#AND WHY DOES HE NEVER GET HIT!!!!!!!!!!!

[vaniliens]

Starting to think switching out my mage for a sage mightve not been a good idea (<- rlly. Doesnt. Wanna grind for levels anymore.)

[reineydraws]

kyojuro corruption arc

[astorianyxkings]

The first time Selina saw tiny Dick Grayson as Robin her first initial thought was "Oh a new kitten," come to find out her new kitten can freaking fly and is actually Batman's batling.

She tries to corner him once or twice, just to make sure he's okay being Batman's sidekick and baby Dick is just like "???".

Bruce starts to realize what's up so whenever he needs to distract Catwoman, he just sends Robin to charm and disarm. Selina can't plan a heist if she's busy wondering about whether or not Batman's feeding him enough.

Dick eventually catches on and is just like "guess I have a mom now too." Does he sometime have to foil her plans? Yes but technically all kids do that. Does he mediate when Bat and Cat don't wanna talk to each other? Yes but so do children of divorce.

Selina's conflicted because she really likes the kid but she's got no idea who he is. Until, she's undercover at a Wayne Gala (gotta see what Brucie has that can go) and sees this tiny kid with a scruff of dark hair and a blinding smile running around followed by his exasperated father trying to reign him in and she has an "oh shit" moment.

Bruce isn't exactly sure she knows. Well obviously he knows that Selina Kyle is Catwoman and Dick knows because there's no keeping anything from his son. But "entrepreneur" Selina Kyle is suddenly not only interested in working with WE but also interest in his son's school play.

Dick is absolutely delighted. He begged Bruce to bring her to said play and when she shows up he's all smiles. Selina is thrilled, the teachers are confused because they didn't know he had a mother. It doesn't help that from afar he looks like the perfect combination of Selina and Bruce.

Selina babysat at the manor a few times and when Bruce returns to nothing stolen, he agrees to but her down as an emergency contact for Dick's school.

The only thing she worries about is keeping him away from his aunts. Mostly because one actively drugs his dad with flowers and the other's dating the Joker and if she's his aunt there's no way the clown would be his uncle. Dick understands but is confused because it seems to him that his aunts should just date each other. Selina feels vindicated.

[incesthemes]

"their relationship is romantic" "their relationship is familial" "their relationship is platonic" you're thinking too narrow. their relationship goes beyond labels. the family is inherently queer. their platonic love is romantic. the erotic is familial. each one is the other and the other is them

[astranauticus]

stultifera navis rerun AKA thinking about Iberia hours again because a lot of the Iberians have such fascinating relationships with the concept of home but specifically Thorns and Lumen are eating at my brain. like where do you call home when the place that is your home Just Fucking Hates You? Elysium's rewinding breeze specifically makes a point to hammers home how differently Iberia treats its Liberi and its Aegir

(which is especially interesting since this comes right after a conversation where Purestream commented on how despite Leizi being a high ranking government official, there are still some experiences that are universal for all Yanese people - because the experience of what Iberia itself is like isnt universal for all Iberians)

But all that being said, Thorns also straight up states that Aegir is not his home, and yeah, how could it be? How could a place you've never been to, never truly known, ever be your home? How could it ever feel like a home?

so where do you go when the place that you are from hates your people and the place your people are from is completely unfamiliar and alien to you? Thorns' answer at the end of the conversation with Aya is: my home is where i chose it to be. my home is where there are people I care about and people who care about me

in the complete opposite direction, Lumen's oprec asks: why do you still stay in a place that wants you gone? because the people of Gran Faro like Jordi well enough but when push comes to shove, they will want the only Aegir in town gone

and yet, when Rald the messenger offers him a chance to leave Jordi turns him down and when he's forced to escape Gran Faro after the people there literally try to send him to his death (or worse) at the hands of the Inquisitors he keeps trying to go back because like everyone in stultifera navis, Jordi is clinging to his own dreams of a golden age

but the shape of that dream is unique to every character and for Jordi, his dreams are deeply, inseparably bound to the Eye of Iberia, the legacy his parents left behind

and it's this dream of becoming someone great, of bringing about that golden age that his parents devoted their lives to help create that ties Jordi to this nothing town because despite everything, despite the mistrust of the townsfolk and the hostility of the Inquisition and the danger from the ocean, he simply cannot leave it behind

(or, because i personally dislike the official translation,)

"I just see this place as my home"

so yeah. not sure what overall point i was trying to make here i'm just. deeply in love with these stories about chosing what is and isn't your home, of saying you will not call a place your home because it has given you no reason to or saying you consider a place your home even though it has given you every reason not to. deeply unwell about them <3

[moeblob]

Amazing, take some of the side character demons from Evil Bound.

Vincie is a menace to Chuck and Chuck alone so in Hell, Chuck hexes his hand behind his back so that he isn't grabbed as much (and it's harder to pet him). Chuck is like the most irresponsible older sibling ever to demons though so Kelvin recruits him (as an older sibling vibe) to go help him get his ACTUAL older sibling from Earth. Chuck agrees. And then drags Vincie from Hell with them because no one else wants to babysit him and he refuses to unbind the hex just to re-hex when he returns to Hell.

In Hell, Kelvin actually doesn't appear much different than his human form! Like Kronos, the lines under his eyes are red in Hell but black on earth. Chuck however? In Hell he has wolf-ish ears and has a fur lining his neck (note the neck scars in human form). In addition to that he has four eyes in Hell (note the scars under his eyes in human form). Vincie just has horns in Hell. And! In Hell the hex doesn't have a silly looking "tied up" look, it's invisible unless Vincie strains it with movement and then its red text. But it shifts on earth to be visible.

Vincie's biggest agony for the entirety on earth is "dude it's colder here than in Hell I want a jacket to slip my arms into BUT I CANT BECAUSE IM BOUND".

[oceanwithouthermoon]

idk if anyone else experiences this, but im SO bad at like picturing a characters voice when im reading something, like i guess some people can just automatically hear character voices of what theyre reading but it doesnt happen naturally for me at all so i always end up reading everything in my own voice.. but if im reading fanfiction or a book with a show/movie adaptation, i like to look up clips and try to listen to the characters voice while reading it so i can picture it better, and suddenly the text has SOOOO much more impact with the right voice.. i feel like this is gonna sound stupid or like common sense but i swear i just feel like im missing out because it doesnt have the same effect when i read it how i normally do..

very specifically talking about saiki, because he has such a specific tone and i just can't replicate it in my head no matter how hard i try, so whenever im reading the manga or a fic, i gotta listen to clips of him talking because the experience is so. much. better.

[cold-neon-ocean]

Posting this by itself because :) I just feel like he should have gotten to wear the mech pilot suit at least once..

(my AU black version and the og green)

[cacturne]

“Carmine is not the worst” and “kieran is not the worst” are statements that can and should co-exist

[bluffmotel]

book two’s biggest problem isn’t even the fact that it’s awful, because it isn’t! but the problem is that it’s so … boring, so woefully uninspired and diconnected from the themes & characters that made book one amazing. i love zoe and jay ( maybe not as much as other fans, but i do adore them and find their last scene together perfectly written ) but seeing vince get sidelined that hard is, frankly, awful to witness. while i know vince was technically our main protagonist for an entire book, it never felt like it, not when he was constantly surrounded by the other main characters - - his screen time was shared, and we learned as much about the people around him as we did with vince himself. the switches between jay and vince were so flawless and well done! meanwhile book two is so jarring ??? like, zoe doesn’t even come in until the last chapter … and instead valuable time is given to characters like paul and ash ??? sure, we learn things from these scenes but it feels foreign to suddenly introduce these characters as playable when it seemed as if vince, jay, and zoe would be our main three. also don’t get me started on how poorly vince ( & tyler and michelle, jesus ) is treated … vince in particular is baffling to me because he stops being a character completely! he ceases to exist when book one is over, despite being such a pivotal character in how the desert dream shakes out, purely because of his important relationships formed with the holts and dante and his own family. we spend so much time dedicated to him and his bond with said fractured family only to have none of that matter in the end!! its so infuriating, even more so when his trauma would be just as massive as zoe’s, since he already had trauma to begin with.

like idk i love vince and i do not talk about him often enough but he really made adf for me. he’s such a refreshing male character, and was so utterly realistic and interesting … truly haven’t seen a protagonist as good as him in a while and i do love jay, really, but seeing someone like vince get shafted for jay ( a character type i’ve seen countless times before, even if he is unique ) is tragic. and the vince problem extends to a larger issue in book two which is the complete lack of the walkers at all! in book one, the holts & walkers were intertwined, they did not exist without one another, and this almost fated encounter is furthered by the revelation that the walkers past with the holts goes back decades. like!! they had such a good concept going on!! the past, the present, and the future of these two families who just can’t shake each other no matter how many years is put between them … they always fall back into one another’s orbit … they cannot run from their mistakes ( aka each other! ) … and they had a good cast to personify this theme! sharon and jim are the past, tyler and vince are the present ( which is the boiling point and climax i’d say ), and zoe and jay are the future. it’s perfect and there’s a lot to work with here, theme wise, but book two feels like they lost this plot for two whole chapters and instead fixated on an escape story / romance nobody really cared for and it’s just!! ugh!!!

[sammygender]

YALL ARE NOT SERIOUS PEOPLE no way i’m looking at the tumblr tag for spn 7x03 aka the sam centric flashback episode dealing with his childhood trauma and how he feels like he’s a freak and everyone is just posting about DEAN. dean and his stupid fucking pie. dean winchester used to be my guy! genuinely! s2-3 i truly thought i was a deangirl! But you people (plus this show atp lmfao) are making me hate him😭

[todayisafridaynight]

daigo promoting mine to junior assistant early on was INSANE. i know people were spreading rumors cuz id be pretty salty like what’s so special abt this mine guy and what’s with this daigo favoritism!!!!!

daigos not even trying to be subtle about how fond he was of mine he's giving him The Most Public promotions possible 💀💀

[forestgreenlesbian]

i can’t be like. completely anti the 1975 bc i do like some of their stuff and also have weird nostalgic teenage feelings wherein i can’t separate certain albums from times in my life but i would like the matt healy-ification of other artists to stoooop please why does everyone feel the need to work with him lol

[greenerteacups]

in retrospect i knew deathly hallows was not going to be the book i wanted it to be when remus lupin, 37 year-old man and beloved friend of james potter, begs to abandon his pregnant wife and soon-arriving newborn to have fun cool adventures with his friend's kid in the woods

[dengswei]

for tushan jing love has always been a weapon. tushan jing was and still is still like a wooden puppet pulled by the strings of those he trusts in the name of love. in the name of duty. the ones that called him family. they were the ones that hurt him in the worst possible ways, degraded him to be less than human, told him he was worthless. love for tushan jing is a lie.

ye shiqi was nothing. ye shiqi was nothing but he taught tushan jing that love is not meant be this way, it's not meant to hurt you. ye shiqi taught him that love is meant to be kind, and soft, and is not meant to be a weapon used against you. love for ye shiqi is home.

and it's not until ye shiqi returns and has to "reclaim" being tushan jing that he realises this but he's not yet ready to admit it not fully until the brutality of the person he trusted the most in his family, his grandma, to take that love and use it as a weapon in a way he could never imagine. who violated him more than his brother ever did.

and yet tushan jing even after all his sufferings both past and present is still the most loving and kind character you see. the one that probably shouldn't believe in love the most is the one who cherishes it no matter what, no matter the circumstances. who tries to fight for it in his own way and it's because he believes so much in love and trust that it comes back to hurt him in the worst possible ways.

ye shiqi was nothing but he was everything tushan jing needed

[alchemiclee]

been looking in tags for a few days now to see if anyone else found the whole high cloud quintet and related story to be a bit.....poorly written, nonsensical, contradictory, full of plot holes and loose ends, etc. apparently i'm not the only one. (and i'm not even talking about shipping stuff, because any time I saw someone mad about bad writing, someone always replies to be homophobic and laugh about failed ships. weirdos.) it could have been so good but was thrown into the garbage for the most part (IF you noticed all the plot holes and contradiction. if not, then it's a fine enough story tbh. I expect most people to see it on surface level and not read all the little hidden lore bits and try to piece it together like my autistic brain did. which is ok! enjoy it if you liked it and ignore me 😆)