#I love this asshole so much

[usersukuna]

the king of curses, ladies and gents

[razrogue]

look at this douchebag (affectionate)

[mama-qwerty]

So, I'm thinking about Dread. (Shocker, right?) Anyway, I was thinking about the first time we meet Dread. How he seems all jovial and happy and just living life. Throwing party after party, and seemingly turning coward when his old crew shows up.

Party Pirate Dread is happy(ish) and friendly(ish), doesn't want to talk about the Devil's Lighthouse, and seems really unwilling to even entertain the idea of trying for it again. He legit does not want to even think about it. I hesitate to say he feels regret for what happened, but that may be a bit of what's going on.

It's possible that this Dread is dealing with a very bruised ego and pride, because his lust for the Devil's Lighthouse cost him EVERYTHING. It's possible he recognized that going for the Lighthouse was foolish in the first place, and he feels ashamed for doing so and losing not only his first crew, but his entire ship and his reputation, as well. And it's possible that he turns coward when his first crew attacks, because he feels so ashamed of himself for putting them in harms away that he can't face them. They're the personification of his failure, so he would rather hide from it than face it head on.

Then we have the change after Rusty Rose attacks and the ship is sinking. He abandons ship, leaving his crew to presumably die. And this doesn't even come as a surprise to the crew, especially Batten, who very casually hooks a thumb in his direction when Sonic asks where he went. This kind of selfish behavior is known to the crew, and yet they still follow him.

So Sonic does his little "You'll be the legendary Knuckles the Dread!" speech and Dread gets that batshit glint in his eye. He only comes back because his chance at getting the Devil's Lighthouse is higher now with Sonic's help.

This Dread is possessive, selfish, aggressive, and would sacrifice anyone to keep his Beauty safe and in his hands. He actively engages in battles, all to keep the treasure he so obsesses over.

So let's back up. Dread tries for the Devil's Lighthouse with his old crew. He seems pretty determined and everything else be damned. He wrecks his ship, his crew abandons him, and . . . what? Does he realize his dream of obtaining that gem was a folly and best left at the bottom of the ocean, like his old ship? Does he realize that his obsessive pursuit for the Devil's Lighthouse ultimately took everything from him and how he wants to simply (and quite literally) be dead in the water rather than move forward?

Dread's behavior is very much like an addict. He tried to quit, go 'cold turkey' so to speak, but when temptation came, he couldn't resist. He's back to his old ways, his every thought and action focused on getting that Shard. He'll sacrifice everything--his crew, his ship, his own world--as he follows it through to New Yoke, and would have fallen to his death had Sonic not caught him.

Which brings me to another aspect. He helps Sonic because of the 'debt' he owes the hedgehog for saving his life. This doesn't jive with the Shard Addict Dread's behavior. Helping Sonic with Chaos Sonic doesn't get him closer to his Beauty. It's not advantageous to Dread's end goal. So why help at all?

Then he turns on Sonic the second his Beauty is in reach again. It's very much like Gollum and the Ring, or Captain Ahab and the white whale. He's obsessed with this one singular thing and it's driven him mad in its pursuit.

I wonder what he was like before the Devil's Lighthouse took hold of his senses. Did he care about his crew then? Was he always a self-centered asshole? Or did his lust for this gem, this fame, break him?

[thatfinewine]

I do love how Rick has been so abusive and unrepentantly cruel to Morty for so long but he also gets so hurt when Morty so much as calls him names or doesn't trust him after everything he's done. He can dish it out left and right all damn day, but the second anything similar gets aimed back at him in response to his shitty past behavior, he can't handle it.

[bunbun206]

Happy birthday Cartman my second favorite character

[wanologic]

reminder to take care of your loser human body

[mokeonn]

"But if college was free, then people would abuse that and get useless degrees" hell yeah I would! If I could go to college without debt I would make it my job to get a degree in every little thing that interested me. I'd get a doctorate in film studies. I'd have a bachelor's degree for every science I like. I'd try to learn at least 5 languages with varying results. I would learn something "useful" like coding and then follow it up with a ""useless"" degree like art history. I'd be the world record speed run holder for getting every degree possible.

But I can't afford college without going into massive debt, so instead I spent the last 5 years trying to figure out what I am passionate enough about to consider going into debt over, because unfortunately being passionate about everything is extremely expensive to pursue.

[egophiliac]

Wait, the tsun event has a whole bit dedicated to Malleus bragging about what kitchen appliances he knows how to use? Twst EN just got the milk culinary crucible, which means at the same time Malleus is showing off, the entirety of the EN players are learning Leona doesn't know how to use a microwave. The timing really just makes it feel like Malleus is flexing on Leona XD

it's in Mal's card story rather than in the event proper, but yep! after teaching his tsum proper microwave usage, he takes it on a tour and very proudly shows off his extensive knowledge of household appliances. (except when he thinks his tsum fell into the washing machine and doesn't know how to unlock the lid, so he just. explodes it instead. hashtag just diasomnia things. 🤷)

I do think he and Leona should get into a fight about who has done a better job of learning how to use kitchen tools! Leona has the advantage of having grown up in the modern world, but Malleus has the motivation to actually do literally anything. who will win

[forgetriestowrite]

Allura got me thinking about M9 again

she said they have a "resilience to [the weave mind's] strengths" which is true but I haven't truly thought about HOW true it is, I was too busy screaming MIGHTY NEIN VOX MACHINA over and over in my head

but like... they really are the best people to take down a hostile hive mind

not only have they literally done that before, but Beau fought off the mind-controlling hold of a demon that had kept her wife captive for years

Then Yasha broke that hold on herself

Jester literally believed so hard in an archfae that she turned him into a deity, and she made friends with an ACTUAL HAG in order to get her friend's curse broken, and it WORKED

Fjord started the campaign in a soul-eating pact with a demigod and ended it as a champion of the Wildmother, which was jumpstarted by him doing the most insane thing he could have done to break Ukotoa's control

Caleb's whole journey was self-love and healing and learning to accept the dark parts of his past and use them for good

Veth not only helped him with that, but also spent the whole campaign working on herself so she could be the person her husband and son knew her to be

Caduceus found a way to bring Kingsley back even though it should have been impossible, because he saw how much his friends wanted it, and he knew what happened to Molly and Lucien was unfair

And to top it all off, they found out one of their own had been manipulated and abused his entire teenage and technically also his adult life, and proceeded to find the person responsible and bully him relentlessly ("I hope someone will mourn you when you are gone" is still the rawest line in cr history), then beat his ass and eventually kill him

these people have shown time and time again that they will not tolerate any kind of authoritative control, especially if it hurts one of them. They refuse to buy into it, and they will destroy anyone who even tries to manipulate someone else.

There is no one else who can go to the moon and completely dismantle their oligarchy. I don't know if there is anyone else who would be willing to do it.

[salemontrial]

Say whatever you want but Missy explaining Orpheus and Eurydice to Spider while he listens with genuine awe going "woag. Fr?? No shit?? Thats tragic asf waog.." is indeed peak romance and you can't do a thing to change my mind

[copperarts]

That fucking fish that I hate‼️

[justaz]

thinkin…………..arthur gets injured and is being treated by gaius and merlin but he’s awake and gets to see firsthand this competent and serious merlin that meets his gaze constantly and arthur notices the fear and terror in his eyes that he forces back to heal him. thinkin…….merlin being his nurse while he heals and not leaving his bedside in fear of infections settling in while he’s gone and loosing arthur in such a simple way. arthur constantly wakes to a hand carding thru his hair or caressing his cheeks. thinkin………….merlin holding arthur’s head in his lap as he spoon feeds him broth. gaius rolling his eyes and leaving the room bc he and merlin and arthur all know he can sit up and feed himself but merlin leaves his fingers on arthur’s pulse and breathes in sync with him while arthur stares up at him like he hung the moon and the stars and carries the air into his lungs and squeezes his heart to pump his blood.

[satoumafuyuss]

This is totally how this scene went, right?

[devilisln-moved]

Matthew pls for fuck’s sake.

[zrllosyn-art]

Pocket hoshinyas! From this morning but colored in a lil bit (th idea is mainly from th kn8 discord, thank u all for fueling this lmao)

[dekusleftsock]

I think about this sometimes but I personally love that Horikoshi took the Yandere trope, split it in two, and gave one half to Izuku and Himiko.

Like it’s so fascinating how you can just SEE how purposeful Himiko was as a character in hindsight standing next to him.

Himiko is a really interesting subversion of her trope for two reasons:

She hurts people because she loves them, not for isolation or destruction of the competition (gore/blood is love to her, not necessarily a means to love someone)

She’s not possessive. Like at all.

I’ve seen that hc a few times and it always bothers me. Ochako is for sure a possessive character (we saw that with Hatsume around Izuku way back at the sports festival arc), but Himiko? Really?

You mean the girl who had a crush on a boy AND the girl who also had a crush on the same boy? Her?

You mean the girl who doesn’t hurt people who love who she loves, rather actively encouraging it in the first place? That one? Really?

Like it’s such an integral part to her subversion too. It’s what makes her such a weird and fascinating character. Possessiveness is supposed to be whats ugly about love itself, yet her love remains ugly without it. She is ugly because the fundamental ways in which she sees and feels about the world are considered “wrong”, “dangerous”, and “deviant”.

But Izuku… ohhhh Izuku…

He holds this trait like a badge melted to his skin. My man cannot escape these allegations. It’s to the point where it’s honestly a fundamental to his narrative. Izuku does not act nor feel the same without it.

Izuku holds a cutesy nickname that literally every other childhood friend of Katsuki’s has long left behind, saying his real name instead (this is honestly why I’m also uninterested in a scene where Izuku calls him “Katsuki” instead of “Kacchan”, Katsuki doesn’t represent the same things the name Izuku does, imo at least), izuku “give him back to me” midoriya, holds his dead body to his chest on a cover, freaked out on someone either hurting/offending Kacchan.. 3 times(?), keeping big boy ofa secrets…. The list goes on.

So it’s this main reason that I think their characters are just so. Fucking. Intertwined. I’m glad this has become a more common interpretation because there’s just so much that aligns between them.

Both of them call their “special people” with -chan endings, both by their first names, both deemed deviants/irrelevant by society. It’s no wonder Ochako fell in love with Izuku, just like she did toga, they’re fucking freaks. They’re interesting. They’re weird. They’re overly friendly and socially inept and a little beaten down by the world yet have too much passion to stay on the ground. They’re envious of the ones they love (Ochako of her freedom to be a normal girl, Katsuki for his raw power and harnessed skill), and I guess I just wanted to make this post because I adore how it’s all done.

I LOVE how the yandere trope is used as societal commentary here. Not necessarily as a way to make the main love interest jealous and feel she must protect the main character, nor for some kinky reason surrounding her character, but because the trope is built off of real, ugly feelings that can and do happen. That love can and is considered truly beautiful in all its forms, especially those of queer people.

So I especially love it because it isn’t just limited to Himiko, but Izuku as well. He may never hurt the ones he loves, but he would hurt for them.

A perfect narrative foil on queer and deviant forms of love. Big fan Horikoshi.