#and the controversy of them not doing anything to stop it it would be b r i l l i a n t

[beatora-truther]

hello b*tfam tumblr pls don’t send me death threats but here is bruce’s children ranked from who i believe is his favorite to his least favorite

1. dick

i think this one speaks for itself tbh. i don’t think you can read any comics featuring the two of them or even comics where bruce mentions him and not come out thinking dick is his favorite. bc dick has the unique and unfortunate distinction of being not just bruce’s son, but his son-brother-friend-emotional-rock. dick knows him better than anyone in the universe. that’s why he’s so willing to drop everything whenever he feels like bruce needs his help. even when bruce won’t ask it of him. even when it’s to his own personal detriment. because if not dick, then who?

2. cassandra

i think a lot of ppl say cass is bruce’s favorite because their relationship is so unique that it’s hard to describe. i think he and cass are the most alike, so he’s able to relate to her in a way that he can’t with his other children. they share the same unyielding values. they share the same self-destructive behaviors that neither of them can recognize as being self-destructive. they share the same inability to reach out to others. and most importantly, cass understands batman in the same way bruce does. it’s not healthy, but that’s par for the course when it comes to bruce’s relationships right?

3. jason

this is gonna be a controversial one especially to my mutuals bc i know a lot of you don’t like jason (neither do i lol). but you need to separate the resurrected jason from the memory of jason bc that’s what bruce does. the way part of bruce is still stuck in crime alley watching his parents die, there’s also a part of him still digging his son out of the rubble. he does a remarkably good job at keeping the memory of the young and happy jason alive in his head while the actual jason is running around gotham killing people. their relationship can sour but that memory cannot be touched. that’s why the memorial case stays up. this doesn’t change anything.

4. tim

another controversial one here. we must dismantle fanon’s belief that bruce and tim always had a father/son relationship. we must remember that tim had a father for the majority of the time that he was robin. dick was tim’s brother, but bruce was not tim’s father. that came later. tim having a living father didn’t stop bruce from growing to love and care for him, but it allowed him to keep some level of emotional distance. because another thing we also must remember is the ways bruce changed after jason died. how do you stop blaming yourself for your son’s death? how do you let another child take up the same mantle? what if you get him killed too?

5. damian

let me start off by saying i do believe that bruce loves damian so much. i also believe love and like are not the same thing. bruce has had conflicts with all of his children, but the difference between them and damian is that he’s had a lot of good times with them too. that’s why they’re all so loyal to him despite his glaring flaws. bruce and damian didn’t really have that. it’s been tense since day 1, and every time they seem to make any progress, it’s all undone. and if i’m being honest, i think sometimes it disturbs bruce to look at damian and see parts of himself that he’s always hated. maybe their relationship would be easier if he could only see talia.

[thetopichot]

•°♧ Auron Fluff Alphabet ♧°•

2/7 of the Yuuriboys. I'm working hard over here with these. These fluff alphabets are quite a creative workout for my writer's brain. However, this one was easy to write since I don't stop talking about this motherfucker. He's just too fine.

Anyway, enjoy!

CW: Suggestive

A = Abundance Of Love (Are they a loud lover that loves to express their love in many ways or are they a quiet lover that loves those quiet, intimate moments?)

This man is absolutely a quiet lover. As much as he wants to show everyone that you are his, the distance must remain between you two during office hours. However, when he does have you all to himself, you KNOW that man is gonna treat you right. He's more romantic than he says. He says that he's not a romantic type, but bro is holding you & telling how beautiful you are. Like, STOP LYING.

B = Brave (Were they the first to confess? If so, how did the confession go?)

Yes, he was & he genuinely thought that the confession would go worse. Maybe he was worried that you wouldn't like him. He does stay in his ivory tower alone, so he never got the chance to take an interest in anyone. When he saw you, though, he switched up real fast. Luckily, the confession went well & he was honest to god RELIEVED. I guess his ivory tower will be less lonely now.

C = Control (Do they take the wheel of the relationship or do they let someone else do the driving?)

I feel like he takes the wheel of the relationship. His whole story is basically about how one loses control & gets back on their feet afterwards, so expect him to take the wheel. Another thing is that he has this huge thing with taking care of problems without being asked to. If anything gets in the way of him or you, he will handle it accordingly. That is what he is supposed to do as his role in almost everything. Well, that's how he put it.

D = Dreamboat (What do they find attractive in their partner(s)?)

People would say that confidence is quite an attractive trait & they are right but listen, consider this; optimism. I feel like this is quite a controversial answer, but I feel like he likes more than just confidence. He likes a different kind of confidence. It's the fact that no matter the situation or who they are. You always find the best in things & the best in people. You believe that there is something more than meets the eye & he admires that. You see him more than just a cruel crime boss. You see him as him & he loves you for that.

E = Empathetic (If their partner(s) was in a not so good mood, how would they cheer them up?)

He's not really good at comforting people since he comes off as extremely blunt. However, that doesn't mean he isn't willing to try. He can try to comfort you with his words, but I feel like he would rather just hold you & listen to your rant. You ranting about your feelings & him holding you while you do that makes him feel like he's pretty decent at comforting. He's much more of a listener in rants.

F = Forgiving (If they had a fight with their partner(s), how would they apologize? Or would they be petty about it?)

Naturally, Auron would push people out of the way if they got in the way. However, you're not just people. You're his darling & the one thing he hates more than anything is to lose you, someone he cares about deeply. He probably was the one who initiated the fight since I know that man is stubborn & he will hold his ground, but there are more important things than pride. He is the first to apologize & he genuinely feels real fucking bad about it. He hates getting in arguments with you, but please reassure him that it's normal to get into arguments & that he doesn't have to push people away afterwards.

G = General (Random Fluff Headcanon)

Okay, I've been talking about this ALOT because it's important to me that I have this concept imprinted inside your hippocampus. I keep thinking about that one ATSV scene where Miles has this art page of Gwen. Are you seeing where I'm going with this? Auron just looks through your sketchbook to see an art page of him in there. He just looks at you & smiles. "I missed you, too." This is a bit self-indulgent jahqniajaiai

H = Home (How would they feel living with their partner(s)?)

HELL YEAH BROTHERRR 🦅🦅

He loves the idea of it. As much as he enjoys being alone, it's nice to wake up next to someone you love dearly. He's not safe from being domesticated & to be honest, he would let that shit happen. It could be your idea or his. It's up to you. In the end, just hearing your voice every morning is just soothing. LET HIM BE HAPPY GODDAMN IT 😤

I = Idealistic (What's their personal preference in a special someone?)

He doesn't take interest in timid people. He wants someone who knows exactly what they're doing rather than someone who isn't sure about their decisions. He wants someone who gets the job done. At the same time, he just wants someone a little more than that. Someone that just understands him. So throw that shit all into one quality & you get someone that is preceptive.

J = Jealousy (Do they get protective of their partner(s) when someone flirts with them?)

You bet your bottom quarter, except he doesn't really show it. He's cool, sorta calm, & collected. He's not gonna shout at them as maybe simple as a harmless flirt such as compliments like "Hey, you look very nice today." If they made you uncomfortable, on the other hand, he will be handling it. He ain't fucking around. If he gets jealous, it really depends on when we are talking about. If it's before you got together, then yes. VERY. If it is after you got together, not as much. You belong to him & he will prove the whole office if he has to.

K = Key To The Heart (What is something that will make them fall in love instantly?)

Bro fell in love the first time he saw you. He noticed that you dressed nice & how you were confident about getting the job. WHAT DO YOU MEAN?? He was HOOKED. It was love at first sight. I WISH I WAS MAKING THIS SHIT UP & I thought that I was DOWN BAD.

L = Luxurious (Do they spoil their partner(s) rotten? If they do, how do they spoil them?)

He is rich. You already know. However, I'm not gonna leave ya guys hanging with just that.

He likes to make his gifts very personalized for you. It's why he asks for your measurements, such as your fingers for getting rings or your ahem ahem NECK for uh suggestive reasons that I shall not disclose because we don't do NSFW here. So, I'm leaving that up to your imagination. Anyway, he does enjoy spoiling you mostly for him, though. There are some outfits that he wants to see you in. 😳

M = Marriage (How would they feel about getting married?)

I feel like he would like the idea of it. Of course, like anybody else, he would be a bit nervous about it. He's nervous because of how important this feels. It's something he HAS to get right in his eyes. So expect that man to plan this shit for MONTHS. This man might even rehearse before purposing to you. When everything falls in line, he does all of this fancy ass shit. He has this personal driver prepared to drive to a special location. I'm talking about a red carpet to the limo, then it takes you out of the city to a cliff that has a gazebo. You can see that fine ass man waiting for you & then you hop out of the limo. You see a trail of red roses & red candles lit.

You follow it & you meet your man all dressed up to the NINES. Like bro is dripped the FUCK out. Then he goes on to this speech on how much he adores you & how much you mean to him. Of course, the fine ass man gets on one knee & goes:

"Will you marry me?"

Bitch, YES.

N = Nobility (How honest are they to their partner(s)? Do they hide anything?)

As much as he trusts you, he does hide things. However, that doesn't mean he lies to you. He's unmoved by truth, but this truth is truly moving his ass. He did tell you that he is a criminal who killed more than one guy, but I feel like that as much he can tell you. The more you know, the more in danger you will be. He doesn't want you involved. He would rather you be unaware & safe than to be knowledgeable & in danger.

O = Overwhelmed (If they were in a not so good mood, how can their partner(s) help them out?)

Honestly. When he is stressed, he's definitely telling you not to worry about him. He always says that "I'm fine, rook. You don't need to worry about me." but in reality, this man needs comfort more than anything. During office hours, you could check in on him. Trish might find you suspicious for constantly going into his office, say, 6 times within the same 2 hours. Or a better, less suspicious way is taking care of him at home. Tell him to cancel whatever he's doing for the night & take a break with him. Of course, it's not gonna be that easy. However, persistence is key. He'll give in & just put his head in your lap. He enjoys the warmth that comes from your thighs, especially when you play with his hair. He might even fall asleep.

P = Passionate (What is something to them that means a lot to them that only their partner(s) knows about it?)

His writing. That's something he almost never shares with anyone. The only people he has shared it to were Charlie & of course, you. He finds his writings very important to him since they reveal ALOT about him, especially how he feels. Most of his writing recently has been about you, so he wants to keep his writing private. Bro is like me fr because I'm nervous when I show people my headcanons, so he's not alone.

Q = Quirky (Something silly that they do.)

On Auron's character design stream, Yuuri mentioned that Auron would own a multipen & I'm going add onto that. Auron owning a multipen reminds me of that kid in class who would write in a pretty font & make it cute when literally the topic is the most disturbing thing ever. That was Auron & still is.

R = Romantic (What is their love language?)

Call this man the Pokémon master because this bitch caught them all but if I had to pick a one, this might be controversial answer, acts of service. Just hear me out.

Auron does things for people without being asked to & never complains about it. He fully accepts the responsibility of taking care of everything & everyone, which leads to his love language being acts of service. He does go a bit too far & neglects his own needs because I believe that he doesn't see himself as a priority & there are other matters that are more important than himself right now. Please take care of that man because he needs someone to see him as a priority rather than something that can be pushed to the side for later.

S = Sublime (What is the best gift that their partner(s) can give them?)

He doesn't really ask for much besides your time & all of your love in return. He's not interested in getting gifts & he probably wouldn't want you to get him one since he's rich. Plus you do just fine as a present but you say fuck it & get him a gift anyway. The first idea was to get him a book, but that would be too obvious. You want something little more meaningful. You decided to somewhat write a half decent poem about how much you appreciate him. It's not the best writing in history, but he's enjoys that you put love & thought into it. That's enough for him.

T = Touching (How do they feel about PDA?)

Yeahhhh, probably not. He isn't really too fond of PDA, especially during office hours. He doesn't wanna look like he plays favorites, in my opinion. After hours is a different story because you two are alone & he has you all to himself, so he would rather that.

U = Undeniable (Did everyone know about their crush on their partner(s)?)

Nope. He is quite phenomenal at being discreet, plus who would anyone in their right mind would take interest in the boss? IT'S US ACTUALLY SUAJNAAUJA

V = Visionary (What do they want their future to look like with their partner(s)?)

My first initial thought was "Maybe, he might give the crime thing." but oh sweet Louie from 5 minutes ago, there is no fixing this man.

Although, I think he would want to move away from the city & go into this warm, cozy setting he's been writing about. I doubt he would give up the crime thing since that's his responsibility & a thing that was passed down from Faust's dad to him, but who knows, maybe he might pass it down to someone he trusts. Maybe he might become a writer & just enjoy his life with you. We may never know.

W = Wacky (General Fluff Headcanon. Again.)

I like to think the way he sleeps is just wrapping himself in a blanket burrito. I dunno I think it's funny. Crime boss in a blanket burrito is the most fire thing ever.

X = Xaroncharoo (Yes, that's a word. Look it up. In a domestic sense, what are they exceptional at in the home?)

Cleaning. He's making sure this house is fucking NEAT. Everytime I think about him cleaning, I think about those moms that clean the houses like hell because company is coming.

"I don't care if we have to throw everything out, rook. I want this place to look like a new mediterranean fusion restaurant by noon."

Y = Yearning (If their partner(s) went out to get something without them/went off to work, how would they feel about it?)

Z = Zonked (How do they cuddle?)

Jokes on you, you goober. You guys already work together as it is. So it's not a problem because he can just watch you from the cameras. However, if you went by yourself without him? He's probably getting you an escort to take to where you need to be. You insist on like, "Hey, I'm totally fine. I can just drive there & when I get there, I can just call you." or "My friend can pick me up, " & all of that. In the end, you have an escort to take you to Weis. He may not look like it, but he does miss you when you're gone.

Head first in his boobs. That's exactly what we're doing. He would probably hold you on top of him while you just enjoy the warm comfort of his boobs.

☆ミ Author's Notes Underneath ☆ミ

🩷 - Let's fucking go. 2 down & 5 more to go. This shit is definitely gonna take all of November & maybe December, too. This is probably one of the most biggest writing challenges I have worked on yet. However, it's good to get my writers brain going.

Another good news, I'm a sibling again! I have another sibling now & she is so silly. I'm happy to have another one, even though being the eldest sibling is such a pain in the ass. You just gotta do what ya gotta do sometimes.

[averys-happy-space]

putting this here more for myself than anything. i wanna be able to look back at it in a year and see how its changed. explanations for each section under the cut

ship i loved at first sight: tara x piper. i don't know what the ship name is. taper? pira? pira seems nicer lol. anyway, tara used to be my favourite brawler (and is still up there in my top 5) and i think the first time i saw tara x piper fanart was on reddit. it was by Xpyray and i swear to god ive never fallen in love with a ship faster. their art is so fucking good and they dont rlly draw brawl stuff anymore but i still follow them cuz their art is so so so pretty (please go follow them if youre reading this). anyway so yeah thats how tara x piper became my fav ship.

ships i initially didn't like: rico x piper, shelly x colt imma be fr at the start i didn't really Get these ships. but after watching some of the official animations and learning more of the lore, i started to appreciate these ships more. i don't love them or anything but they can be cute

ships i don't like anymore: sandy x nita, leon x jessie, sandy x leon there is no real reason for this other than the fact that i simply stopped liking them as i grew up. as i was making this i realised that when i was younger i used to like the ships with the kids/teens more, but now i'm 17 and i'm just not interested in them anymore. i guess thats what happens when you grow up lol. these ships are still cute, but i just don't engage with them anymore

favourite popular ships: mandy x chester, fang x buster so a bit of background, i actually quit brawl stars for a while, i think after the gale brawl pass. i dont really remember why, but its probably because i just got bored of the game lol. i think that also played into why i'm no longer interested in the same ships as before. anyway, i came back this year during the bizarre circus brawl pass and accidentally fell in love with these two ships. honestly, i'm not even entirely sure why i fell in love with these two ships in particular. chester definitely caught my eye when i came back to the game because a) i love clowns b) i love a good troll c) i love the random XD energy chester has and d) he has super interesting & fun game mechanics. i have no interest in mandy really but then i saw One suggestive mandy x chester fanart that went hard af and suddenly i was on board lmao. on the other hand fang and buster were two characters that i took some time to fall in love with, but now they're my favourites lol it's so strange. i really don't know how it happened.

favourite rarepair: amber x maisie i was looking at a diagram of all the trios so far because i was brainstorming ideas for who to include in a fanfic and as i was looking at it, suddenly it Clicked in my mind that amber x maisie would go hard af. like think about it. overconfident fire entertainer who gets so swept up in performances that she forgets about safety x safety coordinator with a fire extinguisher for an arm who secretly likes being in dangerous situations? come on!!!! im surprised more people havent thought of this pairing cuz as soon as it clicked for me it seemed like such an obvious pairing to do. but then again they've never interacted in any animation/promo material/etc so i guess it's not a pair people would just think of without prompting. but it's so fucking good!!!! more people need to get in on this ship.

controversial ship: none here's the thing. i don't know any controversial ships that i can see myself shipping. the most controversial one i know is probably edgar x colette but i see them as siblings so i don't ship it nor do i engage with fanart of them. edgar and colette ships in general are probably controversial seeing as both of them don't have canon ages and it's vague enough that people are always talking about whether they're adults or minors. but i personally see both of them as older teens so i don't ship them with anyone. (to me, they're too old to hang out with the kid brawlers but also too young to hang out with the adult brawlers. it's weird because there's no other brawlers where i see them as teens, so in my mind edgar and colette both have 0 shipping potential)

ships i want to become canon the most: amber x maisie, fang x buster they're my current favourite ships. what else to say.

comfort ship: fang x buster i think about them All the Fucking Time. lowkey i started to project on fang a bit just cuz i like him so much. i don't even know why or how i started liking him this much but he's my favourite brawler now and it's horrible. i think the seal in the coffin was @/giveittomegay's fanart of them. THEY'RE SO FUCKING CUTE. like omfg. confident, charismatic chinese immigrant who just arrived at starr park x introverted insecure white guy who doesn't know how to approach others. slowburn where they become closer through working at the cinema and buster realises he's fallen in love basically immediately but fang hasn't realised his own sexuality (has had crushes on girls before so always assumed he was straight) and doesn't realise he's in love with buster until maisie straight up tells him. fang's confidence means he jokingly flirts with buster all the time because he thinks it's funny to tease the guy and make him flustered but doesn't realise buster gets flustered because he likes fang. fang is fucking stupid. also, i think using fang x shelly here as a conflict plot point would be so good. like, fang seeing a pretty girl and approaching her, flirting with her, etc. i like to think fang is dense as fuck and would genuinely believe he's in love with shelly despite buster occupying 90% of his thoughts because his thought process would be something along the lines of "oh, i just think about him a lot cuz he's my best friend, i'm sure this is all regular, normal bff things". and buster just fucking dying inside but not saying anything because he thinks it's none of his business and he shouldn't interfere in fang's love life. MAISIE WATCHING ALL THIS HAPPEN AND WANTING TO MURDER BOTH OF THEM FOR BEING SO DENSE. like ohhhhhh my god there is so much potential here it's fucking insane. side note: fang doesn't have anything against gay people. i like to think maisie x amber comes way before fang x buster, so fang knows gay people exist and like he is perfectly fine and comfortable being around them, he's just so stupidly dense that he doesn't realise HE is gay (or more specifically bi). he also assumes buster is straight because default sexuality and whenever fang makes jokes based on this assumption buster never corrects him. because buster is a pussy. god. i want to write this fanfic so bad but i'm so fucking bad at writing dialogue it's insane.

ships that deserve more attention: amber x maisie, brock x bibi, barley x bull, max x janet LET ME COOK HERE OKAY. amber x maisie i already explained above. brock x bibi (i call them bibrock) is because it's noted in bibi's bio that she's secretly a huge nerd and i think it would be super cute for her to have a bf who she can indulge in nerdy and geeky shit with. to me they're both massive comic book fans who become close by playing all the superhero video games together before branching out to other games. they're console gamers btw and they get SUPER competitive whenever they're playing against each other. but they also do play coop games where they work together. usually brock is the one who does a lot of theorycrafting and tries to minmax his grind so he can get all the resources in the most optimal and time efficient way possible, whereas bibi prefers just going into fights and wrecking havoc lol. barley x bull is because they're both restaurant owners/servers (barley has his bar, bull has his diner) and i think they would bond over shitty customers and interesting food/drink recipes. they're both also familiar with having fights break out in their establishment and are fully capable of shutting fights down, even if it means getting their hands dirty. they think they're on opposite ends of the spectrum but they're actually more similar than they realise. for sure a very slowburn romance (especially because i think bull would be denial about liking a fucking robot lmfao) max x janet is because they're both celebrity entertainers. yeah, that's it. no but seriously i see max as someone who puts up an outgoing persona in public and is generally a very hyper, high energy person but at the same time, she tends to keep people at a distance because she's scared of intimacy. before janet, her closest friends are surge and meg. surge kind of Knows something is up with her because every time he tried to ask about her past she clammed up and gave noncommittal responses. he worries about her but doesn't know what to do about it so he just tries to make her happy in the present. meg is a kid so she doesn't realise anything is wrong lol. hanging out with meg and surge makes max happy and she considers them family, but she still has a wall up around her true self. janet is the one who is finally able to help max come out of her shell and address her past trauma. it also helps that max thinks janet is very pretty and desperately wants to kiss her. this is canon btw don't question me.

first otp: tara x piper | current otp: fang x buster i basically said all i have to say about these ships so yeah. that's it.

[justatalkingface]

No idea if I send this one before (I think not) but here we go. I think Izu op could have worked! Controversial take, I know.

I mean...if Hori hadn't this mentality "Izu needs to suffer bc I hate him" this could be a 0 to hero story as Izu ends up having a powerful quirk. But for that to work we would need a few things

(Note how Hori seems to love the underdog trope but failing miserable)

1) time skip. Izu cant master ofa in a few weeks. On that note, the second user cant be bk 3.0

2) a writer who is interested in explored the ofa and what it can do. Like, what if Izu can have a quirk awaken? That would be cooler.

3) senseis who know what they are doing and who helped Izu not only physically but mentally. Wouldn't be swell if Izu stoped thinkig he is worthless? If bk got consequences and Izu CAN be mad at him for what bk did? Yes it would.

4) and a sense of limit. Yes, I did mentioned how op Izu can work but if he gets too op and can face all the big bad villains, if he can use ofa 100%...it would be a bit stalled in terms of writing "dont fret, super Izu is here". It would be Izu repeat AM's mistake. What I would do is make Izu, who after proper training and well used time skip earned how to use his quirk safely, has a support group. Ochako, Iida, Shoto and whatnot. Meaning is not just Super Izu alone.

Friendship wins.

But of course....Hori didn't went to this route. And the timeline is really ....a joke.

Anyway, to end. I do think the concept of op Izu could have worked if Hori had stopped his hate for Izu and focused on the mc and developed more ofa.

I... have mixed feelings about OP characters in stories, mostly because they don't do them right. The thing is, an OP character, on the scale we're talking about here, because in chapter one, All Might sets that ceiling of OP way up there? That is someone so... stupidly strong that they actually direct national policy just by their very existence; quite possibly the world changes because they exist. And I feel that, most of the time, stories either: A, ignore the implications that this person can beat up God and isn't hiding that fact, or B, makes some shallow attempts at acknowledging it, but quickly moves on from those attempts so they can fight their equally OP enemies without giving it it's due.

The point being is that introducing an OP person is something a writer should use carefully, the same way they should treat time travel, if they're not just some villain driven off by the power of love, friendship, this gun I found, and the McGuffin used to beat them.

...However, MHA is interesting to me in that it started off by doing it better than normal, with All Might. The story starts by insisting that All Might is so damn broken that Japan itself actually worked differently after he heroed for awhile, even though, as far as we can tell, he did nothing to actually try and manipulate national policy or anything like that.

He just existed, and everything changed in response.

And, while I admit I wasn't thinking that hard about it when I first read the story, the initial set up actually was in a great place to work with an OP Izuku... if almost everything after the initial setup went differently, anyways.

Let me explain.

So, early MHA, those initial chapters, just hinted at a lot of depth to it. Philosophical, legal, societal; part of the reason I, and probably others, fell in love so fast is that it was approaching the usual super hero thing from a new direction, and seeming to acknowledge the flaws in such a system the ways other stories generally don't.

Back then, it was the difference between being a Hero, the job description, and being a hero, someone who saved people, and how wildly disconnected those two terms were. The disparity between the weak and the strong, Quirklessness as something five seconds from being called a disability, a heroic system that had been slowly festering in on itself, for years and years and years, until we get people like Mt Lady, who caused god knows how much property damage just to kill steal a villain away from Kaminio Woods, who had the situation under control.

Into this toxic mess of a situation walks Izuku Midoriya: kind, smart, beaten down on for all his life for being weak, yet determined to stand up for what is right anyways, blinded by childish naivety and propaganda to how fucked up the world of heroes truly is.

And the man who changed Japan with his mere existence gave him his power, the power to stand above everyone else, to do anything he wants, because once he masters One For All, the only one able to stop Izuku? Would be himself.

And here's where it would have to change: Izuku's conflict, for most of the story, is simply about fighting; not about right or wrong, not should he do this, but can he do this? There is something he wants to earn, or a person he needs to beat, and so he tries to do it. Sometimes he does it by being smarter, more often he does it by being stronger, and sometimes, and too often for my tastes, or at least at the wrong times, he just can't.

Hori gives up on all the things that made MHA so interesting, only giving them empty lip service from that point on, so he can just do the usual shonen plot.

But imagine if he didn't. Imagine Izuku's conflicts being about idealism. He's strong, unbelievably strong, the second coming of All Might, acknowledged as such by the man himself, who may even admit that he is retiring. In a fight, Izuku wins, plain and simple; hell, he may have to worry about keeping his opponents alive rather than if he can beat them or not.

But that's not where the problems come from, beating X person in a straight up fight. The problems come from the system itself: a machine made to chew up idealistic kids and spit out cynical, money hungry heroes. An entire department in UA devoted to selling an image to the public, ruthlessly trying to take advantage of the new students while they're too new to realize what's happening. A bigoted, self-important teacher who hates him just for what he is, and is determined to ruin his career because he can. A government agency determined to control heroes and direct them to their own aims, who take an interest in this budding super star, and their pawn, merciless yet conflicted, who will kill to see their will done. A media system determined to get headlines, no matter the cost or who it may harm. A Number Two Hero ascendant, cruel and calculating, who uses his own offspring as pawns and views Izuku as a threat to his rise. Villains who, knowing they can't take him in a fair fight, try to beat Izuku in other ways, more complicated and sinister than a simple fight. Festering in his mind like a dark secret, Izuku's entire life as a Quirkless child, despised by the world for being Deku, for being useless, an old pain and shame that still defines him and shapes him, even if he's not longer Quirkless.

And with all this arrayed against him and his dreams, all Izuku has to guide him onto the proper path is his mentor, wise yet cynical and broken in his own ways, and his own innate spirit of heroism. And the choices he makes? Effects millions.

Leaning into what they said they were about, the League of Villains would not be a bunch of crazed murderers, but what Hori wants us to think of them: people beaten down by society until they felt they had no other choice but to fight back. Toga who isn't a deluded serial killer, Spinner and Compress with more development, and yes, the Dabi Benchmark of Insanity(TM) to keep them all sympathetic, because their purpose here isn't just as villains who have to be beaten... their purpose here is also about how heroes react to them.

To a LoV who is milder in what they do, so they still get heroic ire, still get labeled as, 'villains'... only for them not really to deserve that label, the hatred they get from the public, and the force used against them.

And Izuku, who is no longer a spectator but on the front line, sees that. He sees how they're getting tarred by the brush of 'villain', the way they're getting discriminated against because of their Quirks, and the eerie similarities it has to his own treatment as a QUirkless child.

And yet, the ones doing it are heroes, the ones he looks up to, and all but worshipped for his entire life, the ones supported by everything he's seen in his entire life, by the entirety of Japan.

And that is where the conflict is, that is what the story focuses on: what is right? What is a hero? What is a villain?

...

Well, that's how I would do an OP Izuku story, anyways.

[mysticalibra1994]

If Floyd has a Boyfriend...

The reason why I put "If" is because out of all of the colorful and diverse characters out there, it kind of makes you wonder if being a part of the LGBTQ+ community is possible.

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If Floyd has a boyfriend, I can picture him being a cross of a Rock Troll from his late mom (she didn't get eaten by Bergens, instead, she got sick and the cure was too controversial to bring up) and Country Troll from his dad; he mostly takes after his mom.

His name would be "T-Bone" (sounds pretty "Rock" and is enjoyed mostly by Country fans), he loves trends (his favorite is "backpacking"), and he's extremely loyal when it comes to his loved ones.

T-Bone's very respectful when it comes to relationships; he never forces Floyd out to his brothers if he's not sure whether he told them or not.

After going on a few (or so) dates, you could tell how much they adore each other's company; thinking that it'll last forever... Then, suddenly, Floyd appears to be late. T-Bone starts to get worried; it's more than just "running late", something must've happened.

After accidentally overhearing John Dory mentioning that Floyd's been kidnapped by the Mount Rageons, T-Bone doesn't hesitate to try and follow him (using "Backpacking" as a cover). When Queen Barb notices this, T-Bone tells her "I'm sorry, your majesty. But, Floyd, he's more than just a friend. He's..."

Queen Barb assures him that she knows and she knew as they share one last embrace...

"Promise me you won't tell the others? I don't want them to worry about me." "I promise... Now, go get your man, you knucklehead."

After a few pit stops to freshen up (and to load up on essentials), T-Bone overhears not just John Dory, but Floyd's other brothers talking about the mission to save him. When he volunteers for the mission they ask of his relationship with Floyd...

"Uh... W-we're friends. Yeah, J-just friends. Unless if he's ever said anything else about me, then it could be more than that. But, if he didn't, then we're just friends. Yup..."

To which John Dory went "Cool, you can join us." and both Poppy and T-Bone have decided to talk for a bit.

"So, the way you talk about him... Do you, you know...? Like him?" "No," nodding his head, "I don't." "And those 'special meetings' was actually 'dates', right?" "No," nodding his head while smiling, "they're not". "Oh, T-Bone..." They embrace.

After a falling out with BroZone and Poppy, T-Bone chooses to go alone; he is still loyal to his boyfriend.

As he made sure he got there before Branch, he sighed with relief when he saw Floyd. But, his relief decreased suddenly when he saw the state Floyd's in; his hair was bleaching and his weak frame was fading from his talent. As the couple's eyes meet, all they can do is embrace between the diamond prison.

"T-Bone? T! Oh, how I missed you... Wait, how did you get here?" "It doesn't matter, what matters is that we're all here to save you!" "Wait, 'we'?" "Yeah, the queen of the Pop Trolls, Tiny Diamond, and your brothers! The latter is actually on their way." "No, you guys have to avoid this place!" "Wait, what? No, we've just got here to save you. We're not going back without you." "I don't care, you guys have to leave! Velvet and Veneer are on their way to kidnap all of you for your talent!" "I don't care," trying not to cry. "I love you, Floyd! I-I can't live without you..."

The sweet moment turns bitter when Velvet grabs T-Bone. "Aw, what a sweet moment... Too bad I hate sweets."

Now, they're locked in the same Diamond prison (it was Veneer's idea... he's not that heartless).

"D-don't worry, Floyd. We can get out. Just like the emergency brochures say: all we have to do is to aim for the corners." "T-" "Yeah, you get those corners, I'll get these-" "T-Bone, wait-" "-and then we'll b-" "T-Bone! Look, I've tried to escape. But, nothing can break a Diamond. Except for the Perfect Family Harmony." "But, we- we can't just give up. I can't..."

Floyd hates seeing him like this, so they embrace for what seems to be a while.

"I'm sorry... For all of this." "It's not your fault, Floyd. Nobody could've predicted this." "If it makes you feel better, I almost got to Veneer. It turns out that he's only 'evil' because his sister's forcing him to. I can see him coming, you know what to do..." "I know, but the last time I kept trying to sing that song, I couldn't stop crying. But, for you, I'll do anything..."

As Veneer comes into the room to look for something, T-Bone sings the first part of "Dreamin' Of You (Tonight)"; the one song that his late mom would sing along with the cassette player. Veneer starts getting flashbacks of that song in the movie that would make him cry during the first 2 minutes of it. It looks like it's working... Except when Velvet shows up to get their equipment set up.

The big showdown... Crimp got T-Bone out due to a secret latch that Velvet and Veneer don't know about. T-Bone is almost out, but when he turns around to see Floyd, his heart sinks; Floyd's too weak to sit up.

"F-Floyd?" "I'm sorry, I love you... Crimp, now."

Before T-Bone could say "Wait, what?", Crimp pulls him away from him and the diamond prison. Veneer noticed something, but he pretended not to. When Branch notices this, how T-Bone is looking up to where Floyd is being kept, and remembers the small convo he had with Poppy, he realizes something... Floyd has his own special loved one who was willing to give up his life and talent.

Then, after the diamonds had been broken, Floyd used the last remaining of his talent. Everyone could only watch as Branch caught the descending Floyd. T-Bone's heart breaks as his eyes well up with tears. Veneer saw this as he carefully carried the crying Country-Rock Troll in his hands. Velvet glares at her brother.

"Ugh, seriously?! You're befriending a Troll instead of harnessing its talent?!" "Haven't we done enough damage, Velvet?! Not sure if it's too late, but I am D-O-N-E finished with being evil."

Then, a miracle happened... Floyd's alive! The rest of the BroZone, Poppy, and Viva warmly embraces him. As Floyd looks up, he sees Veneer smiling (knowing that he's okay) as he carries T-Bone. As he gently pushes them away, Branch helps him to his feet once he gets all of his talent back. The bros were a bit confused when Floyd made his way to Veneer.

"Uh, Floyd? What are you doing?" "Guys, I'd like you to meet a very special Troll in my life. Veneer, let him down gently."

Veneer does so as T-Bone continues to weep. Floyd couldn't help but find this adorable.

"Hey, T-Bird. What's wrong?" "I-it's my boyfriend. He's g-gone from my life, that's what's wrong..." "Well, I wouldn't say that I'm completely gone from your life."

By the time T-Bone opens his eyes, he happily jumps into Floyd's arms in a loving embrace while everyone else watches.

"F-Floyd? How is this? I thought I'd never... Holy briquettes, I'm just so happy...!" "I know, smoky. I know... Let it all out." "I'm never letting you go!" "I won't hold it against ya!"

By the time they (eventually) let go, Floyd only had one thing to say...

"Guys, I'd like you to meet my boyfriend... T-Bone."

Then, his brothers surprised the couple...

"Oh, we've met him before." "Yeah, he seems like a nice guy." "I'm proud that you have someone in your life, bro." "What a lucky Troll you are to have him, he wouldn't hesitate to save you!"

Now, it's the couple's turn...

"T-Bone, you've done all of that for me?" "No, I did it for us. I even used Backpacking as a cover so the Rock Trolls wouldn't worry." "Oh, you smoked cherry..."

Not only did they embrace, but they also kissed with the roar of applause from the other Mount Rageons in the background. For the first time in forever, they feel complete.

[givemewallywestorgivemedeath]

Feeling very violent rn so here's a very controversial opinion:

Everything after season one of Young Justice sucked.

Look, I know I'm obsessed with the show but that doesn't mean it's good, it means that I'm too deep into it at this point to get out. There are good moments within the other seasons but in general? They were not good.

I'm sorry. I understand that they wanted to be creative and have a neat narrative and deep lore and all that. And they do! The narrative and lore is extremely deep.

But the plot? The characters??

Season one was an actual functional show that balanced character development, plot and dialogue with world building, lore and messaging.

The other seasons do not do that.

Season two bounced back and forth between like 16 characters. We got some development for some characters but even that was minimal compared to the character development in S1. And this isn't me complaining that the og group wasn't in S2 enough. That's not my issue. I would've loved to focus on a new group and I think that Jaime, Bart, Ed and Gar would've been super cool to focus on. I loved what character development they did have and I craved more.

But the problem? The problem is when you have 16 fucking characters that you are trying to develop and shove into a coherent plot and have actual meaningful scenes. There just wasn't enough focus on S2. Imo, S2 was meh because the characters got left by the wayside. The plot, dialogue, world building, lore and messaging was fine, there just seemed to be a lack of heart/warmth in the show because of the characters. It's hard to get invested.

Then holy shit. S3 introduced more characters. And the plot got more contrived and 'big picture' to the point that it started to abstract. It felt like nothing mattered. There were no stakes, you were just watching things happen. There was 50 fucking things happening an episode and 80% of it was lore/world building. It felt like I was studying for a fictional history exam.

I'm pretty sure the main character in S3 was earth 16. Just the entire universe. Because goddamn. We checked in on almost every living being and EVERYTHING was a plot point. Most of it wasn't even relevant to anything happening in the season. Man it was.... it was bad.

And at that point it just wasn't enjoyable at all to watch. I probably should've stopped watching but at that point the sunk cost fallacy had already kicked in. I knew it could be good. Maybe it could be good again. And people were constantly praising it as cinematic genius so I was like 'okay well maybe I'm missing the point? Maybe you aren't supposed to enjoy shows? Maybe this is fine?'

But season four broke me.

The creators heard that people were frustrated by the lack of character focus and the episodes following 72 characters and the episodes switching between 50 different subplots every episode and their solution? Their solution was to take allllllll the different unconnected plots and, instead of evenly spreading them throughout the season, jam them all into 'arcs'. So you had a bunch of mini seasons consisting of 3-5 episodes dedicated to a cast of ~5-8 characters (some of them new). And each of these episodes had unconnected a plots, b plots and c plots.

THAT IS NOT A SOLUTION

Holy shit that is not a solution.

Not to mention the overarching plot of the season, in which we had no fucking clue what was happening until the final episodes where everything became a speedrun to wrap everything up. We literally had no idea what the main plot was until it was ending.

Good god it was bad. It's bad writing!

I know people liked it and good for them. You should like what you like and you don't have to justify it. But for me it was insanity. I'm sorry I actually don't want a season long subplot where Beast Boy is depressed and sleeps all day. I would be cool with it if it had anything to do with the larger story but, surprisingly, spending five minutes watching Beast Boy sleep every episode didn't make for compelling storytelling.

I'm still not over how we didn't even know who the main villain was until the end of the season. And then all of a sudden he does a villain monologue to tell everyone his evil plan and his motives. Super cool actually. I love it when I have no idea what the stakes are for the majority of a show. It's incredibly good storytelling when you leave the audience in the dark about a major player in the plot for all of the plot. And then doing an info dump evil monologue in the final episodes to rush through the explanation??? Fucking fantastic and not a sign of terrible pacing at all.

I'm just so frustrated. The show isn't about being a show anymore. The show is an entire cinematic universe shoved into 20 something episodes. It's desperate to tell every single story at once, audience, pacing and good writing be damned.

I'm so tired of the constant praising of Greg. His whole 'i don't write endings because life doesn't have endings' and 'i don't write cliffhangers, I just leave things open ended' thing is pretentious bullshit. I'm tired of pretending it's not. A good story has an ending. Stories are not life! Some of the best shows I've ever watched had planned endings. And oh my god. The cliffhanger thing... that's just semantics my guy. Greg you write cliffhangers. You can insist they aren't but I'm going to call a spade a spade.

It's also.... I'm fine with explaining things, in fact I love it because it's an excuse to talk about the stuff I love, and I have a fairly decent knowledge of comic book lore. So, I could not only understand what was happening in the show but I was also super enthusiastic about explaining it to people. But hey Greg? Hey buddy? If 90% of your audience doesn't know what the fuck is going on and needs to be familiar with super specific obscure comic characters from the 70's then you might have a problem.

I think I realized halfway through s4 that the most enjoyment I got from an episode was when an obscure comic character would cameo in it. But then I realized that a) they generally weren't explained at all and b) 50% of the time they weren't just hanging out in the background and they were vital to the plot. So to understand who the fuck they were and what the fuck was happening you had to be familiar with... well all of DC comics actually.

Anyway this rant is getting long and unhinged and I don't think there's a point so I'm going to cut myself off even though I have so much more to say on the topic. I think my general point is just that I didn't enjoy watching the later seasons and it's chill if you did and we should all respect each other's opinions ✌️

[pureblood-and-mudblood]

Dramione is the het ship between Draco Malfoy and Hermione Granger from the Harry Potter fandom.

Canon

As Draco was raised with violent disgust for Muggle-borns, he treated Hermione with disdain. Hermione's friends and herself shared a strong enmity to Draco from virtually the moment they met, and her beating Draco in school marks, for which his father berated him. From time to time, Draco would call Hermione a mud-blood which usually set off the temper of her friends and once the Gryffindor Quidditch Team. Most of the time, Hermione would ignore Draco but occasionally snapped back at him and in their third year, she even punched him.

some parts of the saga, Draco even seems obsessed with Hermione. Even though he considers Muggle-borns to be inferior, he hasn't ever picked on one other than Hermione. In the second book, when the basilisk is released, he wishes for Hermione to be its next victim. In GoF, when the death eaters appear in the Quidditch World Cup, Draco appears near Harry's tent and advises them to get Hermione out of there if they don't want anything to happen to her. He even makes a comment about her knickers. In another scene in the same book, he overhears Ron talking about Hermione's dancing partner and he makes a surprised comment about that "know-it-all" having found a date. When Hermione walks into the ballroom, Draco just stares at her and, quoting from the book, "even he didn’t seem to be able to find an insult to throw at her".

At various points in the books he acknowledges Hermione's intelligence. For example, when he finds out about the DA and the charm Hermione made with the coins, he takes notes and uses it to communicate with the Death Eaters he wants to get into Hogwarts. In the 6th book he stops messing with her (coinciding with the imprisonment of his father, who incidentally in the 2nd book tells Draco off for Hermione getting better grades than him.

In spite of his dislike toward Hermione, Draco was reluctant to confirm her identity when he was asked to do so by his parents and aunt Bellatrix, avoiding even looking at her. As an adult sobered by his wartime experiences, Draco was civil, if not friendly, towards Hermione and her friends.

Fanon

Dramione is among the most popular ships for both characters.

Fanon

Dramione is among the most popular ships for both characters.

On AO3, it is the most written ship for Hermione, followed by Hermione/Ron, and the second for Draco, bested only by Draco/Harry. It is also the third most written ship in the Harry Potter fandom.

It is one of the most controversial ships in the Harry Potter fandom, due to Draco bullying Hermione and calling her racial slurs. However, many fans believe that Draco is reformed and became a better person, and others like the Good Girl/Bad Boy dynamic. Some also reference the fact that Emma Watson had a crush on Tom Felton to prove the legitimacy of the ship.

A Very Potter Musical

Throughout his first two years of Hogwarts, Draco has a particularly serious crush on Hermione. He wanted a rocketship and Hermione. It's not until after Hermione turns him down after her first year when Draco has returned to the past, that he realizes that he should move on considering "what a b***** Hermione is". Draco later meets Luna Lovegood in the Forbidden Forest while waiting to catch up to his time.

Trivia

Rowling was not in favour of this pairing.[1]

Tom Felton, who portrayed Draco in the films, references Draco/Hermione in two chapter titles from his memoir Beyond the Wand — "The Potter Auditions or When Draco Met Hermione" and "Dramione or The Chicken and the Duck."[2]

[lauralot89]

Big Long Nail Care Post

I got into nail painting during the pandemic, partly because I was bored in lockdown but mostly because washing my hands constantly was making my terrible hangnails even worse, and I figured if I was painting my nails, I'd have to pay attention to my hands and that would help me stop going all Black Swan on my cuticles.

Anyway, I have amassed more knowledge than anyone needs about nails, polish, and nail care, so hopefully this information is of use to somebody.

Natural Nail Care

Cuticles

Image taken from Dipwell.co

The cuticle is dead skin that builds up at the base of your nails. It exists to cover the opening where the nail emerges from your skin, to protect against infection. However, if too much skin builds up on the nail, it can become inflamed or snag on objects, peeling back and damaging the living skin it's attached to. To prevent this from happening, you remove the cuticle by pushing it back or cutting the dead skin away.

Cuticle Remover

A cuticle remover is a solution that helps to soften the cuticle skin, making it easier to remove. Sally Hansen Instant Cuticle Remover is available in pretty much every US drugstore, but there also are vegan cuticle removers and homemade recipes. For some people, just soaking their nails in warm water is sufficient to soften the cuticle.

Pushing Back Cuticles

After softening the cuticles, use either the flattened end of an orange stick or a cuticle pusher to push back the cuticle. Apply gentle pressure and do not jab the tool into the base of your nail. Use small back and forth motions until the cuticle is removed. This process may look torturous, but because the cuticle is dead skin, you don't feel anything.

This is hard to describe in text, so here's a video:

NAIL CARE ♥ PERFECT CUTICLES

Cutting Cuticles

Cutting cuticles is a controversial decision. Because the cuticle exists to protect against infection, cutting too far and causing an open wound is a health risk. If you choose to cut your cuticles, be aware of the risk. Make sure your cuticle nipper is washed before use, and wash your hands before and after cutting. If you accidentally cut yourself during the process, wash the wound and apply an antiseptic.

How to ACTUALLY Cut Your Cuticles

NAIL TRANSFORMATION | how I CUT CUTICLES at HOME | Basic Tools ONLY

Nail Oil

Nails that are hydrated are less prone to breaking or peeling, whether at the cuticle, the free edge, or anywhere in between. Nail oil can be purchased ready made, or you can use jojoba oil. Many jojoba oils come with a dropper, or you can buy an empty twist pen, fill it with oil, and refill it once you've emptied it. If you find jojoba oil on its own is too runny to work with, mix it with a small amount of Vitamin E gel.

As with all skincare products, test for a reaction on a small, inconspicuous area of your skin before using.

To use nail oil, apply a small amount to the base of the nail. Rub it around the nail base, across the nail itself, into the sides of the nail, and under the free edge of the nail. Repeated as needed.

If you are wearing nail polish, apply the nail oil at the base and sides of the nail and under the free edge.

Nail Shaping

Nail Clippers

If you are not trying to grow out your nails, using nail clippers to cut them is fine. If you are trying to grow your nails, filing is better than clipping because the pressure that the blades of the clipper put on your nail can cause the nail to snap lower than intended.

Nail File

Glass nail files are preferable over emery boards, as they last longer and are less rough. Nail oil needs to be applied before any sort of filing so that the file does not crack the nail or split the layers of the nail. File your nails in one direction at a time rather than back and forth so there's less risk of breakage.

Do NOT file your nails after a shower or bath. Water seeps between the layers of your nail and they are more prone to splitting.

How to FILE and SHAPE your nails like a BOSS

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Nail Buffers

Unless your nails are very thick, do not buff your nails. Buffing the nail means sanding down the top layers of your nail plate, making it thinner and more prone to breakage and splitting.

If your nails are ridged, look for a smoothing base coat to fill in ridges. If your nails are stained from dark polishes, do not buff or whiten your nails. Use a base coat before applying polish. Look for a base coat that prevents staining.

Why yellow nails DON'T MATTER / Don't whiten your nails

Nail Growth

Nail hardeners do not help your nail grow; they actually make the nail more prone to breakage by making the nail plate stiffer and more likely to snap rather than bend when stressed.

Nail oil helps the nail stay hydrated and flexible, which makes it less likely to break. A non-hardening nail polish can also help protect nails without making them too rigid.

If your nails are very brittle or will not grow at all, seek medical advice.

How to GROW YOUR NAILS FAST*!!! (actually helpful information)

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Nail Problems

Sudden changes to your nails should be examined by a doctor. While some issues with nails, such as ridges, can be related to age, skin conditions such as eczema, trauma to the nail matrix, or other relatively harmless causes, some issues can be signs of serious underlying conditions. Your doctor will be able to advise how to treat any changes to your nails and whether you would benefit from biotin vitamins or other treatments.

7 fingernail problems not to ignore

Ridges in Nails

7 Causes of White Nail Spots (And When to Be Concerned)

5 Causes of Thin Peeling Nails and How to Care for Them

Nail Fungus

Broken Nails

Depending on the severity of the break, a broken nail may need to be filed or cut down to the breaking point. For less severe breaks, the nail can be patched until the break grows out.

How to Fix a Broken Nail With A Tea Bag! | natural nail repair

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Nail Polish

There are three main formulas of nail polish: solvent-based, water-based, and gel.

Solvent-based polishes, also called oil-based polishes, are the standard nail polishes you find in most stores. They consist of pigments suspended in an oil or solvent base. When the base dries on the nail, the pigment is left behind. These polishes are the easiest to find and to use.

Water-based polishes suspend their pigment in water rather than a solvent. They do not have the strong odor associated with traditional polishes. However, they can be difficult to remove. I would recommend using a water-based peel-off base coat with water-based polish for easier removal.

Gel polishes do not dry with exposure to air; instead, they need to be cured with a UV light. Gel polishes are known for their durability and are often used in salon manicures because they will last for a month or more. Removing gel polish is a long process that involves soaking the fingertips in acetone, which can leave the underlying nails thin and brittle.

I have never used gel polish, but here are two video tutorials:

DIY Gel Nails! how to do gel nails at home

Apply & Remove Gel Polish Perfectly At Home

Types of Nail Polish:

Base Coat: Typically clear, this polish goes on your bare nail to help the polish adhere and last longer. There are various types of base coat depending on your needs: Long-lasting base coats, smoothing base coats, peel-off base coats, stain-blocking base coats, and more.

Creme: The most common type of a nail polish, a creme polish is an opaque colored solvent.

Jelly: Jelly polishes are colored but translucent.

Glitter: A clear or jelly base with glitter suspended inside.

Holographic: A polish containing holographic pigments or glitters which refract light and create a rainbow effect.

Clear: A colorless nail polish. Often used interchangeably with a top coat, but not all clear polishes are top coats.

Topper: Also separate from a top coat, a topper is intended to be painted over a creme polish. It may contain glitter, confetti, or other decorative elements.

Top coat: A hard clear coat that protects the paint underneath from damage and chipping. A quick dry top coat will surface dry within minutes, allowing you to go about your life without ruining your nails so long as you don't dig them into something. Get yourself a quick dry top coat, it will save your life.

Most top coats have a glossy finish, but there are matte top coats as well. Matte top coats typically have a mattifying effect without protective qualities, so you may want to apply a matte top coat over a regular top coat.

Note: Because quick dry top coats harden with exposure to air, the polish will become thicker the more it is used and the more air gets into the bottle. This is true of all polishes but happens especially fast with quick dry top coats. For this reason, I recommend buying a nail polish thinner.

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Other Products

Nail Polish Remover: Typically containing acetone. Water-based polishes may require their own specific removers.

Nail Polish Thinner: Used to thin nail polish and make it easier to spread.

Clean Up Brush: An angled brush that is dipped in nail polish remover and used during the painting process to remove any polish that got on the skin or in the cuticle. You can use a q-tip or regular paintbrush for this purpose, but the bristles of a clean up brush will be less damaged by acetone exposure than a regular paint or makeup brush.

Striping Tape: A thin tape that is laid on the nail to help keep lines straight and even when painting stripes. Can then be removed or left on as a decorative element.

Nail Vinyls: Stickers that are placed on the nail temporarily during painting and removed while the polish is still wet. They may be used to paint the white edge of a French tip manicure, or they may be used to make a more intricate design.

Nail Powder: A nail polish alternative that is buffed into a base coat. Typically a gel base coat is used.

Striping Brushes: Very thin brushes used to paint fine details on nails.

Dotting Tool/Bobby Pin: Used to create small circles on the nail.

Stamper/Stamping Plate: A silicone stamper that lifts a nail polish design off an etched metal plate and transfers it to the nail.

Makeup Sponge: Can be used to more densely pack glitter polish onto the nail. Can also be used to create a gradient effect with different polishes on the nail.

Painting Your Nails

Begin by rubbing the nail plate with rubbing alcohol or pure acetone. Do not use a nail polish remover containing a moisturizer. The purpose of this step is to dry out the nail plate to help the polish adhere, so moisturizers defeat the purpose.

Apply a base coat. Leave a small gap between your nail plate and your cuticle where there is no polish. Once the base coat is touch-dry, apply as many layers of your main color as needed. Once finished, apply a quick dry top coat. The top coat will be fully dry in roughly twenty minutes and surface dry very quickly.

Note: Clean up mistakes as you go! Polish on your skin becomes harder to remove and stains more the longer it dries. Make sure that you paint the tip of your free edge with the base coat, top coat, and at least one coat of your color. Doing this helps the polish to adhere and makes it less likely to chip. You can do this on short nails as well, you will just need to clean the surrounding skin with remover once you've painted the tip. If you get the polish in your cuticle, you can clean that up with the brush as well. To help your manicure last, avoid submerging your hands in water for extended periods. Use gloves when washing dishes.

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[dearweirdme]

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I know you're a relatively new fan, Rain so this isn't aimed at you or anyone who wasn't here then or took a different stance than the one I'm calling out (including OP if it applies) but I wonder where all these voices where when we were calling for a boycott when Bang decided he was going to piss all over BTS work with the UN and take BTS to Saudi Arabia to help participate in the whitewashing of crimes there, especially those towards Yemeni people who BTS were campaigning for one minute and dancing for the benefit of princes and politicians committing atrocities against them the next.

Where have y'all been since then? What's keeping y'all from talking about and calling out that, even now?

If we're going to do this then can we at least expand the moral outrage to everywhere that it applies? Because the decision over Saudi would have been the prime time to cut the monsters head off before it got too greedy and gained too much power but it was near impossible to have our voices heard back then without facing vitriol, doxxing and abuse.

I really hope this boycott works, I do, although I fear it's too little too late at this point because this fandom in general already sent Bang PD a big fat message that anything goes when they shut down protest over Saudi Arabia.

HYBE doesn't give a flying fuck about our opinion because they know they don't have to. I don't judge anyone who feels like the machine is too big at this point or that protests and boycotts won't land where they should and hurt the people they should because its ARMY who have already long laid the foundation for that kind of perspective and not only built the sandpit for men like Bang PD but guarded the gates for him to play in it. Now I see a lot of blame shifting towards newer fans who came into this shit already jaded and knowing what kind of company they were dealing with and at a time when that company has already grown way out of control because fans who had a better chance of forcing a difference before HYBE got to big for their boots didn't want to act.

So if you're a fan reading this or responding to these asks who was in the fandom back then and weren't calling for the same response or are STILL not acknowledging what it meant for BTS to perform in Saudi Arabia then you're a hypocrite and you are in no place to be throwing stones at glass houses now about how people do or don't act. Not until you accept your own responsibility, at least.

And I know y'all hypocrites exist because I've seen some very familiar names on socials calling for action now who were very active in telling the rest of us to shut up and stop complaining then.

And if you were here for the Saudi controversy but are surprised now then I fail to see how because the writing has been clear on the wall since then that Bighit, HYBE and everyone behind the BTS machine were never willing to put their money where their mouth is and the charity work was performative, from the company perspective at least.

If you really got shocked and swerved over Palestine and HYBE getting into bed with the likes of Sc**ter B*aun then you haven't been paying attention to exactly who you've been giving your money to all these years since.

You've already been helping to expand HYBE's greed and influence and whitewash genocide in Saudia Arabia with every album or bit of merch you've bought since. Sc**ter didn't infect HYBE with some sort of 'not giving a shit' disease...birds of a feather flock together. That's how the entertainment industry works in general. If you're looking for clean hands or wholesome billionaires then you're looking in the wrong place. You might as well boycott everything you own and consume that isnt produced by a small or independent business. If you thought that's what you were getting with HYBE even before Sc**ter then...lol.

If y'all want to criticise, try accepting your own complicity and inaction in letting it get this far in the first place.

I personally haven't been buying BTS content for a while now because I don't agree with HYBE's corporate model but if you are one of those people reading this and seething on your Apple Iphone, writing a response from your Apple Mac Computer while sipping a Pepsi and wearing your fave sweatshop sweatshirt that you bought from Amazon who were telling us to sit down and shut up when it came to Saudi Arabia then I hope you are feeling pretty shitty right now because what HYBE has been allowed to grow into and is beating people with an even bigger stick is partly your own fault so who TF are you to criticise anyone from your perch when you had a much clearer perspective of their long game?

Hi anon!

Thanks for this contribution. Army has its own history aside from BTS, and it’s way harder to grasp that in its entirety because it’s not documented clearly (as opposed to BTS).

On this note I’ll leave this discussion for now.

[majaloveschris]

But she just had to be a racist who associates with nazis, posts nudes online and her hanger on friends are trolling the fandom / I might b wrong but i feel like 99% of her controversey could've been avoided had she just cleaned up her socials. Like scrub the sugarbaby finsta, unfollow kiko so you aren't linked, untag yourself from the bindi pics on IG, don't post the stripping video and tell your friends not to troll. How hard is it to do that? Like why does she have no common sense?

I somewhat agree! I don't even understand why her team didn't tell her to do that. They should've done a big cleansing before the whole Las Vegas thing, and that definitely would've helped the situation. However, I think both Justin and Kiko should've done the same thing. Joana seems okay, or maybe she is smarter than the other three combined and deleted everything controversial she's ever posted, or she just didn't post them no matter what she thinks, or she is just a better person.

I'm not sad these things came out about them because at least we know what kind of people they are. But from their perspective, it's really hard to understand why none of them thought these things would backfire on them. It makes no sense to me.

The nude video will always be something I can't understand. Whether it was for revenge, whether she posted it so she could deactivate her account, or because of something else (because I don't believe it was an accident or that somebody leaked it), I just don't see the point in that video. I would never post anything like that about myself. But we are all different.

I'm 100% sure that Alba would never ask them to stop trolling. Maybe if this were a real thing, she would've. But the fact that they keep trolling and that they basically enjoy the attention they are getting shows me that the only thing they care about and want is for people to talk about them. They don't care about the relationship or anything like that. I've always said, and I still stand by it, that if this were a relationship, there would probably be zero trolling.

[junebugwriter]

I feel like Christians really missed out on the opportunity to have great theology when we opted out of having a Talmud. I mean, sure, there's good stuff in our tradition, but nothing beats "records of vigorous debate with no clear authoritative outcome by DESIGN."

There's a lot of reasons for this of course. Christianity as we know it was formed not out of any truly organic system of events. Sure, there were churches spread out all over the Roman Empire, but before the Constantinian institution of the religion, but it was not The Church. The Church was a creation of an imperial mandate, a transition from superstitio to religio. Constantine converted, and made this loose league of small churches into what would become Christianity. Until then, it retained much of this Jewish flavor.

The first major controversies of the church happened after the Edict of Milan. It was in these Councils that the "authority" of the Church was first exercised. It was in these Councils that the first heretics were defined, and exiled. It was the death of the loose affiliation structure that Christianity was born with, and it was this shift from multiple interpretations of theology -> authoritative, singular dogmas that set the tone for all future Christian theology.

WHEREAS, Judaism never truly shifted like this. Jews remained persecuted until... well, they never really stopped being persecuted. They still survived, though, and through these loose affiliations with an emphasis on local community that it retained their theological flavor. Jewish theology also has a very different intent than Christian theology does. Jews do not proselytize. They do not "convert" others, and if someone does convert, it is a long, involved process by design.

It is simplifying quite a bit, but really from what I have learned in my rabbinic studies course and a lifetime of learning is that the singular question within Jewish theology is: "How does one live as a good Jew?" Everything else is in service to ethics and practice. You keep these practices, you observe these laws, you live in community as a Jew, and that's the whole thing. However, this by no means implies that Jews are "legalistic"-- far from it! But it does mean that religious practice is a much more, well, practical in nature.

You keep to the teachings of the Torah, you tell the stories, you celebrate the holy days, but more than anything, YOU LIVE. You live to see the next generation of Jews survive and keep up the practices that have kept Jews alive for millennia. Maintaining community and living as a cohesive community is essential to Jewish theology and Jewish practice. And, as any community does after it's been around for millennia--you argue! And boy, does Jewish theology have some incredible ongoing arguments!

This is retained in the structure of their writing, too. You know how I said the Talmud is a record of the arguments around their practice and teachings? This is what a page of the Talmud looks like:

This is what it looks like to have different voices arguing different things about a theological text! The center bit is the "Mishnah," the core text, the law or teaching in question. The outer stuff? That's "Gemara." That's analysis and commentary.

(Important note: I am not Jewish. I am a Christian theologian, and am far from an expert in Jewish theology. Please, do not take my word for everything, Jewish folks are far more knowledgeable about their faith than I am, and I defer to their wisdom. I am simply observing the theological character of the two faiths here.)

COULD YOU IMAGINE if Christianity kept this kind of structure in our theological texts? If we recorded the arguments of particular ideas or teachings, practices and concepts, and put them surrounding the text, fighting for space, with no clear winner? Christian theology has the character of a single person talking to a crowd of people, telling them what to do, what to think, and how to live. Jewish theology has the character of a BUNCH of people talking about a text, coming away with several opinions, then breaking for dinner.

Christians, and especially Christian theologians, I implore you, PLEASE take a class in Rabbinic Studies. I did, and it completely revolutionized how I think about theology, about our origins and how we live our faith. I think Christianity is poorer for losing this conversational structure. I think we have lost the capacity to reasonably converse about our faith, in favor of establishing an authoritative doctrine for the purposes of control.

What I'm saying is we need to introduce a bit of anarchy into our theology. Just a bit. Lose the infatuation with control and authority. Embrace chaos. Embrace mystery. Embrace multiplicity.

But more than anything, ANYTHING--Embrace community. A faith lives and dies by its community. Our common eating with one another. Our common life together. Our community rhythm. And learn from how others live. Your faith will be that much richer for it.

[satindupe]

heyyyyyy ( with the intention of getting you to plot with me ) this is a second muse so i hope you're interested in meeting miss yang taeri, because she likes to be everywhere at the same time! her profile is up here and anomaly here, below i'll give her background and some ideas for plots. please like this post and i'll come to you, or let me know if you prefer discord b/c i sure do!

yang taeri, 23, textile & fashion design major with self replication

ok now that that's out the way, she was bork in new york city, usa! went by the english name madison. her family did well for themselves because her dad was an it manager, but her mother was an anomaly with psychic powers and fully leaned into the occult. well known within the city and charged people for readings and what not. a controversial figure due to it, but people kept coming to her in an attempt to deal with lifes uncertainties.

not only to mention that taeri is the oldest out of 3 and looks nothing like her younger siblings. at all. only vaguely looks like her mom. like come on, as she grows up she knows she's mixed but it's not something that her parents bother talking about, with her or even each other, just settles as the constant elephant in the room. eventually she learns to stop asking.

but! taeri is cute and charming and not at all odd like her mother and so people just learn to ignore that part. she still gets invited to things and does well in school because she doesn't talk about her mom and people just know that she's not going to be like her.

but mom is right a lot of the times. like how she told her that she was an anomaly too but didn't specify more than that. she's seven in a martial arts class ( shoutout to dad ) when she gets kicked and an identical clone also gets thrown out of her. that's the first time that it happened in public, however. a couple of year before that she talked about having an imaginary friend, as most do, and thought that the replicas that she just ... pulled out of herself was imaginary. turns out they weren't.

anywho i'd like to believe that new york is more liberal-ish when it comes to anomalies so despite that, it doesn't effect her reputation too much. at least not yet.

fast forward to high school and she's class president, golden girl, sweetheart. the resentment has grown with her mother as she refuses to fit in and loves to put on a show, but she also uses her powers to help taeri excel too. she doesn't understand why her mom is still so kind to her even when she doesn't admit her existence outside of the house. it's a love hate thing that she can't exactly explain. her younger sister is a couple of years younger and they go to the same school, and has taken on her mothers ways. she overhears a cheerleader call her a 'fucking occultist' and she just. kind of sees red. she's pushing two other clones of herself and beats the girl's ass LOL, completely unexpected coming from her. it takes a couple of dudes from the football team to get them off of her too.

it also doesn't help that same week her mother sits her down and tells her the truth ⏤ that she's the product of a heated love affair between herself and a different man that left the country once she told him he was pregnant. or at least, she thought that was the case until he started writing you recently, showing a letter that's addressed to her. then it clicks why no one ever discussed anything with you.

lots of conflicting feelings as it turns out this is a man is a foreign diplomat currently in south korea. apologizes for what he's done and would like to get to know her. she tells her mother she isn't going, mother states that she'll end up there sooner than she thinks. it makes sense when taeri attempts to make up with the cheerleader and thankfully charges aren't pressed, but taeri does end up expelled and her reputation tanks. so, y'know, maybe a change of pace in korea isn't so bad after all.

she ends up moving to finish up her last two years of high school and realizes that this dude has moneyyyyy! upper class lifestyle, and a younger baby brother with his korean wife. adjusting to life in korea was hard as hell, especially because anomalies were looked down upon much more than in america. her actual father gives her a nullivi patch as he doesn't want to deal with her powers, and she's not fond of it but keeps her head down and plays along until she gets to sua. spends time w her dad on the weekends, he likes to have breakfast and he's very open to answering whatever questions she has.

which brings us to present day! she's a fashion major because it's the one true thing that she has a passion for, and eventually would like to work at a fashion house or start her own little boutique.

uses the patch for classes only / when told to, but otherwise you may catch her around multiple places around campus at once. she wants to know everything!

joined curious currents because she's nosy as hell and can't put her fucking camera down, and considering she's minoring in marketing it made sense for her to be the social media manager. very bubbly with them but not in your face.

and in terms of plots here's some i can think of off the top of my head:

childhood friends? anyone from new york? probably somewhat of a long shot but could be nice

roommates! red hall girlies! very much the type to try to do things w the other girls in the communal areas and loves the ~sisterhood~ and what not

i need her to have a fat ass crush on someone. very much dreamy sighs and doodling their name on class notes, liking all social media posts. can absolutely be one sided or not!

a bad influence! someone who thinks she's too much of a goodie two shoes and she would like to prove them wrong

you keep running into her and think that it's simply coincidence when in reality! it's not, she keeps sending her clones in your direction to get information / tea from you. are you weirded out? find it annoying? sorry, there's something about you that interests her ( or she finds you sus ) and she's just trying to help out the newspaper, y'know?

she likes to think that she's your guardian angel, watching over you and helping you when needed

cousins? maybe from her ( actual ) father's wife side ( so by marriage ) who had no idea that she existed until now

people who think she's fake! that she's putting on an act for attention

party friends because you know that she's always at all the events and needs someone to enjoy them with

sexual tension? a will they won't they situation of sorts?

and the usual stuff of friends, exes, and everything in between! really i'm down for anything ~

[midnighttheroies]

Helluva Boss Rant “My Problem With Stella Defenders

i’m just gonna start off by saying this, i know this topic is very controversial, and we haven’t seen enough stella, but i really want to make a post about this because it honestly irritates me how many people still defend stella

THIS IS NOT TOWARDS people who like stella as a character, if you like her character but understand that her actions are wrong, that’s perfectly fine, this is for people who think that she’s still a victim or want to give her excuses for being abusive towards stolas    

“she was acting that aggressive because she got cheated on and was hurt”

no, she acted that aggressive because A, she is always acting like that towards stolas, even as a child she’s always been violent, just look at her kid photo, she’s literally strangling dogs out of anger, and B, she’s not upset at the actual affair, she’s upset because he cheated on her with an imp, a lower class demon, cheating and affairs of any kind are common amongst royal families, literally look it up for yourself, through out history their have been many affairs between royals, also, it’s hell, that alone speaks for itself, also, she literally hired an assassin, A FUCKING ASSASSIN to kill him, not regardling how it’ll affect octavia, if she truely cared about their daughter, then why hire someone to kill her own dad, who she clearly loves, are people really forgetting that!!

plus it’s never, ever okay to physical assault or hurt your partner at all, yelling and screaming when you catch them cheating, and doing it away from the child, fine, throwing plants and doing all these crazy shit around their own child, fuck no, and i’ll get into that can of worms later on

“We haven’t seen how she acts like a mother yet towards octavia”

okay i will admit this right now, i am guilty of saying this, but i only say this in my post’s about stella because i don’t want to get bombarded by stella stan’s

i just wanna ask this question, would you let your partner, who is abusive towards you near your child?, no right?!, and why?!, because if their willing to abuse their partner, chances are, their willing to abuse the child, so why the fuck are people out here saying that stella deserves a chance to be shown as a mother!!, and from what we’ve seen so far, she’s a terrible abusive mother!!, don’t believe me?!, here i’ll show you why she’s so horrible, 1, she verbally abuses stolas and throws planets at him in front of octavia, which alone is so bad for her mentally, especially as a teenager, 

2, she’s painting herself as the victim in the situation, manipulating octavia into believing she’s the hurt one, making stolas appear as the bad guy, 3, she merely sees octavia as an object, she refers to her as an “egg”, and only cares about her existence when she’s being affected, like during the phone call, you can hear her saying “are you turning her against me?!”, like that’s ALL you have to say?!!, not “oh sweetie are you okay?!”, or “how is she handling everything?!”, even the loo loo land episode!!, she didn’t stop to even look at octavia, so absorbed in her own abusive bullshit to give a damn about her own daughter!! 

4, she doesn’t spend time with her at all, in her own instagram posts, she never posts anything about her mom, just her dad, and you can see how much she enjoys stolas company, yes sometimes she is embarrassed by him but overall she loves him, she was literally jumping and excited all day to spend time with him to watch a meteor shower, with her mom?, the only thing we got was that once a week octavia goes to stella’s, but that doesn’t mean they spend time together, octavia could literally just be locked up in her room listening to music while stella does whatever she does

“she doesn’t have enough development or character, she’s a 2d dimensional character” 

this is hell, you don’t need a reason to be terrible, she’s literally a royalty in hell, why would you need a reason to be horrible?!, sometimes you don’t always need to have depth characters, and the same goes for moxxie’s dad, their in HELL!!

“why didn’t stolas leave before then?”

he was literally trapped!!, it was an arrange marriage against his will!!, what was he supposed to do, say i don’t and risk the wrath of his own dad, who had, and still does have alot of power over him, he was literally abused and forced into obligating his royal name no matter what, even it means forcing him to marry a woman he doesn’t love, and that is very hard and frightening to break out of, not to mention he was a teenager when he got married, not an adult, what do you expect a scared helpless teenager to do, that has no support system at all what so ever and no one to turn to 

not to mention, at the time he had a lot of lose, octavia was young and could’ve easily lost custody, yes he’s a higher ranking above, but woman typically get more say in custody and win then men, that and she has a lot of royal friends who can put in a good word for her, and could even corrupt the judge system in her own favour, and honestly, he can try to argue that stella is abusive, but they would not care at all, it’s literally hell, so don’t expect much from that

stolas is at a stage right now where he feels as though he has nothing to lose, he’s been humiliated at ozzie’s, he’s realizing that blitz doesn’t love him, and was just using him, and that none of his royals shit matters anymore to him, and octavia is 17, nearly a legal adult, so it’s possible she can get a say on who she wants more custody or visitation on, that and stolas can be at bit of more advantage in this, their marriage was arranged due to having an heir to the goetia family, stella isn’t a goetia, stolas is, octavia was born to carry out he’s responsibilities, so he can argue that he’s the only fit one to teach and prepare her when the time comes for her to take over or whatever she is destined to role as in the royal family

and i’m just gonna flat out say this, if gender roles were revered, if stolas was a woman and stella was a guy, people would be alot less sympathetic towards stella, yes i know that’s such a bold statement, but i really do think that if roles were reversed, people would have a lot more different reaction to stella 

[filmsthatdonotexist]

Most film buffs know that; at a certain point in cinematic history; whenever a film of note came from the US, it was only a matter of time before some variety of insane Italian director would create an unauthorized ripoff of or sequel to it.

Such was the case too with the Scorcese-produced* recently-rediscovered cult-classic Goncharov. Ironically, despite its reputation for controversy in the country, Italy was one of the few places where Goncharov got any decently consistent distribution, due to a sequence of events too stupid to list here.

In fact, most bootleg copies circulating in cinephile circles before recent events were taken from fan-subtitled Italian VHS copies, which is where the rumors of it originally being shot in Italian came from if you wondered about that.

But, that circulation was a cult film even amongst cult films, and if you were in horror circles of a certain generation, bringing up "Goncharov" would have elicited a response of "Oh, you mean that insane zombie mafia movie?"

But no dear readers, that would be Goncharov Part II, the bizarre unauthorized Italian sequel to the first movie....

...Well, semi-unauthorized. The technicalities of international distribution/adaptation rights are stupid like that. And yet it still got better distribution than actual-Goncharov for decades.

The plot is very simple, two women, implied to be trying to leave a Mafia life behind, end up in the middle of a zombie gang war between the entire deceased cast (So, basically, the entire cast) of Goncharov.

The first thing will notice is the fact that this is significantly more action-packed than the often slow; talk-y original. if there is anything you can call this movie, it is not slow, it just gets going and refuses to stop.

Which would probably register as strange to those who know B-movies, because of how many of those tend to be just talking between characters we don't care about in between the moments of batshit insanity as a pragmatic measure to save on budget. They could have easily stayed true to the original by doing just that.

But, if there's anything to be said about this film (And a few others') mysterious director Cero Boyardi (A screen name), he seemed very passionate about this project and wanted to put his whole ass into it. (Literally, if the rumors about him being a very specific extra in the massacre scene are true)

And he was at least... 80% of the way to understanding the original film's themes, with things such as the scene where a clock tower is blown up (Despite one never appearing in the first movie), the food fight at the fruit vendors' and; of course; what is almost certainly the first gay zombie kiss in film history.

And even beyond those shoutouts there are hints of theme in the two female leads ending up heavily implied to be lovers at the end and their ultimately successful quest to break free of the cycle of violence and the self-destructiveness of the zombies.

But these are drowned out by the sheer madness of the events onscreen. But then again, boy oh boy what madness.

Not only do these zombies, as you can guess by the poster, have the intelligence to wield firearms and strategize, but they have a host of bizarre abilities, from the simple act of breathing gouts of toxic gas to seemingly warping streets into pocket gang-war dimensions if there are enough of them.

But, even beyond the zombies there are echoes of Bava/Argento-esque insanity, such as the Magician With The Golden Gun (A none-too-subtle reference to a recent film) who gives our protagonists the weapons they need to beat the zombies or the sewer... thing with a camera as part of its anatomy that seemingly produced the zombie plague to begin with.

This is a love it or hate it film for most fans of the original, who are divided on whether it is a kistchy mess or a kistchy mess that's a lot of fun with its heart in the right place, but for horror fans unacquainted with the classic original (IE, most horror fans until recently,) it is a blast that should bring joy to you in the same way Super Inframan did to Roger Ebert.

As a final note, the American dub of this film is also where the infamous "It's Gonchin' Time" line that came to be associated with the original actually came from.

The origin is quite simple, most dubbers for films of this... type back in this era really; really did not care about the films they were dubbing, and often tended to add jokes or even ad-lib.

And so, some nerd (I cannot remember his name, tho I do recall an interview recently I need to dig up) basically decided to make a pithy Ben Grimm reference in the recording booth. And thusly a stupid; stupid forced meme was born...

*Note that Scorcese's role in the production is highly disputed, so I figured it best to stay out of it, though my mind tends to lean towards the "involved enough to be considered co-director" in reasons I will not elaborate on here, for fear of starting yet another stupid fight.

[prophecyqueen]

I agree with the other anon that it's funny how much hate Helaemond gets from some green fans as if it's the worst thing that could happen but on the other hand they're either perfectly fine with Rhaen*cent or outright ship it?? A big part of all these characters is the loyalty to their own side and family! Normally, they will NEVER betray their own side for a person who's actively fighting on the other side so to have one character - Alicent in this case - trample said loyalty to go to Rhaenyra and grovel to her is just insane lmao. And it's going to be worse to justify something like this after B&C (and after Storm's End if we're speaking from Rhaenyra's POV). Is Alicent supposed to forget her nephew's death and her daughter going insane just so she can get back with Rhaenyra? Seriously? What then? Punish Aemond? Put Aegon to death if Daemon and Rhaenyra suggest so and accept it? Or have her poison him herself in S4? I mean I wouldn't be surprised if some people in the fandom would be fine with it since they're the ones who've always had the opinion that Alicent loves Rhaenyra more than her own children since they're the product of Viserys' marital rape on her or that she actually hates them (and no, I'm not claiming she's the best mother either, but anyone who believes she hates them is delusional, sorry)… Really, nothing about this makes sense. The show is an adaptation, I get it, but this ship does more damage across the entire narrative than any good. The writers' intention to highlight how these two women just want to be close to each other and how the men around them are preventing it because they're thirsty for war falls flat. I know it's a bit of an unpopular opinion to have nowadays but: there's nothing wrong with women scheming against each other! There's nothing wrong with Alicent fighting to put her own son on the throne and doing anything necessary to achieve this result! Just…please (& this is directed at the writers), stop making everything about men vs women and stop blaming anything controversial a woman may do on the men in her life.

i get the frustration and i do think going forward even more stuff will make less sense for those who wanted an adaptation that was closer to the original source and its intention. i know i will continue to get angry myself with some of their choices but i also know their minds are set on this rhaen*cent story so i'm trying to not expect anything positive.

honestly, there's a lot to be said about the writing choice they made and this whole "women couldn't possibly have differences of their own, or self interest, or ambition, or agency and they all just want to be friends deep down" but i won't get into it. i simply don't like the direction the show took and i think it's alicent's character who will suffer the most due to this writing when it comes to development and stuff.

alicent acknowledges that both daemon and rhaenyra will never bend the knee to her son and her crowning aegon rests entirely on the fickle premise that a dying man who never even attempted to change the succession suddenly mumbled something about aegon before dying. it's so fickle that even aegon laughs when his mother tries to seriously convince him that it was his father's wish.

this is what makes alicent crown aegon and she knows this is a declaration of war regardless of her trying to "make peace". so her development in this story of war will be just as fickle as her motivation and drive resting on the words of a dying man because she herself isn't convinced of it.

of course it's hard for many to see the point that she might have made in episode 6, and sympathize with what she really believes in, when she herself doesn't truly, deeply or fully believe in it.

but hey, at least those rhaen*cents get that dangeon sex scene or whatever. great writing 11/10

rhaenyra's character remains intact. she was named heir by her father, she believes the throne is her right and she fights for it. she loses people and she dies but she dies trying to get what she thought was hers to own. she has her convinctions and beliefs untouched. sure it might pain her that she has to go war for it, that she lost a childhood friend, that later she loses her family, she might even regret the war at one point because of the family members she loses, but her conviction remains true in her heart and in the heart of the audience.

meanwhile alicent isn't just disliked for what the audience, in their majority tb, sees "she does" to rhaenyra as a friend but can't also connect to her when she has no real drive of her own. sure, a lot of them find it sad that she was manipulated and groomed by her father and such, but there's only so many "poor manipulated alicent" you can have from a majority tb audience.

i'm not sure why the writers thought that alicent can't be both a victim of her father + viserys while also growing to be a woman who's driven by ambition (to see her children on the throne) and fear (that daemon if not rhaenyra would harm her children) but yeah.

anyway i think i've said, both now and in the past, all that can be said on this subject. this story to me is not the story to choose to do this rhaen*cent dynamic they're trying to do. it is just not the story for it. and let me not mention again and again and again how fickle their foundation is.

they had a scene where rhaenyra said she wants to eat cake and ride on dragon back w alicent. they stopped talking in episode 2. they started talking again after 3ish 4ish years and again stopped talking in episode 5. exhausting to try to convince me of this was real, good friendship. it falls so flat to other stories i've seen.

but i'm also trying to just........distance myself from this narrative and enjoy s2 in others ways.

[exterminate-flatscan-terrorists]

As a misanthropic XMen fan, my belief in the IRREDEEMABLE TRASHINESS OF HUMANITY has once again been VALIDATED when Humans in real life and fiction have once again proved that they do not deserve to be saved. If you're NOT a moron who instantly jump into JUSTIFYING Child Murder, stop reading, keep scrolling this isnt for you. If this offends your FLATSCAN Muggle pride, I dont fvcking care.

anyway... soooo, The Last of Us' controversial choice of Joel... ungh

Dr Jerry Anderson and the Fireflies were just WRONG.

bunch psudoscience feel good id!ots the lot of them.

The only people who are debating this are the scientifically illiterate.

ya know, the idiots who takes the opinions of ONE Firefly "DOCTOR" seriously.

There is NO DEBATE to be had here because the Fireflies are pseudoscience idiots who dont know WTF they where doing.

Their ONE "DOCTOR" came up with a BuIISht theory and IMMIDIATELY DECIDED TO KILL A CHILD as a solution.

It takes TEAMS of actual SCIENTISTS , then YEARS of research, experiments, testings, discoveries, and development to come up with vaccines and cures,

but for some reason, the Fireflies' ONE "DOCTOR" has figured everything out in under a few hours. And everyone in this merry band of idiots believed him.

Whats next? Hes gonna mix Ellies brain with GOOP and spread the cure via 5G????

This is elementary level basic knowledge of the scientific process, you fvcking dissapointing morons. But no, I feel like we're dealing with idiot lunatics whos done nothing but loose, theyre so DESPERATE for a WIN at something , theyed delude themselves into believing anything.

and then, there are the idiots bitching about "ooooh, they should have waked her up so she could give consent!"

Jezus shting chr;st.

I am so fvcking baffled at the excuses you FLATSCAN Muggle trash come up with to excuse your bullsht.

As stated at the beginning regarding the fact that the Fireflies and their ONE "DOCTOR" are more WRONG about this "cure" than the Flatearthers with phds ... god fvcking damnit, i cant think of words of how stupid you Muggles are.

I DONT CARE IF SHE CONSENTS. She would have died for NOTHING, because the ONE "DOCTOR" is WRONG!!!

And also, when a child says she wants to DIE for anything , dont fvcking let her, you selfish fv¢king psycho!!

This shouldnt even be discussed!

What the heII is wrong with you people!?

Getting infected can be AVOIDED , just dont be fv¢king stup¡d, stup¡d.

Youre gonna k¡ll a CHILD because you cant be asked to NOT be a dvmba$$ .

In the Last of Us Universe, Average NOT STUPlD PEOPLE dont get infected. You can avoid it. Youre gonna sacrifice a child because youre a dvmba$$ who wanna French kiss a child clicker?

THIS IS NOT THE TROLLEY PROBLEM!!! Humans have been surviving for DECADES! In their walled off communities, QZs, Jackson, WLF, The Seraphites, There are communities in the frigid Canada, etc. The entirety of The Last of Us Part II has almost NOTHING to do with the fungus! BECAUSE through years of experience, HUMANS FIGURED OUT HOW TO AVOID GETTING INFECTED IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!

If you live in the Last of Us world and you dont wanna get infected, be cautious, be careful , DONT BE FVCKING STUPID.

Humanity is NOT tied on train tracks. HUMANITY CAN AVOID THE TRAIN!!!

Also, remember Marlenes lines?

"How long till she's torn apart by Infected or murdered by raiders?"

ah yes, thank you for pointing out the actual USUAL ways people get killed.

Is there a vaccine for "getting ripped apart" , a vaccine for "bullets, stabbings, GOLF CLUBS"??? A vaccine for general Human bullshittery??

The Fungus Problem at this point in the story is just another nuisance, just another threat, the fungus threat that Humanity has been learning to avoid for DECADES.

As a Misanthrope, I see these "debates" regarding "The Ethics of Killing a Teenager" as yet another proof that Humans are just the WORST. Its so ARROGANT of you to think youre worth killing a child for... For what, a "cure" against a disease YOU CAN AVOID easily by NOT being dumbass?? Its like you delusionally believe that drinkinng a childs blood will prevent Cov¡d, so because you dont want to wear a fvcking mask or wash your filthy hands, nah, youd kill a child instead.

Joel is Not the one whos selfish here. YOU ARE. You filthy FLATSCAN Muggle trash have the audacity to even consider killing a teenager for the pseudoscientific FANTASY "possibility" of a "cure", against some disease you can AVOID getting infected by in the first place. wat. is it getting repetitive. is it even sticking in your mind or are you just too busy doing Olympic Mental Gymnastics coming up with Bullsht reasons as to why its justified to kill Ellie.

Me if I'm in that Last of Us world, I would absolutely love to unalive MONSTERS that sacrifice children. Spray your Misanthrope repellant, Dunning Kruger, delude your self, thats what your good at, dont worry, "there won't be any pain"

I feel my Misanthropic beliefs are vindicated or validated when I see Human ANIMALS just loose their fvcking reasoning skills, and jump right into Child Sacrifice that will result into NOTHING, just because youre selfish scared cowards idiots. Its the same fvcking mentality that drove you into burning "witches", or the actual Child Sacrifice because your god told you, or kill albinos because you think their bones have magical properties, or then massacreing minorities, putting innocent black teens in nooses because some white girl felt threatened, putting people in concentration camps then in ovens, etc. This mentality never left. Youd kill a child if it means you wouldnt be afraid for a bit, youd justify it in your mind, until you are reminded that the real MONSTERS are PEOPLE, like you.

The FACT that the MAJORITY of you moronic FLATSCAN Muggle fv¢kers dont even fv¢king bother to stop and THINK before saying shit like "Kill child for TINY POSSIBILITY of cure" just proves that Humanity deserves extinction. You fv¢kers dont even stop to think sh¡t through. No thoughts, no hesitation. Just Fvck you.

FYI, I didnt make this post to change your mind, becuz thats IMPOSSIBLE, youre the type of m0ron whod fall for SCAMS and pseudoscientific Quack garbage claims made by anyone who claims to be a "doctor" just because he proposes GARBAGE Silver Bullet theories (sad that you didnt die after the QUACKS told you to actually drink Silver to fight cov¡d, they should have said mercury, it would have culled a lot of you ¡diots), youre not giving a fv¢k about the opinions of other actual experts but you'd listen to m0rons who think 5G causes cov¡d, people like you cant ever be convinced of actual science. I dont care if you drink bleach because you believed Trump, d¡e for all I care, but the problem irises when you even THINK that killing a child is the Silver Bullet against a disease that you can avoid because YOU cant prevent yourself for being a dµmba$$. That type of subhuman thinking should put you on some type of list.

I hate being reminded that I'm trapped in this planet with semisentient creatures that "think" like you. Stup¡d GOOP loving ARROGANT cov¡diot fv¢ks who'd kill children because YOU think ¡diot fv¢ks like YOU are worth sacrificing anything for. I wish I have enough poisoned GOOP for all of you. I would gladly give my life to watch you all swallow it!