually posted. i’ve been really reeeeeally loving writing d/n, especially once it started to really click how tight they were and the real aesthetic of friends-to-lovers kicked in. (i've been super satisfied with my writing generally lately, and that’s niiiiice.)

What work were you most nervous to post? lol, a few that i won’t name here because i’m still worried about getting shit for them, innocent as they are. (i don’t even post dddne, yet i can still feel the tumblr police coming for me... >_>)

Is there a method to how you title your work? i used to go for the song title of whatever i was listening to on loop while i was writing, but then i started using songs that had the same title or using the same song twice, so then i switched to using either whole lyric lines from those songs or single words that just seemed to fit, and now i mix those up with more standard title-y sounding things.

Do you outline your works or just wing it? if it’s got more than a scene or two, i outline. i need to know how something will end before i take on a multichapter/multipart project, and for that, i need to know how i’ll get there, and for that, i need an outline to make sure it all works out.

Are you excited about any of your upcoming works? all of them!

enemies to lovers au, where arram never left carthak and ends up as the head mage of carthak’s army as it invades tortall, and daine, obviously, is one of the frontline fighters. a lot of uncomfortable ust ensues.

a/b/o au, which is actually just a lot of worldbuilding about heats and breeding seasons and mating rituals wrapped up in an “i don’t want to ruin our friendship” angst excuse plot

gigglycrush fic, a no war au as inspired by avril lavigne nightcore where daine realizes she’s in love with numair and has an AAAAA moment or twenty over it while everyone else tries to figure out what’s gotten into her and who she’s mooning over

mermaid/selkie au, where daine is a sea lion mermaid who frequents the beach around numair’s tower and gets PROFOUNDLY worried that he seems to have no wives (not even one!!!!!) and therefore is at great risk of death, and starts trying to feed this disaster of a lonely wizard man at every opportunity

cinderellaish au, where jon hosts a ball to find a wife for numair and galla sends daine-the-bastard in a fugly dress as a middle finger to the concept itself and tortall generally. unfortunately for galla, this is my otp, and it would not be a fic for my otp if they did not fall in love

goddess says, “ladies come first”, a post rotg (no relationship au) pwp where d/n get trapped in a temple and have to fuck to get out again.

+ a few exchange pieces i can’t talk about yet but are proving super fun to write :D

What are your AO3 statistics?

User Subscriptions: 829 Kudos: 92858 Comment Threads: 4989 Bookmarks: 18018 Subscriptions: 7163 Word Count: 608772 Hits: 1202696

i feel like that one meme where the baby is teased by a spoon and gets a mouthful of something else. the spoon holds ml and d/n is what they get, lmfao

Tagging: anyone & everyone who wants to do it! (which is to say i’m feeling a lil braindead and don’t want to bother, ha)