#ONE HUNDRED PERCENT

[smittenskitten]

I am cackling 🤣🤣🤣

Among all my fandoms one thing I try to maintain is not ship real people.

And let me tell you this.... I have come very close to not maintaining this

[squarefriend]

HEY LONG TIME NO SEE— so the teenage mutant ninja turtle brianworms consumed me and I kinda dropped out of the UT stuff for a lil while. BUT IM BACK BITCHES. AND I MISSED MY W O M A N!

[gunmeister]

i believe if we all work together we can make baccano popular next year

[jlf23tumble]

The groupthink and insular nature of larries (you can’t sit with us unless you believe/espouse what we believe) def keeps people a reachin’ EVEN HARDER. And this all or nothing attitude leads to “unlarrying” which somehow means those people just buy into a whole other narrative (so did they really need “deprogramming” or just another doctrine to follow blindly? Rip to that girl who wrote about how she couldn’t believe she used to think Carolina was about drugs when Harry is so pure after she listened to HS3 lmaoooo).

Bottom line is all sides of HL’s fandom puts them in boxes and just ignore pieces of evidence that don’t fit with their narrative (hets ignoring H’s queer coding, larries ignoring all of AOTV post-2015, etc). Multiple things can be true at once - Louis can enjoy indulging in alcohol and weed and be happy and successful (he doesn’t need you to save him); Harry can make out with models and playfully react to signs about pussy and still be sleeping with dudes (plenty of queer men, even those who self-identify as gay, have been intimate with women); HL can have been in a relationship and aren’t anymore (or at least not in the “married” sense). This is all way more fun when you allow for people to be people and not unchanging posters on your wall. Ultimately i don’t care what you believe as long as you acknowledge we’re all clowns here in the dumbass circus.

Couldn't have said it better myself!

[gg-ladybug]

Okay, but one of the most compelling things for me was the fact Evolution made me grimace for Gabriel-

Of course, I know people are going to be sat reading this like:

But just hear me out

For the first time, we’ve genuinely seen Gabriel this desperate. To the point he’s downright suicidal. He completely forwent any warnings given to him, sacrificing his own health in the hope he could get the upper hand on the heroes. Frequently, he was unable to walk, or even just stay conscious. Seems familiar, right? Gabriel is beginning to start acting like Nathalie in season 3. Which is, in itself, ironic considering her complete 180 at the end of the episode.

But we don’t really take it seriously

I mean- it’s not just a nuance thing either. They’re clearly crossing the bridges of mental health this arc. The paralleling between Marinette and Gabriel is amazing. The final scene was a staple to the fact they were always two sides of the same shitty coin. Same day, same reactions. But for completely different reasons. One feels the weight of failed responsibility, and the other finally feels responsibility.

Even taking a look at his panic attack, you’ll see a minute detail: his eyes are zoned in on his ring.

Gabriel has spent this last year + entirely devoting himself to the Hawkmoth character. Expensing his work life and other relationships in a co-dependent like state to revive his wife. But with Nathalie (and only Nathalie) in his corner, he’s never had to deal with the fact he’s done wrong. By not indulging anybody else; he’s had no rational mind to guide him. And dear lord is he the type that needs to be guided.

The only person who’s mattered in terms of opinion was her. Adrien would, had he been in the know, but he isn’t. Simple as that. He doesn’t know. To Gabriel, his disdain for Hawkmoth couldn’t be properly proportional, because of a ‘surely it’d be different if he knew about his mother’ mindset.

He’s a family man, and he considers Nathalie (as of this episode at least) part of said family. Going so far as to give her the other ring. If Nathalie concurs, he thinks he’s doing exactly what he should be. He admires her. He’s said as such in the Nathalie mini-episode. Until now. Someone he so openly cares about, as far as he sees it, hates him. And while getting the thrashing he deserved was all the satisfaction, his response certainly was not.

In a way, it was child like. He’s disappointed his guardian for the first time, and he doesn’t know how to deal with that. But the progression is important, because we’ve finally witnessed another milestone. Persistent, traumatic grief can cause us to cycle (sometimes quickly or in a nonlinear pattern) through the stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.

These stages are our attempts to process change and protect ourselves while we adapt to a new reality. He’s finally come out the denial era. And while this new found anger may be misplaced onto Ladybug, it’s still a sign he’s finally beginning to accept what’s happened to Emilie.

Many people have said he’s lost his goal after all this time, and that may be true. But I raise this: it’s not about power either, like many suggest. In the ice-Paris scene. He’s merely trying to prevent what he sees as an ambush.

As far as he knows, he has a fair reason to worry about the mysterious box. It’s happened before, it can surely happen again. He’s aware they’re trying to draw him out, and that’s dangerous. Every time he underestimates the smallest of things, it bites him. We laugh, but from an outsider prospective, many would’ve overthought it.

Even when he was making the decision, he thought they were trying to defeat him as Scarlet Moth. Destroying the current timeline before he even had a chance to meddle. Monarch had no way of knowing whether or not his change would take place first. And all things considered, that’s precisely what they were trying to make it look like.

He wasn’t going to take their miraculous, he was attempting to push them into another burrow, like before. Hence his promise of return. He was going to go through with Nathalie’s idea! He just needed to stop them attacking the old him before dropping the USB in. Had he wanted to wish it, then there would be no need to come back at all. He was worried about his current timeline. Current relationships. So on and so forth. If he ‘chose wrong’, then he’d have nothing to go back to.

His choice wasn’t driven by power, merely worry for what he currently has. Gabriel is beginning to see what’s in front of him, rather than behind. That worry, though, was immediately repaid by the most devastating words of his life, no doubt. He, basically, was just told that his wife’s death was his own fault. Whether or not that’s what Nathalie actually meant doesn’t matter. That’s how Gabriel took it.

Given what we just saw too, that he’d been the one to deliver the miraculous to his wife, those words would’ve hit all the worse. The real kicker was the declaration of what he deserves. He’s just been shunned by his one true friend. Everybody else is merely an associate, or someone he sticks with because he owes them something, or they have something for him in return. Even the dynamic between him and Audrey relies heavily on the fact she was his mentor and likely has some other (presumably magic related) weight.

Plus, we see no evidence of any other family. The canon family tree for Adrien shows no grandparents from Gabriel’s side. Only Emilie’s. His current connections are likely all he has.

So step back, and take a look at this from a different angle. Widowed husband, mere inches away from saving his recently deceased wife. Reliving the very moment that caused her death. And then, his timeline comes under fire. So he goes to stop it. Just to be tricked. And then abandoned by the one person he can confide in. And widowed husbands often take other woman as ‘replacement wives’ in an attempt to get their emotional outlet back. A woman he puts on an equal mental pedestal to Emilie just told him to go fuck himself, in 3 different metaphors.

-His decision making

-His mental capacity

-His worth

Fucking ouch

He is, frankly, moving to his PV goal. Mirrored by the change in attire. Richard Sphinx was trying to forget his wife. Doing everything he possibly could to distract himself from her absence, and filling the void with material things.

At first glance, it’s not much, but if you think about it. It was… heavy for a first episode. I have no doubt he’s going to feel more sucker punches this season until his eventual defeat. And that’s genuinely concerning when we see how far he’s already descended.

[siliquasquama]

So here's the thing:

[egsreactions]

[slicesofapple]

The breadth of Kageyama’s shoulders is noticeably wider than it was in high school.

Probably even wider than his own, Oikawa thinks with an internal sniff. Coupled with the bulging muscles of his arms and back, it is clear that Kageyama has grown up.

He’s a man now.

On the other hand, his hair still parts at the base of his skull in the same way it always has, leaving open that odd, triangular patch of skin, looking so strangely delicate and vulnerable atop those massive shoulders.

Stranger still, Oikawa finds himself almost unable to resist leaning in and stroking a finger up the nape of Kageyama’s neck, or even, he swallows, brushing his lips across that inviting patch of skin.

[justanotherbarrelrat]

School? Learning? Nope. None of that. No academic thoughts just what would you trade the pain for and we were a hammer to the statue of David and we were a painting you could never frame

[the-chickenshit-oddity]

All the ships

A's a dumbass, the kind we love and want to cuddle but still acknowledge they're stupid. B's got a toothache or terrible table manners and speaks with food in their mouth, either way. So A asks 'where do you come from?', and B answers 'Oregon' (whether that's where they're from originally or just the last place they've been, doesn't matter) except, because of the previously stated, toothache/terrible manners, A hears 'Orion' and is now pretty convinced B's an alien. Needless to say, the rest of the conversation is confusing to both.

[edgyexplorerofmanythings]

Watch "Autistic Awkwardness with Group Conversation #shorts #autism #autisticcommunication #audhd" on YouTube

[daevstroders]

sorry to be a liker on main but. i love my job so much

[evermorebytaylorswift]

i can see you is SOOOOO wildest dreams’ predecessor

[martuzzio]

Etho washing his twenty seven identical shirts because "everything else is too itchy" (autism. It's autism)

Aka an environment study based off of this photo

[bl2andonb]

[violent138]

I feel like the Robins probably watched horror movies to really up their game, taking notes on the gestures and body language that would creep you out. "Criminals are a superstitious lot", so yeah the guy in full body armour that could beat you up would suck, but a small child, somewhere in the dark, with an echoing laugh all around you as you fire off a hail of bullets, somehow dodging everything and gleefully messing you up. That's psychological warfare.