#but sometimes people are unreasonable and lash out. it happens

[awkward-but-nice]

idk lads, but i figure that bo-katan probably feels a ton of guilt and regret about her past with death watch, and her part in the fall of mandalore and her sister's death. and i'm guessing that her quest, to reclaim mandalore and lead the people, is part of her own personal journey to try and right those wrongs she's done. so the fact that any hope of that happening went out the window because a random dad won the special sword by accident, and then he doesn't even want it? i feel like she's allowed to be a bit pissed off lmao

[rainesol]

The way Riddle’s mental health gets treated in comparison to the other character’s mental health is really annoying sometimes.

Here’s the thing, Riddle apologises for lashing out REGULARLY. Most times when he catches himself becoming unreasonable, he stops, apologises, and makes a consistent effort to change for the better.

I’ve also seen people (mostly on tt) claim that he’s not understanding of other people’s struggles which is the opposite of the truth. He’s incredibly accommodating. He helps Cater study in a way he thinks will help most, taking possibly hours of his own time, showing understanding to his implied ADHD. He gives Deuce his own clear notes and help book on maths -zero questions asked- showing understanding to his implied dyscalculia and dyslexia. On the same topic, Riddle is very heavily implied to struggle with low-empathy, meaning he does in fact find it hard to put himself in other peoples shoes. (Idia literally calls him ‘Mr Zero EQ’ [en] or The man who can’t empathise with anyone [jp] as an insult during the GloMas event). Riddle was also one of, if not the most apologetic about his overblot.

Another thing to point out is that Riddle isn’t enforcing these rules for fun? He follows those ridiculous rules compulsively. He worries that if he’s not following these rules constantly, something bad will happen to him. (Which, in his experience, is correct.) Do people even realise how hard ignoring compulsions are? He also is commonly headcanoned as autistic. A few common symptoms of autism is to be very justice oriented and to follow rules to the t. This (shockingly) is inconvenient and causes a lot of struggle in the persons life.

Of course, none of these struggles are cute or fun, so nobody wants to acknowledge it. /s

[erenjaegerwifee]

Hi Leah, can I make a request for Jake Sully x Metkayina reader smut? (Reader is Tonowari's eldest daughter and Jake's lover)

Following Neteyam's death, reader distances herself from Jake and she starts avoiding him, hoping that he'd forget about her. However one day he confronts her and they end up making up 🔥.

Ofc I can this is such a nice idea!

You’re Important To Me

Paring: Jake Sully x Fem!Metkayina!Reader

Word Count: 1.9k

Warnings: angst, kissing, mentions of death, age-gap.

Disclaimer: All my characters are aged-up! if you feel uncomfortable, don't read or interact with my post.

Jake and you started dating a while after he and his family arrived at Awa’atlu. His wife tragically died during the battles they face in the Omatikaya clan. It was after the kidnapping he decided it was not good for them to continue living there.

Upon his arrival you stood next to your father looking at the family, Jake was breathtaking, you started crushing immediately. You thought he was so brave for leaving what his children grew up with, his home that he grew to love all for theirs safety.

While your younger siblings helped his children adjust being around the same age, you took the change to make Jake more comfortable in his new home. The more time you spent with him the more fond you grew of him and you unintentionally started to fall in love.

One drunken night is what sealed your relationship when you confessed to having loved him for weeks now and you were surprised to find he loved you. The next morning you both exposed your relationship to his children not wanting to keep it from them.

It took them a while to adjust having lost their mother but they eventually came around. You and Jake never officially mated and you made that clear with them when you moved into their hut. Tuk was the first to come around comfortably with you, having a nightmare one night Jake took his boys out. She feel into your arms crying until she fell asleep and ever since she’s been your sweet little helper, even accidentally calling you mom from time to time.

Jake explained it was okay for them to treat you like you were their mother but made it clear you did not wish to replace her. Lo’ak was the next to become comfortable with you when he was being scolded for the fight that happened between him and your brother and you defended him, getting into an argument with Jake for it. Lo’ak was grateful to you for how you defended him saying he had been through enough and he shouldn’t be expected to take on so much pressure now. You know that Jake means well and he wants to keep them safe, it is difficult keeping your eye on 4 kids that never sit still. Sometimes he lashes out unreasonably, especially on the son that reminds him of himself.

Kiri was the next to fall into your arms when she had the seizure at the spirt tree. Your mother being busy tending to a pregnant na’vi could not get there in time leaving you to perform tsahik duties with the help of your sister. Kiri woke up and learned of your acts and has stayed close to you since.

Neteyam was the last, he was tied to his mother more than any of his siblings, he never wanted to move, her death hit him the hardest as he spent the most time with her. He was almost the splitting imagine of her, followed in her footsteps exactly. He was not your son but he made you extremely proud. So when you saw him sitting alone in the middle of the night on the docks outside your pod you sat beside him. At first he did not talk but eventually you let him open up.

Neteyam was a fine young man, mature, strong, he was well on his way to becoming an incredible warrior. He was as brave like his father and strong like his mother, he was a protector and you admired him for that even though he was younger.

You’ll never forget the day you were able to see just how special he really was. When the sky people found them. The way he followed his brother into the demon ship; the way he kept you by his side knowing how much his father and siblings care for you, the way he grabbed the gun out of lo’ak’s hand and shot at the demons so he could get to safety with the human boy.

You saw how strong he was when you objected to jumping off the railing before he did and he wouldn’t take no for an answer. How he followed directly after you when you gave in and leaped. He was a good boy, he did not deserve that. No one deserves this.

You caught him in your arms when he was bleeding into the water, held him above so he could breathe. On the rock you stroked his hair crying until his father arrived next to you. It was so painful in your heart to see the life drain from his eyes and you cried silently. Jake was out of head with grief blocking out your cries as he stared at his son.

You were the one who got up and retrieved Tuk and Kiri from the demon ship, you brought them back they way you couldn’t with neteyam. You watched them hug as a family and you rode back to the village with tuk in your arms.

Guilt overcame you in the coming weeks, you could barely look at the family. You stayed with Jake throughout the funeral process but after that you made ever excuse to be busy, leaving at early hours in the morning and coming back when they were all asleep. You forget what it felt like to be loved by such a happy family because they were longer full now having lost 2 beloved family members.

What place did you have getting in the way of their grief, you should not make this about how you feel, they who few with him, who gave him life, they are the ones that should feel as awfully as you do. So you avoided them. You could not find it in yourself to look them in the eye so you simply didn’t.

After a couple weeks of your behavior the children started to question. They tried chasing you only to have you run away from them, it was harsh you knew but it was your fault. They expressed their concerns to jake who cornered you one morning when you were leaving.

“Babygirl where are you going at this hour? What is going on? You’ve been avoiding us, me? The children are worried too” his voice was tired.

“Just getting an early start on my duties” you couldn’t look him in the eye, your eyes glued to your feet.

His hand came up to your chin pulling your eyes to his, “babygirl look at me.” Your hands came up to push his away from you but Jake was stronger holding both your wrists.

Tears started to sting your eyes for what felt like the millionth time since Neteyam’s death. The sun was rising you knew the children would be up soon, “Jake let go” you whispered

“Baby please, just look at me, talk to me, tell me what happened!” His voice sounded so desperate you hated making this happen they had been through enough.

“What happened? Jake, your son died. Your first child is gone because of me and I-”

“What? No no baby that’s not your fault-”

“Jake yes it is, he insisted I jump first, if I fought him down maybe he’d be alive today, I’d be the one who got shot instead. I could have kept him safe and I didn’t! I failed as a mother when I let him die! I have no right to be here in this house with you, with them children! I cannot express to you the guilt I feel that he is not here Ma Jake!”

He caught you as you sobbed for the floor, finally letting out off those emotions, “baby it’s ok, it’s not your fault I promise no one blames you”

“Mom he is right it’s not your fault. It is mine, it was my idea to get spider. If I let him get off the ship he wouldn’t have been put in that position in the first place.” Loak kneeled next to you as you sat in his father’s arms. He looked at you with tears in his eyes.

You immediately raise your head off Jake’s shoulder and brought him to your chest. “Baby no, this is not your fault. No part of this burden is on your shoulders your brother loved you very much and he did that to keep you safe which he did successfully.”

“Son she is right, we do not blame you, I’m sorry for what I said that day, I need you to stay safe it’s all I ever wanted for my family. Please don’t blame yourself. It was not your fault” Jake chimed in hugging you both in his arms as you all cried.

Kiri and Tuk woke up from the noise and joined in the hug with you all when you heared Kiri’s voice, “teyam is good mom, I saw him and mother in the spirt tree, he doesn’t blame anyone, he is resting now and he wants to see you both. He misses you both, he wants to know you are okay”

Everyone visited the spirt tree except you and Lo’ak, you could not bare the thought of seeing him after all that. “Mommy you know teyam loved you too just like we do” Tuk said

“Yea even if he didn’t say it to your face when we spoke of you to anyone he called you mom” Lo’ak said. It made you cry even harder you never got to hear it. Eventually when u all calmed down and decided on spending a night day at home without anyone else but your family you spent the day healing, laughing with your loved ones. You went through old pictures of them in the forest too, it was a good day.

When you were all on your way to the spirt tree Jake sat behind you on an ilu hugging you the entire time. The kids rode in front diving down to the tree when they arrived. You got off the ilu and Jake noticed you didn’t dive, “don’t be nervous everything will be okay”

You made a big exhale, “I know, I just- I don’t know.” Jake swam up to you holding you one hand by your waist and the other on your cheek, “I’ll be right next to you, I won’t leave your side.” He placed a sweet kiss on your lips then another and another melting away your nervousness.

You both dived down connected your queues for the leafs of the underwater tree, “mom” you opened your eyes and saw him, standing in the forest with his bow, “neteyam” you had reached out to him, he was a bit taller than you but you pulled him down into a bone crushing hug.

“I’m so sorry baby, I should have been more careful, I should have kept you safe” you tear up but he chuckled, “that doesn’t matter, you trusted me and I care more about that, I’ve been put under pressure my whole life but now, now I can rest. I am not saying being dead is fun and games” he make you giggle.

“But I am grateful for the time I had with my family and that includes you. You may not have given birth to me but there is nothing I ever done I couldn’t trust you to stand by me for and I’m eternally grateful. Take care of my siblings, I know you will even if I didn’t tell you but thank you for caring. I am very happy you are okay” he smiled at you.

“Oh baby, you should be alive, enjoying your young life”

“It’s ok mom, here I will be young forever and one day my family will be within Ewya with me”

His words make you smile, ever the wise your boy was even after this tragedy you were proud. You gave him a kiss on the cheek and disconnected you queue.

When you surfaced Jake followed and held you close, “your boy is wonderful ma Jake”

“Our boy is wonderful baby” he kissed your head and held you close to him.

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[randomthefox]

Please observe that Tails is literally saying that he wants to DESTROY Eggman here.

"bwaaaaaaaah?"

Sonic the mediator. I've already talked about this scene before but I'm gonna do it again.

first note that Tails totally initiated this argument apropos of nothing. Tails is feeling salty and he's just throwing out resentment at Eggman because he finds being in his presence intolerable. As does Sonic, but Sonic is willing to tolerate it specifically BECAUSE he blames himself for causing this situation in the first place, as he'll explain. Meanwhile Tails is sitting there thinking "this wouldn't have happened if you'd just fucking listened to me >=/ "

Tails lashing out in this moment towards both of them makes perfect sense from his own perspective.

.... do you, though? Eggman didn't really present a very strong case on that point. It makes sense why Sonic ACCEPTED the argument that they need Eggman for this, because he's acting based on his own guilt and remorse for causing this and he wants to correct his mistakes. But I think it is entirely reasonable to point out that Tails could absolutely do it without needing Eggman around. And it's not like Sonic CONSULTED with Tails and asked if he was fine with the arrangement or anything, he just agreed to it unilaterally even though it meant saddling Tails with having to put up with having Eggman around.

Tails IS speaking from a place of unreasonable resentment here, he's letting his worser demons dictate what he says and is absolutely allowing bottled up resentment and the already agitated emotions in the heat of the moment bring him to accusing Sonic of acting in bad faith. Tails is upset that Sonic didn't listen to him in the first place, he's upset about not being asked if he was okay with Eggman tagging along, he's upset that Eggman EXISTS AT ALL, and now he's saying things that he doesn't mean and which he can't take back.

It's almost like he's an imperfect mortal person, or something.

Sonic's response of "what?" makes it clear that the game isn't exactly presenting Tails as being In The Right in this argument either. Sonic is responding as if Tails accusation is coming out of nowhere and feels unreasonable to him. Which it kind of does, externally. But if you connect the dots, it's perfectly logical FROM TAILS PERSPECTIVE why he is now expressing these emotions.

There's only so many ways I can try to put it into words, but: have you never BEEN in an ARGUMENT before? Have you never been the unreasonable party IN an argument? This is just a THING that people DO sometimes x3 It's completely believable human behavior, and it's entirely consistent with Tails established characterization of having self esteem issues and his behavior throughout the game up until this point.

I literally don't understand why people complain about this. I think they're just stupid.

Sonic's responses REALLY cannot be understated here, also. I'm sorry to raise the comparison because I know some people will believe it undermines my analysis, but if this was IDW!Sonic, he would totally just be an asshole to Tails here. IDW!Sonic would- well frankly, IDW!Tails wouldn't have even gotten to this point because IDW!Tails is a thoughtless drone who just mindlessly goes along with whatever Sonic says with no independent thought. But whenever IDW!Sonic is met with someone arguing against him, he EXPLODES at them and basically treats them like absolute garbage and tires to browbeat them into compliance, usually by attempting to emotionally manipulate them

or exclusively argues strictly from the point of view of things HE cares about rather than things the person he's talking to cares about.

He displays a clear lack of empathy, and a pathological need to be submitted to.

REAL SONIC meanwhile demonstrates true empathy, showing that he understands what other people value. He repeatedly tries to deescalate the situation by speaking in a relaxed or pleading tone, so that he doesn't add more fuel onto the fire of Tails heated emotions.

He tries to get Tails to understand the pragmatic needs of their situation, because Tails is a logos guy and he knows that a logical argument is USUALLY the correct approach to try and convince him. He is taken by surprise when Tails shoots back with a pathos response, because it's very unlike him. But he very quickly adapts by trying to reassure Tails emotional concerns. Look at the way he says "I do trust you-" only to be interrupted by Tails saying he doesn't, so then Sonic repeats himself with more emphasis "I DO trust you, Tails."

He tries to reassure Tails that his feelings are misdirected, that Sonic does value him, and then continues by expressing his OWN emotions to Tails. Explaining what his current feelings are, that he feels guilty and responsible for what's happening. Logos didn't work, so he appeals to Tails current pathos driven frame of mind, and attempts to get him to understand and sympathize with Sonics own pathos state. He even drives the point home by REPEATING TAILS OWN WORDS BACK TO HIM. "Do you know how much that bites?" That's actually a recommended negotiating tactic. Just repeat what the person you're talking to said in the form of a question. It makes them feel heard. It's part of active listening.

Tails being a little brat makes PERFECT SENSE for his character in this moment. And Sonic displays that he is exceptionally emotionally intelligent and knows exactly what to do and what to say, tailoring his approach to suit the flow of the conversation. THIS SCENE IS GOOD.

And Eggman even gets to butt in by demonstrating he's an absolute narcissist with no capacity for empathy whatsoever x3 Honestly this scene is such a rockstar moment for this game, I don't understand what peoples fucking problem is.

hehe, funnee game =3

[lavender-town-radio]

// I'd also like to address one, specific thing that the anon who targeted Bench did.

If you have an issue with an rp plotline that involves multiple people, you make a post addressing it so they can all see it. You don't message one individual person, not even the person who came up with the plotline, and say a bunch of malicious things. You don't tell someone "you can't make up for your mistakes", you don't tell someone "if you were really sorry you wouldn't have done it" - that one is gaslighting, by the way.

Everyone makes mistakes. It's a fact of life. When I accidentally said something with really ableist implications in rp, people didn't attack me - they pointed out the shitty implications (which I had already realized and done my best to address) under the assumption that it was a mistake and that I needed education. I appreciated the messages! Even though I'd already done my best to mitigate what I'd said and acknowledged what I'd done! If I hadn't known or realized, the messages I received would have been a godsend.

You want people to learn and grow. You want people to become better and more compassionate.

Assigning malicious motives to someone and acting like they're the root of a problem you claim to have when that's provably untrue does not make anyone think you're telling the truth about what your issue is. I completely believe the "elevated" thing bothered that anon - however, how they dealt with that was unreasonable. It is never appropriate to lash out at people like that. It is never appropriate to harass and bully someone simply because you do not like them.

Everyone, everyone, needs to learn to deal with their trauma responses without harming others. It's hard, and you will fail sometimes due to circumstances outside your control. That doesn't mean you get a free fucking pass to be awful to people. You close the fucking computer and go do something else to process, then come back and address what happened that bothers you.

[frostfall-matches]

[ matchmaking... ]

@imjustabeanie : [ match report ready ]

your match is…

✦ Fushiguro Toji

-> Toji is someone who can deal with someone that’s rough around the edges. It doesn’t matter to him if you tend to come off as cold or sarcastic, because he’s not all that warm and fuzzy, either. Most people are just in the way, in his eyes (and when he’s at the point in his life where he’s abandoned his children, he could honestly care less about making friends or getting a partner). The first few interactions you two have are potentially a bit dicey - you’ll give back attitude if you get it, but you’re generally polite to most. Toji… well, it simply depends on how he’s feeling. He’s not necessarily polite, but he’s not super rude and aggressive to people he’s just passing by. He can be a bit gruff and condescending, so your guys’ interactions depend on how you perceive and respond to his behavior. Still, there’s a certain charm about him that you’re quick to notice, and vice versa.

-> He either doesn’t react to your flirting, or flirts right back. Just depends on his mood. He’s not really the type to get all flustered or fall for someone just because of some casual flirting, and he has the feeling that you’re just doing it to be playful. He does think it’s amusing, though, seeing this side of you when you seemed so guarded and cold before. Toji can totally dish it right back, though, almost sweetly complimenting you with a smirk on his face - and at some point this probably forces you to seriously consider your feelings towards him. Even when you often don’t recognize your feelings right away, or you bottle them up and ignore them, it’s hard not to at least do a bit of introspection sooner or later when you’re confronted with someone who banters and flirts back with you.

-> The fact that you’re not overly clingy or jealous is a big plus in Toji’s eyes. He would really hate the type of partner that breathes down his neck and tries to control what he does in his free time, or the type of partner that is so insecure and jealous that they start making assumptions and refuse to trust him. Toji is simply the type of person who needs his own space sometimes, and he refuses to be stifled by a suffocating partner. And it’s not like he won’t spend time with you - he can be quite affectionate in a very relaxed, casual way, he just needs to actually let you in. He isn’t one for those grand, sickly sweet shows of affection. But he pulls you in close and holds you tightly when you go in for a hug, or slings one of his legs over yours when the two of you are cuddled up on the couch or in bed together.

-> He has no hesitation calling you out when you’re being moody to the point that it’s unreasonable. Will this likely flare your temper up even further and cause more issues right at that moment? Probably. But he claims that it’s not his fault that you chose to bottle up your emotions and that you decided to lash out at him for no reason. (However, if you lash out at him because of something stupid or irritating that he did? Yeah, that’s fair - he won’t try to argue with you. He does definitely try to push your buttons sometimes and he knows he has to deal with the consequences.) That said, regardless if he considers your moodiness and ire is reasonable or not, he does leave you alone when you decide to isolate yourself to cool off. He doesn’t take it personally or get all whiny about it. He knows you’ll talk to him again when you’re up to it.

-> Aside from that, he finds your temper quite amusing. When it isn’t directed at him, that is. Toji just really likes how feisty you can get with people who are irritating or inconveniencing you. If he ever happens to see you get really competitive and mean with someone, trying to get your opponent to lose their temper, it just cracks him up. He’s very much the “sitting on the sidelines munching popcorn” type of guy when that whole mess happens. You have a backbone and you’re clearly willing and able to stand up for yourself when needed. And honestly, he could care less if you have some sort of grudge against someone, plotting revenge… Just know that you may very well spark his own ire if you decide to get petty with him on a regular basis.

-> Toji thinks it’s quite contradictory, the way that you refuse to harm an innocent person but also struggle with really defining your own morals. He’s not one to fuss over morals much himself - he’s willing to do some shitty things just for the money, completing dirty work when he’s willing to put in the time and the effort. On top of that, someone else’s morals really aren’t his problem. He questions you about it sometimes, bringing up hypothetical scenarios, wanting to see where you draw the line. But it’s purely out of curiosity for him, because he wants to see how your mind works. Besides, if you were a complete goody-two-shoes, you probably wouldn’t have bothered interacting with him in the first place. Whatever morals you hold won’t affect his own; and if you have a problem with his morals, then it’s up to you to either turn a blind eye to his beliefs and actions or simply leave.

-> Toji quite enjoys sparring with you and it becomes a fun pastime for both of you. He’s insanely skilled and strong, though, and most people aren’t on his level - so he does “go easy” on you (fortunately or unfortunately, however you wish to take that), but he certainly doesn’t make it easy for you, either. And why would he make it easy on you? It wouldn’t be fun for either you or him, and when it comes to sparring a boring match is just awful. Toji loves seeing that competitive fire in your eyes, enjoys taunting you just as much as you taunt him. The majority of your sparring matches do end with him besting you, but occasionally he’ll let you win, wanting to see that spark of pride and victory in your eyes… Even though you might end up pouting or scowling as you realize that he just let you win. If he gives you any compliments on your technique, though, they are genuine. And you do make him work up a sweat sometimes! He has to be on his toes around you.

-> He doesn’t participate much in your other hobbies with you. He’s a man with limited interests, knowing very well what he likes and what he doesn’t care for. But your hobbies are your own, and he does think it’s nice that you’re able to keep yourself busy and occupied regardless if you’re alone or around him. Toji will admit, though, that he quite likes the quiet afternoons and evenings when you’re busy reading a book or sketching. These times are relaxing, and he’s able to just kick his feet up and spend a bit of time in your presence without you two feeling the need to do something together in that moment. He’ll often have the TV going, volume a few notches lower than usual. Occasionally he’ll have a book himself. On another note, he does like when you decide to bake. He’s not a huge sweets person, but you make some tasty treats and he’s happy to indulge.

[acourtofthought]

Hello!

Throughout the books I made a great observation about the dynamics of couples who stayed together, especially those who are partners.

Let's look at characters similar to Azriel in terms of violence: Braxian and Lídia.

They are characters who torture and who are violent. The people who are your companions are violent people. SJM talks about Ruhn and the tough stuff he'll do in prison. He talks about Danika who, even though she is the softest of them, is a warrior person who hid secrets and manipulated situations and people.

Violence didn't scare off endgame couples. Elide wasn't a warrior, but violence didn't scare her, on the contrary, she was born into it. Now let's look at Elain.

The violence of a part of the NC bothers her. Azriel tortures in this place and lets his dark side out.

I don't think Elain would judge Azriel's methods, but that doesn't mean she would embrace that side of him.

Lucien is another one who turns pale with violence, he feels uncomfortable. How do people not realize how well these two match?

SJM was keen to emphasize that Elain has a different strength than her sisters and is a silent dreamer. I see it differently than her sisters who are not afraid of violence.

What do you think SJM means that Elain is a different dreamer? and that her strength is different from her sisters?

This is such a valid point. It's not like SJM couples need to be carbon copies of one another but they need to be able to embrace the darkest part of their other half. Like you said, it's not enough to just be accepting of what the other person does but it needs to not clash with their personal beliefs. Elain might say, "I care for Az and understand why he needs to do this" at first, but there will be some point where he comes home bloody and talking about his day where Elain won't be able to stop herself from thinking, "I wish he didn't have to do this all the time" or "I wonder if he first tried another way to get the information from them." It's incredible how E/riels refuse to see the compatibility of Elucien. Or what's more likely is they do realize the compatibility of Elucien but try to create a Lucien that is less like canon Lucien and make canon Azriel more similar to canon Lucien so Elain and Az can be a better fit. As far as SJM saying Elain is a quiet dreamer I think it's her telling us that Elain has goals and thoughts for her future. She imagines the many things she'd like to do. Whereas Nesta and Feyre were more pragmatic about things ("this task right in front of me needs handled so I'm going to handle it"), I think Elain spends a lot of time in her mind making plans she'd like to someday achieve. Sometimes the problem with dreamers like Elain is they forget to start doing. I know she'll make a difference once she decides to take those steps forward but until she finds that courage to go after what she wants, her dreams aren't taking flight. And the different sort of strength SJM was talking about refers to (I think) Elain's optimistic nature and loving / kind ways. It really doesn't matter what's happened to Elain (death of her mother, death of her father, poverty, losing her fiance, being kidnapped twice), she has never let it really affect her love of those around her. She has never blamed anyone for the things that happened to her, she's never lashed out unreasonable, she takes some time to internalize things then finds a way to move forward again (even if it's just helping out in a garden). It's not easy to remain that way when the world keeps knocking you down. Most of the characters and people in real life turn hard, bitter, jaded. They lose sight of what is good and tend to focus on only the bad that happened to them. Elain's ability to not turn cold is an underappreciated strength.

[welcometocapitalism]

im worried that my previous ask is way too aggressive and might make you feel defensive and thats not helpful at all so i just want to explain that im so angry because it breaks my heart to see other people being violently harassed into submission just for saying something that isnt a popular opinion. you are quite literally being gaslit by a bunch of strangers who desperately dont want to have to think that hard about the material consequences of their own behaviors.

they are simplifying the issue in order to make you look unreasonable so that they can completely dismiss your opinion while giving you no way to defend yourself without making yourself look worse. its manipulative and coercive and vile. they have tricked you into condemning your own behavior and reinforcing that self doubt that THEY planted in you in the first place.

they are convincing you that you have to police yourself otherwise they will do it for you and they arent going to be nice about it.

they intentionally misunderstood what you were saying so that they could ignore the point you were making and thus avoid taking responsibility for their personal role in our capitalist society.

they are operating on this us vs them mindset of "good people" vs "bad people" and they think that they are a "good person" and that you are trying to maliciously assert that theyre actually a "bad person." its fascist behavior. they dont want to acknowledge their place in the web of life because then they have to be more careful about how they act and they simply do not want to. they think its their god given right to not have to do anything thats difficult and reflecting on how you are influenced by the oppressive systems you live in is not just difficult but uncomfortable!

you are forcing people to confront some very very uncomfortable truths about themselves and they are reacting the only way they know how: by lashing out at the people around them.

it is a reflection on THEM not YOU. their reaction doesnt say anything about you or the opinion you stated and everything about the experiences and expectations and knowledge that inform the way they think about the world around them.

i just dont feel comfortable standing by and watching this happen to someone else. so i dont know what it means to you but, i completely agree with your original point and i am more than happy to defend it if you dont feel comfortable doing so. i know how scary it can be to face down a mob of people who you know might turn to violence if you dont comply and i know most people dont find it as easy to take harassment as i do. i am more than willing to fight the fight if you cant.

idk just. be kinder to yourself. you cant let these people get to you. i knows it so fucking hard. its so so fucking hard. but you dont have to do it alone.

i hope youre okay.

hey fren, I've seen it all but I'm sorry I'm not gonna respond to all that, I'm very thankful for your kind thoughts and words but it's kinda a bit much 😅

just know we're on the very same track about the whole thing. It's absolutely hilarious what some people wrote to me about an already reworded opinion on pillows, and i can genuinely just laugh about that

this entire thread turned so badly into satire with so many layers that it could almost be considered an artistic expression. after all, this is the internet, which was kinda the original ordeal of the post, and I took it and made it 1000% funnier by writing too quickly and then people came and made it 10000% funnier by becoming embarrassingly entrenched in some random ass online discourse

I like to half jokingly call this kind of behavior 'internet sickness', since as you also noted you can find this kind of behavior all over the internet. people see an entire universe full of people that seemingly get the attention they don't, but humans are fueled with attention, so sometimes you see someone do literally anything for that tiny tad of attention, even if they don't mean it. this may sound familiar from the way I word my posts sometimes, because as I made clear as day, I'm not better than that sometimes.

Admittedly, I also suppose not all of the angry asks and comments would have been so hostile if tumblr would show late reposts with their comments on an original post more clearly, which isn't so easy. This is why I pinned yet another polarizing post about it with a comment about the situation 🤭 some people would rather click to start another shitstorm than click to find out there's no reason for them to freak out. But often in the internet people don't freak out of hostility, but because they realize (but refuse to accept) they identify with something about the cause in some way, so that would be a positive thing I suppose. It's up to each of us individually to grow from that.

i don't get hard feelings about these people, and genuinely as a former Twitter user I'm kinda used to it. it's just an annoyance at some point, but I suppose it's also the attention I was looking for 💁

After all, I get to post this lyrical masterpiece once more in a well fitting context

[lanshappycorner]

Idk if anyone has noticed but whenever I draw yuuroro I always make sure that Rollo is quick to apologize/realize his own shortcomings in the relationship

Normally I think Rollo isnt like.../grumpy/. I think he is stern and curt, but I dont think hes actually mean or rude to anyone around him or that he goes around with a frown on his face or anything tbh. Hes only "grumpy" around Yuu because

1) Yuu knows how to get on his nerves and the boy takes every chance he can to push his luck on purpose and

2) Yuu brings Rollo's emotions to extremes, although Yuu himself doesn't realize it. Rollo is used to feeling Neutral and idk full of vengeance, but Yuu brings about new feelings that he cannot comprehend and thus he lashes out

However, when they're in a relationship, Rollo is still snappy, but only in a friendly banter kind of way because at the end of the day, he is in love with Yuu. If he feels like he went too far, or hes being unreasonable, he will apologize first.

Rollo is also afraid of losing Yuu, so he may be a little conscious of his actions at first, and even borderline scared that if he fucks up badly, Yuu will dump him (which will not happen but Rollo is insecure).

Rollo is extra careful about not being overly mean to Yuu because of the above BUT ALSO because he knows that Yuu is being considerate in his own way too. Does Yuu know how to push Rollo's buttons? Yes. Does he tease him? Yes.

But most of his teases and taunts have always been mild, there has never been a time where Yuu has Ever gone too far. Yuu may seem airheaded, but he does put thought into his words, and he is never so insensitive that it would hurt someone. (That doesnt mean he isnt unintentionally mean sometimes because he is but </3 he knows to not talk about taboo topics at the very least)

Hence Rollo tries to do the same, but he is so unfamiliar with romance as a concept and even letting people close to him that sometimes he struggles and this ends up in him overthinking.

Yuu basically has the patience of a saint and doesnt get upset at anything either (most times at least) so Rollo is afraid that what if one day he accidentally stumbles on the thing that makes Yuu tick and then itll be all over (of course it wont but that's Rollo overthinking again)

In conclusion Rollo and Yuu are actually a little softer than they seem on the surface, they are just doing their best

[angel-armed]

Apropros of nothing I wandered into the New Polyamorous Netflix Show I Liked (The Bastard Son and the Devil Himself) tag, and one of the first things I saw was a little essay about how this person doesn't like Jessica as an antagonist bc they think it's unrealistic and I quote "Like they're only a year apart, it doesn't make any sense why she hates him so much"

To me, Jessica is the most realistic villain in the show, Lol, because there are real Jessicas in the world, let me tell you.

Warning for detailed discussion of sibling-on-sibling violence, abuse, etc.

I gotta say. As a person with a real life sibling who hates me and has tried to literally, no joke, physically end my life: Jessica is the best villain I've seen in years because nothing, nothing can top the completely unreasonable, baffling cruelty of a literal blood family member that just decides they need an enemy, someone to blame for anything and everything bad that happens to them, and then them deciding you're it.

My sister's 4 years younger than me, so no one ever even took me seriously and kept talking about power dynamics. Lol. Power dynamics don't mean shit when someone is so unhinged that they will literally POISON (i am not kidding or making light or exaggerating) your boyfriend because they found him cringe and annoying, only to tell you about it later after you've broken up like it was a cute thing to do. The things I can tell you this person did to me not only left multiple very obvious permanent physical scars on my body, but traumatized me and how I go about romantic relationships for the rest of my life. She wouldn't let me HAVE a boyfriend, or a crush growing up. She would do ANYTHING to ruin it. Anything. And often succeeded. Sometimes she'd sabotage my friendships too, and if I had a falling out with someone, immediately take their side to feed them gossip and 'dirt' on me.

Any time she didn't get what she wanted, she resorted to violence. She would lash out with her nails, and even when she was little, I'm talking a tiny little waif of a like, 7 year old once managed to scratch my face so badly I had to have my eye bandaged for weeks in the HOPES it would heal. I have those scars down my face to this day, though they're faint. The ones on my arms and hands however, will never go away.

When she was little at least my mother could hold her down and cut her fingernails short (she still managed to use them to maim let me tell you) lol.

But as soon as she hit puberty, she ended up just short of 6 ft tall. Takes after our dad who was 6'5'' or smth like that, and she loved it. She became literally impossible to physically control. She'd never try to hit my parents, and my parents never hit her. But she'd hit me. She took it out on me any time she didn't get what she wanted. When my mother told her no, or told her she had to do something, she'd look her right in the eye and tell her: You can't make me.

My parents eventually just gave up trying to control her. She ran everything on her time. Dropped out of high school without finishing a year. A year or two later, got pregnant on purpose and I quote "Because having kids meant she'd have someone who would have to love her no matter what"

She now has complete control over my mother's life because my mother lets her live off of her without a job with three kids because my mom is too afraid she'll 'never get to see' her grandkids again if the truth gets out how bad they're off and how deadbeat their parents are. Yeah.

And all of this shit isn't even the worst she's done to me, personally. I have, at this point, repeatedly chosen actual literal full service sex work and homelessness over having to 'go live at home' with her and my mom. I was afraid for years that she'd find out where I live after I moved back to town because in my first apartment-- a little duplex in the old side of town, she had people literally leave creepy, mob style 'markers' on my door to scare me. Maybe with more intentions than that. She confirmed it eventually.

And she maintains her constant story: that I got everything handed to me and was the favorite. Which is basically her interpretation of me literally working myself into bedrest in my senior year so I could afford to go with my AP Japanese class on our exchange trip that summer. Her version of the story is always that my parents paid my way which is. Literally proveably not true.

I worked so hard to be able to do that, because my family is poor as fuck, that it made me sick. I came down with mono around the same time and it was so severe I was on bedrest for nearly six months in my senior year, desperately trying to do whatever my teachers would send home for me to do to keep up. The case was so severe that I never fully recovered which hell, I didn't even know was a thing that can happen until a few months ago. It was the 'major disabling' event of my life, when I was eighteen damn years old. I worked my parttime job cleaning a nursing home kitchen until I literally passed out and blacked out, having already been at school 8-9 hours every day involved in my club activities before I'd go into a shift.

And she hated me for it!

In my late teens and twenties I lived in constant terror, covered in bruises and bloody cuts and shit from defending myself against her outbursts and my mom was so cowed that she wouldn't, and still to this day, has never protected me from her. All my sister has to do is threaten to hurt herself and my mom shuts up.

I could not own anything special or precious that I didn't wear on my body (and even then, she stole my favorite ring-- which I never saw again-- while I left it in the pocket of my cooking apron in the kitchen so it wouldn't get dirty. I was making food for the whole family. lol)

It didn't matter how explicitly it was something of mine. She'd 'borrow' it or take it and keep it around so that when I asked for it back my mom, who was often in a haze from pain medication she needed for her back, would just agree with her and tell us to stop fighting. It was always like that. I learned that I could never cherish anything. She WOULD take it.

This continued even up unto her not letting me have anything of my dad's when he passed away a few years ago. My current partner who I live with literally watched her attempt to fight me physically in front of the family lol. because I wouldn't hit her back for fear of HER calling the cops on ME, that didn't go well either. I got a bunch of scratches all over my hand from that too. My mom apologized, but could do nothing.

So.

Pls don't come in here saying all of the things my parents should have done. Keep in mind my mother is queer and my father was native american and no, they do not call the cops, the cops have never helped us and never will. The cops were never an option, though there are times even I, the most ACAB fucker you'll ever meet, thought maybe, just maybe she needed to be snatched and beat. I dunno. Yeah, and all this because someone made a comment about a fictional thing that seemed unrealistic LOL it just bothered me so much. The show was great and cathartic for me, because I do know what it's like to be terrorized your whole life just for trying your best to be good and turn out okay by someone who sees you as worse than dirt on the bottom of their shoe even though they're supposed to be your closest family. It was real as fuck to me. Just because someone doesn't have a point of reference to it doesn't make it unrealistic. If anything, I resented Nathan's good sense to steer clear of her instead of the mistake I made over and over by telling myself "But she's my sister" and trusting her only to have her move the football at the end every time in classic fashion. Only in my adult life did I finally stop letting my mom talk me into 'trying to make up with her' and basically refuse any and all contact. I do not see my family because she will be there. I do not do or go to anything she might show up at. I barely get to see my nieces and nephew, but that's just what I have to do for my health.

Jessica Byrne is a cool as fuck villain to me for that reason. I've never felt seen before in that way. Hey maybe having a spawn of satan sibling that wants you dead just makes you turn out poly, I dunno ask my two lovely partners who I would do anything for who are my real family now and forever. sgkjaskj

[hatredcurse]

There is a benefit to having honed her sensory abilities, she's usually able to track someone quite well. However, it is still rare for her to pick up the Uchiha's presence but Ino just considers it her lucky day when he seems to let down his guard when she wanted to spot him most. Maybe her irritation actually heightened her senses this time. The Yamanaka doesn't bother with greetings, she knows that he is aware of her approaching. "I know you have this thing about not really talking to anyone else besides Naruto and Sakura but that needs to stop when it comes to my work!" she calls out before she makes it to him, her temper flaring. Usually, she's better about keeping it under wraps, but missing intel caused a subordinate to nearly die on a mission and pleasantries were the last thing on her mind. She barely stopped herself from shoving him by the shoulder to turn him around lest that end unfortunately for her. She settles for moving to stand right in front of him, eyes narrowed. "From now on, if your intel is most pertinent to my unit, I need you to contact me directly," she starts, a finger pointing at herself at the end of her sentence to emphasize her point, "I'm done with this bullshit of having to hear your intel for me from Naruto's mouth! It doesn't matter how many details he makes sure to include, there's always something missing because things get lost in translation the more mouths that are added. I've got one of my people in the ICU because some of the info was missing. I won't let that happen again." || @murasakiirohana

The Uchiha had been on the receiving end of several lashings within his life. Verbal lashings, that is. The usual teenage angst and testosterone are long gone, as well as his sensitivities to adversity, so all that remained was a measured apathy to such occasions.

Sometimes.

Other times he's inclined to add a snide remark or deliver an equal retort, but Ino Yamanaka was never one to be so unreasonable. From what limited knowledge he had of her —between rumors and the likes— Sasuke can surmise she had good reason to be upset with him.

"Ah, mhm," he replied. Not that he didn't host any sympathy for her unit, it's that he wasn't surprised in the slightest that Naruto failed to convey his painfully descript details attuned to his vision. There is great discrepancy between what Sasuke can decipher from his Rinnegan and what Naruto can read of his handwriting.

"If that's your command, then I'll make it happen," he agreed, not wanting to fan the flames of her wrath anymore.

"That said," his head tilted to the side, both eyes getting a better look at her," what didn't he tell you?"

[dragon-tamer-1]

Aftermare Week Day 3+4: Dusk + Stay Here

Previous

    It was a few days since the rescue center had taken in Geno for treatment for his wounds. Geno was kept sedated for the first day while they were treating his wounds, and Nightmare wasn't allowed to be in the area where they were treating him. He supposed it was understandable, but he couldn't help but worry. His scratch was also treated, even if it still stung if he applied pressure. Geno had hit him pretty good, cutting through the bone of his lower ribs.

     The last couple of days, he was allowed to be near the tank since they just had to let Geno rest for now while his wounds healed. Nightmare was glad to know that his friend was safe while healing, he would have been really worried about him if he wasn't willing to come with these people. Dream and the people here promised him that they wouldn't let the public know about Geno, which Nightmare was also grateful for. Last thing he, nor Geno he's sure, wanted was for a bunch of people coming to stare at the mershark like he was some kind of attraction.

     Geno hadn't woken up yet, or at least not fully woken up since they managed to sometimes get him to eat a little bit. It looked too automatic, though, so maybe his body was acting on autopilot when it registered that he was given food. He wasn't sure either way. All he could do was wait, and he refused to go home, he wanted to be here when Geno woke up. He knew the mershark would likely panic if he wasn't there to let him know he was safe. Waking up in a different environment with no idea where you are or if you're truly safe there wouldn't be unreasonable to think after being injured badly and then sedated.

      Nightmare was sitting near the edge of the tank, looking at the way the sunset reflects on the water. He hoped Geno was okay, he worried that the wound would affect him long term, though the people who were healing him assured him that Geno would make a full recovery.

     Nightmare started falling asleep, the exhaustion of the last few days catching up with him. He had restless nights, nightmares of what could have happened and worse ways it could have gone. He decided that laying down and closing his eyes wouldn't hurt. He moved a bit further from the tank so he didn't risk falling in(not that he would drown, no lungs and all that, but it's uncomfortable for water to be in his skull). He grabbed the pillow and blanket that the workers had given him since he was adamant about staying here until Geno was okay again, and laid down.

      He ended up falling asleep for a couple of hours, before a nightmare woke him up. He struggled to breathe, gasping for breath. It was almost pitch black around him, the only light the reflection of the moon and stars on the water. Unbeknownst to him, there was movement in the water.

     When something wet touched him, he jerked away. But when he was able to make out who it was, he pulled him into a hug, despite the awkward position. "You're okay, thank the stars."

      Geno hugged back, "Yeah, I'm okay. I'm okay. What about you, though? You were shaking."

     "Heh heh, you're the one who was almost killed, why are you worrying so much about me?"

     "Because I'm feeling better but you seemed really upset. Are you okay?" Geno brushed against Nightmare's ribs, which caused him to flinch. "You're hurt? Did the brats' boat hit you too?"

     Nightmare shook his head, "No, no, they didn't hit me. You prevented that. Thanks for that, by the way. But, uh, the reason I got hurt was from when I was trying to bandage your tail. You ended up lashing out, and you got me pretty good in the ribs."

    Geno was shocked, but as he remembered that hazy moment, he started to apologize, but was interrupted. "It's okay, it wasn't your fault. You were hurt badly, and were barely conscious at the time. I don't blame you for trying to protect yourself."

    "But-"

    "It's alright, I'm better now. I'm just glad you're okay. I was so worried for you."

    "...Alright. Thanks for helping me." Geno held Nightmare's hand and squeezed it a bit. "I'm gonna have to deal with people tomorrow, huh?"

    "Not if you don't want to, I can tell them that you'd only be comfortable with me interacting with you, if you need me to. But getting you back into the water would probably need the extra help. They've been busy healing you and keeping you healthy, so they seem trustworthy. Their job is basically wildlife rescue, and then they release the animal back to the wild after they treated its wounds and illnesses. And, no, I'm not implying you're just some animal. You're as much a person as any of us."

       "I can play nice to you two-leggeds as long as no one is trying to hurt me. I wasn't gonna think you were implying I'm an animal, you've never treated me like one, nor given me reason to think you do. Don't overthink yourself. Enough about that, you look tired. Get some sleep." Geno let go of Nightmare's hand, intending on getting back into the water, when Nightmare reaches for him again.

      "Please, stay here?" Nightmare pleaded, fearing that if he slept, this would have been a cruel dream and Geno wouldn't be there when he woke up.

      Geno heard how scared he was in asking him to stay near, and couldn't say no. But he knew it'd be awkward to be partially out of the tank as he is, so he came up with a solution. "How about you sleep on my back? I won't let you underwater if you're uncomfortable with it, I can sleep on the surface if I need to. It'd be hard to keep myself like this the whole time, and this seems like a better idea."

     Nightmare nodded, that would be fine, even if it would be a bit awkward. So he followed Geno to the edge of the tank, and with careful guidance from him, climbed on and laid down. He had to lie on his stomach, with his head next to Geno's bony spine. He never actually realized just how big Geno was compared to him until now, the length of his head to just above his knees was only how long it was from the dorsal fin to the base of Geno's spine.

     Nightmare soon fell asleep again with the rhythmic swaying of Geno slowly swimming through the water. Geno found a couple of buoyant tubes and placed one under his body to make sure he stayed afloat enough to not submerge Nightmare, and the other he used as a makeshift pillow. He fell asleep soon after.

Geno recovers! His tail is currently bandaged up still, but will be off next chapter. That injury left one heck of a gnarly scar tho.

And yeah, two-for-one story here, couldn't figure out how to write for the individual prompts after the previous part, so I combined them.

@bluepalleteuniverse @shinechermont

[doberbutts]

I don’t like how people talking about it frame it as wether or not Chris deserved it like Nobody deserves to get attacked, but that doesn’t make Will’s actions bad, or unreasonable. Fuck around and find out is not about wether or not you deserve something, it’s about wether you can expect to violate someones boundaries without expectation of some repercussion. And an immediate slap in the face is just about the clearest and least complicated setting of boundaries that a situation like that would allow for. Like what are the alternatives? Wait it out and try to resolve it in private after the fact to no effect, other than sitting there listening to more of the same jokes? Verbally confront him on stage and spend the airtime on an argument until someone comes and removes him from the room, or Chris has to justify himself on stage during a show that has nothing to do with it, turning the situation shitty and awkward for both of them, as well as Will’s wife, instead of being able to laugh it off and go “alright, I’ll shut up“ and then move on? No, nobody deserves to get decked in the face, but sometimes things that aren’t perfectly righteous are still okay. Sometimes you don’t have to be a fucking saint. And sometimes if you run your mouth you gotta be ready to get slapped for it. I don’t know if Chris has spoken out about it afterwards and if there’s some big beef now or whatever, but judging only by his immediate reaction it even kinda seems like everyone is more concerned about it than he himself is?

So far his only comment on it was that he wasn't willing to press charges (even though the police told the news they urged him to do so) and right after it happened he basically went 'can you believe???' and played it off which honestly tells me he was aware that he was poking a raw nerve and that he knew what would happen to him if he'd done it in any other setting.

I'm of the opinion that if you deliberately push someone's buttons, you can't be surprised when that person lashes out. Don't poke the bear and act surprised when you're eaten. Don't play with fire and cry when you're burned. And so on and so forth. If you fuck around long enough, you will find out eventually. And reportedly they've been not please with each other for a while so there's some personal stakes here we as the public aren't privy to.

Personally I think if you spit an insult in someone's face like that you must be prepared for at least equal disrespect. This type of thing escalates quickly and claiming innocence when you're the root cause of the problem just because things escalated faster than you anticipated is cowardly behavior. I don't like violence but I absolutely would slap someone for that level of offense.

Actions have consequences. Sometimes the consequence is that the person you hurt hurts you back. Sometimes they hurt you worse or in a different way than you chose to hurt them.

[dyketubbo]

(all /rp) hey fun fact the statements "quackity was not always manipulative and he never wanted to hurt tubbo or even really hurt others in general" and "quackity has been present in a lot of situations that traumatized and stressed out tubbo and tubbo's view on quackity's past actions can and will be painted in a bad lens by his current actions" can coexist and tubbo saying he sees a pattern in quackitys actions of cheering during events that traumatized tubbo does Not mean quackity is being painted as someone who was always terrible please please please dont let this be another situation where theres a fuckton of posts protecting and defending wilbur and like 10 posts talking about how niki was lashing out and unable to think correctly when she said he was always horrible

yes its understandable to not want newcomers to see characters like wilbur and quackity as always terrible but the instant jump into damage control can often come off as ignoring the fact that these characters are *biased* and traumatized. did quackity want tubbo to be executed? no! but he helped trap tubbo and tubbo isnt going to fuckin focus on quackity when hes about to die! of course he thinks quackity wanted it, he was panicking and wanted to get out, to act as if tubbo is intentionally painting things incorrectly is ignoring the fact that he wasnt able to think While Literally On Deaths Row

the butcher army was absolutely something quackity spearheaded that tubbo didnt initially want to do. the butcher amy we know is, iirc, the *second* attempt. quackity had already wanted tubbo to do it and tubbo said no because techno was dangerous. he agreed to do so because he was vunerable emotionally and wanted to be safe and whether you agree that it was manipulative or not quackity only furthered tubbos unhealthy thinking during nlm. and then, of course, quackity wanted ranboo to be executed

so yes quackity wasnt always an advocate of violence but no tubbo isnt unreasonable for feeling as if theres been a pattern, because from his perspective there Is a pattern. while i dont think its the intention of people who want to defend quackity, if the response to characters expressing trauma responses and looking back at past actions of people who are stressing them out with a negative light is to go "dont worry guys!! theyre not right for thinking this, *this* is the correct context", even if sometimes correct, is.. not the way to go.

you can clear up what actually happened in various events without painting the character as unreasonable or wrong for being unable to see the person thats hurting and has hurt them as much more than a person thats hurt them and is continuing to do so. its not ccs retconning previous events or events being painted in an incorrect light intentionally, its not characters who started out kind being painted as characters who were always terrible. its traumatized people trying to express their trauma in whatever way they can. feel free to clear things up, just remember to also emphasize that the characters are seeing it this way because theyre mentally unable to see it in an unbiased and crystal clear light

tubbo said quackity wanted his execution because, from his perspective, quackity helped trap him and by the point quackity started expressing discomfort, tubbo was already panicking even more than before because technoblade was about to kill him and schlatt had already been publically humiliating him and listing out his crimes. tubbos made it clear actions matter more than words to him, and quackity consistently taking a stance that either harmed/threatened tubbo or harmed/threatened someone tubbo cares about is going to speak more to tubbo than quackity saying he wants peace is

[elytrafemme]

i honestly love your characterization of tubbo. like, i’ve never read a fic that accurately portray how much cruel he can be sometimes. his words can be like barbed wire. i also love the clingyduo dynamic and how tubbo has some(to no one’s surprise)repressed anger(?)at tommy. obviously he loves him but they both have a tendency to facilitate each other’s unhealthy behaviors. tubbo fuels tommys avoidance and tommy fuels tubbos invalidation of his trauma. they’re fucked up but full of love.

giving myself some self indulgence to answer this before I get back to work but hi! thank you so so so much :O

i really REALLY hope with every word I write in CS that i've done a good job building up and establishing some character flaws, because I worry I haven't. with Tubbo you can see some of his behavior even in earlier chapters in kind of a hindsight-is-2020 kind of way, but in general i'm trying to amp up his capacity to be cruel since a lot of his emotions are boiling over too!

what's so so so so SO important to me about writing clingyduo, and how i always like to write them, is that they love each other so much but they still Have Shit Going On. not to get personal but I am a person with an emotionally sensitive sibling, and some of our worst miscommunications/interactions stemmed from them putting me in a place where I felt like I needed to hide my emotions as to not upset them, whereas I dismissed their emotions because I found them to not be logical and I didn't Feel Like Helping. we're working through it and WAY better but like! it's a thing! and i think clingyduo has a bit of that!

tubbo loves tommy dearly but tubbo... honestly does see tommy as a bit immature, for fucked up reasoning. he both admires and resents tommy's attachment to moral figures and superheroes and religion, and tubbo thinks that he's unreasonable about his adamant opinion that substances are bad for you, and tubbo even finds tommy and jack's arguments immature, because tubbo always has to mediate and he sees it as tommy lashing out for no reason.

and all of that, in turn, makes tommy feel like SHIT because it feels like tubbo sees him as a child and that's what upsets tommy the most because he wants to be taken seriously!!!! and people never do because he's loud and excitable and sensitive and moody!!!! he just wants to be a normal teenager that you can take seriously but everyone for better or for worse think he's a kid!!!!

and then you've got the reversal of all this where tommy backs tubbo into the corner of having to Feel A Certain Way To Avoid Conflict, meaning he invalidates and hides a LOT of his trauma and emotions. and there is just objectively a lot tommy doesn't get about tubbo's situation, because tubbo's never said anything and tommy's never really asked. he makes fun of ranboo because he's insecure that tubbo likes ranboo over him but that makes ranboo feel like he has to handle all the stress having to do with ranboo entirely alone and it breeds resentment it just does!!!

they love each other so fucking much but these miscommunications HAPPEN! it is literally a thing with LIFE that's why I love writing about it! in cough syrup AND in the DSMP (though different in the server's lore obviously) they miscommunicate and don't fit together exactly like puzzle pieces, just slightly mishappen things trying to click together, BUT THAT ISN'T THE END OF THAT! they WORK THINGS OUT, because they care about each other SO FUCKING MUCH, and like. that's life! that's what it is! i don't shut my sibling out for the rest of forever because we miscommunicated for a bit, we just work on it!

but it's hard. and i won't say too much about where these two are going plot wise because well. don't know if u guys expect all of it and wanna keep u surprised! but! i just wanted to ramble about this bc it is SO so so so so so important to me.

[supercorpkid]

How to lash out – A Luthor’s guide.

Supercorp, Kara Danvers x Daughter!Reader, Lena Luthor x Daughter!Reader

Word count: 3000.

“Stop that, young lady!” Lena’s tone is harsh. You roll your eyes. This isn’t the first time she said that on the drive home. It is also not the first time you rolled your eyes at her today, and probably won’t be the last.

“Oh, come on! You have got to be kidding me.” You go inside the house trying to lose her. “I can’t roll my eyes, or sigh. What else can’t I do now since you’re controlling my every move?”

“Be disrespectful!” Her voice comes from not very far, so you know she’s following you.

“What’s going on?” Kara asks, getting up from the couch when you both enter the living room.

“Mom’s being impossible!” You huff and Lena closes her eyes, really exasperated.

“That’s it! You’re grounded! Go to your room right now!” Lena speaks a little louder and Kara furrows her brows at the whole interaction. It’s not that you and Lena never fight, but there’s usually less yelling, from both parts.

“Why am I not surprised at that?” You ask ironically. “Oh yeah, because that’s your only way to deal with things! Ya boring!”

“Hey!” Kara intervenes and you roll your eyes again. You’ve been rolling your eyes so much tonight, it’s starting to hurt.

“You don’t even know what’s going on and you’re already taking her side!” You cross your arms and harden your features. You’re ready to give them attitude. “Like always.”

“I thought I told you to go to your room, young lady!” Lena says pinching the bridge of her nose and you grunt in response. Rao, you hate the way she says ‘young lady’.

“Why don’t you send me away for good?” Those are your last words before closing your bedroom door so hard you almost broke it in half.

Man, you’re livid. You haven’t been this mad at Lena for a while. She was being very understanding with you these past months, in fact, you can’t even remember the last time you two had a fight. But now the great mother Luthor is back again. It’s like that sometimes. Sometimes she just gets so Luthor is hard not to fight with her.

You hear a knock on the door and you don’t even have to look to the other side to know it’s not Lena. You let out an exasperated sigh.

“What, momma?” Is your opening line.

“Hey!” Kara complains while she opens the door and looks at you so mad, you’re turning red, on the other side of the room. “Do you care to explain what happened?”

“She-she, uh.” You grunt. “She is so unreasonable!”

“That doesn’t explain anything.”

“What do you want me to say? She is wrong!” You yell and Kara takes a deep breath.

“Ok, listen, I want to know your side of the story, but I’m only going to talk to you when you stop yelling.”

“Oh yeah, mhm, do that. Turn this on me. Rao, you know what? You’re both so predictable!” You’re so angry you can’t stop yelling.

“I’m going to let you breathe a little. We’ll talk in the morning.” Kara leaves again and your hand goes to the closest thing to you. Before you realize, there is a picture frame flying full speed to the door. There’s a loud crashing sound when it hits the floor and you see glass flying everywhere. Kara opens the door again; she was probably not far away.

She looks at the broken picture frame and bends down to pick it up. It’s ironic, because you didn’t look at the picture before throwing it and breaking it. But it’s only when Kara’s face turns into a frown, you realize what picture it was. The three of you are on the beach on your last family vacation.

“Clean it up.”

She closes the door again, taking only the picture with her and you sit on the floor. Tears are streaming down your face, but you’re not sad. You’re just so mad you can’t help but cry.

Morning comes. You roll on your bed. You don’t want to get up. You don’t want to do anything. Usually after a good night of sleep, you wake up feeling guilty for all the yelling and by now you would probably be apologizing to Lena. She would forgive you; you would hug it out and things would go back to normal by night. But you didn’t have a good night of sleep, and you definitely don’t feel like apologizing.

“Kid, time to go to school.” Kara knocks on your door, but she doesn’t go inside. It’s just a wake-up call, you know it. You grunt and turn to the other side.

You just want to be alone. You don’t want to go school, you’re so mad. And they are so annoying.

“What are you doing?” Lena opens the door of your room, making a very loud noise, a few minutes later. “You’re going to be late.”

“I have super speed.” You mumble not wanting to give her the satisfaction of being right, but you look at your clock and you have five minutes to go to school or you’ll be late.

“What you have is a bad attitude and I’m sick of it. Get up, get dressed, and go to school. And I better not have to say this again.”

“Or what?” You mumble again, kind of wishing she couldn’t hear you, kind of wishing you hadn’t said it, but unable to stop yourself.

“Oh, you didn’t!” Lena looks at your face and you haven’t seen her this upset in a long time. Maybe the last time was when you burnt down the Christmas tree at Gramm’s house on a dare. “Now!”

You stay in bed.

“I’m so sick of your sighs, and rolling eyes, and your freaking irony all the time!” Lena gets closer to you so she can use her threatening tone. “I don’t know what’s going on with you, but you better respect me, or I’ll make you.”

You push the blanket to the side and get up from the bed. You leave Lena behind with hair flying all over her face when, after using your super speed, you get ready in two seconds and leave for school. If she wasn’t already pissed, she would be after that.

When school is over, you don’t go to your lab at L Corp, that’s what started the fight in the first place. You go to Jamie’s house so you can vent about your mom being the worst. That’s when Lena calls you.

“Where are you?” That’s really the first thing she says.

“I think you know the answer. Don’t you have a GPS on me?”

“Go home, you’re grounded.”

“See, I knew you knew.”

“Let me make this clear for you. You’re allowed to go to school, training, and home. If you’re not in one of these places, I’ll add another week to your punishment. Starting now.”

“You can’t do that.”

“Oh, but I can. Two weeks now, and if you’re not home in five minutes, I’ll make it three. Oh, and don’t forget that I do have a GPS on you.”

“Rao, you’re the wors-'' Before you finish, she hangs up the phone. You’re glad she didn’t let you finish that word. You go home, because even though you’ve been acting insane, you’re not really crazy. Lena might not have super powers, but she has a lot of power.

Kara is the first one to get home. It’s usually like this, but you can’t help but feel that Lena is stretching her time at work because, just like you, she doesn’t want to come home and deal with all of this.

“Are you ready to talk now?” Kara asks turning the TV off, even though you were watching it. You look at her, already annoyed.

“I really doubt she hasn’t told you everything by now.” You cross your arms and fall further into the couch.

“She has. But you accused me of taking her side without knowing the full story. So, now I want to hear your side.”

“Pulitzer prize awardee, everybody.” You bitch grin and Kara breathes heavily.

“Why are you so mad she went to your lab? What were you making in there that she couldn’t see?” Kara raises an eyebrow at you.

“Nothing! Don’t you get it? That’s not the point!” You cross your arms.

“What’s the point then?”

“She doesn’t trust me.”

“Baby, that’s not true.”

“Really? Are you sure? She put a GPS on grandmother’s necklace! How are you not livid about that? It's a family heirloom and she just tampered it to know my every move.”

“Just as a precaution. She doesn’t use it.” Kara says and you scoff.

“She just used it today!” You take a deep breath and cover your face with your hands so Kara doesn’t see a tear falling. “It’s not about what’s in the lab. Did I ever hide one of my inventions from you two?”

“No.”

“Did I ever hide anything from you two?”

“The dog.” She says with a playful smile, making you frown. “Just kidding, I know you haven’t.”

“It’s just… Every time I walk in there, someone immediately calls her to let her know that. Why? Does she think I’m going full Luthor and that I’m designing a destruction weapon so I can take over the world or something?”

“Baby, no.” Kara sits on the couch next to you. She squeezes your knee gently. “She just wants to be around you. You know, you’re really cool, we just want to be with you all the time.”

“And we are with each other all the time!” You say feeling the anger coming back. You push it down again. “Momma, I’m 15! Most people from my class don’t even talk to their parents anymore. But I’m here, around you guys, all the time! Family Fridays? Aunt Alex’s house every Saturday? Training? L Corp? Home? Isn’t that enough?”

“Well, like I said, you’re really cool.” She says with a smile and let a chuckle out.

“I just want you guys to trust me.” You let your head fall. “I gave you a place to go when you need to be alone, I gave her a lead box so she could hide things from us. And she can’t even give me privacy?”

“Ok. Yeah. I hear you.” Kara holds your head to her chest and you can hear her heartbeat without having to use your super hearing. It’s extremely calming. “Listen, I think you have a point. It’s just, you’re being very aggressive. Maybe you could dial back a little and just talk to her?”

“She didn’t dial back. She didn’t even let me vent to Jamie today. She said I’m only allowed to go home, and school and training.” You can’t hold the tears any longer. “And now she’ll use the necklace against me.”

You and Kara look at the direction of the front door at the same time. Lena walks in, takes off her shoes, and goes to the kitchen. You follow her every move. She fills a glass with whiskey and you look at Kara knowing that’s not a good sign. She drinks so fast you’re surprised she didn’t spill any of it. She fills another glass, grabs her shoes from the ground and makes her way to the living room.

“Go to your room.” She says as soon as she walks in.

“Actually, I…”

“Just do as I say. Trust me, you do not want to get on my bad side right now.”

She’s right. You don’t. So, you silently get up and go to your room. You’re not even inside yet, when you hear Kara (this time without the super hearing).

“That was really harsh. She was about to apologize.” Kara says and Lena scoffs.

“She wasn’t. And I found out what she was making in the lab.” And just like that, you’re mad again.

“Wait, you went through her stuff?”

“You mean my stuff? I’m the one paying for it, I’m the one who gave her the lab, aren’t I?”

“Lena, that's a violation of privacy! You gave her the lab, that means its hers.”

“She’s making a mind wiper, Kara!” You roll your eyes. It’s not a mind wiper. For someone so smart, you can’t believe she’s being so dumb.

“Well, she must have her reasons. We have to trust her.”

“You want to trust a fifteen-year-old girl with a mind wiper?” Lena asks and Kara stands up, upset.

“No Lena.” You should’ve known. They always take each other's sides. “I want to trust our daughter with whatever it is that she is making.”

You didn’t see that coming. You go inside your bedroom and grab your notes. You run back to the living room before Kara leaves, and you throw your notes on the table in front of Lena. You stay on the other side of the room, and you don’t say a word. You see it’s Kara who reaches out to the notebook first.

“It’s called an ‘unwelcome thoughts blocker’.” Kara looks at the drawings and the calculation. “I don’t understand what it is, but the name is not catchy.”

She gives the notebook to Lena, who looks down at it, and then looks at you. She puts her hand on her forehead and focuses on the calculations. She doesn’t say anything for a while and Kara looks at you, curiously.

“When we went on vacation, mom asked me how I turned off my brain so I could enjoy it.” You’re explaining to Kara, because you remember that she was sleeping while this was going on. Lena looks at you too, but you ignore her gaze. “I had the idea of a device that could help you shut off unwelcome thoughts. That way, it could help you focus on something without distractions, or stop bad thoughts that could lead to panic attacks, nightmares, and maybe even suicide.”

“Wow. That’s incredible, little one!” It’s Kara’s reaction. You look back at Lena before she can express any emotion.

“I guess this proves you don’t trust me.” A single tear falls from your eye, and you turn on your heels and go to your bedroom.

“I wanted to believe she was wrong about this trust issue you’re having, but then you went through her stuff and accused her of something very severe.” You hear Kara’s voice coming from behind you. “You know how I feel about you drinking like this, but since you made your choice, I’ll leave you to it.”

Kara sneaks in your bedroom, and lays in bed with you. You two don’t talk for a few minutes, until she lets out a sigh and grabs your laptop on the desk.

“I’ve heard about a TV show where they cover other people’ songs. Do you want to watch it?” She turns the laptop on, and you agree with your head. “I think it’s called Glee.”

You and Kara watch it until you fall asleep. You’re glad she took your side. You’re aware you’ve been acting like a little brat with Lena, but the fact she doesn’t trust you for absolutely no reason at all was really hard.

“Kara.” You hear Lena’s voice and you open one eye, so she doesn’t see you’re up. Your momma is sleeping and drooling next to you. And it’s morning already. “Hey. Wake up.”

“Huh?” Kara wakes up confused. It’s clear she didn’t want to sleep in your bedroom as she looks around to finally realize where she is.

“Can I speak to our daughter, please?” Lena asks and you take a deep breath. Kara doesn’t say anything. She puts your laptop back on the desk, and leaves your bedroom. Lena sits on your bed next to you, and pulls you in so you can lay your head on her lap. She then plays with your hair. “Do you want to keep pretending you’re asleep while I talk?”

“Yeah.”

“Ok.” She chuckles. “I’m sorry. You were right.”

“That’s a first.” You mumble and you can hear her smiling.

“Well, there’s a first time for everything, right?” Lena takes a deep breath. “I shouldn’t have gone through your stuff, it’s just that your reaction scared me so much. I know you’re so much better than me, but you did exactly what I used to do with Lillian when I didn’t want her to see something.”

“You’re not Lillian and we don’t have the same relationship you two have. You don’t have to control me like she did with you.”

“I know, baby.” Lena says. “You’re right again.”

“Well, that’s the second time in less than two minutes. We should stop it before it becomes a habit.” You say making her laugh again, and this time you also smile. “I’m sorry I was rude. I shouldn’t have aggravated the situation. I felt cornered and I lashed out. That was awful.”

“It was painful. We both lashed out in the worst way possible.”

“We’re Luthors, after all.” You feel a kiss on the top of your head.

“We’re Luthor-Danvers. We might get upset, but we know how to recognize our mistakes and apologize.” You hold her leg and her hands go back to your hair. “So, I’m really sorry, babygirl. The lab is yours, and I’m only going in when you invite me. How does that sound?”

“You can go in anytime. Just maybe don’t make Aly call you every time I show up at L Corp? And, maybe, don’t use the necklace’s GPS unless you have reasons to believe something’s wrong?”

“I promise.”

“And I promise I’ll be more respectful.” You look at her and she is about to open her mouth when you add. “I’ll dial back the rolling eyes and the irony.”

“Great.” She strokes your cheek. “The invention is amazing. You are amazing. I’m really proud of you.”

“Thanks.”

“I love you, babygirl.” Lena smiles at you and you can’t help but do the same.

“I love you, mom.”