#and immensely complex

[tjippie]

Great opportunity for an interesting debate on what constitutes a life (and murder) going on here and boom - "replies are turned off for this post" ☹️

rare house W

[anassemblageofpassions]

The thing abt john winchester is that he is too complex for the majority of the spn fandom and for a good portion of the writers on the show too.

Because at his core john is about love over everything else. When he looks up at his sons (yes, up, the fact that they’re both taller than him>>>>>), there is love seeping achingly from every single pore of his being even as he abuses them, as he destroys their souls beyond belief. He does it all entirely out of love. And he is so, so wrong for it. A part of him knows it. But he wants to keep dean alive, and he wants to keep Sam pure. And he loves them so much. And he damages them so horribly. John Winchester is the foundation upon which they are both built, they only become more of what he made them as the series goes on. Sam stops fighting it, Dean continues to mold into his image no matter how hard he tries to fight it.

Hell puts them both on steroids, but their individual trauma responses that influence this are the foundations that John built into them. No wonder azazel wanted sam to win so badly. John Winchester crafted his sons into alastair and Lucifer’s ideal victims, respectively, and dean was a better (worse) john than John ever was. John held out in hell. Dean acquiesced to his abuser despite all of his efforts to fight him, and he’s never been the same since.

Sam fought like hell, and he fought destiny, but at his core, he did what John always wanted him to by doing what dean wanted him to do, and then he stops fighting at all, loses the fire he showed john in adolescence that john immediately notices when he returns in s14.

And the sad thing is. They filled their roles so well that John is saddened by what they’ve become. He didn’t want dean to break. He didn’t want Sam to be dimmed. He’s sad to see what Sam is like in s14. In the process of recovering his wife, he ensured he would mold his sons into what he wanted them to be, and when he got what he wanted, he was devastated.

John Winchester is so driven by love and grief and he’s so filled to the brim with both that it’s painful to watch him on screen because he destroyed his family because of it. And he wanted this all along but he didn’t realize what he’d have to give up to get it.

[rewritingcanon]

idk why im in such a bad mood rn but it actually PISSES ME TF OFF how the entire marauders fandom collectively decided to take this bum-ass loser character with one discernable impact on the storyline (regulus. im talking about regulus) and make him a super complex, three-dimensional MAIN character in the era that’s being literally paired with JAMES POTTER(???) when they could’ve taken a character who AREADY has existing complexities and everything they could ever want and develop them. but they won’t because that character is a fucking woman ☠���☠️

the way the black sisters would have the entire fandom in a fucking chokehold if they were boys. do you actually think sirius and regulus would be as cherished as they are now if they were women? hell fucking no, regulus would be hated on so badly. the way we were given narcissa and fucking andromeda too? here’s the entire fandom yapping on and on about how cool regulus is for rebelling against the dark lord when narcissa was doing it and fucking getting away with it too (because she’s better and doesn’t suck ass). here’s andromeda going against her entire bloodline ON HER OWN but yet shes still so overshadowed by sirius (who literally came after her). then you got bellatrix who is canonly one of the most powerful (and cuntiest) witches in the hp-verse and you decide to go and develop BARTY instead. think about it. they’re both crazy except one is more of a loser and is a male so of course the fandom will choose him.

and then. of course. lily evans who is literally the mother of the entire verse itself is still out here fighting for literal recognition and development from the fandom. and those mfs still give it to regulus instead ☠️☠️

[yardikins]

Hi Skyblr is this anything

[rustedleopard]

Still thinking about how Clover on the No Mercy Route likely would've given up their quest for vengeance and lived with Martlet had Axis not told them that he killed Integrity. The only real difference between Aborted No Mercy Run Clover and No Mercy Run Clover are a few more destroyed robots and the knowledge of what Axis did, which sent their LOVE skyrocketing to LV 19.

Look at them. They can't even look Ceroba in the eye after they inflict the final blow.

[zenshigarakilover]

What do you think AFO thinks about fake might

Watched the movie today to answer this and I think he would find him amusing/interesting but ultimately a disgrace to the legacy of All Might lol

Dark Might kept boasting about how he has surpassed All Might in strength and that is quirk is way stronger. Which isn't even true because he relied a ton on Anna's quirk to make himself that strong so without that he's less powerful. Along with the fact that he needed help from the rest of his crew to keep the students at bay while Prime All Might was able to handle tons of villains by himself and finish the fight up quickly. So for him to compare himself to All Might combat wise AFO would find laughable. He would be interested in taking his quirk though because it's still a good one even without the power boost he relied on for most of the movie!

See to be on All Mights level means to be an opponent AFO finds worthy enough to face him, which he says during his fight with Bakugo btw, and Dark Might doesn't have much worth in him besides being something that is laughable to watch. He isn't interesting outside of his weird antics and I feel AFO would be able to defeat him which is something he was never able to do with the real All Might. All Might screwed with AFO in ways no other human has ever been able to screw with him and is the one person who always got under his skin no matter what. There's deep rooted hatred but some level of respect for him on AFO's end towards him.

So I don't think he'll like fake might much outside of amusement and utility for his quirk.

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But you know what's hilarious? They have so much in common!

Wants world to know his name

Delusional

Obsessive over one person and doesn't care what that person wants but more of what they believe is good for that person

Nonstop yapping

Flamboyant

Obsessed with All Might in their own weird way

Main plan relies on the dehumanization and exploitation of one person with a dangerous and powerful quirk to make themselves stronger

Talks about needing to destroy the old hero society and rebuild a new and better one

Has whole group of followers who follow his ever command

Their own hubris was their downfall

Too bad they can never truly get along as they're practically twins in personality. I was just laughing seeing the similarities in the two men and I loved watching Dark Might being cringe and delusional. He was really fun and who was what made the movie great for me.

[redr0sewrites]

dude one of my fav fandoms i dont talk ab v much is ihnmaims (both the game and the short story) but the fandom itself is so toxic that i just avoid it </3 like its very evenly split into two groups of people who r both equally different in their own ways but some people r just so mean bro like that fandom is So. full of these like anti selfshippers and/or people who will send u literal death threats over mischaracterization and i wish i could be more active in the fandom but alas. its so scary

[daily-hanamura]

[raventreehall]

no one wants to talk about the theon and littlefinger parallels fine I'LL TALK ABOUT THEM. they're both social inferiors in a foster family that they desperately wanted to join but are prevented from doing so which leads to all sorts of complexes!!!

littlefinger didn't really do anything wrong in seeking out catelyn's hand and dueling brandon, he only misread his importance to the tullys and tried to functionally be part of the family that he had been raised in. but that was not allowed to him because of his low birth, just as theon was always relegated to an outsider role within the stark household because he was a hostage. (also note theon's boyhood dream of marrying sansa and ned accepting him as his son; littlefinger's obsession with catelyn seems to actually have catelyn at its core rather than just being a projection of a desire to be accepted within house tully, but who knows, his obsession with cat could actually be the product of an obsession with house tully and his general ambitions to increase his social status). they both had such intense 'i hate you'/'i want to be you' emotions knocking around in their heads as a result of this that they ended up killing—or trying to convince people that they killed—their foster siblings! (i know there's a lot more complexity with the littlefinger and lysa situation, but i think this parallel is really interesting)

littlefinger also had to work for years in gulltown/king's landing to rise through the ranks, to in a way 'regain his standing' to what it was when he was a ward of hoster tully's. throughout his childhood he was constantly around lysa, catelyn, and edmure—all of whom were destined to become lords and ladies of great houses—and was raised like their brother, but after he is banished he struggles to hold even half the status that his foster siblings enjoy naturally. theon goes through a little bit of a similar rude awakening when he arrives back at pyke expecting his father to hail him as his heir returned only to find out balon could not care less about him and likes asha way more, and he takes winterfell to try to prove to balon and the rest of the ironborn that he should be respected. interestingly, we have seen both theon and littlefinger's homecomings on page and they both come across as complete outsiders in the places were they were born, acting above their station because of the circumstances they got used to during their fostering—while this leads to theon trying to reject the starks and gain acceptance from his birth family in acok, in asos when littlefinger goes home to the fingers he wants to get to the eyrie (and to one of the tullys) as quickly as possible

they share some behaviors/character traits, too. littlefinger is noted to dress well, he pays a lot for clothes made of fine fabrics, while we know that theon likes to do the same. littlefinger certainly does this to prove that he is rich and powerful and has made it, showing that he can pay for the same things that any great lord can, which is probably born from more than a little resentment towards hoster for taking him out of the luxury of riverrun and sending him back home to the fingers. similarly, theon dresses elaborately to set himself apart in winterfell, to impress people, and to make himself known, and again this is born from resentment and insecurity (seen best when he goes back to pyke and stresses about what to wear in front of balon). they're also both arrogant and flippant, with a tendency to smile/make jokes too much, perhaps to try to further resist and disparage the social order they feel restricted by

finally there's catelyn: theon looks to her as a quasi-mother figure while he's in winterfell and littlefinger looks to catelyn as a lover, but both of these are impossible and end up being rejected. there's no evidence that catelyn was, like, especially mean to theon, they seem to get on fine in agot, but he was her husband's hostage and we know that she does mistrust him. this attitude is obviously a result of her not trusting the greyjoys because they're reavers/rose against the crown in open rebellion, but it is also no doubt informed by her previous experiences with petyr! it would make sense for her to be wary of a foster son getting close to her children after what happened to her as a kid

[makotonaegiunderstander]

something I’ve been thinking abt is how many people think Makoto is immune to despair. I don’t think he is. I think becoming the ultimate Hope was BECAUSE he felt despair. He wouldn’t have fully reached that point without Junko. Makoto becoming such a beacon was his last attempt to avoid completely falling and it wasn’t because he didn’t feel despair, it was because he was too damn stubborn to allow everything to go to waste and he refused to sacrifice his beliefs for someone else’s. His inner monologue tells me he DID experience the same new low the other suvivors did in the final trial, but at the point where he had the choice to give up and die, he looked at the others and he looked at Junko and he couldn’t allow it to happen, not out of self preservation, but because the idea that Junko would have control over their lives made him FURIOUS. and that utter refusal to die kicked in, wether luck or otherwise, and he made the concious effort for one last push while something in him was breaking. He had to be broken in order for the Ultimate Hope to come through so aggressively, bc it could only exist in the face of the Ultimate Despair. He snapped the same way she did, but in the other direction. In what could have been his final moments he chose to embody everything Junko wasn’t, and every single optimistic and luck fueled ideal in him suddenly charged forward and pushed him. It was a combination of the final straw and a choice. Makoto isn’t immune to feeling despair, he’s just too stubborn to fall into it of his own volition. I think that’s why I like that scene in DR3 so much. People were SO SHOCKED Makoto actually fell for the tape, that he actually became despair for a moment. I saw people getting mad or disappointed, saying it was pathetic and Makoto seemed to fall from some sort of pedestal for them. Honestly part of me wonders if that sort of mentality, which clearly people had in universe, affected Makoto a bit. Like he started to see himself as less of a person, subconsciously. Prompting him to take more risks, less self preservation, act way more bold. It seems he has to be reminded a lot not to put himself in danger by his friends, to not do something too reckless. All over the place I would see in regards to that scene either this frivolous ‘oh this was just angst drama with no meaning behind it’ or ‘he can do better than that. he’s so weak’ or ‘come on, there’s no way he’d fall into despair, he’s the Ultimate Hope!’ This kind of mentality, which was kind of ironic considering Ryota was there the entire time saying the same thing and treating Makoto the same way. Like Makoto was superhuman. Like Makoto didn’t feel despair the same way ‘normal people’ did. In a way that was also how Munakata saw Makoto. Makoto stopped being a PERSON to the world when he became Ultimate Hope, he became a concept, a belief system, much the same way Junko ascended beyond herself. But the difference is that treating Makoto that way is the opposite of the reason Makoto became such a representative for hope. He wasn’t doing something no one else could. He was doing something everyone had the chance to, he just… was a little more optimistic, a little more stubborn, a little more ‘gung-ho’ about things. He just took the lead where no one else did, where no one else knew they even COULD in the face of Junko’s unstoppable force. She had overcome the biggest threats and obstacles in the world, what could one person do? And the answer Makoto found was, anything. Everything. It doesn’t all rest on Makoto, he’s just the one that was inspired to try to do what seemed like the impossible. But as evidenced by the change in his friends after that trial, it’s clearly not something only Makoto is capable of. The others pulled out of despair thanks to Makoto, but it was their choice to do so.

“But… this world is so huge, and we’re so small. What can we do…? No, we can probably do anything. Yeah! We can do anything!”

[pauls1967moustache]

Right like I don’t understand how Paul has clearly never gotten over John moving on with Yoko; so many anecdotes on Paul literally crying over him, resenting Yoko for having his love, and trying to reestablish a relationship with him. Meanwhile John, although he loved him in his own way, didn’t need him in his life after the Beatles. I think people have Paul pining in fic cause they have to cope with the reality that John was the one who let him/the Beatles go and wanted to genuinely move on.

I mean they were definitely mutually pining in varying ways and varying degrees post-break up. I think they just expressed it differently because of their different personalities. The one pining/the other one oblivious trope works both ways for them because they’re both repressed and stupid. The thing with the popularity of John being the one pining, is that it comes from (or plays into) this old idea of John being a tortured bisexual in unrequited love with straight-ish Paul, and I think it’s more fun if Paul is actually aware of his sexuality instead of bumbling through it because of several layers of justifications built up within his weird dynamic with John. Also, I like a subversion of a fandom favourite trope. Keeps the nutrients of our fandom soil rich and fertile.

[gwynbleiddyn]

it's been five million years since i had a lotro oc i was brainless about and i regret to inform everyone i'm back on my bullshit again

anyway this is ithilrion, or calantar, or cúronir, depending on who and when you ask, and he is my favourite brand of hard exterior-soft interior captain whose love for middle-earth is the only thing preventing his slow demise into the west etc etc

born amongst the noldor in vinyamar to parents of vanyarin descent, he came to gondolin under turgon's host and had a lovely time where nothing bad at all happened (part 1)

eventually he comes to the havens of balar and the city of avernien where he elects to leave tuor and idril and the survivors, and instead, spends some time on the peaceful isle under cirdan's stewardship. it's here he meets and befriends gil-galad over many years, and subsequently follows him to lindon at the turn of the first age

he remains at his king's side for even longer years still, up until the great battle of the last alliance where nothing bad at all happens (part 2)

after this, he returns to rivendell with lord elrond, and spends the following bitter years in defense of fornost, harrying angmar's forces until the war of the ring emerges.

mildly competitive. enjoys sampling dwarven ale. a terrible gardener. he's more akin to a tardigrade surviving several nuclear disasters than a great elven figure of songs and tales. he remains a deeply unelegant figure in diplomacy despite elrond's many years of wise counsel, but they eventually put their differences down to ithil suffering a severe case of noldorin-influenced stubbornness and pride.

[transingthoseformers]

Shockwave as foil to the astronomers: seeking to understand, but to use and control rather than to find a reason

In a way, yeah!!

Maybe it's one of the universe's small mercies they never meet

[faaun]

ive talked to a lot of ppl who have taken vyvanse now and i think ik a bit more on how i need to live on it

[witchqraft]

i thought i wouldn’t find another mother/daughter relationship in media that hits me as hard as melina and natasha but tissaia and yennefer came barreling towards me at full speed and i’ve done nothing but purposefully walk slower and stare them down until they hit me

[doveposting]

I won't lie, re-reading omen of the stars so I can more properly analyze Ivypool's early mentality and character has given me a newfound appreciation for her. I used to absolutely hate her guts, especially back when I started this project, but actually taking a moment to examine her instead of just grabbing passages that show her being mean just makes me like her more.

She is such a specimen and reading the passages in Fading Echoes where she interacts with the Dark Forest cats makes me genuinely wonder how I (or anyone, for that matter) could've possibly blamed her for that predicament. Also she's so much more complex than "the cat who is unreasonably mean to Dovewing" and I hate that I didn't realize that sooner. Cheers.