#Allows time for character development

[littlecrittereli]

Thinking about @martincrushcameback's apocalypse au....

I couldn't get the idea of this interaction out of my head so I had to draw it...

[therealstonedelephant]

sukugo is a crack ship TO YOU. to me it's a perfectly legitimate ship, held back within the canon universe principally due to adherence to classic genre structures and not by lack of character compatibility

[blueskittlesart]

*sigh* thoughts on Nintendo's botw/totk timeline shenanigans and tomfoolery?

tbh. my maybe-unpopular opinion is that the timeline is only important when a game's place on the timeline seriously informs the way their narrative progresses. the problem is that before botw we almost NEVER got games where it didn't matter. it matters for skyward sword because it's the beginning, and it matters for tp/ww/alttp (and their respective sequels) because the choices the hero of time makes explicitly inform the narrative of those games in one way or another. it matters which timeline we're in for those games because these cycles we're seeing are close enough to oot's cycle that they're still feeling the effects of his choices. botw, however, takes place at minimum 10 thousand years after oot, so its place on the timeline actually functionally means nothing. botw is completely divorced from the hero of time & his story, so what he does is a nonissue in the context of botw link and zelda's story. thus, which timeline botw happens in is a nonissue. honestly I kind of liked the idea that it happened in all of them. i think there's a cool idea of inevitability that can be played with there. but the point is that the timeline exists to enhance and fill in the lore of games that need it, and botw/totk don't really need it because the devs finally realized they could make a game without the hero of time in it.

[novantinuum]

m, my wittle guY, ,,,,

[dogydayz]

im looking thru the Swerve tag and like where the actual fuck is the Swervefire. I’m genuinely so baffled by the fact that I’ve seen so little of it because its like. Even the fuckin comic is like “you two are bizarrely similar” and they became friends like IMMEDIATELY. Even in the realist-ending Swerve is like “damn it did anyone get Misfire’s number i forgot to do that!”

Like, the comic all but literally states “yeah theyd totally get together”. Yet I hardly see any art of it? It’s so baffling to me, they’re adorable together like seriously. Misfire bringing Swerve into the Scavs as an honorary member. Nickel ends up scolding them all when she returns to wherever the fuck on the ship they stay to see Swerve COVERED in like. Painted graffiti stuff (which doesn’t even look bad surprisingly, but still shes a hardcore mama bird and doesnt want them to get into trouble with Magnus lmao). Grimlock ends up becoming a lil’ bit of a bouncer at Swerve’s (ofc he’s gonna become fond of someone so close to his own best buddies) because he’s a tad protective. He lets out the SCARIEST growls if someone starts being a jackass to Swerve.

They’d both end up with the funny blasters too I reckon. They suck soooo bad. They laugh their asses off at how absolutely horrendous they are at the in-ship training range. They’re just really silly together. I need more people to see this I’m so desperate.

[timegears]

god please remind me never to go into the balls-deep shipping side of the utdr fandom because obviously this is not exclusive to this fandom but the way some of you talk about noelle's "obsession" with susie just feels like you're desperate to call her a predatory lesbian lmao

[hannie-dul-set]

all the guys that were into me in my past 4 years of uni ended up getting into happy and healthy relationships after i rejected them while i'm about to graduate in 10 days, still fucking single. if this isn't karma then i don't know what is.

[clumsypuppy]

i feel like im not making any sense but does anyone else feel like there are stories that let u run with them and ones that spell everything out for you

[thefandomenchantress]

Even though Liam’s whole misogynistic joke thing is obviously supposed to not be taken all that seriously and just as a running gag, (a running gag that makes a lot of people including myself uncomfortable and that I would rather ignore but still), I think that if Rosy decides to redeem Henry and Liam it’d be hilarious if to make Liam less problematic for the redemption, they made him have character development but it’s 100% offscreen.

But not in ret-con way where it’s not even acknowledged, no no no. Instead someone would say something low-key sexist and Liam would interject like “Woah, that’s not cool man”. And there’s just a beat of silence as the other guys look at him in confusion. And even Henry is like “…What?” but the scene moves on before anyone can ask further questions. And from then on it just happens repeatedly, but every time someone tries to ask what the fuck happened to him he gets cut off before he can elaborate. And so everyone in-universe is just getting increasingly more surprised and puzzled as he does it around more and more characters without elaborating. Sean says to Zander that he thought Zander described this Liam guy a lot differently and Zander, who has completely given up on figuring this out, just dejectedly says that he did, has no fucking clue what happened, and probably never will.

Idk, just a silly idea I came up with because it lets Liam keep his whole ladies’ man archetype, but the comedy comes from the subversion of that archetype and the absurdity of his heel-turn rather than…whatever he has going on now.

[karaspal]

who is the mask and who is kara’a real identity? a quick analysis

pre-s1, kara danvers was the mask and there was no way for kara to be her true self.

after kara became supergirl, but pre-s2, supergirl was who kara was. kara danvers was still the mask.

supergirl empowered kara to drop the “clumsy, girl next door” persona and embrace her true self (in a way that won’t put her life and family in jeopardy). she became more confident and not afraid to voice her opinions. after kara became a journalist and started helping people as kara danvers too, kara danvers was also the true kara.

in short, there is no mask after s1 (even though it takes some time for kara to realise that because of how long there was. she does so by 3x23). there is a secret identity that protects the people kara loves, but she’s not pretending to be someone she isn’t. kara danvers and supergirl are two halves of a whole, the whole person being kara zor-el. they are two identities kara zor-el uses to have the life on earth she wants and deserves. kara danvers allows kara to have a peaceful life, offers her a way for to have loved once without putting them in danger, and also the means to help people without having to sacrifice herself all the time. supergirl allows her to help people while using her powers without having to put the ones closest to her, as well as her own personal peace, in danger.

both these identities allow kara to help people in different ways and imo, any identity that allows kara to help people should never be minimised to a “mask”.

additionally, i think kara can only ever be fully herself with the people who know her secret identity. kara is the one who makes the decision to show her truest self to the ones she loves. that’s why she’s very picky with who she tells.

[budd-ie]

Actually what I love most about hualian is that by the time of "if you don't know what to live for then live for me" they had already had many meetings and moments together, and while that one moment may have solidified his resolve and his purpose, it may have never actually come to that point had xie lian not caught him from the wall, had he not saved him from qi rong, had he not told qi rong off and punished him, had he not stood up for him every time someone spoke against him, had he not held him so warmly, had he not talked to him so gently, had not reassured him so genuinely, had he not protected him time and time again, yknow? Ever since they met they kept meeting by chance and it might have even felt like Xie Lian was looking out for him specifically, even if it was just a coincidence and he would have done it for anyone else. Hong-er is crazy enough to do whatever he wants on a whim, but this wasn't like a split second decision Xie Lian was already like a lifeline to him at this point, and he took his chance and asked his question to a statue in a shrine he may have never cared about had they never met. He may not have really expected an answer and was just asking with a last desperate hope to find any reason to keep going on, but he got an answer from that one and only person in the world who he would ever trust. That trust was built stronger every single time they met and it all led up to that point. If hong-er had asked that question without the pretext of their previous meetings, would he still devote his life? Maybe, but it's not easy to say yes definitely. If it had been anyone else, would they also devote their life? That's also entirely possible, but it wasn't anybody else. It's three parts fate and seven parts courage, and again, Hong-er is crazy enough to do whatever he wants on a whim, so he chose life with the rest of his courage. In short, when we say their story is so specific to them, I really do believe that it could quite literally only happen to them specifically and no one else given their situation. If Xie Lian didn't have such a strong sense of justice and love of all people, if hong-er wasn't so desperate, reactive, or strong-willed, if either of them weren't just so damn stubborn, I honestly think none of these events could play out the same way and/or be as impactful on them. It really couldn't have been just any crown prince and any beggar kid, it could really have only been them.

[age-of-moonknight]

“Three Moments,” Vengeance of the Moon Knight (Vol. 2/2024), #8.

Writer: Jed Mackay; Penciler and Inker: Devmalya Pramanik; Colorist: Rachelle Rosenberg; Letterer: Cory Petit

[ofthebrownajah]

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[infinitelyweary]

Has anyone endlessly dissected Armand's subtle Marius shade yet

[firestorm09890]

houghhh something about Ansem taking in Ienzo and favoring him because obviously you would favor your new son but then as soon as Xehanort shows up suddenly he's the new favorite, he's the interesting one, he's Ansem's prized apprentice... and then something about Zexion being one of the closest to Xemnas and having a special servant/master student/teacher relationship until Saïx pushed his way in and became Xemnas's new special little guy..... something about Zexion's gravestone being desecrated to the point of being unable to be read... erased.....

[breha]

i'm reading crescent city girls: the lives of young black women in segregated new orleans by lakisha michelle simmons and one detail in it is about how although the french quarter during the first half of the twentieth century was overwhelmingly white, a black order of nuns owned a building there, at what's currently the site of the bourbon orleans hotel, from 1881 to 1965. they lived there and ran an orphanage and a school for girls (the order and the school still exist, just in a different neighborhood). i think it's an affecting image that 1132 royale street was so close (a 7-minute walk, just down the street and around the corner) to a high school claudia was pointedly not attending. she probably walked by the building hundreds of times, at night when it was shuttered and quiet. she walked by it when she was 14, 15, 16, 17, just like the girls who studied there, but she was fundamentally separated from them forever. she could go there, even slip into the classrooms or the dormitory where the nuns slept, but she could never get there, across the veil to the place it was during the day. and at first she didn't really grasp what any of this meant because it was novel, even a little exciting, it made her feel special – "i've gotta go to bed when the rest of the world wakes up, so there's less kids to play with..." – but you know it sank in eventually. as the students moved from grade to grade, graduated, grew up, and were replaced by new girls, claudia stayed the same. her and the building, its balconies, its arched windows, the cross against the night sky, unchanging. singular. forever. fuck!!!!!!!!