#but I used to be into it despite how horrible it was

[doberbutts]

Genuinely, what do you think we should do in regards to breeds with an oppressive history? Until we have the genuine change in the global political landscape, they're just going to breed new dogs to hunt down BIPOC. Can a breed be repurposed, reshaped, given a new purpose despite its history and its lack of direct attribution to most actively living dogs and their upbringing and training, or is it better to modify the breed as a whole, or even let certain breeds go extinct entirely?

And more importantly, how do I, as a white person with a working line GSD, make BIPOC feel more safe around her? She's anxious and her leash manners leave a lot to be desired, but we've been working on that and otherwise she's a huge derpy goofball who seems to think she's a cat a good 60% of the time and is exceedingly affectionate and friendly to most strangers of all walks of life as long as they don't show actively malicious intentions (we lived in the projects for awhile and she stopped someone who tried to break into the apartment to rape either myself or my partner, considering the stalking behavior that had been going on for weeks at that point and the amount of catcalling we both got). Is there anything I can do to help people feel safer around her?

As in my discussion with @grison-in-space- I don't really know that there is a good answer to this question. I am a BIPOC who has a breed of dog that was objectively used to oppress people as a tool of fascism- not just in Nazi Germany, but also here within my own country while they were still used as police and military dogs, as well as in countries such as India and Peru where they are still used by military and private security. I engage in a practice that, at its very early roots, was at least in part about siccing a dog on someone for my own gain. I think there will always be a level of cognitive dissonance and managing that with today's expectations of what a protective dog even can look like in this era is going to be a delicate balance at best and an active minefield at worst.

This sort of discussion is where I tend to disagree with many leftists on an issue that continues to come up again and again. I am a pacifist and, in a perfect world, there would be no more war and no more killing and no more violence and thus no more need for weapons outside of what is required to hunt and gather food. But we don't live in a perfect world, and we live in a world where the honest answer is that some people will always be treated violently. If we remove the means to defend ourselves from everyone's hands except the morally corrupt- we have condemned entire peoples to die horrible deaths (such as being torn apart by dogs). On the other hand, the presence of a weapon automatically escalates a situation, even if said weapon is never removed from holster or deployed within the situation.

I have a doberman that is taught biting is acceptable because I have survived a home invasion while I was home in part because I had a dog that made every indication that she was ready to defend her home with everything she had. My parents are pacifists who refuse to own weapons. The dog was why the guy decided he no longer wanted to be present in our house. I have had attempted break-ins while I was home, following this event. I did not have a dog at the time, and was living alone as a college student, pre-T and only sort of socially transitioned. The statistics of black people- and especially black women- suffering violence at the hands of those who desire to hurt them are bleak. So I got a dog, and I stopped going anywhere unarmed, and both of those things have protected me in the exact situations I got them for.

It is simply not lost on me that the appeal of a doberman for me, is also the appeal of a doberman for your average cop or soldier or authoritarian. A big fuck-you dog that hates everyone but its master is the wet dream of baby fascists everywhere. My dog chasing a would-be car thief down my driveway certainly solved the problem of repeated car breakins and theft, as well as some creeper behavior after said car thief was also caught peering into windows of houses, and my equally poor, but white, neighbors thanked me for the service and in fact adore my dogs as a result. The qualities that make her good at this also make her really good at being used as a weapon by those who wish to turn her against marginalized people for entertainment or profit, rather than to keep someone from taking more of my possessions out of my car when I am not in a financial place to continuously replace them.

Getting rid of these breeds- either by mass culling, legislature, or simply allowing them to go extinct- does not solve the problem of fascism, because even if we do succeed in ridding ourselves of the legacy of the German Shepherd, there are other breeds who can and will do the same thing, or a new breed will be created to do so. After all, using dogs as weapons is something we've known about since before the birth of the Roman empire, and has continued long past that empire's demise. Roman war dogs are largely extinct and their remnants (neas, corsos, etc) exist as incredibly changed from what they once were- so we just hopped to herding breeds instead of molossoids to accomplish the same task. As the existence of the doberman proves- even without the herding breeds, we can just use terriers sized up to do the same thing.

And we don't even really need dogs to do so. In videos of amazing stupidity with animal handling, I have 100% seen people using hyenas, baboons, and even male lions as animals being trained to attack, complete with the same sleeves and suits you see with dogs. The glimpses I've seen have not appeared particularly successful, of course the lack of domestication and willingness to work for a human gets in the way when dealing with wild animals, but to me that says even if we got rid of every single dog and wolf tomorrow... people would find a way to utilize a predator as a weapon. The Romans also used to use lions and bears and even boar to kill political prisoners and people who were undesireable to the empire. Not only do I think fascists would hop breeds, I think they would quickly and easily hop species if they had to.

I've also touched on this in other posts- but the question of changing a breed's purpose also comes up often in a breed that I care a lot about due to its proximity to racial prejudice. When a breed has been developed for blood sport, and blood sport has rightly been criminalized, what do we do with the dogs that are left? Do we let them die out? Do we legislate them out of existence? Do we change them entirely? Do we give them a new purpose? The relationship of black people and pit bulls has been discussed again and again by people who frankly are way smarter and better informed than me- and the way that we police and discuss pit bulls and pit bull ownership is so contingent on antiblack racism, which fascinates me as many of the original hands within the old bull-and-terrier used for blood sport were not only white but actively racist against black people themselves.

Truthfully, I don't think we have a good answer, because the solution to the problem is not the dogs. I think because the problem is not, and has never been, the dogs. Dogs are merely the vehicle for the larger societal problems of racism, fascism, authoritarianism, dictatorship, colonialism, and xenophobia. It's not about the dogs. So changing the dogs does nothing to the system, which will simply replace the dogs with something else if that option is removed from the toolbox.

As for your specific situation- take your dog to training, and be respectful of people's space when you're out and about with her, and accept that some people simply will never like her.

[lexus-k4]

Dp x DC ideas/prompt

I've read many fan fics and storries where Danny is refered to as "the danger twink" and it got me thinking. What if Danny was an extreme danger twink where when you look at him you don't think he is even capable of looking or being a danger twink let alone and extreme danger twink.

It would go something like this:

*Danny, had his accident at an earlier age so younger than 14, his halfa status makes him grow slower so his 'puberty' would be in his like late teens to early 20's , Danny had bad neglectful parents so he doesn't look the best but in Amity he had somewhat of a food intake with fast food, Sam, Tucker and jazz. Trained in martial arts by Maddie Fenton, and jazz taught him psychology stuff unintentionally, jack Fenton taught him how to properly throw punches and his fights with the ghosts caused him to research human weak points and how to use them to his advantage before he realised not all of them worked on ghosta.*

-now you have a 14 year old Danny, after whatever accident or plot got him to Gotham, looks like he's maybe 12-13, extremely malnourished, looks pale and sickly, has his left arm clearly wrapped in bandages covering an injury and neck (compression bandages for damaged nerves from accident electrocution but no one knows that), cold to the touch probably because of whatever sickness he has and overall looking horrible, and is in a situation of attempted kidnapping, mugging or trafficking every other night or whatever-

Random guy with a knife: hey kid, you better do what I say or you'll be meeting the afterlife sooner rather than later.

Danny aware of his miss leading appearance and just fed up: been there done that, did you know that the after life is green. Oh and there's no choice where you go. Satan's more annoying than scary, like he's got these big horns on his head but-

Random guy confused as fuck: what? - no, I'm not joking. You better follow me or I will have to use force.

Danny: mmmmmm.nuh-uh.

Random guy: ... The fuck you mean nuh-uh?!

Danny: I mean. Nuh-uh. Now good bye. *promptly charges at the guy, disarms the knife from his hand and tosses him over his shoulder despite being like twice his height and throws a well placed kick to his head so he's knocked out.*

RedHood and Nightwing who were hanging out on a mission following traffickers, on top of the roof of one of the buildings overlooking the alleyway this happened in-

Nightiwnt: I'm not seeing things right? That kid just threw that guy like it was nothing... Right?

Red hood: I... Yeah? I mean... Huh?

...

Red Robin having a run in with Danny who again got caught in some random guys attempt to take him or mug him or something. And just as red Robin jumps down to help Danny had already sweeped the guys legs and knocked him unconscious: wait what?

Danny: oh. Hi. I uhhh... He started it. *points at the unconscious guy*

Red Robin: huh?

...

*the bats and birds in the cave, having a meeting because most of them have had a run in with this supposedly 'danger twink' and Oracle showing what ever street camera footage they found of the many times this kid has done something that made no sense like Russian suplexing a mugger, knocking out a group of 4 ppl when they attempted to kidnap him and so on*

Batman: how many of you guys have met him so far?

Nightwing: me, Hood, red Robin and Spoiler. And Signal I believe.

Signal: yeah, I heard some comotions and when I went to check I just saw the kid stood in an alley surrounded by about 3 unconscious bodies and 2 guys holding a knife and a bat looking like they were about to soil their pants...

Batman pinches his nose bridge and is about to speak before Oracle speaks over and pops up on the bat computer.

Oracle: sorry to interrupt, but I just spotted this kid again, and this times it's in clear footage. But this is different. He's not attacking just... Talking? Oh, wait no... Worse he's mentally attacking and psycho-analyzing. Ther is audio.

Oracle puls up a feed and the bats and birds proceed to watch a live feed of Danny verbally chewing out what looks to be a mLe adult holding a gun that still has its safety on, a male teen holding a knife and a female teen holding a duffle of what is assumed to be full of stolen items. The adult proceeds to start crying as he goes to the floor and starts rocking hinself, followed by the male teen collapses to the floor having an existential critics covering his ears then the girl follows with her face covered in tears as she proceeds to have a therapy session with Danny and Danny just helps back as she just spills every detail about her life and struggles all while sobbing heavily.

Red Hood: ... Can I just say... I am actually scared of this kid... Like... He scares me...

Nightwing: ... I don't even know what to say.

Signal: ... I think I like him.

Red Robin: I don't wanna risk being on the receiving end.

Robin: that is a good attack method...

Spoiler: ... Yeah I agree with Hood.

Batman: .... *heavy sigh*

Orphan/Batgirl: New brother :D

Sorry for any spelling mistakes.

[howitcouldgoes]

for all my ragatha haters out there

I am not one of them

I love Ragatha - in fact I'm a firm believer if you hate Ragatha.. you kind of have to hate Jax too. I can understand where potential confusion might come from since despite this episode focusing more on Ragatha's past compared to Jax's we do get to hear most of it through Jax's perspective. Which leads me to believe personally ep. 6 will be the opposite. Jax's backstory and how Ragatha will react to that information.

But still, Ragatha is one of the most human characters out of the whole cast(tied with Gangle) to me personally. She feels the need to be happy and positive NOT BECAUSE she's trying to manipulate anyone - but because she doesn't want anyone to focus on the negative and abstract. That's her method of keeping herself and everyone else sane. Almost blind encouragement and a positive attitude things will turn out okay - because what else is there?

She seems the closest to Kinger whose whole mentality is "The worst thing you could do in this world is make someone feels unloved or unwanted." and to hold onto memories and connections because they're all we have.

And then you have her mother - who is her only memory. She grew up with someone who made her feel like shit, unloved and unwanted - Ragatha confesses this when she literally says "And my mother... I doubt she misses me."

No Ragatha is not perfect, but she was forced to be in her childhood and early adult life.

I genuinely don't believe she's trying to manipulate anyone - and especially not intentionally.

Ragatha's positive attitude towards Pomni and her friendliness is because she sees herself in the jester - in Ep. 2 Ragatha confides in Kinger about this on the candy truck, seeing how horrible of a day Pomni had when she first got here and compared it to her negative reaction when she first arrived too. She's not trying to steal her from Jax or force her to be happy all the time - the only reason she retaliates with something like that is because she believes Jax is trying to turn Pomni bad - and the last thing she or anyone needs is a second Jax.

So her jealously in Ep. 5 when Jax is growing close to her - IN THE MATTER OF A FEW MINUTES BTW - when Ragatha has tried for four episodes now to befriend her is killing her.

Hence why she's so relatable. Ragatha's inability to get angry without consequences(most likely from her mother), raised to be happy and perfect, humbling herself quickly by calling herself just a farm girl - is why people now think she's tricking everyone - but that's just it. She is just a girl, and by the sound of her and how Ep. 5 ended - she grew up with absolutely no friends.

It brings us back to that question we all had at some point in our lives: "Why does no one like me?" "Why does no one want to be friends with me?" "Is it me?" "Am I the problem?"

Ragatha watches Pomni, the girl she wanted to befriend so badly not out of pity or a selfish desire but because she thought Pomni was lonely just like her - walk away with Jax. And then watches Zooble and Gangle walk off with Kinger mindlessly following because he doesn't care and we see her standing all alone.

And there she debates: Does she want to keep pestering Jax and Pomni? Like a bother? Like she finds him annoying but here she is anyway chasing after him..

or does she follow the trio that didn't even realize she got left behind?

I love this little Raggedy Anne look-alike because I see so much of myself in her. She just wants to be good and yet that overly positive attitude and friendliest over the years is growing tired and annoying and the only person willing to tell her that isn't even Jax. Not directly anyway. With no one to tell her what to do - how to improve - what can be done differently - Ragatha can only keep asking herself those same questions and keep trying with the same approach.

Jax may be my favorite character - but I just don't agree with his view on Ragatha. I think she's a delight.

But if you deadass just hate Ragatha because she's annoying to you, or boring, then okay idc disregard the above-

btw i know ive been spamming so much tadc this might be my last post temporarily but i wanna make a few things clear for ppl who shockingly hate my girl

[msmimundo]

Ok I found this part interesting. Besides the whole Mini Kris getting out of the screen and threatening our Kris (also Kris getting... pale?? probably an animator error but worth mentioning still), Susie asks them if they enjoy it. Susie, who has been a symbol of freedom in Kris' caged life. We seemingly got two options given:

More than once we can differenciate our choices from Kris' by the way the others react, but this time it seems to be different. None of them Susie reacts as if Kris was screaming or confused or tried to hide the answer by coughing.

If you chose "Of course. Games are fun"

They sweat. Their head tilts down too, almost regretfully, still "pale". Even if their voice tone wasn't described, we can conclude this was not the option they would chose. It makes sense with the whole "they are forced in A Situation and is not enjoying this".Also its interesting that Berdly is brought up, not only bc weird route but also considering this chapter's secret boss(also Berdly a sweaty nerd confirmed)

Also despite this they joke with her. That's cute

If you chose "No" however

Susie disconnects the game. Susie, the symbol of freedom, kills Mini Kris. Whether she is saving them or not, well I can't really tell what deep meaning this could have. But she is stopping them from playing the game they clearly don't enjoy.

But there's a secret third option

YOU can attack Susie. And KRIS saves her.

This was specially interesting to me, cause if this is some kind of foreshadowing for future events, the way it's put is I think is Genious! Specially considering Just moments before, we were basically forced to kill Mini Susie and Mini Ralsei while Kris looked back at us. This is something Kris did for themselves, and we can tell by their expression, the way they grit their teeth and how violently they pulled her out of danger, even she was surprised by this. They do NOT want to see their friends injured, we knew that, and they are probably scared to the possibility of her exploding like Mini Susie did, but them coming out of their way to protect her AGAINST what we clearly intended, i find that so interesting.

The rest of the scene they don't let got, and at Susie's awkwardness their only reaction seems to be just, calling her a weirdo? Or maybe that's the conclusion Susie got herself after that awkward silence. Also notice how this part makes Susie open up a bit, get more vulnerable as the awkward weird teen she is, in contrast to the pillar she is usually put as.

So in a scene where Kris, a videogame character we as players are controlling, where they have to face Mini Kris, a videogame character we are making them control but that is set free out of it's world's boundaries:

-we make Kris say they love the game. Implied a lie, negative reaction. Berdly gets mentioned

-we make Kris say they don't love the game. Implied true? Susie frees Kris off the game they are forced into//kills Mini Kris

-we attack Susie. Kris saves her by their own, against our wishes. This leaves her a bit more vulnerable

I'm horrible at analisis but I think there's something worth to pick from here

[dark-lord-of-awesomeness]

So I know nothing about Loz but I imagine Stan defeats Bill and gets teleported away to be killed by the sword but Emma-May finds him and saves him. However this causes him to lose his memory’s so Emma and Stan are kind of just wandering while Ford and Fidds are trying to save Stan. (Also I had the horrible idea of the sword actually physically hurting him with vines or something slowly digging into the hand he uses to wield it, and when Emma finds him, the earth is trying to consume him) :D

Oho! I do like that route in the 'Stan disappears' timeline. Hmm. Ford gets there just as Stan drives the Super Master Sword through Bills chest, there's a flash of light, and then Stan's gone, sword still pinning Bills corpse to the ground. Now it's Epic Quest time to find Stan and maybe fight the goddesses? Ford will figure it out later.

This got long lol, and a little less angsty.

Meanwhile Stan has a meet up with one of the greater spirits (Axolotl) who thanks Stan for rising up to the challenge despite being a regular, not fated being. Everyone's very impressed with him, but sadly his normal person, not descended from the goddesses or reincarnated soul couldn't handle the strain of wielding the Sword that Cuts the-

Stan: Super Mega Master Sword

Axolotl: what?

Stan: it's the Super Mega Master Sword. Or Maybe the Ultra Master Sword. I'm still work-shopping it.

Well, Stan's successfully charmed the spirits (which he'd already done, but his inability to take any of their grandstanding seriously is so new and fresh they just love it), and due to his blessings and the favor of the goddesses he's been given a choice. The sword requires great power to use, one that Stans soul couldn't handle. He can either let go and allow it to heal in the great cycle of reincarnation, or go back and-

Stan: second one

Axolotl: but you don't know the price? What if its-

Stan: don't care. I'm going back, I'm going to shove my victory in Fords face and eat just. So much food. I'm so hungry. I could eat a burger so fast, you wouldn't believe.

Well, if Stan's already decided then that's that on that! Good luck hero!

And Stan wakes up. Hes in a lovely field, surrounded by flowers at the foot of a statue to the goddess. Birds are singing, bugs are chirping, the sun is shining through the trees and he can sort of make out where the walls of a temple once stood.

He has no idea who he is.

But! He found a stick! It's a pretty good stick, and he's pretty sure if he whacks it at something, it'll break, and then! He'll have two sticks :D

Emma-May, wandering scholar, finds this wandering adventurer in the woods who must have gotten hit in the head or something and lost almost all his gear, all he has is the leather armor he had on him and a few empty pouches. He's got twigs in his hair, is stuffing a leaf in his mouth, and looks so amazed when she shows him that he can pick up rocks it's endearing.

She can't let this guy die. She's pretty sure he's a spirit that's possessing a dead body actually. There's no other explanation on why he doesn't know what anything is or how anything works. It's up to her to take care of him. This is a test by the goddesses, and she's determined to pass all expectations. (Stan is link from botw basically. Everything is ??? To him).

Meanwhile the Fords are on a Quest to find Stan. Unlike the other timeline Fords not super pissed at Stan (well, he is, but his worry for his brother is overriding it), and he's yelling at anyone who listens about how Stan slayed Bill and vanished in golden light and if Ford doesn't find him he's going to do..... something. No one likes the desperate look in his eye or how riled up he gets when they try to thank him for his good deeds because no, that was Stan too. Don't they know Stan's a hero now and might be dead? Fords a failure and he failed and Stan's dead!

Finally has a dream where the spirits are like 'you need to chill out your bro isn't dead. Just go look for him'. So off he goes, Fiddleford staying to lead the search from the castle and get his kingdom in order.

It either takes ten years or ten months to find Stan. Angst demands years but the comedy and angst of Ford finally finding Stan when he's still pretty into his 'life is beautiful and what is this Emma-May? :3' phase is appealing to me. Maybe even ten weeks.

Emma-May is traveling on the outskirts of Hyrule looking at ancient ruins and studying her spirit friend who's incredibly good with a sword and who can see and talk to spirits for her. They love her new assistant/godly trial and he's making her research a lot more fun.

She named him Hal, on account of him only responding to the word Help for the first week or so and Hal being an easy transition from that. Her and Hal are an amazing duo, finding lost temples and clearing them out, finding lost artifacts, slaying new and terrifying beasts. It's a thrill. She's living her best life, and teaching Hal is part of the fun. It's like if a kid was also.. an older teen? He's still got baby fat huh. Yeesh.

Anyway.

Then Ford rolls up, following their trail and coincidentally discovering that there's some other, ancient evil stirring under the land now that Bills gone. He's slaying monsters no one's seen in years, rescuing civilians, finding lost temples that! Have already been cleared.

Temples he knows Stan hadn't touched in his journey to rescue Ford. It's both a sign he's on the right path and incredibly annoying. Especially since it means Stan's walking around somewhere with like. The pieces of the key that'll let an ancient horror loose upon the land.

No wait. Scratch that. I've got another idea.

Its been ten years since Stan disappeared in a flash of light, and Fords been scouring every obscure library and tome for any kind of hint on where Stan could have gone. None of the spirits have confirmed if his brothers dead or alive, so he must be alive. He has to be, because if he's not then Fords going to strangle him.

Then some kind of Event happens, and Ford gets a hint on how to figure out how to find Stan. Turned out it took the spirits ten years to fix Stan's crumbling soul to a point where he could semi function, and Stan's just now waking up ???? at the world and meeting who he's pretty sure is the smartest person on the planet. Who else would have such a great idea like putting a bomb under a shield to launch himself higher? No one, he's sure.

When Ford eventually catches up to them he is very obviously of Stan's statement that Emma-May's the smartest person ever and also his best friend :3.

Anyway, since there is no scrapbook or young twins to rekindle Stan's memories, the three of them instead follow Stan's original journey to try and job his memory, after like. Stan's ready to brush off this stranger who has his face, but Ford holds up his hand, yelling at him to wait, and Stan gets slammed with a memory of them as kids, smiling and high sixing. Blinks out of it to find him holding Fords hand, and well he does know this guy actually! Sure he'll go on some kind of journey with him, and Emma-May can go look at a bunch of other ruins and it'll be great :D.

It is not great. All those old temples have been re invaded by demons. The ways Stan originally went through are blocked off or doors broke and relocked, so they need to clear out each one and fight the newer, badder version of the final boss. Turns out the price of Stan coming back isn't his memories getting snatched, its that Bill gets to come back too, and he's not a puny mortal who needs ten years to get back to business. Maybe Bill's actually partially responsible for Stan's missing memory?

Anyway as they clear each temple and defeat each boss they get a fragment of Stan's memory. Ford's not only clearing the newly re corrupted temples, now he's reliving the memory with Stan, seeing how much harder everything is as a normal, not destined person. He's finally seeing Stan's perspective here, how Stan didn't just breeze through everything to shove it in Fords face, but actually struggled and cursed and screamed his way through an army of demons.

They're also uncovering Bill's plot to surprise strike at Hyrule while its two heros are occupied. This whole things been a diversion to get the Stans' as far away as possible, and now Ford's faced with a choice.

He can chose to abandon his quest to restore Stan's memories, as through Drama they're now on a time limit and if they don't get the last fragment there's a high chance it'll fade and Stan's patchy memory could either fade away with it, or he could go to defeat the last boss and finally get his brother back, but abandon Hyrule in its hour of need. Sure he could save them later, but who knows how many casualties there could be, what could happen to Fiddleford.

Does he want to be his brother's hero? Or the peoples? Save Stan, or save all of Hyrule. He might be able to do both, but who knows what kind of damage could happen to the other he doesn't prioritize in the meantime. Stan doesn't have enough of himself yet to weigh in on either one, and Emma-May is a scholar and Stan's friend, but understands the importance of the greater good. She won't make this choice for him.

What does it mean to be a hero?

If this were a video game the first one would be you playing as Stan becoming an unlikely hero, fighting the odds even though everyone's telling you to wait for the guy who's job it is to beat up the demons. The underlying message would be something like 'you can't just sit around and wait, if you want to see a change you have to make it' kind of thing. If Stan hadn't gone on his hero's journey then the kingdom would have been much worse off waiting for Ford to break out. You're a hero, not because someone told you you were, but because you've chosen to take the harder path and make yourself one through fighting evil and helping those in need (after all, even if the reasons are selfish, all anyone sees is your actions. Stan's a hero, even if just because he needed to be one to save Ford).

So the sequel would be this, but as Ford. Now you're the chosen hero, but what does that mean to you? Who has the higher priority, why are you a hero? Because you slay monsters? Because you defeated the bad guy? Because the Goddess said you were? Because you have special powers, wield a special sword? Stan was a hero without any of that, so why does Ford need it? Ford has the Hero's spirit, but in the end he's his own person. He's not going to save the kingdom because someone told him to do it.

He's going to do it because its the right thing to do, even if it means Stan might never be the same. A hero make sacrifices, takes the blows so others don't have to. Ford was born with the Hero's spirit, but he wasn't born a Hero, its something he has to choose to do, something he has to prove himself as.

Whew. that got away from me a little. Now that that's done,

[salmoninnit]

Wish You Stayed

ex!satoru gojo x reader x crush?!choso kamo pt. 1 - pt. 2

The air was fresh and cool after the horrible heat wave that came and went. It was a breath of fresh air (literally) and it helped smooth over any of the thoughts crowding your brain. Agreeing to meet your high school friends for the night was a drunken decision but at the same time, you did miss hanging out as a group. Excited to see them and drink how you used to with them in the confines of your room, sprawled out and laughing at whatever movie was playing. 

But tonight, finally legal to do so, in a bar that was a bit aways from your house. You had dread in your stomach, not from the atmosphere of the bar or the idea of getting hit on, but from seeing him. 

Satoru Gojo. 

Your best friend, boyfriend, lover, ex. 

Someone you escaped for far too long. Always planning with Suguru, Shoko, Kento and Yu, purposely leaving him out when you asked to hang with them. They knew why, you didn’t have to clarify it. Despite ending on good terms, you still loved him. You still ached for him and everything he brought with him. It kills you mentally, physically, and emotionally everyday.

You tried to move on, planning dates and meet ups, just to ultimately flake or go ghost. Because the idea of starting over sucked; you looked for him in everyone and everywhere, it was just too much. 

But tonight you sucked it up, it had been 3 years since you last saw him, spoken to him, felt him.

Plastering on a smile as you walked through the bar looking for your friends. The smell of alcohol and sweat filled your nose, bodies everywhere, dancing, talking, kissing. Takes you back to when you first stepped into a bar, the atmosphere already being too much but you dismissed it like everything else. 

Finally spotting four of them at a booth in the back, you made your way to them. 

“Hi guys!”, you exclaimed as they all looked at you. Suguru sitting next to Shoko, drink in his hand and a smoke between her lips. Across them was Kento and Yu, both holding drinks. 

“You made it!”, Yu exclaimed as he pushed Kento out of the way to get up and hug you. You laughed as you returned it back, “I didn’t think you’d actually come”.

“Hey drunk or not when I agreed, a promise is a promise”, you spoke. 

“Thanks for coming girl, missed you. It’s been a couple months, hasn’t it?” Shoko says as Suguru steps out of the booth, giving you a hug, Shoko following suit. 

“Yea sorry works been kicking my ass lately, becoming manager really does a number on you. But hey, the pays honestly worth the gruelling hours”, you say as you slid in next to Kento. Giving a side hug and handing you his drink, murmuring a thank you as you drank from his cup. 

“So how’ve you all been?”, you ask as they all start catching you up on what’s been going on in their lives. Laughing as stupid things they’ve done, talking about some old stories that came up and while doing so you missed the presence of the man you’ve been dreading to see. 

“Hey”, a voice behind you spoke. Inhaling as you turn your neck to look up at him. God you wish you had drank more than Kento’s half empty drink. As always, he had his sunglasses on, dressed in a white button up to match his hair, wearing black jeans and damn, did he look just as good as he did before. You had hoped he’d have gotten a little uglier to make this not as hard, but after all, he is Satoru Gojo. 

“Hey”, you said with a small smile. He stared at you with a smile, it felt like the world around you had crumbled and it was just you two. A million words unspoken but feeling the heaviness of them in the air. 

“Hey Satoru”, Suguru said, grateful for him breaking away the staring contest as Satoru slid in next to him. You glanced at Shoko who was already staring at you, you okay? Smiling and slightly nodding her way. 

“I’m gonna get a drink, wanna come?” Kento asked you and you nodded and got up. “Anyone want something?”

Chorus of drinks being said as you laughed softly, mentally cataloging what was said but knowing if you can’t remember them, Kento will. Turning and heading towards the bar with him in tow, he puts his hand on your lower back to help maneuver you around people. 

Satoru couldn’t help but follow your every move towards the bar with Kento. God, you looked as beautiful as you did before or even more. He can’t tell. 

Watching as Kento put his hand on your lower back as you moved, he noticed it looked so easy for him to do so. As if he’s done it a million times before and he can’t seem to disagree with his thoughts. 

He forces himself not to linger long and look back at his friends, your friends, our friends. He knows you’ve hung with them since the breakup. Suguru would casually mention it when talking about his nights out with you. As if it was normal, as if he wasn’t a part of you guys anymore.

And to some extent, he wasn’t. He proposed no contact with each other, it didn’t reach past him. Solely him and you. 

So why does he feel like he lost out on so much time with them? With you?

Taking a sip from your drink as you scanned the room, your friends were all talking as you were off in your head. You halt when you see him at the bar, a beautiful girl turning to talk to him. He had gone to pick up a round of shots for you all. 

You knew at some point you’d have to witness him getting hit on and it’s been 3 years, so why does it hurt so much?

She trailed her hand on his bicep as she spoke to him, he smiled down at her and said something that garnered a laugh from her. You took a drink from your cup as you stared, trying not to make it obvious. 

Before you could turn away he looked past her, looked at you. His smile waned slightly as he saw you staring at him. Quickly you looked back at the group and downed your drink. Trying to forget him as you drank. Though it didn’t help.

“Hey guys, I forgot I had to make a call. I’ll be right back”, you say as you set your glass down. Getting up in a slight rush, but not too much where it looks like you were running from something. Running from him. 

You maneuvered your way to the doors as you fumbled to open your purse. Taking a deep breath as you pulled out the cigarettes and lighter, something you only carry on nights out.

Pulling one from the packet and slotting it in between your lips, lighting it with a hand over it as you took in the smoke. Welcoming you to help calm your nerves. Slowly walking away from the bar, then turning and heading back. Pacing back and forth as if it helps slow your brain. 

On your third time turning away from the bar you bumped into someone. Losing balance and the feeling of falling backwards, shutting your eyes to embrace the fall that never came. That's when you felt two arms around your waist, warm hands with rings adorning them as you felt them on you. Opening your eyes, you come face to face with a handsome man. His hair in two buns upon his head, a tattoo crossing his nose, tall muscular frame from what you feel and see. 

“I’m so sorry!”, you exclaim as he helps you stand straight, he laughs at you and pulls away. 

“Don’t worry about it, just glad you didn’t fall on your ass in that outfit”, his voice sounding so pleasant as he spoke. “Here”, as he reaches into his jacket pocket, pulling out a cigarette and handing it to you. Furrowing your eyebrows at him, you had one already in your..oh. 

“You dropped it when almost falling, here the least I could do is give you another. I wasn’t really paying attention so it’s not entirely your fault”, he says with his hand outstretched. You smiled as you reached for it, hand grazing his as you put it back up to your lips. He pulled his lighter out and lit it for you. 

“Thank you, you didn’t really have to. I should’ve expected someone to interrupt my pacing”, you giggled as you inhaled the smoke once again. You offered it to him and he smiled, taking it from your fingers and bringing it to his lips. You had never seen anyone other than Suguru and Shoko look this hot smoking. 

“My name's Choso”, he said as he passed it back. You uttered your name to him and he smiled. “Pretty name for a pretty girl”.

“Oh stop it, you're sweet talking me already?”, you said as you took another inhale. Fully forgetting what you ran from. 

“Oh for sure, I see a pretty girl outside, almost made her fall for me so why shouldn’t I take the chance to sweet talk her?”, Choso spoke as he tilted his head with a smile. Feeling a flush on your cheeks as you passed the cigarette back to him. 

“Well Choso”, you purred lightly. “Why not buy me a drink?” 

“Only because you said my name so nicely”, he said as you turned to make your way back to the bar. He held the door for you as you walked in, making your way to the bar and settling on a stool, he took the one next to you. Falling into a conversation with the handsome man, two drinks in and you forgot why you were originally here.

Oh right, your friends. 

You whipped your head in the direction of their booth, seeing them all there still, you sighed. Before you could turn away, you made eye contact with Satoru. He was sitting with them now, drink in his hand as he stared at you. Your smile stiffened as you glanced away. 

“Could I get your number? I would love to take you out on a date”, Choso says, snapping you back in the conversation. A bigger smile taking place on your face as you nodded. He handed you his phone as you typed your number in. Feeling multiple eyes on you as you put it in, ignoring them until you were done. 

“Text me okay? I actually came here with friends I haven’t seen and I spent time away from them already. Sorry to cut our conversation short, but I’d love to see you again Choso”, you smiled as you handed his phone back. He grabbed your hand lightly and pressed a kiss on your hand. Your face now warmer than it’s ever been with a grin too big to explain. 

“Oh you will see me again, I had fun talking to you”, Choso said as he smiled at you and got up. Placing money on the counter as you watched him walk away. You hadn’t felt this way in a  while, your brain mushing, you don’t know if it was the easiness of the conversation or just him in general. But for once you had hope.

With a smile you ordered a round of shots and made your way back to your friends. All smiling big except for him, his smile small and slightly distant. 

“Girl that man was fine and coming from me, that says a lot”, Shoko exclaimed as you set down the shots. Causing you to laugh as you pass them out, sitting down and seeing your previous shot left untaken. 

“You wouldn’t believe how I met him, I literally almost fell for him”, you laughed out as you took your first shot. 

“What do you mean?” Suguru asked. 

“I was smoking while walking back and forth and then on one of my turns I bumped right into him. He caught me before I could fall then he gave me another cigarette since I dropped mine. Then it went from there”, you spoke as you smiled lightly at the memory of it. So stupid and small but organic. Something fresh, something new. 

“At least you didn’t fall in your outfit”, Yu exclaimed. 

“Thats what he said! I’m so glad I didn’t fall honestly, god that would’ve been more embarrassing”, you stifle a slight laugh. “Okay now everyone take your shots I just spent a little too much on”. 

You finally looked at Satoru, he was already staring. You were sure he hadn’t even stopped, but his smile had faded. You were sure that his eyes were glued to you, you could feel them, you offered a small smile to him and he mustered one back. 

Taking the shots, the conversation flowed. You lost count of how many shots you had taken and by the time you stood up, it felt like you were spinning. 

“Woah watch it, you’re actually gonna fall this time”, a chuckle escaped Kento’s lips as he held you by your waist from his seat. You glanced back at him and smiled. 

“Won’t you catch me Ken?”, you laugh as he stands up and helps you. “Give me a ride home?”

“I didn’t drive here, I walked from home”, he stated. Frowning at him and glancing around the table.

“Any of you drive here? I don’t wanna spend money on an uber”, you pout. 

“I can drop you off”, Satoru said and you glanced at him. Offering a smile and gripping Ken a bit tighter. 

“Could you really?”, you ask, a smile taking on your face. 

“Yea I don’t think anyone else drove”, he says as he runs a hand through his hair. You glance at your friends and they all shake their heads. With a sigh, you nod at them. Bidding your goodbyes and see you laters. 

“Okay lead the way mr���, you say as Kento passes you to Satoru. He places his hand on your back as you grip onto his arm. “Fuck I should’ve stopped drinking”.

“You kept ordering more for everyone, I’m surprised you’re not as lightweight as you were before”, he chuckles as he leads the way out the bar. 

“Time changes tolerance Satoruuu”, you giggle as he unlocks his car. Helping you in and putting your seatbelt on after you struggled a couple times. 

“Time changes a lot”, he states as he closes your door. You lean your head on the headrest and smile lightly. It feels as it used to, simple and easy with him despite everything. He gets in his side and starts his car, turning on the heater. “What’s your address?”

“Same as before, if you remember it. If not its-”

“Yea I remember, didn’t think you’d still live there”, he cuts you off and starts driving. You giggle at him, no contact after 3 years and yet he still remembers your shitty little apartment you had gotten when you were 18. He has some random playlist playing in the background, the music humming lightly and filling the silence. It’s not uncomfortable but it’s peaceful. 

“So how’ve you been Satoru?”, you murmur as you lean your head to look at him. He peaks at you and sighs. 

“I’ve been...going. Taking over the family business is easy but there’s so much paperwork that it makes me want to rip my hair out sometimes”, he sighs as he runs his left hand through his hair. He pulls his glasses off and tosses them in the middle.

“Ah yes the Gojo empire, you’ve been destined to take over. At least it’s easy for you, I think if I had to run a company that size. I’d lose it”, you sigh. “Even managing my small portion of employees is more than enough”. 

“You’re a manager?”, he questioned. 

“Ah yea I am, moved up these past couple months. Simple but complaints feel never ending from customers”, sighing as you close your eyes. “Sometimes I wish I could go back to when it was simple and not have to worry about working and paying bills”.

“Yea..I wish we could be back in highschool sometimes when life was much simpler”, Satoru says as you hum in agreement. You wish you could go back to when you were his and he was yours, but you need to move on.  

“Hey, do you ever imagine what would’ve happened if we stayed together?”, you murmur. 

He inhales a deep breath and glances at you, your eyes were closed and your voice was getting sleepy. 

“More than I’d like to say”, he says lightly.

“Yea…me too”, you say as you drift off to sleep. 

“I’m sorry for ever leaving, it was stupid of me. I wish we could try again…”, he trails off as he hears your light snores. A smile creeping on his face as he shakes his head. “Wish you stayed up to hear that”.

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[olgasaysso]

The apothecary diaries made me realize something very interesting about how women perceive power...

I can't be the only one who noticed that in stories written by women power is often compared to a prison or a cage meanwhile in the ones written by men it's mostly fun and freedom.

It is that women tend to see power as more of an responsibility and men think of it as the ability to do whatever they want?

The apothecary diaries made me think of it first. I discovered with surprise that I actually like the emperor, which I almost never do. Any guy that has relationship with more than one woman at once tends to disgust me, especially if he's in a position of power but for some reason not him.

Because the emperor is as much a prisoner as the 2000 women in the rear palace. Maybe even more because as long as he doesn't touch them, they're allowed to leave.

Like on one hand, he's the most powerful man in the empire. He calls the shots, right?

But on the other hand, he can't even properly protect Lishu from being sold to some pedofile by her father. The only way he could protect her was to make her his concubine and how f*cked up is that? She's like a daughter to him and the only way he could protect her was by marrying her? And then he couldn't even spend time with her anymore because that would be read wrong.

It's the fact that 3 of his children died because there was no proper medic to save them due to the fact that they don't allow non eunuchs to treat them and forbid women practicing medicine... when he doesn't even care about that. He hasn't blinked once at Maomao running around the inner palace and being a doctor.

At first when I was watching the story I thought of how horrible it was that he didn't even visit Lady Lihua after their son died. But then it made me think of how he's literally not allowed to get attached because of his position and how hard it is for him? The fact that he couldn't even provide enough support for Lady Ah-Duo so she doesn't lose her uterus? The fact that she switched their baby with his brother and he had to watch his son grow up "away" from him?

There's so much more to this, especially with Jinshis approach to power and I could go on an on but I think I made my point.

And when I started comparing the stories written by women to those by men... Women tend to write power as more of a burden than a gift.

After watching TAD I watched solo leveling.

And for those of you who don't know, it's basically a story about a guy who suddenly "discovers" that he's like a character in a game (not exactly but it's be too long to explain) and basically finds out that he has endless potential and over the course of the story he becomes the most powerful being in the entire universe.

And there's a moment where he's talking to his little sisters friend that gets very misread as something inappropriate by another character.

This other character points out, kindly, to Sung Jinwoo that the girl is a minor.

Sun Jinwoo doesn't understand so he just looks at him and asks "so?".

And so the guy immediately gets scared and never mentions it again despite the two of them being friends.

This moment is kind of played for laughs. Nothing actually happened, Sung Jinwoo is a good guy so he wouldn't.

But he could. Nobody could do anything to stop him.

And when I watched that I laughed too. But then I thought of how terrifying that is. To have someone be so above the law, this untouchable. Who can do anything he pleases because no one will ever stop him.

But that's never actually adressed in the show other than to show us how cool this is.

It this was written by Natsu Hyūga there'd probably be a million different situations to show us how fucked up this is and how it weighs on the main character.

In the apothecary diaries Jinshi doesn't even want to ask anything directly of Maomao because he doesn't want her to interpret it as an order.

[pinky-the-bunny]

Meet MONSTROSITY SONIC!

WARNING: lots of body horror, mentions of death and mentions of eating/killing people.

Lore: Sonic somehow gets killed by dr. Eggman after a heated battle with one of his biggest robots. Amy; distraught by the death of the person she loved for the longest time, decides to try and bring him back from the dead by reciting a secret ritual she found in a cave in one of their many adventures.

The ritual worked! However, what she didn't know was that it would come with a curse.

Sonic was alive, but now he has turned into a monster that could now only live off of eating a living being.

Sonics design: Sonic regularly looks pretty much the same, except for the fact that his fur and skin are a little bit tinted. his green eyes are still very vibrant though. Every part of his body can open up and either become a mouth with large sharp teeth, big beaty eyes, or another limp. (He mostly uses arms, but the difference is that their very skinny and quite long compared to his normal gloved ones) His whole body can also twist and bend.

without his gloves, his nails can become quite sharp and can be used to easily cut a victim. His actual teeth can sharpen as well like the many mouths he makes in his body. His tongue can get very long as well, around 20 centimeters long.

His eyes can dilate whenever he sees something he likes, (kind of like a cat) usually when he's around his friends. He sometimes crawls and stands on all fours whenever he gets hungry and or is about to kill his new prey. His heartbeat and pulse are completely gone, he's basically almost a walking corpse at this point.

Sonics personality: Pretty much the same, only he know has a weird fixation over his friends (Especially Amy and shadow) and eating people. He's a pretty protective and clingy person and can ONLY eat really bad people/villians. He never kills or eats innocent people.

The others: most of them are usually terrified of the horribly twisted version of sonic, but tails is still pretty hopeful and trusts his friend more than anything.

Amy; despite being terrified of sonic, still showcases how much she loves sonic and is sort of guilty for turning him into a monster. (Though she is weirdly sort of...into it? She's very confused on that part)

shadow tries to hide the fact he is also afraid of sonics horrific state, trying to still act like he's his biggest rival or at least frenemy. (he is also weirdly into it, but he doesn't quite know that he does unlike amy)

And that's all the info I got for this! This is mostly just going to be comedy horror where I do some little silly/cute skits or posts ideas and info about this AU. Sorry for those who wanted this to be a bit more on the serious end. (Well, maybe if I feel like it I might post something serious? We'll see)

[captaincreative]

Hi! Do you have any open requests? Can you write something funny about Wild bringing a Cucco into battle? In his games, you can defeat monsters with Cuccos if they hit you while you're carrying one. It would be funny to see the Chain reaction when Wild's crazy plan works perfectly. It doesn't matter if it's a short story, I'll be eternally grateful!

Hi, you're actually my first request, Anon!! Sorry this took so long, I was trying to do this myself to watch it happen and write it properly (and then I got super distracted and kept beating shrines instead).

The Cucco Anecdote

The chain gets bored and decides to tell silly stories about things they've done. Nobody believes Wild's.

(Sorry if this isn't what you had in mind, this is the idea that I got)

It was growing dark and despite the tired air around them, none of them were tired enough to sleep. Hyrule suggested telling stories, talking about things they did that could be funny. Time talked about how he managed to get to the bottom of a well (which wasn't very impressive to everyone else, but he seemed proud so they let him be). Legend said how he somehow got stuck in a rock three times. Wind retold how he snuck around in a barrel (which seemed the most normal out of the stories if everyone was being completely honest).

When it was Wild's turn, everyone was in a good mood. "And you, Champion?? Got anything to add??" prodded Warriors with a raised brow and smile on his face. Wild smiled back, thinking of just the right story.

"Yeah, I do. Y'know how most of us hate and or dislike cuccos??" Wild gave a playful, pointed look at Sky, who was probably one of the only ones of the group to like those horrible birds. "Well, I brought one into a fight before."

Nobody looked like they believed him. Honestly, they were valid for that. He wouldn't believe him either. But Wild didn't back down. "No, really. And I won, too."

"Well of course you won!!" Wind interjected. "Those things are ruthless!!"

Sky snickered, obviously amused.

"Yeah, exactly!! Which is why I brought it. Old Man, you know how if you bother those birds, they swarm you, yeah??" Time felt put on the spot, but nods all the same. Wild gestures towards Time, smiling still and looking at one of the members of the group to his right. "See?? They swarm. And they did that to a Bokoblin I was fighting. Damn thing wouldn't stay down."

Legend scoffed. "Mhm, so you had the bright idea of bringing a bird into a fight??"

"Yeah!! And it worked!!"

"I totally believe you," Legend replies, rolling his eyes.

Wild huffs, but he's still in a good mood. He's just glad he could get everyone to start talking to each other.

[sleepy-n-thinkin-stuff]

Twin, where have you been

[tittyinfinity]

I just remembered that up until 5th grade, all of the sports teams I was in weren't separated by gender. I played basketball and baseball with boys. And we did just fine.

It wasn't until 6th grade when they segregated it by gender. It didn't make sense to me. I was now in softball instead of baseball, because "softball is for girls" and "baseball is for boys" (which confused me bc my dad was on an adult softball team).

Now, my brother's all-male team didn't win a single game. My all-girls team won every single one.

They presented the boys' team with this HUGE trophy, and if you wanted replicas of it, they were $30 each.

My team was presented with a very small trophy. Extras were $5.

That's when I decided gender-segregated sports were bullshit.

[mzminola]

Fascinated by the difference in how Aral & Cordelia treat Elena, and how Miles does (in Warrior's Apprentice, at least, I haven't reread the later books yet).

Aral & Cordelia are very firmly paying all of their liege-lord obligations to Bothari. He won't let Elena get an advanced education, he's got a very firm idea of the kind of person she should marry (and that marriage is a certainty), and he's lied to her her entire life about where she came from.

Miles rightly points out that Elena is their liegewoman as surely as Bothari is their liegeman, and they cannot owe him everything and her nothing. Don't they have obligations to her? Why does Bothari's narrow plan for her overrule her desires for her own life?

Aral dismissing Elena from the equation makes unfortunate sense from the Barrayar patriarchal structure. Cordelia's dismissal is harder to swallow. She's from Beta Colony and has never accepted Barrayaran sexist cultural norms. She actively rails against them. But when it comes to Elena, suddenly she's hands-off. The trauma bond and sense of debt towards Bothari overrides everything else.

Miles eventually also tries to deny Elena a future of her own choosing by invoking oaths to Bothari...but it's not what he's motivated by (he's motivated by his crush on her, his own personal desire to keep her tied to him), and he reverses that decision.

Aral & Cordelia have kept Elena in ignorance of her origins for 18 years. While there are a lot of secrets wrapped up in the Escobar war, the abuses of prisoners and the origins of the uterine replicators are not a load-bearing one. Outside Barrayar, they're not even a secret at all. Supporting Bothari's lie leads to Elena finding out the truth in the worst way possible (much like keeping the truth of Serg's actions from Gregor also lead to disastrous results). They also spend those 18 years never asking Elena what she wants out of life.

Miles at seventeen years old with no authority but that he borrows from his parents or can bluff, sets out to answer questions Elena has, and when he learns going home will be dangerous, he gives his blessing to the marriage she chose, and tasks her new husband (because Baz has practical experience in this field) with teaching Elena everything she wants to know about her chosen vocation. He dowers her with a fleet.

While Miles definitely knows Elena personally better than his parents do, as she's a peer, he still actually has spent far more of his life with Bothari than with Elena. He's extremely aware that Bothari has saved his life multiple times. But for Miles, a life-debt to Bothari does not override supporting Elena as an independent person, while for Aral & Cordelia it does.

[ganondoodle]

(idk if anyone wants to keep hearing my opinions on totk book stuff but-)

apparently it says that rauru DID have kids, multiple even, which yeah... is kinda necessary for zelda to even be connected to them so much so that sonia can SENSE a blood connection (which, even with all the excuses with magic, is just a little too far for me to suspend my disbelief bc its over, OVER, ten thousand years worth of generations that seperate her from them that one lil touch of the hand can sense that (feels more like an attempt to make you care about them or .. see them as zeldas "better" parents just bc they exchange a few nice words, i never got the feeling they were 'better' parents and its also kinda disrespectful to her actual parents, like sure rhoam wasnt the best but i wouldnt call rauru better just bc he was polite)- i could see maybe the light power of hylia or sth but since its the coolest dude that ever lived rauru now that had it which still doesnt make sense and makes me unreasonably annoyed and she can sense BOTH of their powers in her? nah) the fact theres NOTHING about them in the game itself is just so ... no way they planned any of this

i dont think theres anything they can do or say that wont make be believe they either

are making it up alla 'fix it in post' mentality trying to hastily explain stuff the game never bothers to do to try and appease fans or let it appear as if they thought about it at all

something went really REALLY wrong during development, which kinda seems likely given how the game turned out (im sorry i cannot let go, its not just the writing, the game design too and how little was changed in the map while being so damn expensive, i dont know how people dont feel scammed q_q)

given that they (allegedly) spent the last entire year of development on polish (where??? where????? huh??? like it would make it more understandable (EXCEPT for the price) if there was alot of trouble, which was also bc it got delayed and ... turned out like this, but they dont want to say it, especially given their reputation, with that quote i have heard way too many times 'a delayed game blah blah') i just??

are they just gonna go and do it like they did with kashiwa (kass)? "they uuuh where flying around the whole time ony cool sonau tech maschines, you just dont see or hear from them ooooorrr they were uuuuh out of the country at the time" (sending invitations to other continents to join their glorious kingdom ;) )

(bet they are also gonna say they did all the stuff like ... moving the shrines around (lol?) and lifting the islands up into the sky- which is still weird bc ... didnt they also say they were living in the sky before coming to the surface?? so where?? did they park all their islands on the surface and the mystery kids had the keys so they had to repark them back into the sky after they returned off camera?? xD also why are the islands so different as an environment if they where from the surface? like even the STONE up there is different- and if they were first in the sky then on the surface and the nback in the sky .. why is there not a single yellow tree or grass in the past- you cant really argue that it changed bc they were up there so long bc .. nothing else changed, the suddendly and totally always there sonau buildings are largely in prime condition, only some slightly moldy, and what we see of the glorious past looks barely any different from the present, aside from like ... some standard trees shuffled, no castle yet and that glowy uwu filter DESPITE that stupidly long time frame between it)

[fantasmadelaciudad]

every social media platform has become so unusable that i might just seriously for real throw my phone into the ocean and move into the middle of the woods.

[microknifeyuri]

Following the ii dark fics thing.

On some- if not most of the dark fics, disorders also tends to be used as a main thing to explain why the character is doing what they're doing. Which is, of course, not really great. Most au's that do this are about the Bright Lights as well.

Listen.

I can totally GET it. Mental health is a very important thing and having it ruined by people, or by other factors, can and WILL do some real damage to you. Yes. I can totally see a character doing questionable things because of their mental health being so so bad that it leads them to think that maybe, just maybe, these thoughts and actions aren't as bad, or that given the situation they're in, they're somewhat justified/it isn't inherently terrible of them, because of the state they're in doesn't let them think clearly, and they hold onto something because it's the last thing that makes them feel real.

One thing is doing that.

The other thing is using mental illnesses or their symptoms (per example: BPD, DID, Schizophrenia, and others) as the main reason as to why a character has done a killing spree or commited terrible actions. Meanwhile yes, having said disorders and going through heavy amounts of stress, and having no support can really make things difficult, mental illness won't make you a criminal or an awful person, a disorder isn't something you can just use for "oh well they have this so they commited murder because of this", people that have those already go through enough with others not even accepting that their condition is real or that it doesn't make them a bad person, for other people to use those disorders as a "Hey So This Is Why This Character Is Bad Now" for a story.

just sayin'

[alternautxyz]

uuhhh in other new that lmk s5 trailer dropped and people are very

mixed

for context the new season is being partly animated by wildbrain i think. flying bark is still working on the show but probably due to all the other projects they've been working on like the atla movie the animation is off.

its understandable that people are upset. lmk has some of the most consistently dynamic and lively animation ive ever seen, and going from that to ok animation kinda sucks. as a culmination of a lot of what the series has been building up to people were inevitably going to be disappointed

at the same time people shouldnt harass animators. like ever. no amount of trying to petition or anything will change the s5, people are just trying to do their job and theres no probably no major changing to the finished product by now. and theres still a lot of that lmk charm in there, and we haven't even seen the whole season yet to judge it. flying bark is still working on it, and even if the animation never reaches the peak of the old seasons it still has the same writers so at least the writing has the chance to live up old standards. idk though we'll just have to wait and see