#at risk of repeating myself;

[martyrbat]

deathstroke annual #4

[ID: fourteen year old Rose Wilson fighting a grown man after he and his friends jumped her. She's already knocked out the others, prompting him to ask, “Are you some kind of superhero or something?” Rose responds by punching him in the nose and informs him, “Superhero? No, I'm no superhero. But thanks to my mother and her friends, I do know how to take care of myself.” Rose proceeds to briefly fight him until she knocks him unconscious too. END ID]

[haunted-xander]

Sometimes I think about Urianger's role in and feelings on the Thancred-Ryne dynamic and I think watching it kills him a bit inside. For several reasons.

Like, to begin with there's the guilt he's been carrying with him since he ushered Minfilia to the first, how he effectively killed the person Thancred cared about the most in the world and who's "death" ended up causing Ryne's entire Situation. He looks at what's happening between them and can only think "I caused this" even though that's not really true. No one person is responsible for this outcome, it's a culmination of several circumstances and the consequences of them. Logically, Urianger knows this. But it doesn't matter, because his guilt is overpowering his logic.

And also, like. What Thancred is doing here, the way he's knowingly letting Ryne be and stay hurt because he literally cannot bring himself to tell her his feelings, is the exact same mistake Urianger made with Moenbryda. Of course, the circumstances are vastly different, and the potential consequences to Thancred telling Ryne the wrong things or her misinterperating it is far greater (being a matter of literal life or death), it's still the same sort of paralysis they are trapped in.

And he knows it. He sees it. But he can't say or do anything about it, he doesn't have the right to. He acknowledges the mistake, but he hasn't really improved upon it yet. He still doesn't voice his thoughts and feelings as he should. He's also non-confrontational by nature, he doesn't argue or try to change peoples minds, he probably doesn't think he has any place to.

So, he tries to help in what little ways he can. Because he doesn't want it to become Monebryda again, he doesn't want to know he stole not one but two people from Thancred. So he does what he can. He tells Ryne little tidbits about Thancred, things that help her understand him but are safe to share. Nothing too deep, nothing too personal. Just small things, things that are purely factual, because he can't afford to give her a false image of who Thancred is. He teacher her fun and interesting things, because Thancred isn't in the mindset to provide her with non-essential skills.

I like to think Urianger has brought it up with Thancred at least once, during one of his stays. But nothing would've come of it. Not really. Unlike Y'shtola, Urianger isn't pushy, he'll bring it up once or twice and when he sees this won't go anywhere, he gives up. He wants to help, but he knows that persistance only does do much, and he is not the person who has the resiliance needed to push and push until Thancred finally budges (because he won't budge, it won't help anything but to sour things further by adding aditional stress to an already strained dynamic).

And like. Urianger gets it. He gets it because he's been the same way- not saying what he should to someone he loves more than anything else because she was meant to figure her life out herself, and 'steering' her in any direction by telling her his feelings (regardless of if the 'steering' is intention or not) will go against that. He gets it. He gets it and it's all the more painful for it. He knows it can't just be fixed by acknowledging it or with encouragement, something needs to happen to break the stasis.

I think this is probably why he stayed behind while they went off to Nabaath Areng. This is the very last chance they have to say what they want to, and he can't afford to be the anchor anymore. This is about them, not him, he can't let their resolution be buffed by his presence, so he stays behind. Which was probably for the best. Ryne got nervous when Urianger said he's staying behind, probably not too excited about being alone with Thancred (well, not alone, but WoL doesn't count) so soon after she had ran away crying. But she needs to be nervous. For anything positive to come out of this Thancred and Ryne both can't afford to be too relaxed. As sad as it is, the stress is necessary for anything to happen. He knows it. Does he like it? Absolutely not, but nor does he like his other plots. At least no one dies this time if it goes right.

[azathothsdreamgrrl]

at first it made me sad thinking about adolescence of utena as a sequel to the series, like oh no...anthy gave up living in the outside world? because she just felt so incomplete without utena? she'd subject herself to ohtori all over again for utena :((? not cool. but then i became an enlightened being: that anthy had just escaped from the coffin, she'd been shown genuine love for the first time, and the show ends with her saying that she would find utena. she hasn't yet realized that even if the person you love is the one bottling you up somewhere, its unhealthy. of course it isn't so cut and dry for her! she's been trapped in her brother's narrative that has only ever beaten her down and made her feel like an accessory. and I think utena realized that first, that she was a person separate from the prince, she was a good person and she would've become one whether the prince had been their or not, and at the end of aou, anthy understands. utena is the vehicle but she has the key. she is the one responsible for her decisions, who she loves and surrounds herself with, no exceptions. her life isn't complete because utena's in it: her life is complete when she fully loves herself, and she deserves love, and she deserves to love utena, and she does. and they can exist together in the outside world. and she can run over akio just straight up. no consequences. anyway

[hajihiko]

If I may ask, which plot twist hooked you onto DR2?

The "you were the bad guys all along" one!

[babygirlgiles]

Fine. I’ll admit it. I’m coming out as an I Robot, You Jane sympathizer. I like that episode. The first scene in the library alone like!! Giles’s snide little “of course 😒”. The iconic “if you’re not jacked in, you’re not alive,” line that I quote relentlessly. The interpretation of scanning a book as being the same as “reading” it, which is just (unintentionally) so, so fascinating to me. The way the whole episode as a Time Capsule of anxieties not just about the internet and technology and “stranger danger”, but more broadly about information and knowledge and privacy and human connection. The idea that the mystical and the divine is everywhere, even in digital spaces. Willow has a picture of her and Giles in her locker. She has a picture of herself and Rupert Giles. Hanging In Her Locker. I cannot emphasize this enough. Willow has a picture of her and her high school librarian Rupert Giles hanging prominently in her locker. And. most importantly. Jenny Calendar. <3

[yandere-daydreams]

Noo srsly you need to hear me out on kafka and blade from honkai star rail. They are villians and they are absolutely CRAZY and hot. They're also like partners in crime and part of the organisation that's opposing the mcs. They're like, hot and fked up exactly what I like!!

(I would send u a picture but IDK how to)

i'll include pics in this post because i respect anon wishes (just not their rights), but i think i might need to take a break from gacha games because i am looking at these pngs and feeling nothing. no urge to babygirl or malewife at all. even the knowledge that they are evil and hot is sorta not hitting rn. i am drowning in pussy but, alas, i simply find myself lying at the bottom of the pussy ocean, apathetic to the water in my lungs.

[chaoticfandomthot]

I need therapy

[age-of-moonknight]

“Hunter’s Moon,” Vengeance of the Moon Knight, (Vol. 2/2024), #4.

Writer: Jed MacKay; Penciler and Inker: Alessandro Cappuccio; Colorist: Rachelle Rosenberg; Letterer: Cory Petit

[stardust-vi]

Dumb ramble but I hate that you can't critique The Thing you love within a fandom space without some dude breathing down your neck like "Well actually that means you hate The Author and The Thing! And what about all the times The Author did this Good Thing? Checkmate, liberal." as if you can't be critical of something because you love it and want it to be better.

[tumhara-raghav]

itna kar ke soch raha hoga OMG aaj toh bohot crazy kar liya meine

[oksanas-sun]

a baby holding a baby

[gottagobuycheese]

Hugtober Day 8/? - Traumatized Trio Finally Get to Hug It Out, More at Midnight

A brief pause from the ORV onslaught to bring you yet another trio that knocks me dead if I think about them too hard  there are plenty of ORV vibes here though let’s be real

[ID: A greyscale piece of digital fanart depicting Yoon Hwa-pyung, Kang Gil-young, and Choi Yoon from OCN’s The Guest. The three of them stand in the middle of the drawing, hugging each other tightly. Gil-young wears a long coat and has her back to the viewer as her arms clutch Hwa-pyung’s and Yoon’s backs, holding them close as she buries her head between them. Hwa-pyung is dressed in a light flannel overshirt and dark slacks and places one arm along Gil-young’s shoulders, with his other hand barely visible around Yoon’s waist. His face is hidden from view as he presses his forehead against Gil-young. Yoon is dressed in his priest garb and wraps his arms around the other two, turning his face away from the viewer as he rests his head against Gil-young’s. /end ID]

[bolithesenate]

character headcanons - Purshee Izleze

(i will just use this as an excuse to blabber on about my baby)

Purshee, despite being obviously togruta, is from Serenno.

When she started showing signs of strong force-sensitivity, a Jedi was called in secret to get her away from the planet due to the very negative view of force sensitivity of the current government/the general populace. (that Jedi is, depending on which universe we're in, either Yula Braylon (canon verse) or Dooku (mud fic))

[datastate]

okay! i've decided it might be easier to just compile the little screenshots all into one post from here on out: starting chapter 2!

i can't lie. i giggled... & i really like this sort of small style they use on occasion, it's very cute. and it's nice that they extrapolated on it so quickly

this whole sequence is so good, but this part in particular just. hurts me. i'm pretty sure this is the first time mr. mentor's actually held him - to make the transition between the worlds easier, of course, but it's hard when there's no bridge of trust there yet on miharu's part... 💔 tortured boy

& this page!!! aghhh... fear's already embedded itself into his behavior... running not just to get away from the danger, but attempting to get away from that world altogether - even though the others have made it clear at this point whatever danger he'll face is inextricably tied to him & a part of his being that he won't be able to remove (at least, not without their help, which he'd understandably be wary of). even down to the fact there are no details on his face on this page until other ninjas are around... he's forced to trade one group for the next, whether it's to be manipulated or hurt or killed.

i'm really warming up to miharu already... ;_; stuck in a tough situation...

SMILES WIDELY. IT'S MR. MENTOR!!! ohhh i like him also. very very much...

KUMOHIRAAA <- VOICE OF THE TORTURED. i literally cannot wait to see more of their dynamic open up as the series continues. oh my god they're going to kill me i know it.

[lord-shitbox]

Anytime I'm remotely near some kind of situation that could make me feel shame my brain starts flashing lights and blaring extreme warning sirens