#4 am nonsense

[gab-has-adhd]

How is Ilumi able to be one of the most unsettling characters in Hunter x Hunter, yet at the same time be such a weird goofball

It fascinates me

He's a creepy fish eyed power-hungry pro assassin and also the most terrible big brother, he got his Mandatory Evil Laugh Scene, he's an absolute Freak (tm) murder-married to a loser clown hated by everyone, he's got serious issues

But he's so silly???

Brain empty goggly eyes blepping autism creature who loves tako sausages and apple bunnies he's just so fucking weird and unpredictable

I love him

[biohazard-inevitable]

Being told “makes so much sense” when telling people im autistic is so fucking funny to me i cant get over how my boyfriend’s dad thought i was MORE AUTISTIC than my boyfriend after he met me and telling my long time best friend whose long distance bow of 21 years “oh btw i got diagnosed with autism in high school” and her reaction going: “oh my god that explains everything.” Like- on one hand-

WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?!

And on the other

Yeah…… yeah…..

[egophiliac]

so excited for Kalim to save the day by swiper-no-swiping this dip. you can do it! I believe in you!

god I hope this reads properly

[neosatsuma]

sorry about your boyfriend, he got canceled after only one season. yeah no the ratings were really good, it wasn't that people didn't like him, it was just like, some arcane executive nonsense. yeah. I mean if it's any consolation, he'll be a cult classic for the next 20 years

[ricksanchezbignaturals]

his mastery of multigenerational linguistics <3 <3 <3

[spider-man-2o99]

miguel o'hara voted most Just Some Guy Having The Worst Day Of His Life Every Single Day (But Literally He Just Lives Like This So It Cancels Out Anyways) of all time ever

[mammoth-clangen]

ohh, i already love Bat and his singular brain cell… was he born without his leg, or did he lose it?

Tyyyy! He's my special little guy, I care him a lot ❤️

And he has amniotic band syndrome! Aka congenital amputation.

Discussion of medical nonsense below ⚕️

Bat was technically born with all 4 legs, but the constricted one was already dead and had fully withered away be the time he was a few weeks old. People who have cared for kittens with ABS have said the limb tends to die even with intervention- so I imagine it's sort of like band-castration in steers.

Bat doesn't remember ever having his right leg. It already had no feeling when he was born, so thankfully, he's spared from phantom pain that later-in-life amputees get. He does have a fully developed scapula and part of his humerus, hence him wiggling the stump in Moon 4 part 2!

I don't want to get into spoilers, but while Bat doesn't get phantom pain, he's not free from amputation related health issues. Little/domestic cats aren't a 1:1 comparison because Homotherium is (obviously) much heavier on their joints, and much more reliant on grappling large prey.

Make of that what you will for now...

[highladyjane]

The most mean thing Elain'll ever do is to always wear cobalt blue whenever Lucien's around, to give him a hint

The most hot thing Elain'll ever do is to always wear cobalt blue whenever Azriel's around, to give him a hint

[comfied-chriterature]

rip oda sakunosuke you would have loved bsd death baits

[saipng]

tom goads greg into playing twister because he thinks the proximity and the salacious poses will lead to fun sexy times but the two of them are both somehow simultaneously really good and really bad at it (the former due to being Extra Large, the latter due to being two middle aged men who should not be twisting into these poses) and instead of it being even remotely sexy both of them get extremely competitive over it and it’s the closest they come to an actual physical fight

[legobiwan]

[sliding you a 20] do you have any thoughts on super dimentio

hoooo hooo ho ho ho ho ho ho

Yes. Many, many thoughts. Uhhhh, this got a little long. It's been a hot minute since I've been able to wax ineloquent about this topic (one of my favorite topics). It's also 3AM and I have unbelievable insomnia right now, so caveat lector and all that jazz. I'm not exactly sure what I'm writing here, but it's a lot of writing ahhahahaha.

I think it's very interesting that Count Bleck was not a vessel for the Chaos Heart, nor was Dimentio (at least initially). Bleck commanded the Heart's power and was protected by said power due to his knowledge of the Prognosticus, but the only person who could actually be a vessel for the heart was Luigi.

And why our man in green? I have a theory about the Prognosticus and its prophecies, that they were less specific than the book's wielders would have thought. After all, prophecy requires belief and thus simple statements are woven into paths of self-inflicted destiny. I don't think Luigi was the only being who could have hosted the heart, but he was, as it were, the right man for the job in the right place at the right time.

Now, let's remember that Luigi was turned into his monster form before Dimentio merged with him and Chaos Heart. Dimentio didn't have to do that. He absolutely could have pulled a Bleck and just puppeteered monster!Luigi around while enjoying the benefits of the Chaos Heart's protective shield. But he chose to merge with the Heart and with Luigi. To gain more power? Or just for the lulz? I'm tempted to say that Dimentio only thought this through partway, that his "spicy concoction" was a bit of improv that would reap eventual benefits that he might not have realized at the time.

And what would those benefits be? Well, let's think about this. The Chaos Heart is essentially an immortal force that can't be destroyed, only delayed. Now that Luigi and Dimentio merged with heart, this means all those atoms went into the metaphysical blender and now there's a bit of the Chaos Heart in Luigi and Dimentio (and a bit of Dimentio in Luigi and vice-verse), all of which has fascinating implications.

Because, if you have even a part of an immortal force that's now part of you - what does that do to your own mortality? I'm pretty convinced the only reason Luigi isn't dead at the end of SPM is the Chaos Heart. (And Dimentio might be in the Underwhere, but if Luigi survived, then Dimentio isn't 100% done, either). And this begs the question, then - can Luigi die? Will he age naturally after this whole event? I have...some definite opinions on this that I don't want to reveal quite yet (I will get back to writing once this stupidly busy semester is finally over), but I do think it's fitting that the man who deals with the undead on the regular might just have a little bit of paranormal going on himself.

And that doesn't even touch the idea that Luigi may have inherited a bit of Dimentio's magic (and madness, possibly). (Okay, so I do love the idea of Luigi just snapping his fingers one day and a box appearing out of nowhere. Just...the angst possibilities are so, so delicious. Yes, this might happen in one of my stories. :D

But getting back to Super Dimentio...I wonder how conscious Luigi was for that whole episode. My thought is that he was not so much in the driver's seat, not due to the Chaos Heart, but due to the Floro Sprout stripping away all of his free will. (Which means Luigi never actually made a decision, as written in the Prognosticus and is another reason I firmly believe the whole drama with the Chaos Heart and Dimentio is so not resolved at the end of SPM). You have to ask - if Dimentio had managed to get Luigi to join his side of his own free will (and I think he could have made that happen, if he had had more time to manipulate Luigi) - would Luigi have been able to control his monster form? Survey says (survey of one, that is) "yes."

And poor Mario throughout all of this. You have to figure that the moment he caught sight of his brother in that form, Luigi dead in his mind. And this is why, unlike Mr. L, I think Mario would have no guilt about destroying Super Dimentio. Luigi, at that point, was gone.

Except he wasn't, as we know. And now Mario has to come to terms with the fact that he twice tried to kill his little brother, because the only way to save the world was to destroy the one person who meant everything to him. And he would never do that. And didn't. Because Luigi was dead the moment that monster appeared. But Luigi wasn't dead. And this is what Mario shoves far, far down into the deepest recesses of his consciousness. He never wants to think about that battle again, he can't stop himself from seeing that terrible image every time he lays eyes on his brother once they're back in the Mushroom Kingdom.

And Luigi? He knows something is off. Mario is acting weird. Luigi himself feels weird and he can't quite place what the issue is, what that itch in the back of his brain is trying to tell him. Why he tends to tilt his head at any question, why his laugh has gained a sharpened edge, why that little voice that always told him to be careful, you could get hurt is quieter than it has been in years.

The day he greets Mario with a lilting "Ciao," a word foreign on his tongue no matter what his last name might suggest otherwise - that's the day it clicks.

That's the night he finds his brother passed out on the couch, two empty bottles of Mushroom wine toppled on their sides.

That's the night Luigi packs his bag and walks out the front door in search of answers.

[note-boom]

Kyouka: dramatically jumps off a train

Atsushi: dramatically jumps off a blimp and a boat

Dazai: dramatically jumps off buildings and bridges

Kunikida: dramatically jumps off a helicopter

Guys. Please stop dramatically jumping off things

[sen-ya]

okay I made a kinda interesting gauge post in a general sense a lil while ago but that was for comics in general, which I do still wanna do but is 20x the work of making a physical life after book since those pages are already formatted 🫠 so —

[blenselche]

late night spicypost sketching

ill prob refine/finish the bubbline one later

our rooster got started at 4am this morning fml pls let me sleep aaaaaaaaaa

[iliketocolor]

I have consumed a lot of posts about TUA season 4, both good and bad and neutral. I watched it too and it definitely wasn't satisfying. So I took to reading everyone else's thoughts and memes.

Ultimately, I agree with a lot of people about how it could have been better/things were poorly written. I think if we'd been given 10 episodes, it would have solved a lot of the issues.

But I figured out why I'm indifferent about the sloppy ending.

I wasn't as hurt by it as a lot of other folks. I didn't put together the larger lesson of "these abused children learned the world was better off without them and had to kill themselves" that everyone is complaining about. Partly, because I just didn't read too much into it. I didn't analyze the show as I was watching it. They didn't build the season enough for me to sit with it. It was just so quick.

But it hit me tonight, why I didn't feel as upset about all of this.

It's Supernatural.

That's it. That's the reason. Nothing compares to the complete disastrous state the ending of Supernatural was.

To this day, I still have not rewatched a single episode of Supernatural. I have blocked all tags for it here on tumblr. I have stopped reading the fanfiction. I am entirely uninterested in that show and the people who were in it for the rest of my life.

But TUA, I am already casually rewatching the other seasons. I am reading the fix-it fics and enjoying the gifs people are posting.

Do I wish it we all got a better final season? absolutely. But there are parts I loved and I just wanted more.

Supernatural has numbed me from getting enotionally distraught due to a TV show.

And all these years later, i understand that maybe that's what it all was for. Maybe it set me free from caring too much about a TV show and the inevitable disappointment that comes with these productions nowadays.

I may be exaggerating that last part, but the point is that I loved TUA and it deserved to go out on a better note. But the ending didn't ruin the whole show for me.

Supernatural's ending did. And nothing will ever compare to the embarrassment I have that Supernatural hurt the way it did. I didn't ask for that. I didn't know it would.

But I do think it gave me some distance from investing and hyperfixating too much on a piece of media.

Maybe.

Find me another show and we'll see what happens.

[icewindandboringhorror]

Lineup of all of the characters that appear long enough to need a visual representation of them in the game lol