#They're going to make mistakes

[quipxotic]

That was fun.

I will go to sleep in hope that I will not wake up to a million posts shitting on any characters or their players (or the fans of either one). Come on folks, nuanced and non-overreacting takes, I know we can do it if we try.

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt in Memes 5

Once more, have a prompt entirely in memes because I'm too lazy to properly write one right now lol.

[zaacoy]

Actually this ones good too one more food for todahy Toby has permanently altered my brain chemistry, I've only reread that one fanfic like. 4 times and yet freenoodles slow dancing in their house LITERALLY never leaves my brain aughuaig they are cutie patootie tho heart emojhijk

[phoenixcatch7]

It's always funny to me when in an lu fic the chain is offered bananas and don't accept them. Like, you're offering these high energy adventures free food?? Fruit they'll have never even heard of before??? A ridiculously expensive imported good at best?? AND it boosts your attack?

Not ONE of these idiots would ever turn down something new and interesting to eat at least once. They'd be all over those bananas and immediately get dubbed yiga and I'm honestly surprised no one has used it in a fic yet 🤭

[front-facing-pokemon]

[bonefall]

So glad to see this after someone on twitter argued with me about how apparently gray wing isn't a bootlicker

The brainrot on Twitter is astonishing. I don't know how you brave souls manage to spend time there. There are 6 entire books of Gray Wing longing for the smell of his brother's armpit, yearning for the feeling of his fur against his in the first book (ACTUALLY HAPPENS), weeping and crying that his Dear Brother might have done a bad thing, and then someone on twixxer will be like "That's normal sibling behavior"

Like.......... lads. I do not think that is normal sibling behavior actually. I've seen an uptick in people saying ''yes it's understandable he doesn't want to think his brother's a baddie," and not always to downplay, either, like they're just trying to acknowledge the other side of the argument.

But like, can we be honest?

Is the DEGREE to which Gray Wing goes to play defense for him ACTUALLY understandable sibling behavior? Because I do not think it is, actually.

I would be more charitable to this character if people were acknowledging that it's NOT normal, and that it can't just be coincidence that every single character that Clear is close to ends up with very similar defensive behaviors. Storm, Thunder, Petal, Gray Wing, Star Flower... almost as if they were all abused by the same incredibly dangerous and toxic person.

[molagboop]

Noise game.

[disniq]

The thing is, I actually think it's a super interesting angle to look at the intersection of trauma and mental illness and vigilantism and coping mechanisms with Jason's character.

But, for me, if you want to seriously ask at what point does Jason need therapy more than he needs the vigilante lifestyle it's not Red Hood Jason you should be looking at. Red Hood Jason was literally murdered and the mysteriously resurrected. That's not something you can therapy your way out of! That's something that no amount of talking will ever help you understand, because it's a completely incomprehensible event!

No, if anyone needs therapy it's 12 year old Jason.

It's 12 year old Jason, who has poverty trauma and homelessness trauma and prison system trauma and parentification trauma and drug related trauma and, depending on your reading, potentially sexual trauma.

It's 12 year old Jason, who is taken in by Bruce - a man who is *also* severely traumatised (in extremely different ways) and chooses to dress up as a Bat and punch people about it instead of seeking healthy coping strategies.

It's 12 year old Jason, who Bruce decides - without psychiatric training or so much as a second opinion - needs the same outlet that "helped" Bruce and "helped" Dick.

And by the time aditf rolls around, Bruce is maybe just realising that he's made a mistake. But it's too late, because for two years he's told this child - a child who arguably feels indebted to him, a child who is extremely isolated and had very few if any other trusted adults to talk to - that violence and avoidance is how you deal with emotions.

I think that's fascinating to think about!

That Bruce's own failure to process his trauma left him blind to what Jason might actually have benefited from! That if Bruce had noticed Jason struggling earlier, if he'd reacted differently or explained himself better in aditf, Jason might not have felt the need to travel around the world alone looking for a woman he'd never met and only just learned about!

That if *Bruce* had been healthier, had been to therapy instead of throwing all his energy into vigilantism, none of this might have happened!

Reframe Red Hood Jason as a tragedy of Bruce's own making, not because of the classist bullshit that Jason was always going to end up a criminal and Bruce failed to stop that, but because Bruce's terrible coping mechanisms became *Jason's* terrible coping mechanisms and nobody likes to see the worst parts of themselves in the mirror.

[shinobicyrus]

Liberals aren't freaking out because Biden had one bad debate performance. They're freaking out because the writing has been on the wall for years and meaningful discussion & concerns have been staved off by an aggressive enforcement of the party line by Democratic leadership, public assurances from White House officials, and glowing anecdotes from media allies about a "sharp" President Biden who exists behind closed doors, just trust us. If you tried to voice valid concerns about Biden's age, criticized his policies, or his stubborn support of Israel despite its egregious and endless war crimes, you were accused of "handing" the election to Trump.

But after the country watched that 90 minute travesty (or talked to people who did, or watched clips of it online), those years of suppressed and buried concerns have burst free all at once like a broken damn, because they were never properly addressed.

Now, there's calls for him to resign his candidacy. There's talk of an open convention. There's murmurs that maybe the reason why party officials agreed to such an early debate was so if it went disastrously bad (as they might have suspected, knowing the truth), they might have time to change course.

In less than 90 minutes, Joe Biden single-handedly flipped the status quo from "libs so terrified of Trump that they'd vote for Biden no matter what" to "libs so terrified of Trump they can't afford to support Biden."

Good.

[screamingwiththewolves]

I generally don't make posts like this, cause I don't wanna start an argument or disagreement, but I do find the "Is Hyde really a person?" discourse, a bit odd...I know it's a comic, and maybe I'll be proved horribly incorrect but...

Does he have emotions, with personality traits and preferences? Yes.

Does he insist he's a person? Yes.

Then he is, in fact, a person.

[antigonesghosts]

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[warning-heckboop]

Some more brainstorming on the Gifted au (feedback is appreciated!)

It's established that Dev was gifted with the purpose of making up for Dale's lost childhood as a result of his never getting a fairy. As pretty much a carbon copy of Dale with a little added magic, Dev's childhood could be viewed as an exact do-over of Dale's in that sense. It's logical on paper, at least, and that's all that really matters to the Fairy Council in this case.

It would stand to reason, then, that Dev should be promised a good childhood of his own, in which another fairy being assigned to him as a god parent should also be guaranteed if deemed necessary. After all, if Dev ended up also having a miserable childhood that the Fairy Council could have easily prevented through a fairy god parent, they'd only be recreating almost the exact same scenerio that Dale went through that got them in this mess to begin with, and then what would even be the point?

So I think the Fairy Council would have had to have been aware of the fact Dev got a fairy despite being a changeling himself, and perhaps even made sure that was the case to ensure Dev--and by technicality, Dale's--happiness. But then Dev ends up fairy-less and miserable anyway. Not because he was never assigned a fairy, but because things just didn't work out with the fairy he got.

But when such a failure occurs, it's hardly every the people in charge who take the responsibility for the results. The gift the Fairy Council gave to Dale was an ultimate failure for its intended purpose, but why should they take the blame for that? Clearly it was Peri's fault that this all went wrong. Clearly his incompetence as a god parent was the issue here, nothing else.

So now, everything that's going wrong in the aftermath? That's all on Peri, too. According to the Fairy Councul, this is all his fault, and that makes fixing it his sole responsibility.

[psychomusic]

so. I've been reading some posts on the jedi order tag AND i won't talk about my opinion on "are jedi good or bad discourse" BUT i wanna point out some lore to everyone who's complaining about the jedi taking kids into their order: (in the EU) it wasn't always like this.

if you take swtor era (more than 3000 years before the prequels) there were many jedi who joined at an older age. like, for example there was a guy who broke his engagement to become one. most jedi remember their families because they were old enough when they decided to go.

THEN in darth bane's book trilogy (circa 1000 yesrs before the prequels) there is a passage where two sith lords are talking about taking bane, already an adult, to study at korriban. one doubted him because he was too old, ans the other told him he sounded like a jedi, and that ONE DAY jedi will have to accept only kids into their ranks if they really want to find "pure" people that can learn their lessons quicker.

one day!! so it wasn't always like that!! the ongoing wars with the sith, who corrupted and killed many of them, had pressured them into taking always younger people into their ranks.

also, consider a thing that this video explains super well: training to become a jedi is not like exercising, because there is a transformative lesson at the end of the training that changes everything. you can't just do as much as you can, but not finish.

the transformative lesson, as the video explains, is that through the force, everything is the same - from rocks and ships to life and death. at the end of the training you have to understand this fundamental truth.

yoda says "you have to unlearn what you have learned". during times where they were constantly killed off or corrupted by the dark side (and if you haven't learned this lesson you are more susceptible to this corrupting), younger people were taken in to actually finish their training (a training that was ultimately about being a good person AND that you could leave at any point if you weren't sold on that, too)

(remember that for the sith failure = death. like. that was the alternative for force sensitive kids. it's not like sith had any moral problem with taking kids away without consent. sith don't have moral problems: they believe that them being stronger in the force means they can do whatever they want as long as their strong enough to go and do it. there are MANY passages in many different star wars stories, even in different mediums, that say this out loud)

AND (this is more of a critical thought than just stating the lore) the fact that they started doing it out of necessity doesn't mean it's 100% good BUT you know. the whole set up of the prequels is that we're starting off the story in a period of crisis and decadence all around. most of the systems of the times were about to fall. OF COURSE they had problems. if they didn't, we wouldn't have the story to begin with.

that doesn't automatically mean jedi = bad and sith are better, tho. you wouldn't take the last, chaotic and decadent period to jugde something, would you? it's like deciding that the athenian democracy sucked because people at the times of Demosthenes failed at recognizing the new schemes in which the world was evolving into, and still believed that their city would be important as it had been in the previous century. They just didn't fucking expect the Macedons would conquer half the world known and more, and have the subsequent political power. Still, their experiences in the 5th century with democracy were very good, even better than ours on many fronts, if you contextualize a little. the jedi had flaws, and most importantly, they didn't fucking know the future and everything that ever happened, ever, so they made mistakes. that doesn't automatically make the system ill, or bad, or not-working. systems can have setbacks when the world changes. (just like athenian democracy had one when they lost the empire that was funding the democracy. they even had a tyranny for a while and then fixed the problems. that doesn't diminish retrospectively their democracy)

[alicepao13]

Israel sending an objectively good song and paying so much attention to the visual appearance means one thing: they want to win. Maybe the objective should be changed from "boycott Eurovision" to "make sure Israel doesn't win by voting for other countries".

[cuntvonkrolock]

if you mock children's theatre i hate you 🫶

[neurotypical-sonic]

if nine and tails ever met. nine would be so angry and full of rage and bitterness and he'd see tails and see a soft naive little kid. maybe he snaps and starts a fight, or something else happens that starts a fight, but nine sees tails fighting, and he sees how efficient and ruthless and passionate he is. and he has to stop and he feels sick and shakey as he is forced to re-evaluate so many things that he whole heartedly believed in as truth. words are hard I'll explain properly when I can ben bothered, I have such a vivid and specific image in my head of this