#beacons of hope

[brokentrafficknight]

Great Responsibility

[devotionfm]

The son (moomin) the father (snoopy) and the Holy Spirit (miffy)

[keepthedelta]

cannot believe i have to stan nico hulkenberg this is such a difficult day for me

[ameba-from-space]

I need people who think batman is morally grey to please stop writing batman comics

[2sw]

You have one card today. But we’ll find another tomorrow. But if you quit on us today, there will be no tomorrow.

[followerofmercy]

I think Freminet has some of the most interesting dissonance in his self perception of any Genshin character.

Like, of the Hearthlings we know, he's one of the most emotionally mature and intelligent. Lynette might still have him beat, but after playing her hangout... I dunno. I think they're tied. Lyney is Crumbling, Alrecchino is. Well. Arlecchino. Everyone else is a deeply traumatized child or adult and Freminet seems to pretty regularly be people's emotional support. His character stories talk about getting his vision by saving a bunch of other kids on a dive that went bad. The Selkie event literally had him being a therapist for a grownass woman, citing his past experiences with all the other Hearthlings that have died or killed themselves. And he handled that situation WELL. Yeah, he seems to live in a fantasy, but goddamn he's alive and a lot of people in his position aren't so clearly something is working.

Either his or Lyney's character story talks about the time Freminet had reached out to Lyney to try to ease his burdens, which resulted in Lyney blowing up at him. That probably contributed to Freminet thinking he's not good at it, but I think the reason Lyney reacted so badly was BECAUSE Freminet is actually a good support. He can't allow himself that from the little brother he's supposed to protect.

Freminet seems to both cry and dissociate often, but like... Kiddo you are in fact the only person in this family actually processing your emotions. Lynette dissociates 24/7. Arlecchino. Lyney lies and tells everyone he's fine and would literally rather die than admit otherwise. In comparison, Freminet is doing FANTASTIC

Freminet also gets a lot out of helping people! Like anyone, he needs to feel useful and needed. He seems to be an excellent mentor to the younger Hearthlings and perfectly competent on his own, but when you put him in a room with Lyney and Lynette who baby him and insist that THEY take care of HIM, he withdraws into himself.

Like, Freminet by himself feels like a young man and Freminet with the magician twins feels like a teenager. I have no idea how old he actually is. Logically, he would be OLDER than them! He's been with the House much, much longer and his experience shows. I think it's fascinating that they love him SO MUCH and yet, they just Cannot let him help them. Which is hurting him.

(Lynette is much better about not babying him and that is probably why their relationship is so much better than Freminet and Lyney's. Also why she keeps having to mediate between them. Because Lyney charges off trying to Fix Everything and that just makes Freminet feel useless and he doesn't want to get in the way and- you get the point)

Idk. It's hard to tell what things the previous director said to him vs what Arlecchino has said to him. I'm inclined to think our Arlecchino was the one that said he cries too much, but in a "crying in front of your enemies will get you killed" way and she herself is too fucked up to realize how "you cry too much" could be damaging.

Also I try not to consider gameplay stuff when it comes to story, but Freminet also has some of the most BRUTAL animations. He SMASHES HIS EMOTIONAL SUPPORT METAL PENGUIN INTO HIS ENEMY'S FACE. He doesn't think he's the most amazing fighter, and by Fatui standards he probably isn't, but he is winning fights against most grown men.

Tldr Freminet thinks he cries too much and is a burden and isn't good at helping people when he's actually the most mentally stable Hearthling send tweet

[rrandomtthings]

No one talk to me ever again

[lazy-toad]

I love cowboyification, imagine you have a bit of a Thing for cowboys (I mean, who doesn't amirite?) and then it becomes a cosmic fact of the universe or whatever because your husband's main coping mechanism when you died was committing to the bit

[aglennco]

post party gossip

[dnpbeats]

ACTUALLY VERY SOLID ADDITIONAL PROOF DAN RAN PHILSLION

I was doing a little perusal through the philslion Twitter again just because I needed something to do while procrastinating and I saw this tweet:

Now I didn't think much of this before, but upon seeing it again I was like "well what was the weather like in Wokingham that day?" just because might as well!! And I'm sure you can guess where this is going based on the title of this post!

I found this website that very helpfully has weather data for Wokingham going back for years. Here is the data for June 2009, and here's what we can see about June 15th:

A "1" means "yes" so there was thunder in Wokingham that day. On the exact day philslion tweeted about there being thunder at his location (note his next tweet asks what the weather is like where other people are, so it's only logical to assume philslion was tweeting about thunder because it was thundering where he is)

So yeah. Obviously there was thunder in other parts of the world on this day, but it feels like a pretty big coincidence that there just so happened to be thunder where dan lived on the exact same day that philslion tweeted about thunder. So I'm adding this to my proof pile <3

[brokentrafficknight]

[mettywiththenotes]

I wish for them to interact. Between the Toga-Twice-Hawks connection, Ochako being the one to save Toga, Hawks letting himself get stabbed by a Toga Clone, the parallels and contrasts between Hawks and Twice's fight and Ocha and Toga's fight, and Ochako inspiring him at UA with her speech, they have potential for an interesting scene if they ever talk

[carnation-damnation]

Is it really miscommunication if there's no communication at all?

[cozy-the-overlord]

Seeing people complain about the Speak Now vault tracks being too teenagery …. gee, you’d almost think a teenager wrote them /s

[rwby-confess]

Confession #50 !!!!! Although to be fair I post these in pretty random order so

[swan2swan]

This episode is great.