#They just make things infinitely better

[acidicpenumbra]

two "ultimate" level douchebags

[soupy-cosmos]

Jim momence

[mykingdomforasong]

At this point, nothing will get me to click out of a fic faster than bad characterization of Han Solo. You made him a deadbeat burnout alcoholic asshole? Groundbreaking. Congrats, you fell victim to his cool guy act and then made him worse!

And it's always made 10 times worse by the fact that in these fics, he's almost always still married to Leia? You think Leia Organa is marrying that guy??? You're gonna keep her married to that guy??? Be for real.

[shopcat]

endeavour fans make me feel like i'm on a psychedelic. "he's trying to do better" he should be better at dying badly IDGAF ... like omfg

[queenkinqs]

*long drag of my non-existent cigarette* I think invincible being a post 9/11 comic has more impact on the story than people realize. at least in the earlier arcs there’s a political connection that could be made with omniman the “defender of democracy” or w/e having secretly committed a horrible atrocity and then proceeding to murder thousands when his son protests against the idea of allowing the earth to be colonized by an alien empire. eventually invincible gets too lost in the sauce of trying to tell an engaging story that it drops the political implications for a while but then it brings in it the flaxan/dinosaurus/robot triple whammy arcs and then the comic becomes about taking initiative and making tangible chances in society, and who should or shouldn’t have the right to decide what’s best for people, and how even the most altruist of rulers will become corrupted by power when their tenancy is too long. but then the comic just kinda ends without really saying anything meaningful about any of that, which is probably for a mirad of reasons such as robert kirkman and ryan ottley wanting to wrap the story out as quickly as possible

the earlier political implications aren’t really present in the show anymore which is I assume why nobody talks about them, and it’s probably been intentionally subdued because there’s already an amazon prime tv show that examines the overlap of superheroes and politics, but it does make me wonder how the show will approach these topics when it eventually gets there (in 2045)

[welcometoteyvat]

jing yuan and yanqing are giving zhongli and xiao if the latter’s canon relationship was Actually fanon’s made up father figure/adopted child dynamic

[ufonaut]

You can't get rid of me! When I grow up I'm going to be Superman! Don't any of you understand?!

Infinite Crisis (2005) #4

(Geoff Johns, Phil Jimenez)

[dw-flagler]

fuck. I was writing this emma barnes fic and I've come to a realization. For a period of exactly seven days in 2009, Emma Barnes is a completely different person from the one in canon. Like, I always knew that meeting Shadow Stalker the second time shaped her as a person, but it's genuinely shocking how utterly different the road of her life could have been.

Like, for my fic I had these two paths I was struggling to pick between, which I'm calling Wire and Cloth, as a joke about imprinting (see neither is good but one is distinctly better than the other), one where Emma ends up being kidnapped by the ABB and one where she ends up as shadow stalker's apprentice. But.

Look, here's a line from Interlude 19: "What got her, the nebulous idea that haunted her, was the impact those scenes had.  There were so many defining moments, so many crises, big and small, that shaped the people they touched.  The biggest and most critical moments were the sorts that wiped the slate clean, that ignored or invalidated the person who had existed before, only to create another."

Like, yeah, she's talking about triggers, but what's getting to me is how empathetic (in the literal "I can relate to your pain" sense) and compassionate she sounds. Like. Emma shuts herself in her room for a week because she's incapable of dealing with the horror of knowing that hundreds of little girls are going through what she did every minute of every day. She can't deal with it.

This emma, who only exists for a week, is haunting me. She's just--It's just weird!

And the Emma who exists for the rest of the story, for every section except for less than half of one chapter, you can see the remains! She's there! Emma recontextualizes her existential despair at the enormity of human suffering, something she only really understood in abstract until now, as Sophia's predator/prey philosophy, right? It's so easy for her, because it gives her a way to explain it. There's predators and there's prey. It already slots into her worldview. Like (and I'm really just harping on about victim blaming today aren't I?) those girls who suffered like Emma did, they suffered because they were weak! It's simple now. There's two kinds of people, the ones who are hurt and the ones who hurt, and all Emma has to do to make sure that she is never hurt again is to be the one who does the hurting.

But for seven days, there's that ghost. The kind Emma Barnes, who doesn't want anything like what happened to her happen to anyone else. It's not as narratively interesting, I get that. Who wants a worm character who's all peace and love? That doesn't make for a mentally disturbed teenage girl doing horribly violent acts, and that's what we in the worm fandom all want to see. But still she haunts me.

[junotter]

I'm sorry but I just can't support two blonde people dating it's against my morals

[sporadicfrogs]

Hm. I have. Much work anxiety

[shrekyaoi]

Both intimidated and intrigued by how Price is worse than Ghost and Makarov

i’m gonna be dead fucking honest i think price killed his dad

[derpinette]

too many males getting veneers when really they should be investing in hair transplants if anything

[risingsunresistance]

wanted to make a fun doodle for pride when i woke up this morning but i left my ipad at the house :V

[anarcho-masochist]

Okay, I thought this was universal but maybe my last three therapists were right that it is not:

Is it normal for boredom to be truly unbearable?

As in, worse than anything else, would rather get eviscerated while fully conscious, will do anything to escape it which might actually include suicide if no satisfactory options are available?

[noirewaves]

Beast sskk >>>>

[nikkisticki]

You know what would be an actually useful "A.I" program? One that you can ask questions about misinformation and propaganda and it would give you a breakdown on the bullshit and give you examples of it and shit

I don't expect this to actually happen as most of these fucking programs can't go five seconds without saying that Obama can walk through walls...oh and the people behind the tech are almost universally the sort of Tech Bro dipshit that doesn't care about anything besides THE FUTURE MAN