#I need to have a lie down

[ratatatastic]

Lundy Cup Day | 8.6.24

[superanimepirate]

One Piece Chapter 1098 Initial Thoughts. This chapter is dark... (Uh, TW for like rape and sex trafficking and a dying child. Damn)

Oh God. Bonney's mom being sex trafficked wasn't on my bingo card but ok here we are

I am a bit confused as to what Ginny's illness was. But it seems like that's the point. Well at least this anime mom disease is less generic.

But I think Kuma may have one of the saddest backstories wtf. He didn't want to marry her because he was afraid she would become a slave, and she became a slave anyways forced to marry a celestial dragon. Not only a slave but a sex slave. Yo wtf...

Oh ok so Bonney is the child of a celestial dragon? Does that mean she's a celestial dragon? And Kuma raised Ginny's child as his own. Ok hold I need a minute, and someone to protect this precious man.

Hi Sabo. Nice to see you.

I don't think I cried this hard since Brook's backstory. Jesus Christ

Bonney has the illness!!!! NO!!!!!

"Where would you like to go when you get better"

Oda just shoot me it would hurt less

Oh she thinks she'll be better after her tenth birthday. Someone protect this precious child. Excuse me while I continue to sob.

Oh ok, so the douchbag king is up to now good, how the hell does this get pinned on Kuma?

Ok so now that the chapter is over, more thoughts:

Something is up with Bonney's age tho, we all kinda predicted that tho. But I'm still curious on who Connie is? Seven years ago she was five? IDK I am so confused by the timeline right now, how old Bonney is, and when Kuma became a cyborg and everything.

I'm going to need to do an entire panel by panel analysis there is so much information. First I need to stop crying long enough to see the pages.

So it seems like the trip to Egghead is to figure out a cure? Oh and her face piercing is connected to the illness scars thing?

Also, what's going on with Oda? The chapter isn't finished? Is he ok? He could have taken an extra week, he has before, so whats going on? There's a break next week, so I hope he'll be ok.

Anyways I'm going to go continue to sob. Peace.

[ambrosiagourmet]

Every time I revisit chapter 86 and the events right after the group talks Marcille down, I'm always struck by this bit here:

In particular, how similar it is to this:

The Winged Lion ate the same desire in both of them, more or less (I'm sure there are some nuances in both flavor and intent, but they are clearly similar things here). The Lion basically used this technique to kill Thistle, and for Marcille it was... not insignificant, but something she and her friends overcame without even fully realizing it was an obstacle.

I feel like this is another small piece of the story that shows how important support and love are - in navigating mental illness, in dealing with abuse or addiction, or in working through any other similar struggle that can be read into the Lion and his eating of desires.

It almost feels like Marcille was able to borrow the desires of her friends. She loves them and she trusts them, so even when she didn't have a desire to free herself from the Lion, the care they had for her well being still mattered to her.

It's the same thing later, with her hair.

She isn't able to notice the way her messy hair is making things harder, let alone do anything about it. But when Chilchuck points it out and then braids it back for her...

It's better. She likes it, things are easier now. Even though it isn't a desire she can feel for herself, it's not something that doesn't effect her. And because her friends care - because they know her well enough to notice the difference - she is given the chance to have a preference and to ask for their help.

We can obviously see some parallel ideas here with Mithrun and Kabru as well, but I'd also like to point out that Thistle gets this grace, too. Thistle, who had no one to help him up once he lost his will to resist, or to encourage him to find new desires once the Lion ate them all.

Thistle says he doesn't need anything, anymore...

But he is given an apology anyways.

It is not a kindness he desires. It is not a kindness he is able to ask for.

But it is a kindness that helps. It is a kindness that matters.

[babacontainsmultitudes]

He's a used car salesman. He has a heart of gold. He can't parallel park. He has two gay witch italian dads. He chops the wood. He has a magical talking cat mom. He's an assassin. He isn't an assassin. He's actually the cat from earlier. He's trans (female cat to male human). He's been shot through the heart. He was in Dewar. He was not in the war. He was in Dewar. He's on his last of nine lives. He just had a marble shoved down his throat. He's even bisexual. I didn't say his name, but he popped into your head, didn't he?

[redrobin-detective]

Simon Petrikov really is the dad of all time.

Continuing my Adventure Time binge and I got to the Gunter/Orgalorg bits. Ice King took this horrible, cruel alien menace who's been seeking ultimate power for millennia and loved him, cuddled him, disciplined him (sometimes undeservedly) and overall sucked him into his deluded family unit. He did this for so long that when Gunter finally was given a chance for ultimate power -via the wishing crown - he chose instead to become Ice Thing. To become like his dad.

Simon dadded so hard that he turned two eldritch beings with capacity for immense destruction into daddies girls.

[ceaselesswatchersspecialboy]

Unlikely but what if in TMAGP at some point they hear the last tape of TMA and specifically Basira’s ‘I’m sorry, and good luck’. I think that would send me to the shadow realm.

[notevenyou]

This angle is so devastating. The way Pete giggles and smiles the whole time. The way you can hear Patrick’s giggle and stutter after Pete calls him love.

[pumpkinrootbeer]

Haymitch as a character drives me a little bit insane bc like I always see people say haymitch survived his games bc he outsmarted them or cheated the system which is true, but that's only how he survived the final fight. The rest of it he survived because he never trusted anything or anyone except THE TIME HE DID TRUST SOMEONE she dies. Because of him. because he figured out something he wasn't supposed to know. And then everyone he loved was killed because he had survided. And then he has to escort 48 kids to their death and he knows all their names, and then finally finally they break the system. And then like, they win right? but all his friends are still dead and he's still drinking and like, I don't know! I don't know how you keep living in a world post everything, in a world that is now asking you to trust that things will get better and are better and safe now like how do you get yourself to trust when the only reason you even lived in the first place is because you never let your guard down.

[brechtian]

I am very sick so this is the last thing I am going to say on the subject. The instigating event for miles heroism & eventual escape the narrative quest was saving a cop from death. Miles’ goal and journey is to alter reality so that cops do not have to die in his story and spidermen can save the cops they care about. Core to the central plot of atsv is a view of cops as sympathetic & heroic individuals in need of saving instead of as a tool for enacting state violence and perpetuating systemic oppression. Which is copaganda.

[voltaical-art]

anytime I think about Wyll's back scars I go a little crazy

[pizzazz-party]

Day twenty three! This counts as an outfit because I want it to.

[myownprivateclusterfuck]

You lift that burden off of me You lift that burden off of me You lift that burden off of me

Manchester Orchestra, The Maze

[mariyekos]

One of the things that makes me feel crazy on DMC5 replays is the way V phrases his request to Dante.

He doesn't say "we need your help to stop the demon." He says "A powerful demon is about to resurrect, and we need your help, Dante." The implication seems to be that V needs Dante's help to stop it...but if you've played it before, that's not what he's really asking. V needs Dante's help in order for the resurrection to take place. Because until Urizen is weakened V has no chance of rejoining him, so he needs Dante's help to weaken Urizen so he's primed for merging and bringing about Vergil's resurrection. The "we" V refers to could also absolutely be both V and Urizen in that case, instead of just some general "we" of humanity. So he's not really asking for help to stop the resurrection, but instead to bring it about, hiding the truth in plain sight and careful wording.

The DMC 5 localization can be wonky in some places, but in other places it just shines. "We need your help, Dante." Not to stop it. He never says that. It's to bring about the resurrection itself.

[ghoulphile]

why has no one said anything yet about cooper howard spitting in your mouth?? why am i the only one popping my fucking pussy rn???

he sees the way you are desesperate, not even sweat is being produced by your body anymore – not like there is a lack of it. the qay your vaultie uniform clings to your body is indication enough of how hot u are under those clothes – and then he gets that filthy canteen that has more dirt than water but god if isnt what you need to at least wet your mouth enough to at least produce some wetness to your tongue

and he drinks it. he looks at you as he does, maintaining eye contact, but then after he gulps down some water, he spits some more on the sand, that quickly absorbs before you can kneel down and eat some of that wet sand – you are that desesperate –. he sees the way you eye the few droplets that escape his mouth. not desesperate enough to lick his chin that contains a few spills, but close enough to get to that point. cooper is sure he can push you to this, but he has a more fun idea.

he tells you to come closer, rather demand, the way he pulls the lasso around your body. his dirty gloves pull your chin up, and you stare at the sky, not wanting to look at cooper and see what he has planned to do. “open your mouth” its the only command you get, and you obey, thinking he will finally take pity on you and give you the rest of the water, that probably is more mud than liquid. but all you see is him taking another big gulp before spitting inside your mouth.

your first instict is to spit it out, this is humiliating. but he holds your face, squeezing your cheeks, some water escapes your mouth and it looks like you are a drooling mess being lectured for doing something wrong. he makes you stare at him, telling you to swallow, that if you soit it out, it will be the last time he does something good to you – is this even considered good???

you do swallow, your face reddening as you do. but the way the ghoul lifts the canteen again to his lips, fills his mouth again and tilts your head back up, makes you think that maybe this isn’t so much for your survival as it is for his pleasure.

*softly*the fuck

i - i had to read this several times. im SWEATING rn. jjust - you really saw inside my mind huh?? this is sgshkshdshdka thank you for this i am not worthy 😭

[arthursfuckinghat]

Sorry just thinking about how lovingly Charles talked about where he'd buried Arthur, the softness and somber in his voice, the way he reassured John that Arthur got the proper burial he deserved.

"It's where he would have wanted to be.. a pretty hillside.. facing the evening sun."

[queerofthedagger]

i love fingon so much just. he's so good and so reckless and he loves so fiercely it makes him do the most stupid shit, and in turn no one ever quite puts him first. I'm going to eat glass