#and i just don't see a lot of answers coming before Real Endgame which is not a huge span of time

[x-for-a-y]

gaster's like oh i'm a god i get to decide when you die and i simply have to wonder how much of this is him bluffing/boasting & how much is an actual departure in-lore from the mechanics of the tournament. does he Really decide on a whim when adam gets to die, is he Really the god? or is he aware of the Actual greater power over the tourney's events: the voting process? adam knows about it being a tournament, so a meta-fuckery guy like gaster would be able to, i think, be aware of it a little further. and him being at its whims like that does explain why adam survived at first & hamood was killed, straightforwardly in a somewhat unintriguing way. or are we actually here to take that the events of doatk's story are pretend self-contained, the tournament in-universe is just a facade, and everything is both more & less structured than it looks? the whole alternate universe viewings were already a bit of a look at that. but then weren't dubduo on the verge of figuring out the structure of winning matches vs being eliminated? if adam's losses are always rigged by gaster himself, why have him participate tournament-wise himself, assuming that there isn't a roommate in the first two matches or that adam doesn't escape gonering every time? if adam's weak compared to gaster & gaster is a god over the realm, what's gained from letting him stick around, the results mishap, all that? sure can't wait to see where this goes

[hard-times-paramore]

Please tell us about your new blorbo!

Thank you so much for asking! Today's Blorbo is Kang Yo-Han from the Korean tv show The Devil Judge!

Favorite thing about them: this is a hard question not to answer everything, but. I think my favorite thing about him is how he doesn't mind - and almost enjoys - being backed into a corner. He always has a plan, and not in the boring "ah yes all according to keikaku, I planned for this from the beginning" kind of way. He plans on the go and still comes out on top. It takes real smarts to do that, and I'm impressed every damn time.

Least favorite thing about them: I don't actually dislike this trait of his, because it's a well-written character flaw and it gets addressed on the show. But, Yohan, stop self-sabotaging! He believes his revenge must come before everything and anyone, and for that he ends up pushing his loved ones away and not allowing himself to form bonds! Stop ruining your friendships and the principles you achieved challenge!

Favorite line: "If the devil really existed in the world, it would be the self-pity of the powerful." I'm a Yohan apologist actually.

brOTP: him and his niece Elijah. They have a bitchy relationship and they really do love each other.

OTP: who else? Him and Kim Gaon. They're written into the queercoding of the show with the clear intention of being endgame to each other, at least that's what I think.

nOTP: him and Jung Seon-A. Not that I'm against shipping two evil bisexuals. They're just so insufferable together it gives me a tummy ache.

Random headcanon: Yohan does feel the taste of food, or else he wouldn't hate the Nanny's food. He just doesn't allow himself to enjoy flavor, because his trauma tells him he doesn't deserve good things, or any things. Until Gaon cooked for him, with love, and he realized maybe he deserves good things. A friend of mine helped with this headcanon.

Unpopular opinion: HE'S NOT CRINGE! Stop calling him a loser just because he is one!! 😔 :( ok for real now. His edgy lines are because he hardens his exterior and tries to sound so cool, which then contrast a lot to his awkward domestic moments and made him look like a loser. But those moments to me are of someone just learning to be human and to be loved. I can't see him as cringe after all that.

Song I associate with them: Brianstorm by Arctic Monkeys.

I doubt it's your style Not to get what you set out to acquire The eyes are on fire You are the unforecasted storm

Favorite picture of them: he looks so in his element during the trials, he might as well be a vengeful god.

Thank you for the ask! Thank you for the opportunity to infodump about my blorbo!

[neonscandal]

Thanks for your posts and metas, @neonscandal .... Before I found your blog, actually I ship tododeku and kiribaku. But thanks to you, I became bakudeku shipper (until now). Your metas are amazing and always based on canon. Sorry, I'm not good with words, but I hope you know how great your blog is (you are definitely one of my favorite tumblr blog). 💐🌷

And WOW these last 10 - 15 chapter, really are the best. Even my mutuals who are anti-bkdk can't deny Bakugou and Midoriya's bond anymore. Also, love Uraraka and Toga's bond....

Do you think it's possible that at the end of BNHA, Bakugou and Midoriya have ambygous relationship (kinda like Tiger and Bunny)....? I know it could be hard to be canon in shounen series.....

P.s Do you think SatoSugu (from JJK) is queerbaiting?

⚠️ Vague spoiler warnings through chapter MHA 410 at best. Covers JJK S2 with a vague mention of a character who pops up later in the manga.

It's funny you say that because I also love a good tododeku or kiribaku situation. Like yea, people have their OTP but... realistically? Characters should be just as messy as people in real life. ✨ They're going to date around before things fit together with that OTP, right? At least that's how I look at it. So I love exploring offshoots.

You are far too kind in these rough times but I appreciate you saying that (and reaching out). The swarm of asks lately have been so funny. I tend to carve out time to address them quicker than some of the other things bouncing around my head (literally, the exact opposite happens with fic updates 🥺) so I'm just happy I'm writing something. If someone else enjoys it then that's the whipped cream and caramel on my sundae.

DUDE. I hadn't read 409 or 410 yet because holiday chaos but I feel like we're beyond allegations at this point haha ALTHOUGH, I didn't see the cliffhanger from 410 coming at all so I wonder what that means for the larger story.. Got any theories?

Regarding endgame... honestly the last two chapters gave me a little anxiety. "This is our tale?" Too good to be true. Especially when we know from chapter one "this is a story of how I became a great hero". Also, I've had some thoughts since 406 about how their connection is being framed up which I haven't had time to write but it feels like a lot of fanservice for Horikoshi (and subsequent editors, etc) to not commit. Additionally, in all the ways this story subverts the typical formula for shonen, it would also feel like a fumbled opportunity to turn everything on its nose with such a wildly popular series. So I'm holding out hope but conservatively preparing for one of them to just... not make it even if we get a confession *shudders in Supernatural flashbacks*.

I hope this makes sense as I struggled to recommend stories where this wasn't the case when asked about BL. In my opinion, good representation in mainstream stories (gender identity, orientation, race, religion, disability, etc.) is when, whatever makes a character different isn't their whole identity. Specifically in the context of more traditional stories (not centered on BL for instance), they should be involved if not just as integral to the plot as any other character wherein their diversity isn't sticking out like a sore thumb. But even that characterization requires nuance which is what makes it so hard to articulate? Maybe it's simpler to say that their character arc shouldn't just be based around identity. As a short answer to your question, I don't think that SatoSugu is queerbaiting. I think they are authentically and intrinsically coded to one another in subtext and out loud straight from Akutami but that, sometimes, relationships don't work out or love is unrequited. They may not have had the same feelings despite their inherent complement to one another and that's okay.

As above, characters should be just as messy as real people and that's what makes what didn't happen between them all the more tragic because it's heartbreaking in how relatable it is (not the cult leading and murder though). Seems like a convenient answer from a delulu shipper unless you take into consideration how Kirara Hoshi's identity is given the same level of subtlety. They aren't defined by their identity nor are the characters jarred by some particularly grandiose reveal nor are they perturbed by the nature of their connection to Hikari. I'm by no means an expert but I think that these characters are executed well in the sense that they have a complexity that doesn't hinge on what would otherwise make them different. They aren't "othered", it's just a fact of who they are and the story continues. It's a facet of who they are without cheaply being all they are. With Gege Akutami's own pronouns not expressly confirmed, perhaps that informs the care around those with differing identities.

I haven't seen Tiger & Bunny yet but now I know what to check out next!

[onemustalwaysbecarefulofbooks]

HOFAS/MAASVERSE THEORY: This is not the story SJM planned to tell us

Listen, if you are feeling let down by the overall lack of an ACOTAR crossover in HOFAS, your feelings are entirely valid and don't let anyone tell you otherwise. And I'm saying this as someone who largely finds the Inner Circle insufferable and has the opinion of the less we see Rhysand, the better. But for real. . .point blank, this book was absolutely 100% marketed and hyped as a "crossover" which, in reality, ended up being sort of a stretch. And I believe, that at one point, it truly WAS all it was hyped up to be.

Raise your hand if you felt like HOFAS felt weird, disjointed, and unsatisfying at a lot of points.

Everyone, right? I don't think I've encountered a single person who can say they never experienced this at any point, even if they loved the book overall.

I'm sure some of you have probably heard by this point that there is a whole first draft of HOFAS out there that was apparently scrapped and rewritten entirely by SJM: SOURCE.

This draft teases a LOT of things that had people salivating, none of which actually showed up in the book we read. Examples:

HOFAS being "split between Bryce in the world of ACOTAR and the characters in Midgard".

Bryce being worried and freaked out over whether Prythian had toilet paper and receiving an answer

Nyx being featured in the story and the IC being extremely protective over him

Receiving an explanation on Rhys seeing Aelin during Starfall

SJM positively gushes over this stuff as she talks about it in interviews. You can literally see the light in her eyes and how excited she is as she discusses it. She compares it to Avengers Endgame and talks about how excited she and others were to see all the good guys come together for something epic and says this reminds her of that. However, there's a caveat. She consistently repeats things like "as of right now" or "in this first draft" or "we'll see what my editor says". Check out this live chat here.

And the next thing we know, she is claiming she turned in her first draft and felt "meh" about it, didn't like where the story went, and re-wrote the entire thing. Ladies and gentlemen, I call bullshit.

Bottom line: I truly believe, and would honestly bet a significant amount of money on, that this first draft was truly the story of SJM's heart and was brought to a screeching halt by her publishing company, who felt they could milk this hype and get more books out of it.

Essentially, if you were expecting ACOTAR 6, sorry can't help you, that was NEVER happening, BUT if you were expecting MORE than what we got, you are entirely within your rights to feel disappointed! That's why things felt weird and disjointed. . .because it was not the story she intended to tell organically and she had to make some pretty significant changes on a short notice.

The silver lining, I suppose, is the fact that I don't think her publishers talked her out of this happening in general. I think they just convinced her to drag it out longer. . .to delay it, essentially. Like I said, get more books in before finally making it happen. Because once that happens, how do you reach a higher peak? What could she make happen after that point that is more exciting than a huge epic crossover? I think that unfortunately, the Asteri were kind of wasted villains, as I don't know what other force of evil could bring all of these characters together realistically. But I do believe it's going to happen.

So yeah, you'll never be able to convince me there's not some version of HOFAS out there that only exists in Sarah's mind at this point, where the ACOTAR characters (and honestly, Aelin and the ToG characters) are much more central characters to the overall story. I'm convinced she wrote this epic story, went to her editors, and was told "Hey, the hype around this is so insane, we COULD do it now, OR we could develop the characters even further and do it LATER" (meaning more $$$$$$ for them). SJM is the QUEEN of changing her mind mid-series but to me, this really reeks of corporate greed and milking the hype. I'm trying to trust the process and tell myself that it's all coming eventually.

So stop shitting on people who complain about the lack of a crossover. We were teased with one and you know damn well SJM wrote one! I'm convinced it was teased and hyped this way because that's the way she originally wrote it and then when publishing convinced things to change the way they wanted them to. . .why tell us? If the already existing hype gets us to buy their book, it's a win for them.

I guess only time will tell!

[yueyehua]

Shipper tag game

tagged by @sunriseverse (thank you for tagging! <3)

What ship were you completely obsessed with when you were a teenager, but now you don't care about anymore?

uhh probably sakura/syaoran from cardcaptor sakura? very original i know i continue to be Very Basic. to be fair i was 13 and i’d just discovered what fanfic was so there’s that. now it’s more of a nostalgia thing? they’re cute but yeah not much else

Which ship would you consider your first one?

probably sakura/syaoran or link/zelda from the legend of zelda, again very basic but technically i discovered fandom through zelda forums so

Your first fanfic was about which couple?

still sakura/syaoran, and yes it was terrible because i was still like 13

Do you remember the first couple you saw fanart of?

i honestly have no idea but i’m going to assume it was probably link/zelda just because of the forums (i keep repeating the same two ships over and over rip)

Have you ever gotten into ship discourse?

no. not in a public setting anyway. i tend to keep to the ships i like and steer clear of the ones i don’t, and if for some reason i come across one i don’t like enough times that it starts to annoy me i’ll bitch about it in private because i’m a big believer that occasional bitching with your friend group is healthy, or at the very least while not tagging it/censoring it so it’s not going to end up somewhere the people who do ship it can see it

Did you use to have any NOTP or have one currently?

i don’t think i ever had genuine notps before dmbj really, at most 99% of the time it’s not really what i’d qualify as a notp, more just ships i don’t really care for? but i don’t have any strong feelings about them either way. dmbj fandom is particular for me in the sense certain spaces and people have pushed certain ships onto me enough directly or indirectly i just immediately get annoyed whenever those ships pop up so i avoid them like the plague now. i’m not going to say what they are (even if if you know me you probably have an idea) but they do exist

Who were the couple in the last fanfic you read?

pingxie from dmbj the brainrot is very real 😂 though for lack of food i mostly read chinese language fics these days (reminds me i should also make myself some more food one of these days too)

Currently, do you have any OTPs?

absolutely no one is shocked it is once again pingxie my beloveds who’ve had me in a chokehold for the past two years now atp i am literally here forever help

Is there any couple that, to this day, you are extremely mad about not getting together?

uhhh you know what i was going to say not really but actually. and it’s weird i have such strong feelings about this since i never hardcore shipped them anyway but ichigo/rukia from bleach i just refuse to perceive that is not the endgame

Is there any ship you used to dislike but now you think they are kind of interesting?

not really? if anything the closest i can think of is zhongchi/tartali from genshin that i initially didn’t really understand the appeal of but i got curious and ended up liking it. i’ve drifted away from it now because i don’t really enjoy the genshin fandom in general, and i don’t agree with a lot of the takes on them but that happened i guess

Do you have any ship that, in the past, would've been considered normal but now you would be cancelled over?

honestly i can’t really think of anything besides hopelight from ffxiii? and i guess kaeluc from genshin but i also don’t super actively ship those it’s more of a casual thing. oh wait i thought of this coming back but i kinda vaguely like ardyn/noctis from ffxv also casually but that is definitely cancellable over material oops

What is your favorite crack ship?

i don’t do crack ships really because i’m Very Basic and have zero imagination so i need substance to connect dots 😂

What is the couple you read the most fanfics about?

i can’t tell if this is past or present tense so i’ll just answer both. if it’s purely the amount over time it’s probably a toss up between destiel from spn and soukoku from bsd. if it’s currently what do i read about it’s pingxie

What do most of your ships usually have in common?

this is such a loaded question, weirdly a lot of them start off with differing degrees of antagonistic or challenging/playful relationship going on (on the surface anyway) and it progresses from there, and the care is both intense but not so easily expressed. there are clearly exceptions to this exhibit a: pingxie but those tend to pop up more for some reason. this is not discourse by any means but for example it’s why i preferred klance over sheith and that’s all i’ll say about voltron because that’s a can of worms i refuse to open ever again. what i’m saying is sometimes i wonder why i’m not a heihua person because on paper that’s what i should be and yet here i am with the old married couple 500k slowburn of a ship instead 😂

What you absolutely hate in a ship?

i wasn’t sure about what to put here but @sunriseverse is right, anything that fundamentally changes either of the characters for the sake of the ship or a trope. fanfic by nature is ooc to a degree anyway, but there’s a difference for me between when people make the effort to understand the characters and how they work/would work together, and when they either reduce them to two-dimensional cardboard cutouts for the sake of smashing them together, or make them out to be something they’re not. even more so when it then becomes the Universally Accepted Fanon Characterization

tagging @shaish, @tatchling, @tiesanjiaoshenanigans, @kelly42fox, @thatlittlemouse and uhhh honestly anyone else who wants to do it

[esther-dot]

Half Jonsa here! Thank you Esther for your lovely reply! I hope to follow your blog until TWOW comes out too.

Well, I won't take up too much of your time, but to elaborate on my position, I would say it's overall because I take much more of a Dune influence in reading ASOIAF's themes and character work. Much of the story feels like a response to Dune almost more than LOTR beyond aesthetics-- I would almost moreso say that GRRM's criticism of kingship is more rooted in Paul and Leto II's stories than anything to do with Aragorn. This is just to give you a bit more of a picture of my approach, rather than get into the nitty gritty. I also saw another anon on someone else's blog point out Paul's parallels with Dany (where, topical to the colonising of her story, is very much in line with Paul's manipulation of the Fremen-- so I think this is likely to be critical, just maybe not in the usual fashion of modern postcolonial readings) but I feel that Paul's journey parallels many, many of the cast in different ways. You can pretty much see Catelyn-Robb as a direct response to Jessica-Paul. (Again, on the Dany-Paul Dothraki-Fremen note, I do think GRRM is less successful at giving complexity to the Dothraki, but nevertheless I do think we are meant to view it through a critical lens of personality cult-- this is what I mean about it not being postcolonial, but using colonial and conqueror aesthetics for an investigation of power and personality).

I said I was going to not take up too much of your time... to put it short, I have a much darker reading of the series-- not grimdark, pain for the sake of pain, but I do think there is a real meditation on the meaning of hope in the presence of cynical reality (which is a reality I'm not so sure is realistic, but it's there). I don't totally agree with GRRM's storytelling ethos and I find the series more interesting to talk about because of peoples' response to it as opposed to an actual discrete storytelling unit.

When it comes to Jonsa itself-- there are plenty of writings on its Romantic influence (cappymightwrite, you're a star), and without TWOW it's hard to say, but I think that its potential for a torturous Gothic romance which doesn't end in marriage is too high on the books for me. I'm particularly thinking of Paul's inability to marry for love-- his political marriage with Irulan is what gives him the universe on a platter. I know, I know, it's not fair to Sansa and I hate it, and it's not fair to Jon either, but I don't think that's the story he's telling. I don't think it is fundamentally about fairness, but that sometimes there are poetic answers to fairness, and maybe some justification which comes after the fact in songs and stories. I really don't want to write a treatise in your inbox, but when I say 'half a Jonsa' really I am trying to describe I don't think it's endgame, and that a lot of the theories/ethos which goes along with it are not what I entirely agree with.

Which is to say that yes, I do think Bran as God Emperor like Leto II (despite magic being 'evil', or potentially amoral, in my books) is a real possibility. It happened in the show, sure, but they didn't fully investigate the ramifications (and the specific commentary GRRM has on kingship--- specifically feudalism-- and what it means to make it 'work' with the tools of the fantasy genre). I think powderpowderblue might recognise my message because I've sent one before about Bran separately (sorry powder). I think there is a deeper contrast between Dany's magic and Bran's magic--- what sort of power gives you the capacity to rule, and how that compromises your humanity, or equally doesn't-- with Bran's own response to Dany's nukes. Bran and Dany have the potential to be even bigger foils than Jon and Dany, honestly.

You're totally right that there's a lot of room for different people in the Jonsa fandom, and I would say that by in large Jonsas are the most interesting (I say this with some impartiality, just because ASOIAF is not my main obsession) because they entertain the most different perspectives, even when they become committed to certain theories here and there. I think where I personally feel a bit reserved about it is because I think ASOIAF is less grim than Redditors think it is (and they miss the mark thematically) but I think it's much more grim than Tumblr by in large thinks it is (which is where I think the 'dark' love story of Rhaegar/Lyanna really shows. It absolutely is not a simple matter. That the great love story of the series is tragic and motivated by self-absorbed and egotistical prophecy, and involves just a wolf girl dealt the fallout? That says something really major about the storytelling's beliefs. I also don't think that Jonsa can be a straightforward poetic redemption of this). I'm just speaking generally; I'm even including non-Jonsas here. As a demonstration, I don't think Brienne is the complete thesis statement-- I think she is a suggestive antithesis, but not ultimate synthesis. I see her 'No chance and no choice' quote used as justification for ASOIAF's ultimate resolution (that heroism will be outright rewarded even when it's costly), but I disagree. I think there's a reason it happens in AFFC and not the later books (and more specifically, that she has been tied to Jaime-- not for mere chaste/courtly romance (this is also why I don't think it will be consummated), not to disillusion her, but to create a more complicated thematic synthesis).

This really got too long. Please feel free to not reply in longform or not reply at all... very therapeutic for me though hahahahahha!!!!! <3 <3 <3

P.S. Don't worry I love Sansa and Jon, separately and together. Part of the argument for Jonsa, I feel, is that they're such strong, Romantic characters separately who can bring out the most interesting personality from each other-- to recontextualise their previous characterisation. Imo the literary incentive here is really clear.

Don't be scared! I always encourage people to offer their opinions even if they’re unpopular.

@cappymightwrite is wonderful! I love her Jon as a Byronic hero metas, and I've really enjoyed @powderpowderblue's thoughts too! It's hard to resist the urge to be reactionary / go to extremes because of the incentives in fandom to do so, but I really appreciate the nuanced takes.

I did not read Dune, but years ago I read Hebert's essay on writing it, Dune Genesis , and I remember feeling a lot of dread because I was definitely getting some ASOIAF-y vibes from his ideas.

I agree with this, "there is a real meditation on the meaning of hope in the presence of cynical reality" and I think that is why Sansa stands out so much to me. The contrast of her beliefs with the world that wants to crush them. Even at her most cynical, she still is herself, kind, compassionate, she's such a joy.

I completely agree about Dany and Bran being foils! I've either answered or lost in my drafts something about that. I kinda think Dany works as a foil to each of the Starks in a different way.

"I think it's much more grim than Tumblr by in large thinks it is" I think I agree here. I would have gone more with...steeped in a deep sadness. Its only natural to be drawn to conflict as a writer, that's what drives action/plot, but Martin is particularly drawn to it imo. The pain and grief he writes into our POVs...it's all very moving, makes the happy moments that much brighter, but I definitely get the impression that's what he's drawn to. That doesn't at all mean there aren't good endings in store for some of our favs, but I don't think he'll make anything easy.

"That the great love story of the series is tragic and motivated by self-absorbed and egotistical prophecy, and involves just a wolf girl dealt the fallout? That says something really major about the storytelling's beliefs. I also don't think that Jonsa can be a straightforward poetic redemption of this" -- So, this is what I've been going around in circles on. Each time I answer an ask about Rhaegar I get a handful more because we all hate him but we all disagree on what Martin is doing with him. I think how Martin wrote Cat and Ned, one of the few healthy romantic relationships we get, indicates the extent of his interest in conflict/pain, so it seems inevitable that every relationship --Jonsa too-- would have that. I do think we're due for a romance that is more reward than pain which makes me hope though.

There's so much about a Targ/Stark Jonsa kinda has to be part of that convo, and I've heard people suggest that Sansa, unlike her younger self and unlike Lyanna, may fall in love with Jon but this time she will resist it which is why she will escape tragedy in the end. I don't buy that, but there are multiple ways Jonsa could evolve the convo, so I certainly don't dismiss your view. I personally am not into tragic love stories, but once Martin gave an interview and said he was, so I take that into consideration.

Brienne is the complete thesis statement-- I think she is a suggestive antithesis, but not ultimate synthesis. I see her 'No chance and no choice' quote used as justification for ASOIAF's ultimate resolution (that heroism will be outright rewarded even when it's costly), but I disagree. I think there's a reason it happens in AFFC and not the later books (and more specifically, that she has been tied to Jaime-- not for mere chaste/courtly romance (this is also why I don't think it will be consummated), not to disillusion her, but to create a more complicated thematic synthesis --I'm gonna have to sit with this.

Part of the argument for Jonsa, I feel, is that they're such strong, Romantic characters separately who can bring out the most interesting personality from each other-- to recontextualise their previous characterisation. --Love that!

Thank you for taking the time to write all that, and I'm glad you found it therapeutic. Feel free to share more of your thoughts anytime! 💗

[astromechs]

Don't get me wrong I know people can do whatever, but there's something about the framing of people being so quick to ship peter with nebula coming on the heels of Gamora being murdered and how important her relationship with Nebula is that's sad to me. Endgame highlighted that if nothing else getting their relationship back meant something to them. Vol 3 also has Peter and Gamora reconnecting and Peter grieving and figuring things out while Gamora and Nebula have clearly been keeping some communication. It's obvious that for Gamora her two most important relationships are with Nebula and Peter.

Also, I've seen a few people really pushing the idea of Gamora not needing love or not deserving/needing to be a guardian. The idea she's better off single anyway since she's stronger all alone has come up too. People can have their preferences but those types of talking points are so consistently prevalent when women of color are involved both in real and fictional life that it's gross. Especially the don't need love part. Being loved and cared for is something everyone deserves. After Endgame came out I saw some fans suggesting that Gamora could just be replaced by certain white male characters or Nebula as if she's was easily exchangeable and I think there are times it's like fandom is just chomping at the bit waiting to brush characters of color off or for suitable white characters to pair Peter or any other white dude with no matter what.

Sorry I digressed there a bit. I've had to walk away from fandoms before because of how awful the treatment of characters became and the rise of thinly veiled racism or sexism because it wasn't worth being slapped in the face by that constantly when trying to relax and enjoy escapism. I'm hoping gotg won't become that bad but I'm seeing the edges of it.

i wish i could say something encouraging about the last part of your ask, but unfortunately gotg, like every other marvel fandom and every other fandom in general, has its fair bit of racism and sexism embedded within it. i'm also a star wars fan in addition to a marvel fan, and you might ask me... how do you stay sane being in both of those fandoms? the answer is i've had to take breaks from each one respectively for a bit, yeah, but also i curate my experience so that i'm predominantly NOT seeing the racist/sexist stuff on my feed. it's done a lot to help my experience in fandom!

but yeah, the readiness with which people seemed to jump on board with shipping peter and nebula really bothered me for a lot of those reasons that you said. it's sort of discounting both of their relationships with her, when those two individual relationships are so important to the overall narrative and also every character involved? it's weird.

i too am really tired of "strong independent woman don't need love" bullshit, because there is sooooo much stuff it is thinly veiling underneath, and i've seen this go on here too and i'm like. nah. i promise that gamora can be a strong female character and find all sorts of forms of love. love doesn't make you weak. fandom stop being weird challenge.

[matan4il]

I don't even want to type the name Lucy all summer lol. I'm just not worried about her and the main reason I'm not is they blew up both Buck and Eddie's relationships. There was absolutely no reason to do that IMHO. Realistically the general audience didn't hate Taylor. She was at least given more layers then Anna and having a side character reporter actually could have come in handy. If you only left Eddie single then I would be more worried about that since Lucy is a lot like Buck, meaning the opposite of Anna.

Also the kiss reinforced the unhealthy ways Buck used sex in the past. I just don't see how it's a healthy start to any relationship between her or Buck and Eddie.

But again just to bring home the fact--- they set up Taylor for four seasons and Anna for 3 seasons and left them both still single in the end. As a writer why do that to yourself. Your in S6, no promise for 7 or more. They either plan to leave them perpetually single best guy pals, or their storyline is together. I think either way it's always gonna be their storyline together.

You can't bring another partner male or female that can compete with the others place in their life and they won't gain audience approval. It was cringy enough watching Anna take up space with the Diaz boys. Please don't do that to me again.

Hi Nonnie! Oh, I’m with you. Honestly, I think they figuratively blew up any future relationship either Buck or Eddie could have on the show, no matter with what kind of a character (man, woman, recurring character or a more permanent fixture on the show) the second they made them so integral to each other’s life. I swear, after the end of 303 and the way Eddie and Buck basically gay married each other before God and Chris, bathing in that golden light, no one else could stand a chance. That they’ve made this r/s even deeper and more intense since, and that the show actually chose to also literally blow up both men’s romantic relationships (and in the same manner, more or less, and during the same season) is just proof 911 must know that Buddie is the only thing that makes sense as either man’s endgame at this point. Not to mention Christopher’s endgame! That boy deserves to have both his dads living with him, married and struggling to figure out how to keep their sex noises down.

Oh, def the kiss was unhealthy and there was no way that Buck and Lucy would have gotten together as an official, romantic couple immediately after it. In the long run, after enough time has passed? That I can’t rule out. I’m not saying the show will take it there! Just that it’s a possibility I’m not discounting. Also, we’re at the end of s5 and there’s no telling how long 911 will run for. Yes, there’s no real guarantee for a s7, but I can’t see it running for less than 9 seasons given how it’s still Fox’s strongest scripted drama. But even if the show goes ahead and tries Buck with Lucy, which I’m still not sure it will, even then, there’s no way they’re endgame.

I’m totally in agreement with you, personally I am READY for Buck and Eddie to get together, to have their ‘oh’ moment and see with new eyes what has always been staring them in the face. I think Tim’s plans are a bit more long term, so they won’t just yet, but I’m here and I know nothing else will satisfy the viewers.

I hope you have a wonderful day, lovely! xoxox

(I got an influx of asks, I WILL answer all of them, but it might take a sec. If anyone wants to check whether I've already answered theirs or to read my replies, here's my ask tag. Thank you! xoxox)

[mayhem-ensues]

So I finished Scarlet Blaze

I powered through the story in three days and can now look forward to enjoying the other two routes at a normal pace now that my Black Eagles obsession has been satiated.

There’s a lot to love about the story, but there’s also some really baffling decisions in there that drag things down a little bit. The story starts really strong and maintains that until just before the endgame and then things peter down from there instead of building to a satisfying climax. That being said I will admit that I was mostly just happy to have another full story featuring Edelgard and the rest of the Eagles and I’d say the amount of good content in here easily outweighs the bad content.

Anyway I've written some general, not too in-depth thoughts on the story beneath the spoiler tag and can answer questions if people have any.

To start with the things I really liked here I would say that there are three things I can think of that Three Hopes definitely did better than Three Houses and they’re all mostly related to the fact that Fodlan feels much more like a fully realized world in Three than it does in Houses.

The first big thing is that there are a lot more scenes that show what Dimitri and the Lions + Claude and the Deer are doing during the story and how they're reacting to what's going on. This does so much to make the story feel like it's actually taking place in a living world as opposed to Three Houses, where you get one or two scenes with the other characters and the rest of it is just Byleth + your chosen house steamrolling through the world with minimal challenge. One of my favourite parts about the story was actually seeing Dimitri, Felix and Sylvain reacting too and discussing the fact that we killed Ingrid and seeing how it affected them emotionally. That's the kind of thing that was really missing from every route in Three Houses.

The second is that the game does a much better job at showing the nuances of the political situation. So in Three Houses for example, you're just told in Crimson Flower that Count Gloucester is willing to bend the knee and you don't get any more information than that. In Scarlet Blaze you get several good scenes showing Gloucester talking the situation out with Lorenz, which is not only good character stuff, it's also good world building that makes the Alliance feel much more real than it did in Three Houses. You get similar scenes showing why different Kingdom nobles would side with or against Edelgard, and of course chapters dedicated to showing the situation inside the Empire with much greater nuance than in Three Houses.

The third is that the game is much better at allowing characters other than Byleth and the chosen Lord to be plot important. I was so delighted to see Ferdinand step into a much more major role in the story and even get his own cutscene during the chapter where his father stages a rebellion with the help of the Slithers. So I think all three of those factors come together to really help sell Fodlan as a setting more than Three Houses did. After this game I’d say Fodlan is easily the most in-depth, fully fleshed out settings that Fire Emblem has ever had. Only Tellius really comes close in my opinion.

The first of which is that Rhea was still really underutilized. After the demo came out, I said one of the big things I wanted from this route was for the game to have an actual dynamic between Rhea and Edelgard and sadly the game did not deliver on that front. After you take Garreg Mach, Rhea disappears from the story until it’s time for her to show up to be the final boss. Big disappointment there.

Speaking of characters who are underutilized, the lack of attention given to Byleth in this story is criminal. They are meant to have the whole rivalry thing going on with Shez but they barely show up in the story and when they do they aren’t handled particularly well. Like, the Enlightened One transformation just happens out of nowhere with zero explanation and the only follow up on it is a conversation between Sothis and Byleth wherein Sothis acts like a completely different person than she was in Three Houses. I will say though, that their support with Jeralt is really cute. Seriously one of my favorite support conversations in the game and that’s saying something cause this game has a lot of good supports.

Another thing I didn’t really care for was Shez as the main character. Thinking of them just as a character I like Shez well enough but they simply don’t work in the protagonist role. I might make a separate post on this entirely later because I have a lot of thoughts on this and I don’t want to balloon the length of this post too much.

Also the Arval plot is a massive disappointment that really hurts the pacing of the story, and doesn’t do a good job of explaining anything that is happening in it. 

And of course, the biggest problem with this game’s story is for some reason the exact same thing that was the biggest problem with Crimson Flower’s story. For some reason, for the 2nd game in a row they decided to end Edelgard’s route with major plot threads left unresolved and we don’t even get an epic cutscene to make up for it this time. Like at least with Crimson Flower we had the iconic Edeleth heartbeat cutscene, in Scarlet Blaze Rhea and Thales just fall off a bridge and that’s it. I’d imagine this is either they’re way of selling DLC or a clumsy effort to not invalidate the story in Three Houses.

So to sum up, the story is mostly enjoyable with a lot of messiness though. So exactly like Three Houses really.

[sarah-sandwich]

happy ffwf!!! share the one idea that you've always wanted to write but maybe haven't gotten to yet

Happy FFWF! One thing I wish was freaking done already is Lemon Boy but it's my own fault bc I keep prioritizing other fics over it. I always stall out when I feel like I'm approaching the beginning of the end, the time when I need to start gathering my strings and decide which ones to tie off and which ones to let dangle. That's pretty much where I'm at with this fic. I have a few lead-up scenes to write, but because I wrote a lot of it out of order the story feels like it's drawing to a close.

Anyway, about Lemon Boy...

It's endgame compliant womp womp sorry. It's mainly Harley's POV but every third chapter is Peter POV. These boys are struggling. It's been 2 years since they lost Tony and blipped back into a world that moved on without them. Harley doesn't know how to let go of everything he lost. All of his plans for the future hinged on Tony and now thanks to the blip, he's younger than Abbie. All the things he was supposed to do first to pave the way, she has already done, leaving him to feel lost and irrelevant.

Peter's just mad. Life takes and it takes and it doesn't care how hard you're trying or how good you're trying to be--it only knows how to take.

Oh yeah and they're roommates :) Harley is a depressed bastard and Peter is drowning but dammit if he's not going to die smiling so no one has to know how badly he's hurting.

“This sucks,” Peter complains for the umpteenth time. He swipes sweat-darkened hair out of his eyes and glares at his laptop. They’re on the back porch, feet and legs soaking in plastic totes filled with water as the sun sinks behind the back fence.

“So I’ve heard,” Harley drawls. To be honest, it ain’t so bad. He’s got plenty of cool, refreshing sweet tea and the icy hose water on his legs is sapping the heat out of him. The only thing he could want right now is better company.

“I’m cursed,” Peter moans. “This kind of thing always happens before my birthday. Last year it was a storm that knocked out the power for three days and the year before that—,”

“Your birthday’s coming up?”

Peter huffs at the interruption but says, “Yeah. Tuesday. It’s fine. Everyone’s going to want to take me out somewhere anyway.” He says it like a man on the gallows.

“Tell them you don’t want to. It’s your birthday.”

“No, it’s fine. I don’t want to disappoint anyone.”

Harley shoots him an incredulous look and repeats, “It’s your birthday. If they care about you then they’ll want to do something you’ll enjoy. Just tell them.”

“It’s not that easy, Harley,” Peter snaps.

“Why not? Because you’ve been Fakey McFakerson with them for so long they don't know what you like anymore?”

The laptop slaps shut and anticipation curdles low in Harley’s gut. He wants to crack him open and see how deep that anger runs. He wants to see it let loose. Who is Peter Parker really? What is inside him that he finds so ugly, so repugnant that he has to hide it even from his closest friends and family?

“I’m heading out,” Peter says, words clipped and exact. He steps out of his tote, sloshing water over the porch, and tucks his laptop under his arm.

“Sure," Harley says flatly. "Where do you always go anyway?” He doesn’t expect a real answer and he doesn’t get one, only an unamused stare. Poke, poke, poke. How many times can he poke the bear before it wakes up?

“I’ll see you later.” Peter walks to the sliding door, steps measured, pace even, the picture of control. He’s sliding the door closed when Harley speaks up.

“Hey.” The door pauses and Peter stares at him silently, waiting. “What do you want for your birthday? For real though, not whatever you told everyone else.”

Peter's eyes spark and his jaw clenches tight and for a moment Harley thinks, this is it, he finally won, but then Peter leans through the open doorway and says in that same measured voice, “Working AC.” The door shuts and Peter disappears into the house.

Harley leans back in his deck chair, a buzzing under his skin like he just ran a tight race but came in second. Working AC? Fine. Challenge accepted.

[bedlamsbard]

I would love to hear more of your thoughts about the aesthetic shift in the Asgardians between Thor 1 and TDW, because I have watched TDW approximately 987 times and that's something I never thought about before! (Also bless you for all the nice thoughts on TDW, it's truly one of my favorites even though there are some clumsy components. But also so much good! ❤️)

the aesthetic shift between the Asgard of Thor and the Asgard of The Dark World is the most hilarious thing to me. (Ragnarok Asgard follows TDW rather than do Yet Another Thing.)

so the Asgard of Thor is much more sci-fi than it is fantasy. look at that. it's basically all metal with occasional plants. it's got that floating, like, whatever off to the right. what is it? we don't know. it's floating! wild! and then once we get inside, we see...MORE METAL.

We've got that Viking-esque gripping beasts knotwork that's historically-based (it's essentially Oseberg style, Urnes style, a mash-up of a few different Norse(ish) styles) and that's something that's actually consistent between films. But the overall aesthetic of Asgard in Thor is sci-fi with the barest possible touch of fantasy. It's all metal. Aside from that gripping beast design and the occasional monumental statue, there's almost no decoration. It's either plain metal or it has that, I guess, inscribed design that we saw on the floors in the convocation room (throne room?) or in Odin's bedroom. Also it's really just a whole lot of gold.

Fast forward two years, real time, to The Dark World.

Here's Asgard. It's a different angle than the opening introduction to Asgard in Thor, but it's a lot more naturalistic, all of a sudden we have these mountains in the background; aside from the palace, we're seeing more stone.

Note that we still continue to see that same gripping beast design as decoration; however, now it's being done in stone, in wood; we no longer see the same kind of solid mass of metal and of gold that we see in Thor. There is not a single shared space on Asgard between Thor and TDW -- the only place that really keeps that former aesthetic to some extent is the Observatory, which obviously got destroyed in Thor, so it's not even the same building in-universe. This TDW aesthetic is the one that's carried through Ragnarok, into Endgame, and comes back again in Loki when we see Asgard there. It's a sci-fi aesthetic shift to a high fantasy aesthetic shift; this is what we see similarly in LotR, in The Hobbit films, in most of the high fantasy that has come out in the past twenty years: it is a very clear visual marker that this is fantasy, this is not sci-fi -- yeah, space fantasy in this case, but it's operating with fantasy tropes (which I've talked about before).

This is mirrored slightly in the costumes -- it's not as dramatic between Thor and TDW (or rather, Thor and The Avengers) as it is between Thor and Ragnarok, but there's still a distinct shift; you can see them backing off the amount of metal that the characters are wearing until you get to Heimdall and Thor and Loki's all-leather costumes in Ragnarok, and then again in Endgame -- if you look at the non-einherjar Asgardians who come to the battlefield, they're all in leather, and Thor loses all of his metal (minus his cloak clasps) between AoU and Ragnarok; in IW and again in Endgame it's all black but his scale mail (which he never has in Ragnarok).

The answer to why they did this shift, or even why the original Thor Asgard design is what it is...my best guess is that Phase One, the MCU was really pushing the line on what they could do and get away with. So the first Thor works much more in-universe as science fiction rather than high fantasy, because high fantasy in space is weird. That's why we keep getting this repetition in the film of "okay, they're aliens, they're not gods" (and by Ragnarok that's gone entirely); they're not operating with magic, they're operating with technology that borders on the magical. You know, it was 2011; this was, at the time, the first MCU film that's really, really out there. Today it doesn't feel like it, but the two Iron Man films and The Incredible Hulk that preceded it are both really, really grounded in the real world. And compared to those, Thor is batshit; it's a paradigm shift; it's essentially...hmm, Phase One's WandaVision in terms of "okay, what can we get away with? how far can we push this envelope? okay, not that far." So it's riding this really, really weird line between sci-fi, between fantasy, between a superhero film, and even the way it shifts storytelling genres within the movie itself, with this really epic, large-scale drama playing out on Asgard and then the very grounded, the very down-to-earth science-y, government agency stuff that's happening on Earth. And aesthetic-wise, they're going for the biggest possible contrast. It's weird. It's supposed to be weird! And it's weird in a way that's not comfortable, that didn't really age well, and then when they went back to Asgard for TDW they went for full high fantasy in the aesthetic, then stuck to it for the rest of the MCU.

[toujoursmiraculous]

Thoughts and Reaction to Guiltrip!

Alright, so this one is a bit more of a serious one for me. But I'll be going in order of the episode so the more serious talk will be a bit further down! First thing we get is this lovely moment:

I've already addressed it in a post, but I'll say it again here. Guiltrip is episode 11, several episodes take place before Guiltrip that we haven't seen yet, so this is awhile after Marinette and Luka broke up. We also know that Marinette has always had feelings for Adrien, even when she was with Luka. Luka always knew that fact too. None of this is new and is to be expected, obviously, when Love Square is endgame. But! I also want to point out here that this is just a soft look. Very gentle, very common. I see people looking at each other both in real life and in other shows all the time. A look that says "I adore you". And I think it's sweet! Very subtle, but enough. Something's wrong with Rose. We never get told (in this episode anyway) what it is, but it's a chronic illness that's a worry in Rose's life, ever since she was young. I feel really bad for Juleka, knowing that her friend's been struggling with an illness, and whenever something happens she has to worry about it alone. Also that really sucks when you try to cheer somebody up and make a joke, that because you were mislead about a situation you end up making things worse. Poor Marinette. :c Adrien when he realizes he's bumped into someone (and the pink bubbles to remind us of Marinette's feelings for him):

Adrien when he realizes just who it was he bumped into!:

Scroll up now and look at how Marinette was looking at Adrien earlier that day. It's the exact same look. Yet, something feels different from usual to me, idk. But continuing on. Marinette gets slightly jumbled with her words, but manages to give herself a kick and says nope not now! Good for her! You can't expect to change overnight, but she's working on it.

She looks to the side, gathering her surroundings for a split second and she misses the top step. I'd like to say that this is just a joke for the show but well, this kind of thing has happened to me a lot because I'm that much of a klutz so I feel for her here. (On Halloween I forgot that there was another step as I was walking down as I wasn't paying attention. I couldn't walk on my foot for 2 weeks. It's a serious problem, guys. Really. xDD) Marinette had told Adrien she's concerned it was something she said that upset Juleka and Adrien tells her while sometimes she doesn't make sense, what she says is never mean. This scene reminds me of when Ladybug's worried about something and Chat Noir's there to keep her grounded and remind her of how things really are. I very much appreciate seeing such a scene with Adrienette! Makes the Love Square much more rounded. Also the way he stops her and says let him go talk to her to try to help the situation and any possible misunderstandings from taking place. ;-;

Can I just say... oh my gosh. He went from determined, to hearing Marinette trying to comfort her, to looking with confidence "This girl is amazing." and the whole Ladynoir vibe I'm getting from this scene makes me happy. The thing that's unrealistic about this scene though is you expect to tell me that 8 kids went down those stairs and came up behind them and Marinette, Adrien, and Juleka didn't hear? XD Now here's where the serious comes in. Rose is hospitalized with an illness we don't know about, but has been a long-term thing that has Juleka really worried a lot. That must be so stressful :c I'm going to be honest and say I never really saw Julerose romantically. Like I can see how people do, but to me, I could see that their bond was really unique. It didn't really fit completely in the "BFF" category either. But if felt like there was more to them that I didn't really understand. I think the best example off the top of my head was during Zombizou, when Rose was going to help Chloe after she slid down Chat's stick and she went too fast for him to catch her. Juleka seemed especially worried and concerned for her. Rose never seemed to get concerned about Juleka in the same way Juleka was about Rose. Juleka's always been more protective and worried and it was always one of those things that made me go "hmm, interesting". Now this episode finally explains why and I'm honestly super glad for it. Because this kind of a relationship is not a common one in media, especially kids media. Partially because having such serious illnesses in young people is not particularly common, and having someone who's so caring and protective of that person is even less common. And most people probably don't realize how amazing it is to have health problems and then have someone in their life who acts like Juleka does for Rose. I had a life-threatening illness as a kid, one that still affects me greatly today. When in school, my friends knew about it without me having to say anything unfortunately, and while they didn't usually treat me differently, sometimes they were pretty ignorant and didn't understand why I wasn't "normal" like them. They asked questions that were harder ones to answer, and tended to forget my answers. I got a lot of "I know you have X problem but I still don't see why you can't..." as well as thinking I was lying if I said I wasn't well and couldn't go to a party, and that was hard to deal with, being limited in what you can do which makes you different and being judged for things out of your control. So seeing these kids who only know something's wrong with her, but are willing to do so much to make her life better and happier, not judging her at all, wanting to take care of her no questions asked was really heart-warming for me. I only had one friend during that time that was anything close to this. I never had to explain anything to him if I didn't want to. He never asked me personal questions I didn't want to answer. And he seemed to know what he could do to make things for me easier if I was having a hard time without me ever saying so. And this is another reminder to me that this show is aimed at kids. To show kids that they'll likely encounter someone around their age that's going through something serious like a health problem, and what that kid needs most is kindness and not to be made to feel like they're even more different from the other kids than they already feel. The way they handled that aspect of it for such a short, limited intro to it, I think they did good. I discussed this next bit with a friend. She mentioned it first, the trope where those with chronic or serious illnesses are usually an "inspiration". With this episode, you kind of get the feeling that because Rose's been through so much, she's therefore a really positive and bubbly person and it kind of gives off the vibe that if you don't view things the way she does, then you're not doing it right. "What matters isn't the problem, but how you handle it." While I agree with this, and that when you come out of or regularly deal with

such hard times, automatically trying to see the world better and brighter can easily happen, but it's not exactly realistic either, at least not to the extent Rose and other people the media has portrayed. For one, I think you have to have always been more of that kind of person from the start to realistically be so positive. As my friend said and I agree, positivity is just who Rose is, she's not who she is just for the sake of a trope. But honestly, when you've gone through something so difficult, and if life continues to throw you more difficulties on top of it, being positive so much can sometimes turn into a negative and be harmful too. When you've been through a lot, it's important to allow yourself to feel the negative too because it's part of dealing with such problems. And if you've been through a lot in life and you haven't come out of it being all sunshine and rainbows, always looking on the brighter side of things, that's perfectly okay. Life's hard and tends not to work out how we'd like, or even for the better sometimes. If being positive and hopeful after struggling is hard to do, you're not bad or wrong for feeling that way, everybody handles things differently. c: ANYWAY, moving on to the rest of the episode! Juleka being all irritated and worried that the class was going to expose her spilling Rose's secret xD While the situation isn't ideal, it's nice that this is the most involved she's seemed with everyone in the entire duration of the show. But Rose knows something's up, and I love that she talks to her about it and realizes that she should've told everyone herself instead of Juleka being the only one who knew. Which has been such a burden on her. (Oh no, what if this is a reflection of Alya knowing Marinette's Ladybug later on? I'm hoping not.) Ugh these children and how much they care about Rose! These kids are the absolute best. But then they kind of ruin it a little with going overboard. Which, frankly, I think is just ignorance of her situation really. I mean, we don't know what exactly is wrong with Rose. Just that she ends up in the hospital. If they knew about her condition, what causes her to get sick, what to look out for, etc, they'd be much more informed and much less likely to be frantic whenever something's not perfectly "normal" with her. All of these kids are going to be overprotective parents someday, aren't they?

Okay so like... are Adrien and Marinette going to question at all how Ladybug and Chat Noir showed up immediately after Juleka was akumatized, and no damage had happened outside of the school for it to be known to the public? Literally the only ones that could've possibly known were the class to have shown up that fast. ??? I am confusion. "I can't help my best friend face his father." "No, Nino..." Two things: The fact that THIS is what he's feeling guilty about? My poor Nino! Dx I just love him, he really doesn't get enough love and appreciation imo. Also, um, isn't Ladybug like right by Chat? Didn't she hear that? What? Idk but I feel like we're really missing something here. Usually we get things that are kind of hints, that make us wonder if they know right, but this? This is a bit too blaring-in-your-face, and there's two major things so close together. Really strange. Chat about to use Cataclysm on himself. Good grief that was not expected. Chat Blanc threatened to destroy himself along with everything else. Now Chat Noir while affected with negative emotions from an akuma almost Cataclysmed himself. This show really is getting deep and dark isn't it. o.o Also is there something Adrien needs to work out with someone...? Daizzi and Rose saying the other's so cute, ugh they're both so cute! And Pigella's costume and transformation is so adorable omg. Okay so Pigella's power allows people to see their biggest wish, the thing that'd make them the most happy and feel positive emotions. I know some people probably think "That's it?" Considering that Shadow Moth preys on people's negative emotions, such a power is actually extremely useful facing Shadow Moth. (And let's not forget, that while that's her power, she has the ability to fight and make a difference just from being transformed too) BUT AWWW Juleka's wish! And her face when Pigella said it aloud. ;-; Am I the only one wondering if Pigella may someday use her power on Shadow Moth and that's how they learn his motive? I'm so impressed with how Rose knew how to handle everything. She knew she can't slip up with Juleka. She knew to sneak away to detransform and come back as Rose. She knew to subtly give the Miraculous back so nobody would ever know she had it. Even Chat Noir had no idea! I don't know why, I'm just so very proud of that. "She doesn't need a Miraculous to be a superhero." She really has the characteristics of one, and I can't wait to see more of Pigella. Also I'm really wondering. This scene here:

All the kids that are part of that friend group are there...except Marinette and Adrien, of course. Alya knows why Marinette isn't there. But is she wondering about why Adrien isn't there too? LOL Marinette being like "I'm taking your pillow back, sorry! Gotta wait for it like everyone else." and the boys being like LE GASP. Marinette's right, she's not fragile! The fact Rose jokes with her and makes everyone laugh, and Chloe saying "Hey, why doesn't everyone laugh when I say something like that?!" Adrien: Because in your case, it's never a joke. Chloe: Hm, that's true. Which is super funny, especially how he just so casually says it. But also it really shows again how Chloe wants to be liked. She wishes the kids would laugh when she makes comments, but it's because they're said in a serious/obnoxious way, instead of making light of something like in Rose's case here, that they don't. I know she talked about it with Ladybug in an episode, but it again shows that that's what she'd like. All that needs to happen is someone helping her get there. Maybe Zoe and Luka will somehow help with that later on. Anyway, this was a really great episode! I feel like some things might not make quite as much sense as they should if we got it in order, but what can you do when Gloob has to air them? Even a friend of mine who's been doing what she can to avoid spoilers, still got spoiled. She's having to delete tumblr to avoid future spoilers because people can't help themselves and tag things properly. So thanks Gloob. :P All we wanted was the episodes in order. We've waited this long for S4, we can wait a bit longer. But they gotta make money I guess. I'm glad other countries are trying their best to keep it in order anyway. c: Guiltrip also has some really great Adrienette moments, and covered a more serious topic which was really interesting and shows how much the show's changing. Especially with some of the choice of camera angles and movements! Like the zoom-in on the door with Adrien and Marinette, the boys LE GASP scene. Very cool artistic choices! Looking forward to the episodes that come before this one to try to help fill in some of the gaps! And apologies to those that frequently read these posts from me, I started writing it up late and couldn't finish so you get it the day after instead. xD

[justapoet]

do you see buddie really getting together on the show? or you're just a hopeless shipper anyway?

Hi, Anon! That's a good question, and I must say I'm pretty much a bit of both. But, sincerely, I believe that making Buddie a canon ship would be an incredibly smart shot coming from the writers.

Not because I definitely love the idea of the both of them together, but because it has been built and constructd throughout the seasons so far, and it wouldn't be a shot in the dark to get them together ― it would actually, in my opinion, a smart, really smart, choice.

If it happens, though, I don't think it'll be in the next season. And I'm absolutely okay with that, for it would be amazing to see how they would build things to be endgame and real ― if it becomes real, I'm actually counting on it not to be happening on the fifth season, and here's why:

I'll make a parallel with my favorite TV show, The Mentalist, in which we have Patrick Jane and Teresa Lisbon, both of them being main characters.

[from now on, we'll have spoilers from The Mentalist, so, if you are watching it/planning on watch it and don't like spoilers, don't read it. P.S.: I'm not spoiling the Red John plot, so it's your choice]

Patrick is the protagonist of the show ― which, if you don't know, it's absolutely worthy to look up on it ― and he has a lot ― and I mean a lot ― of things to sort out before thinking about love with absolutely anyone. He pretended to be a psychic with his mental abilities (he's a mentalist, duh) and, one day, he made the mistake of talking some crap about a serial killer named Red John on TV, which led the said serial killer to murded Patrick's wife and daughter, leaving him a note on the door.

Their death rocked his world and made his life fall apart, and it also made him completely obsessed with Red John and craving revenge. Which led him to Teresa ― :) ― who was the CBI (California Bureau of Investigation) agent responsible for the Red John case. Jane starts working with them as a consultant, chasing Red John as he solved cases and created problems.

The man was a pain in the ass, a traumatized and tea-addicted Golden Retriever and a completely insane sociopath that drove everybody, especially Lisbon, insane.

Spoiler: the two of them get together in the end.

It just takes them six seasons, haha. (it's worth it, I promise).

Sure, what does it have to do with Buck and Eddie? My dear Anon, I'll explain it:

As the seasons passed by, we could see how Jane and Lisbon created a bond that was barely unbreakable, made out of loyalty, some insanity, a lot of risks and, mainly, trust. Jane was the only one who seemed to see through Lisbon, and she was the only person who could ever understand him, and the only one he ever opened up to.

"Anything for you, Lisbon," was something he said when she was desperate and needed some help. It was the answer to "I need you, Jane," and the sentence that followed "is nice to be needed".

Also, the word they use to describe each other is "partner".

Of course, there is a lot of chaos in the middle of the way, but then things calm down a little and they work together again ― a bit of trust issues because Jane fucked up a bit (a lot), but they work through it. In the sixth season, after a lot of bonding, disguised declarations of their love, and some scenes that you could swear they're married, we have Jane pinning for her.

The best part? It was built slowly, and you can see the love they share in a way or another. They're there for each other, they trust each other with their lives, and they're completely dumbasses for years until they decide that either they go for it or move on.

Lisbon moves on for her own sake, and more of Patrick pinning. He says "and that's the most important thing to me, that you do what makes you happy". Patrick loves her with all his heart and accepts that, if someone else is what makes her happy, then be it. He just wants a smile on her face.

(also we have Abott who isn't dumb as they are and notices absolutely everything going on betweet them. Abbott is played by Rockmond Dunbar, by the way :))

That's why he goes after a plane to tell her he loves her but that's just something else.

The thing is: The Mentalist has seven seasons, and they're only together in the last one because the writers chose to build them as a person and as a couple. And I can see it ― I hope to see it ― happening to Buck and Eddie, because it's basically already happening.

They trust each other with their lives ― literally and metaphorically, for Eddie trusts Buck with Christopher and Bobby said once that a kid is your heart out of your chest ―, they're there for each other whatever happens and they're both chasing happiness and some sense of belonging. They've both messed up and, yet, they never give up on the other.

And that's what a relationship is about. Belonging, improving, making mistakes and learning from them ― about love in all its shapes. About how they're best friends, partners, coworkers, family. About how they're just right for each other.

Also, Buck wants love and happiness at all costs, and Eddie too ― but I think Eddie would be pinning and Buck would find some happiness and want to settle with it, but he'll see that he could have more than that. He deserves more than that.

Eddie and Christopher.

Oh, and we have the legal guardianship, too. I mean, I don't see how the writers would work with that if they'd make other partners for Eddie and Buck (they already have a develeped relationship there) since, y'know. How do you tell your partner that your best friend is the only person you trust with your son? And how do you explain to someone that if the man happens to die, the kid gets to be with you?

I mean, I see it as a dead-end street. Luckily for me :)

So, if they make Buddie canon, it would be an incredible well developed slow-burn with so much to see. I'm rooting for this, really, and it would be just amazing to see them doing it.

I believe they will but, until then, I'm just a hopeless shipper, as you said.

Also, let me just

And take a look at one of the things Jane says to Lisbon:

"Lisbon. I want you to know that you can trust me. No matter what happens I will be there for you. I will. I need you to know that"

And I'd like to add this dialogue that happens and reminds me too much of Buck:

"Krystal Markham:

Oh, you're trouble.

Patrick Jane:

Harmless as a fly." (he's lying).

I'm sorry for the rambling but thank you for giving me the chance to talk about Jane and Lisbon. You've made my day, Anon.

A bonus for the patience:

[hamliet]

Hi! Thanks for answering

About Touya, I really hope your right. As far I mostly agree. It just in such a nerd for medical stuff and while your reading is very nice and I really hope it plays something similar (or instead of losing his quirk , Touya’s quirk getting back to colder flames or similar) if Hori goes for a simil realistic anatomy I’m worried for the health affect. With how it’s progressing on his face, which is not the part he ignite the most, the body might be even in a worse condition and this would led Touya to be in a pinch in an health care POV. Maybe more than Eri i really miss Overhaul’s quirk. That would patch him good enough! Who knows if AFO quirk contain a similar one…

About Toga, I see you’re very knowledgable! I’m much attuned with the concept of sublimation, the issue about her though is that she is more than fine with the method she came to find right now. Sure she had really improved. She loves the league yet no one fell victim of her so she has some restraint, however sublimation is much harder to consegue once you already taste the “real stuff” (or what her minds perceived it to be). In fact usually serial killers tends to have an increasing escalation after the first time they realise their fantasies/philias as they want “more”. Strictly put I find it hard to think Toga might get content with being a surgeon satisfying her desire for blood after having being one with her loved ones already. A pre first victim Toga , I could totally see her, but as she is right now I find it even harder especially because her first victim was not intentionally (she didn’t want to harm , she wanted to become one). Wouldn’t be any form of sublimation unsatisfying at this point? Especially because thanks to this last chapter we now know that her desire for blood and gore is much more complex than a simple fixation. The more I look into her the more i see a proper paraphilia of her for blood , and usually this type of things tends to be perceived as unavoidable by the person. Unless she finds a partner who is up to vampirism I don’t see how she can quell her thirst for the desire to “become one” which is symbolically linked to drink their blood.

And this was the core of my question! Maybe o express myself not correctly. And also I expressed wrongly when I told she is just a villain for the lust for blood. Yes you are right, what I meant is that at the base of that exclusion by both parents and society started because people couldn’t come to accept and aid an eventual sublimation with this desire of her. The place it under the carpet , forced her and mistreated her and that’s the result. What I meant is that nowadays Toga’s complex is fully expressed and well defined and it’s a big important in her being a villain. This also pile up with what happened to Jin and the league philosophy, which formed hers to (to live and die normally merging into one with the one she loves).

So to rephrase better my question: what do you think Toga can practically do/ what do you think will be Toga endgame to be saved keeping in account that her desire and core of desiring blood can’t really coexist with society because she will be prone to repaet what happened with the first victim? How can Toga manage/ control that desire without stopping to be herself? Or do you think her desire for blood will transform further and eventual stop to being this but it will be something different (maybe that’s what you were trying to tell, if that’s the case sorry if I di don’t get it before) ? Basically : how will toga live with her desire for blood after the endgame ?

I don't think Hori's going for remotely realistic anatomy, sorry! I think there's 0 chance of that. Even in universe the rules for anatomy are pretty much never followed (Deku's arms and legs).

As for Toga, I think, again, you're being too realistic when it comes to this story. BNHA is a fantasy in a lot of ways, and it is not in any way a seinen; it's as shonen as they get. There's no digging into the psychology with any intent.

Toga has *not* shown escalation at all; in fact, if anything she's shown more restraint as the story continues. She just doesn't have that. I would guess she'd be able to use her quirk to do something heroic by the end, and/or be friends with the other kids at UA, maybe even join them. Again, realism is not really an element of this story when it comes to that kind of thing. What she wanted in the first place was to have a good way to use her quirk, but no one gave that to her. I would guess she'd get one afterwards, but the how and specifics if you squint aren't likely going to deeply dug psychological certainty.

I do think Toga's arc, while technically pretty good, might be less... important or have less of a punch at the end because her parallel is Uraraka, and Horikoshi isn't good with writing female characters. Meaning if some things get glossed over, I wouldn't be surprised.

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In Another Universe Part 4 (Marcus Moreno x Reader)

Summary: The reunion you've both been waiting forever for.

Pairing: Marcus Moreno x Fem!Reader (We Can Be Heroes/MCU Crossover)

Word Count: 2k

Warnings: None.

A/N: This is it! Thank you all for showing interest in this series and being so enthusiastic about it. @jupitersmooneuropa, this is for you! You're idea was so wonderful, I just couldn't resist making it into a mini-series and I hope I did you proud. Requests are currently CLOSED but will be open again soon. Check out my MASTERLIST for all other works!

Being a hero meant a lot of different things to a lot of different people. Some loved the fame, the recognition, the money that sometimes came with, while some just wanted to be helpful and loved for their work. But one quality heroes had in common was that they were able to calm their nerves in the most crucial moments.

For Marcus Moreno, that crucial moment was now, and he could barely contain his nerves.

Clint could feel the anxiety radiating off the man. Marcus tried to play it cool because he had everything that made him seem cool: the swords, the tactical gear, his stoic face, but it wasn't enough to mask emotions from a world-class spy. Though Clint was able to sense it, he wasn't sure what exactly to say. He had only heard about Marcus through you, he only knew what little you told him, and that was how he determined Marcus wasn't some alien but the man you've been waiting for.

It was an awkward silence. One filled with the quiet roaring of the engines and every now and again, the sound of alerts from the computers around them. Clint kept his eyes on the sky while Marcus took peaks at the landscape below. The world looked so much like his own... just not as technically advanced as his own. The clouds swallowed the sip and his eyes drifted forward again as he took in a deep breath and exhaled.

"Nervous?" Clint managed to crack Marcus a smile and glanced at the man sitting to his right. Marcus chuckled, nodding his head with a nonchalance.

"You could say that."

"There's no reason for you to be."

"There's always a chance for something to go wrong."

Clint shrugged and flipped some switches as the quinjet began to descend.

"Are we there already?"

"Almost. About 5 minutes out."

Another uneasy silence fell over them but Clint wasn't contributing to it. Marcus just wanted everything to be like it was before. You, Missy, and himself in a home that felt like home. He couldn't have asked for a better partner in life and work, and it was taken away from him just like your life was taken away from you, but he wasn't going to say his life was better without you because it wasn't. Marcus just feared that maybe this life here was better than the one you had built with him. No one's reassurance except your own could tell him otherwise.

"Can I ask you a question?" Marcus glanced at Clint before returning to look forward again, a little embarrassed to be talking about you with someone he didn't know. But he knew you loved Clint like a brother, just as Natasha had been a sister, so he understood there was a level of trust there. Clint mumbled a 'go ahead' but his attention wasn't entirely on Marcus.

"Is she happy here?"

'Loaded question, but alright Mr. other world.' Clint thought before answering with the only truthful answer that could be given. He has watched the progression of a quiet depression become one of reclusiveness and a bitter happiness. You weren't happy here, in this world, with him or any of the Avengers. Natasha was gone, Steve was gone, Wanda was MIA, Bucky and Sam were on their own adventures. No one was here except him and that wasn't nearly enough to support someone who lost everything and then some because of a greedy man with glowing stones. This wasn't your home anymore.

"Was. She was at one time. I don't think this is where her heart is anymore."

Clint gave him a flat smile but Marcus did not return it. The thought alone of you avoiding social contact because happiness was ripped away from you in every direction was heart-wrenching. He never wanted to bring you any pain and a part of him couldn't help but believe that if he tried harder, if he hadn't wasted time being upset with your arrival years ago, things may have been different.

"We're here."

The announcement sent shockwaves through him. A thunderbolt of pure, unexplainable fear and anticipation of seeing you again struck his core. This was it; this was his endgame and the farm that slowly made itself clear out the window was the destination.

"Let me go in and see them first, make sure they're home, and then I'll come back. Is that alright?"

Marcus could only nod and watch the man grab his bags and bow and leave the jet. Marcus unbuckled himself because there was no point in staying in the seat. The back was left open and while Clint had told him to stay, he couldn't help but walk down the ramp and stand just to the side of the jet. He ran his hand over the side of the matte gray finish, slightly impressed by the time it took to get there. It was faster than he thought even if it felt like an eternity.

The house was a nice weathered white. It had seen better days and as Clint approached the door, he noted all the fixes needed. The rusted door handle, the broken pot in the corner, an abundance of yard toys and broken bicycle parts laid around him. He managed to open the door with limited squeaking, but Laura heard it and so did Lila. The boys weren't home because if they were, they would have tackled him to the ground the moment they heard the ship land in the yard.

"Clint!? What are you doing here? I thought you weren't supposed to be back for two weeks." Laura said as soon as she came around the corner from the kitchen. Lila was right behind her with a smile and hug for him–which he gladly accepted.

"Emergency. Where is Y/n? I have something I think she'd want to see."

Laura furrowed her eyebrows and moved to the window. Outside, beside the jet, stood a man who could have been a new Avenger for all she knew. She turned back to Clint, moving away from the window so Lila could sneak a glance too.

"What is it? Who is that man out there?"

"That man is Marcus. That Marcus. He just appeared at the compound looking for her. They apparently have been trying to find a way to bring her back and whatever he did, it worked."

Laura let out an audible gasp, returning to the window and looking at the man. Slowly, just as Clint had hours before, she began to piece together the man before her eyes from the stories you had told her about.

"Oh my God! OH MY GOD!" She almost yelled so loudly the neighbors two blocks away could hear her. Clint shushed her but she couldn't keep the smile off her face. Laura ran to the staircase and yelled up it.

"Y/n! Get down here!"

"Oh my God, Clint! She had a great day today and wow-I just can't believe it."

You had heard Laura's loud enthusiasm from the room you had been staying in. You thought you'd leave her be until her voice trailed up the stairs again and she called out to you. It wasn't like you had any idea of what was going on. You heard the quinjet, figured Clint was back, and it was around dinner time so maybe it was time to eat? It was the first time in a long time that your thoughts hadn't been cluttered with death or sadness, but those feelings lingered. You exited the room, walked down the stairs and smiling at Clint when you saw his face.

"How's the girl?" Kate Bishop.

"She's a real hero." Clint replied and you nodded your head in reply. Doing so, you managed to turn toward the window from your place on the second to last step. Outside sat the quinjet that had taken so many of you and your friends on missions that could have well been your last. But it wasn't the vehicle that caught your undivided attention, but the body beside it. Standing tall in black.

Your eyes had to have been deceiving you.

"What is going on?" Your voice was barely a whisper, but Laura caught it, smiling and grabbing your hand. Your attention never left the window. The man was pacing slightly, a nervous tick you were sure you knew.

"Laura-"

"Go and see for yourself, Y/n." Her voice was quiet too but reassuring and warm, like a mothers should be. The man outside didn't know what was going on, but he left your sight because you descended the rest of the steps and ran out the door.

The door squeaked loudly this time and with a bang, fell shut. You barely made it to the steps before you stopped on the gravel. about 20 yards away, the man heard the door and turned.

Even if the entire world was watching the scene unfold on Clint's lawn, many could not recall who moved first. Laura would say Marcus because that's who she could see, but you were slightly convinced it was your own feet. Nevertheless, after the door had slammed and the two of you met again, the universe drew you together like magnets. You ran, he ran, and with the collision, you both wrapped your arms around each other and soon your feet were off the ground.

You could barely say a word with your blubbering tears, and he wasn't about to make his obvious either so instead of talking, he just pulled away enough to look you in the face. Your eyes the same, your nose the same, your lips still perfect to him. Your hands moved from around his neck to his face. You gently held his face in your hands as you tried to control yourself.

"You're really here?" It was a broken ask but he managed a smile and moved a piece of hair out of your face.

"Yeah, I'm here."

"I missed you s-so much." Marcus couldn't help but grin at the admission. It was everything and more than he wanted to hear.

"I love you. I love you so damn much." His hand rested on the back of your neck and he pulled you to him. His lips were just as you remembered.

Perfectly him and as if they were made for your own.

Reunions were sentimental and good. But they were followed with a series of questions that were often difficult to hear. Marcus had held you for a long time. You weren't sure how long and you weren't exactly complaining either, but there was a linger question: how did he get here and how in the world are you getting back?

You had been adamant in telling him 'yes' the moment Marcus asked you the question about returning to his world. That was the plan for you. There were no other options because life with Marcus and Missy was your life now and whoever was left that loved you like family had to accept that. Marcus had explained the machine built to travel through worlds over dinner with Clint because perhaps he could be the one to help. He had travelled through time before so what is traveling through universes, right?

But later that night, when the reunion had settled and everyone had gone to bed, Marcus sat on the edge of an unfamiliar bed in an unfamiliar room with a woman he loves. Clint could help you, but he needed time. So, he left with the jet while you stayed with the family and Marcus. He went to go see Stephen Strange because he managed to pick up the phone late that night.

"Do you think they'll be able to get us back? I don't want to leave Missy there all alone." Marcus voiced his worry with a sad reflection. You sat up from your reclined position and waddled over to him, running your hands up his back and then around his shoulders before he gently took them and tugged them around him. He missed your touch so much.

"You've never seen Dr. Stephen Strange do his 'magic' so I think there's a chance."

"Are you sure this is what you want?" He turned his head just enough so he could look at your face. You may have been a spy, but your eyes never lied to him. He knew you better than any interrogator could ever wish to have known you.

"Yes, I want to be with you and Missy and all those heroes with weird names." You laughed for the first time in a long time and it was music to his ears. He smiled to where his eyes crinkled in the corners as your fingers played with the nape of his neck where his loose hair sat.

"I just want you to be happy, Y/n. Your happiness means everything to me."

"I am happy with you. I am happy in our home. This makes me happy."

That was enough for him. The next day you both waited... and waited... and waited for even one word from Clint, but nothing came. Sometime in the afternoon, the heavy engine of the quinjet could be heard in the yard so you dropped the puzzle pieces on the table beside Lila, grabbed Marcus' hand and ran out the door. Clint had a small smile on his face, but it was the sharply dressed Doctor that you focused your attention on.

"Doctor."

"Agent."

"I trust there is a way home if you're here. You wouldn't come all this way to bare bad news."

"Your skills on reading people alarm me, though I would expect nothing less from an Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D."

Stephen nodded and then extended his hand to Marcus who shook it in return. They introduced themselves to one another and Stephen put a gold bar on his fingers before extending his hand to the wide landscape of the farm.

"What are you doing?" You asked with a furrowed brow. This wasn't the way Marcus had come, they were supposed to fix the control pad he had on his arm.

"Do you really think the Sorcerer Supreme can't open portals to other universes? There are so many worlds you don't know, but you found the one you were meant to be in, so let me get you both home."

With a circular movement of his fingers, Stephen opened a yellow portal that slowly became an image of a world you had known before. A house, perfectly structured in the suburbs was on the other side. The grass perfectly mowed and the bushes trimmed, the mail box accidentally left open which you knew was Missy's fault. The curtains were open and the sun shone brightly into the home. Marcus grabbed you hand, squeezing it tightly as you took in the sight. Months had gone by where you dreamed of this moment, of that house and all its residents. Your dream was here now with the man holding your hand to support you.

"Y/n." Clint called out to you, breaking your stare. You turned around and he approached with his family in tow. He held out a small envelope which contained a note from them and a series of pictures that you would later cry over, but it was a final goodbye from your life here on this Earth.

You hugged them all with tears in your eyes but when Marcus re-took your hand, it felt like it meant something more than just running off into the sunset together. It felt normal and needed and necessary to move forward in your life.

"Are you ready?" Marcus asked you to which you could only reply with one word:

"Yes."

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I have several disagreements about your endgame post: 1) Tony Stark was advocating for the freedom of the civilians of foreign countries (117) that ratissed the accords to choose if they wanted or not to have the Avengers come into their countries to fight without restrictions. Anyone else (almost anyone else?) who’s not an Avengers is already supposed to respect other countries sovereignty. There’re a difference between being deprived of freedom and not being allowed to do whatever you want...

... because it’s for the right reason (yes, Tony had been guilty of that too. Which is how he learned this lesson, the hard way). The Accords are not SHRA. Steve was defending is morals, true, but so was Tony. The situation was not black and white. 2) Also disagree with you about Tony not having character development just because he used technology to save the world (not just in battles, but by developing green technologies, medical equipments, and so on). It (and his brain in general) was...

his main power, why wouldn’t he used it the best way he could to save the day? Do you also blame the other Avengers for thinking that using their gifts was the best ways they had to save the world? I don’t think you really get his character. Which is strange, because he has some interesting parallels with Dean. 3) While Tony went too far in the other direction because of his own fear of not doing enough to help and thus losing the people he loved (Steve included) because of it and seeing...

"his morals" not "is morals", sorry.

Hello anon, I suppose that tumblr ate the last ask(s) so I don't have the last part. Now, you have been polite and I'm afraid I'm going to sound rude in my answer, so please keep in mind that this is not a dig at you or anything, it's about my feelings towards the topic. To be simply blunt I am not interested in this kind of debate. Civil War and consequent developments are where I draw the line in my interest and willingness to discuss characters' motivations and in-story dynamics. The movie made me angry and hurt. I haven't been a fan of the mcu since then. My brain has been obsessing with Steve and Bucky as characters since many years ago and it is still a special interest on mine, which is way you find so much mcu on my blog, but detached from the mcu itself. I haven't seen movies and shows in years. I am not interested in understanding Tony's character, because I don't feel anything about the character and a lot about the way the character has been used.

You will only find criticism of the writing choices on my blog, and if that's unfair then I accept that I'm unfair but I don't care. I'm just angry at something I used to be emotionally invested into and hurt me.

So please don't try to have a conversation about characters' motivations inside that storyline because I believe that the entire storyline belongs to the trash can. It makes no sense, it's badly written, has been really divisive of the fandom making it a very unpleasant place to be in ways it wasn't before.

This isn't about Tony, he's a fictional character. He doesn't exist. It's about the real life people who made the movie.

I'm sorry if I was harsh but this is a topic that welded with my own mental health issues in 2016 and so it's been a sore spot for me ever since.