#and no death is never the answer

[afterthelambs]

The fact that the 3 people we see Akechi kill directly onscreen are:

okumura aka fast food elon musk

principal kobayakawa, who let a sexual predator run wild among students for years

the corrupt misogynist SIU director who sexually harasses Sae

And the fandom wants me to be upset at Akechi for that? Akechi (a teenager who was groomed into violence) is somehow the evil douchebag of the game? Every time someone yells that Akechi killed those people I'm hissing "omg BASED" under my breath

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

going through my old journals as part of therapy homework and i'm reading a section written in the emotional wreckage of a full-on breakdown when i get hit with this line:

There is never a satisfying answer to ‘Why didn’t they love me?’

like wow babe. good fucking point

[canisalbus]

If only Machete wasn't so distinctly white and waifish. Otherwise one could possibly use a lookalike to fake his death and just run away with vasco. But finding someone that resembles machete would be almost as hard as making the choice to end a life to save your own.

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[neymiiie]

I just want to see him again.

[yashley]

[14dayswithyou]

Redacted's reaction to you proposing to them?? (I love him so much. They deserve the world 😭)

✦゜ANSWERED: ME specifically proposing to him?? He picks up a metal chair and we immediately start brawling <3 I win because I got that dawg in me <3

In all seriousness though, [REDACTED] would be very emotional and might need a minute or two before you finally get an answer.

They want to say yes (there's not a single part of him that would ever want to say no to you), but he thoroughly believes that his true self is unloveable. [REDACTED] knows you'll get tired of him eventually, and you'll want someone... different. Someone who isn't so pessimistic or emotionally constipated.

With his Ren persona, it's all catered towards what you like and what you want, so there's nothing stopping them from faking it and switching things up once it starts to get stale. But with [REDACTED]? He can't change (or help) who he is. There are parts of him that even he feels ashamed of, and because of this, [REDACTED] truly believes you wouldn't want to commit the rest of your life with him.

...But if you've taken the time to appreciate, accept, and learn to love the real him — then he'll ultimately say yes.

[carlyraejepsans]

Sometimes I think I’ve got a good idea of sans character then I remember deep down I consider him kinder then papyrus and I have to come to terms with the fact that I have also fandom-fied him and it hurts, anyway congratulations on staying true to his character your the strongest soldier out there

lol don't beat yourself up. i wouldn't use "kind" as a qualifier, but i do think papyrus can come across as much blunter than sans. he's loud and banging and over the top in a way that exaggerates his other attributes, and one of those is his social awkwardness. he's shameless! both when he's being positive and uplifting AND when he's being a bitch. sans is more... contained. less vocal. but that's something that applies to his character in general.

more than anything i think—as jaded and more pessimistic as sans has become with time and his reset knowledge—both him and papyrus start from the same core personality. papyrus' kindness is obviously important to his character, but people tend to play it up too much in my opinion. he's just as capable of disregarding people's suffering and unhappiness for his own interests (empress undyne ending, king mtt ending, remaining our friend in spite of our actions) as his brother. he's just... very loud about his positivity and caring for other people and DOES want what's best for everyone... when it's not particularly inconvenient to him. lol.

[bookshelfdreams]

Saw a Take earlier today like "Ed stans have only 1 argument and it's accusing everyone who likes Izzy of being problematic" or something to that effect

and it made me think "Nah babe, you're not problematic. You're just wrong."

And then I thought. Huh. Why do I think that?

It's a perfectly respectable thing to read a text in a way it wasn't intended to be read. In fact, "reading against the grain", doing critical readings, shifting perspectives when engaging with a text - all of thee are important skills! You can, and should, do feminist, antiracist, postcolonial, queer, etc readings of texts that were never intended to be read that way. Hell, all fandom (often) is, is doing queer readings! Ask the text uncomfortable questions it doesn't want to answer!

However. It's pretty difficult to do a queer reading when the text already is a queer narrative. The questions you would ask the text if you did a queer reading, or a reading focused on gender roles, or similar things - those are questions the text is already actively exploring.

If you want to do a subversive reading of a text that is already quite subversive - what do you end up with?

"What's the story like from Izzy's perspective?" is a question ofmd deliberately doesn't focus too much on because Izzy's perspective is the default and ofmd wants to challenge that. There's a reason the angry white man is the antagonist in this show, and if you ask "Okay, but could he be right though?" you're missing the point.

Or rather, you're turning everything that's interesting about ofmd back around. You're asking "Okay, but why don't we focus on a white perspective that strictly adheres to oppressive power structures?" of a narrative who already asked itself this question and gave the answer "Because that's been done enough and there are other stories worth telling."

And I think people are aware of that, which is how we end up with completely bizarre takes like "Izzy has the only queer character arc". He hasn't, but he has the only arc that a queer reading can be done on - for everyone else it's text, plain and simple. Refusing to engage with that text in favour of centering Izzy is basically doing a heteronormative reading without being willing to admit it to yourself.

And no, interpreting Izzy as a queer man doesn't change that.

[nelkcats]

Death Companions

It is said that all people have a partner, one that is predetermined; some are platonic soulmates, others romantic soulmates, but the main thing was that they were meant to be by your side, understand you, and not always support your decisions.

They were more like a kind of impulse control, someone to help you see beyond your choices and thoughts. While they were "meant" to understand you, that doesn't mean they supported all your decisions without complaint. Some would say they were there to help you be a better person.

But there was a catch: no one would know who their companion is until they die. Maybe it was a cruel twist of fate, that you would be forced to live your life without any clue as to whether you were doing it correctly. That you might never meet your partner in your life, that you would only have each other until all the stupid tests ended.

A way for the universe to say "fuck you" to humans who desperately wanted guidance on how to live. Or maybe, it was a way of telling them that there was no such guide, and that if they gave all the clues humans would never be free to make their own decisions.

So, maybe Jason Todd and Danny Fenton were the luckiest people on the fucking planet, for being the only ones who knew about each other, for being the only ones who could see that thread connecting them.

Personally neither of them felt lucky, dying was horrible, but at least the thread helped them feel less alone. Maybe someday one of them would be brave enough to follow it.

[cogentranting]

Strange New Worlds answered the continuity issue of "if Spock and Uhura served alongside Sam Kirk for years, why didn't either of them react in TOS season 1 when Sam dies?" by saying "because neither of them could stand Sam. Next question."

[deadlysoupy]

the thing that gets me the most about tfe bumblebee is how he actually hides stuff from the terrans and, by association, the audience

he gets asked multiple times about his altmode and he either evades the question or gives a very vague description and moves on. we don't get information out of him, so to say, but out of other characters. he had the chance to talk about it in the beginning of ep 11 but doesn't until hashtag finds his photo, they have to prompt him for it. and then later jawbreaker asks, too, but offends him. it's a touchy subject

he doesn't let people get close to him anymore. he's not as open-minded and trusting as we see him to be in different iterations, he doesn't share his struggles if he can help it. not because he's an adult, but because the war changed him (presumably). i hope we see this addressed in earthspark more, this idea is so unique for his character

still can't get over how he was in hiding for (i would guess) 15 years. it's not a lot for cybertonians, but for a social butterfly like bee (lmao sorry) it's probably been very boring and lonely. i don't think he's been communicating with autobots or other bots to not blow his cover or get tracked. this plotpoint connects with me so deeply because idw bee (my beloved traumatized victim of warcrimes and politics) had no one to talk to except starscream, of all people. i just constantly think about how he wanted comfort for years and couldn't get it no matter how much he wished

his insecurities are so subtle it's why i love his character in earthspark, i'm in general fascinated with how the show delivers plot and lore

[juniemunie]

"Well, when two people love each other very much-" "STOP RIGHT THERE"

//Okay but for real, Puss lived a good life.

...Every story ends at some point, right?

If you dont know, these poses are based off @/sihanjir from twitter

[aardvaark]

im so glad that we never get a clear picture of sophie’s background in leverage & i hope we never do. however i also really like making up various, often conflicting backstories for her in my head. perhaps they’re all backstories for an alias of hers, ones she laid to rest back in season two.

[canisalbus]

I think you've mentioned before that after Machete's passing, Vasco would eventually find another partner that he'd live out the rest of his days with. Do you think he'd tell them about Machete at some point? Or would he feel it's safer/easier to keep the stories and memories to himself? If he did tell his partner I'd also understand if he chose to leave out certain details, such as Machete's job, whether it be for general safety or a sense to protect Machete's privacy and reputation even though he's gone

I think the partner Vasco lives the rest of his days with is most likely his platonic wife Ludovica, the one he was already married to at the time he reunited with Machete in their early thirties. I can see him eventually starting to try to see other men again, and he might love them too, but the whole process of trying to open up to other people (after all those years and the way things ended) would be kind of lonely, frustrating and painful for the most part. Chances are none of his subsequent relationships would last very long. He'd probably grow closer to Ludovica and she would do her best to support him. I'm not sure how much of his 10+ years with Machete he'd be able to share with anyone to be honest.

[lokh]

its sooo fun how dungeons reveal the psyche of the dungeon lord like. thistles dungeon was so planned and meticulous but so full of ghosts and unravelling at the end. mithruns dungeon was apparently so convoluted and 'made out of jealousy, lies, anger and inferiority'. marcilles dungeon was like.... that lmao, everything being brought to the same level with no real regard for what that might do to the ecosystem, and laios' dungeon ultimately ends up spilling out onto the surface. becoming one with it you might say

anyways if you were a dungeon lord what would your dungeon look like

[spirk-trek]

"Jim, what are you doing?" "Digging a grave." "Poor D'Amato. What a terrible way to die." "There are no good ways, Sulu."

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