the popular alternate for barry working as a forensic scientist is to make him into a k-12 teacher but i really do think he has too delicate of a constitution for it. like can you even imagine he'd catch two teens making out behind the stairwell and turn so bright of a red that he starts wheezing in secondhand oxygen deficiency. he's way too hyperfixated on corpses just let him loose in a cemetary and all of his problems would magically fix themselves.
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Spoilers for Lesson 16
(There will be spelling mistakes until Tumblr let's me edit my tags without deleting the whole thing)
How come none of y'all aren't equally or atleast some what mad/hurt by Barbatos and Diavolo about what happened in Lesson 16?
Sure Belphie was the one that killed (a) Mc, but Barbatos and Diavolo knew that was going to happen in that universe and happily sent Mc. We know this because Barbatos address Mc in the lesson with a quick, "don't worry I picked the timeline where you live, Mc". Also canonically Barbatos can't use his powers without Diavolo's permission. You can't convince me that Diavolo wouldn't have known he was sending Mc to their death.
They are both complacent! They literally set Mc's death in motion!
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please share your wisdom of the pandora hearts title meaning!!
First, thank you for the ask! I'm not very good at articulating my thoughts on this sort of stuff so sorry if it I sound incoherent. Also my take isn't anything new, it's been said before and it's fairly obvious in hind sight tbh (at least to me). I had just dismissed the title early on and hadn't noticed the connections while reading the manga for the first time lol.
I don't think the title is meant to represent a specific aspect of the manga, but rather thread together the main motifs of hope, despair, light & darkness, people's hearts and of course, love. I don't have any exact references on hand, but you can open almost any volume and find a panel with one of these themes pretty easily. What/who exactly is "pandora" or "pandora's box" doesn't really matter as it can apply to any of the characters or even the abyss itself, and hell even life in general.
It's like the main quote of the series, "Someone said that this place is engulfed in darkness. But, that doesn't mean there was never any light there". While it's very obviously about the Abyss, it can also be applied to the series as whole or individual characters. Oz even compares light and hope in one scene.
Jack talks about how Lacie brought him hope, but it was because of that hope he was engulfed in the shadows of despair and lost himself in them. Oz, on the other hand, starts the series an abused child who's lost his will to truly live, but he is able to find hope and love and ends the series happy and fulfilled. The manga is filled with awful and dark moments/events, but it's ultimately a story of hope & love & connection.
I'm going to stop myself there, so hopefully you get the point. There's a lot of ways to apply the title Pandora Hearts to the manga, as it's kinda just an encapsulation of the themes of the whole thing.
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people who think making a mentally ill character a villain in a story is AUTOMATICALLY ableist every single time no matter what shut the fuck up challenge/srs
I've literally seen ppl be all "if you make your villains mentally ill/ND/disabled you are a bad person and you're ableist!" I've literally had someone directly tell me not to make a character with NPD a villain. we have NPD, mind you. and have quite a few OCS with NPD that fall all across the moral spectrum. Because that's the REALISTIC thing to do! suffering from a mental illness does not guarantee a person to be "evil" , but it doesn't guarantee a person to be "good" either.
Genuinely if you think villains can't be mentally ill, like please stop talking. PLEASE. the issue is with blaming the characters status as a bad guy on their condition and/or only having villains be canonically or coded this way. Literally all you have to do for it NOT to be ableist is
1. Not make it the REASON they're evil.
2. Let the good guys be mentally ill too. Yes, including the " scary" mental illnesses. ESPECIALLY the "scary" mental illnesses. If you balance it out it'll be less skewed.
That's literally it. in the story I'm working on currently, nearly all of the characters are neurodivergent, mentally ill, disabled, etc. both good and bad and neutral.
Remember that in the real world; anyone can be a good person, and anyone can be a bad person. though many are in between. and doesn't matter what mental illnesses someone has or doesn't have. I feel like characters in fiction should reflect that. they should be complex, and fleshed out like real people. But remember, many people are morally gray in the real world and fall somewhere in the middle. a roster of characters should reflect that. unless the black and white good and evil dichotomy is what you're going for, use "(pure) good" and "(pure) evil" characters as sparingly as you can, regardless of the characters " diagnostic history "
Just. Use. Common. Sense.
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Reason number idk to keep my shot day more consistent (tho tbf i had been doing really well on timing up until last week lmao):
Shot day being off means i get extra weepy over just. anything. everything. My brain looks at anything and goes 'oh yeah, that's like (horrible traumatic memory), you 'member that? Yeah, sure ya do! here's a recap of that particular time for ya too.'
and like??? I am not a fan of it today. i mean i never really am but, I have shit to do rn lmao (dishes and i keep having smutty ed/izzy and nathan/pickles ideas that refuse to actually flow on the page once i open a word doc.)
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(RvB) Theoretically, there’s several months between season 8 and season 10, not all of which the team is spent getting dragged around by Carolina. Where where the reds and blues during that time? Were they lost for several months? Did they find somewhere not-Valhalla to chill?
I think the funniest answer is that they went back to Valhalla and just somehow everyone missed the fact that Doc and Donut had set up shop in a hut by the wall.
Any time the reds hear Donut it’s just like:
“Man, i kinda miss Donut.”
“I’m right here!”
“Sometimes i can still here his voice.”
“Stop telling people i’m dead!”
Tucker’s too distracted by team shenanigans to notice. Wash thinks he’s being haunted by a guilty conscience. (It doesn’t help that no one else seems to notice a pink armored figure sometimes going around the valley.) Caboose is the only one that actually realizes they’re there and will go talk to him. But whenever he tells anyone he was talking to Donut, they think he’s making shit up.
Anyways, that’s all. Had to get that out of my system. Do with this stupidity what you will. I’m going back to working on stuff i shouldn’t be working on but got inspiration for it so here we are.
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My brain is full of worms, so a few years back I started a list of shows I want to watch/rewatch so that when I have the time/energy/inclination to watch smth, I can look at the list & choose one instead of staring blankly at websites' catalogues/suddenly forget everything I've ever enjoyed or been interested in, & I literally listed torchwood as one of the shows that, if I watch it again, will ruin my mental health
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y’know, like rAwR xD
scenecore!Momoko because I feel like she would be after going back to New York (there’s a mix of real and non-existent merch here! however, for 2006, it’s slightly anachronistic... whoops)
simple version without the gradient overlays below:
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