#and people would be ruthless

[pop-punklouis]

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[void-and-virtue]

Neil as a team captain is positively delightful, because making him captain is both absolutely insane and absolutely brilliant. It capitalizes on the passive effect of having one (1) Neil Josten (god knows the world couldn’t handle if there were more of him) on the team in the most efficient way. Like. I’m 90% sure that after spending some time around him on the same team, most people will look up to him completely awestruck for how much he has impacted their lives, but that’s just not what is actually happening here. I feel like what’s going on is this:

Neil is a terribly amazing choice for team captain entirely because Neil is a meddlesome little asshole who will forcibly fix all of his teammates’ personal problems and improve their entire lives for literally no other reason than that he needs them to be able to focus on fucking ball so he can win at sports. It’s not even that he genuinely cares about people and their well-being (apart from his original foxes). He just gets pissed when things aren’t working properly because it makes Exy annoying when the lineup can’t communicate. Exy isn’t supposed to be annoying. Exy is life. He’d meddle whether he is captain or not, but by making him captain, he has so much more official executive power at his hands. It’s like people are explicitly asking for him to do his worst. So, fueled by his own competitiveness and love for the sport, off he goes.

Neil is just as bad as Kevin when it comes to his Exy obsession. The major difference between them is that Kevin is endlessly tactical and he runs Exy with a focus on a technical and physical level entirely, whereas Neil’s approach is to look beyond a lack of practice and basically psychoanalyzing people on why they are not doing 110% for Exy. Kevin says “let’s run this drill 500 times, then we will inevitably be better”. Meanwhile Neil is scheming how to coerce and bribe people into life-changing decisions and long-needed healing, entirely because he wants to optimize playing a sport. Exy is a team sport, which is why this is the most logical approach his little Exy brain comes up with rather than minding his own fucking business. He looks at the team and is like “is anyone gonna whip this into shape? No?? I’ll fucking do it then cowards” and goes and does exactly that. It’s like he’s fixing the equipment so he can play.

I don’t think anyone except for Andrew is really aware that Neil really isn’t doing this out of the innate goodness of his heart, but because his personal brand of practicality involves the most convoluted and creative kind of scheming. I feel like Neil is a lot more selfish than people give him credit for. Sure, there’s people he cares deeply and unconditionally for, but that’s really not everyone. It’s fascinating to watch, especially because it’s not like he ever hides that he doesn’t particularly care, but people kinda assume he does, because why else would he put in this much effort?

Exy. The answer is Exy.

[lunamond]

In Episode 22, anime watchers get finally introduced to the new ship dynamic between Thorfinn and Canute.

Instead of innocent naive prince/feral murderchild, we get the in my objectively correct opinion superior version of:

Canute: I really wanna do some violence

Thorfinn: Don’t do violence 😜

Canute: But politics...

Thorfinn: 🥺

Canute: Ok

[howcouldtheyletmebeanadult]

So...

holy shit this conversation, i have. so many thoughts.

i'm like, 80% sonic is gonna face some kind of betrayal from either dread or nine

[bumblingbabooshka]

Janeway in 'Nothing Human' vs Tuvok in 'Resolutions' There's something here I know there is I can almost wrap my teeth around it.

[hailsatanacab]

new chap new chap new chap 👻🎉

[lgbtlunaverse]

It's a really heartwrenching sequence as it's happening but looking back at the part where jgy grabs jin ling as a hostage in guanyin temple I always crack up when he starts to assure everyone that he really likes a-ling, actually! He practically raised him, he really doesn't want to hurt him so don't worry and please just do as he says.

A-yao. Sweetheart. The point of taking a hostage is that the people you're negotiating with believe you're going to kill the hostage so you can use their wellbeing as a bargaining chip. Saying "Oh yeah I really like this hostage I don't want to hurt him" kind of ruins the point of a hostage. What are you doing?

[detshin]

With all the hype going on because of the hp game I'm just going to say:

Heiji in griffindor and Shinichi in slytherin.

That's all, thanks.

[royalvelvette]

Are vox and velvette trying to get charlie become the fourth member of the vees?, because having thr daughter of lucifer join you is a powerful move.

so-so. I don't want to say too much, because it's established... fairly early on (as in the first Vox P.O.V.) in what I have for the long fic so far, but you are correct in that it's a power move.

It just has less to do with Charlie herself (at first) because even before her failed interview with Katie Killjoy, she's considered something of a... non-issue? Weakling? Not necessarily a laughingstock (that doesn't happen until after the failed interview) but pretty much everyone knows she's a bit of a pushover who spends more time with her head in the clouds than her feet on the ground.

Charlie isn't held in particularly high regard by most sinners, let alone overlords, is what I'm trying to get at. Sure she's probably powerful given who her father is, but she's so adverse to using/demonstrating that power that she might as well be on the same level (or even below) them.

The Vees are not immune to this thinking. Vox just knows something that makes buddying up with the princess worth it, and the other two just kinda go... okay, sure. Might as well. They tend to trust Vox's savvy so long as Alastor isn't involved (which, in this AU, he is not - the Vees got there first).

[jadescornerofinternetinsanity]

i want it known that in a better world Regulus and Hermione would have gotten on like a house on FIRE

[supercalime]

[prettyboysdontlookatexplosions]

they never woulda done it for a million reasons including that basically everyone agrees splitting mockingjay into two movies was a mistake, but ballad of songbirds and snakes might be the first book to film adaptation in history that would have worked better as two movies

[jennycalendar]

willow enthusiasts who don’t get her thirst for power cannot truly be called willow enthusiasts. like that’s been the whole point since the beginning, guys.

[dutybcrne]

Thinkings thinkings of Fatui!Kaeya have been reawakened in reviewing Arle's teasers/animations

[gaycatastrophe]

okay but imagine if before going to the murder tribunal astarionmance resisting!durge went with astarion to cazador’s mansion and then failed to stop the ritual. after all of that. after getting their brain scrambled enough to separate the urge from their sense of self. after mutually tripping and falling over backwards in love with the one person who has a chance at understanding what durge is going through. losing control and trying to kill him once already. successfully making it through that night for him to reaffirm this isnt them, they can fight it……………all to lose him forever to his own Father.

durge would go mad with grief and probably would choose to usurp orin just driven by blinding need for revenge on cazador. whoof

[sideblogofthcentury]

26 y/o Eddie complaining about his tooth hurting but he can’t afford the dentist

Nancy: Eddie just use our insurance.

Eddie: I don’t have insurance.

Nancy: Yes you do, we all do.

Robin: I don’t have insurance.

Jonathan: Me either.

Steve: I just got kicked off of my parents’ insurance.

Nancy: You guys, we all have lifetime medical insurance as a benefit on our NDAs. Did none of you read the NDA?

Eddie: …

Robin: …

Steve: …

Jonathan: …

Argyle: Wait, you guys signed an NDA?

*everyone stares*