#dude literally cannot stop

[tabl3]

the official almost kicked rocks™ tracker

Kaz: 8

Chase: 13 💀

Skylar: 7

Oliver: 6

Bree: 7

damn it wasn't even a competition 😭😭

[a-heart-of-kyber]

Nah see, I want to be let at Christian Linke because the more I rewatch shit and the more I know about what's been said in interviews the more obvious it becomes that Viktor’s arc is explicitly that of magic corruption. So, I need the man to stop trying to ignore wtf he wrote when he talks about it 🤣.

[bridge-demon]

thinking about certain aspects of death the kid's character that i wish were talked abt more. like... he's a crybaby. he's a showoff. he's sassy. he's really not that bad w/ people for the most part, as long as he isn't freaking over them being too asymmetrical or something. he cares deeply for his friends. he's smart but in a dumb way. do y'all get me.

[itissadbutitsmy-life]

listen I just can’t find fault with a candy person for finding something that unexpectedly brings them joy and doing everything in their power to make it keep happening. I just can’t find it in me to blame them for wanting the approval of the person they love and respect more than anyone else, and wanting that approval over and over again, and I just straight up can’t blame james for figuring out a trick to make his princess smile and call him her hero. like, banana guards get her praise and approval and hugs all the time, but he’s just some random engineer with an easy smile and no one who wants to hang out with him after work. and she likes him so much, she wants him in her kingdom, even when he goes and does something stupid like push her out of the way of a super dangerous not-moving car, at the cost of his own life, she wants him back and she’ll bring him back and she'll tell him that was very brave and she loves him. of course she loves him. she loves all the candy people. but he figured out how to make her look him in the eyes and say it and give him material evidence of her pride. I can’t find it in myself to blame him for that. it wasn't good, i don't think he should have been left unchecked to keep going forever, but i can't blame him for wanting to keep reliving the nice thing that happened once. the really nice thing that happened once that came with material gifts. if she didn’t want to keep doing it she would’ve stopped LONG before there were TWENTY FIVE of them. before she was so fed up that she didn’t even spare him a kind goodbye or a chance to go home one more time.

like you’re not beating the dystopian dictatorship allegations. saying she was right to exile him from the only home he’s ever known with no recourse because he was acting weird. and the thing is, I just can’t find it in me to blame a character living in a dictatorship for getting himself into a situation because he was desperately trying to be happy the best way he could figure out how. I’m not saying he was right, he’s insane, but it just rubs me wrong, the idea that he is the one holding all this heavy blame. the idea that the princess is right to look down at him and shake her head firmly and turn him out in the cold. for chasing the rush that she gave him willingly, over and over, without any specific end parameters. for not being able to make friends, and doing something weird about it. he’s bored and lonely and this works and it’s not, inherently, bad. it really isn’t. it’s batshit, but it’s actually not hurting anyone at all.

[quarks-pussy]

So I know we here at Startrekfandom love that "came back wrong but from the pov of the wrong" thing and apply it to many different characters and canon situations and I am far from trying to complain about it (I'm "came out wrong" trope myself so I was always gonna obsess over it) but having recently watched a very important episode (you'll know which one) for the first time I think there's a character who hits both tropes mentioned but llike, intertwined, opposite and subverted, and whom I wanna talk about.

Julian Bashir.

From his parents' pov he's "came out wrong but we got him help and he came back better" while from his own pov it's "came out 'insufficient', was destroyed for it, came back wrong and only later slowly came to terms with his new self tho never the process (justifiably so)" and it's heartbreaking because in a way, he's right! Jules Bashir died! His parents had an intellectually disabled child and decided to eugenics him! Julian is not the person he used to be and while I do love the person he is now, that doesn't bring back who he was! Part of me wishes we could've gotten to see Jules at least once and part of me hopes we never do because my heart would shatter.

This isn't a good comparison but nonetheless one I can't help drawing: it's giving similar vibes to anti-vaxxers. "I'd rather risk having a child who is dead than one who's autistic". Obviously this doesn't map over since Julian is still autistic and the procedure his parents subjected him to specifically targeted his intellectual disability and if any folks with id wanna comment on this I definitely recommend you listen to them over me, but it's a similarity I, as an autistic who has encountered anti-vaxxers again and again, can't help but point out. "Give me a normal child or give them death."

This may have been written about already but there needs to be stories about teenage Julian (after finding out and rediscovering who he was) practicing some good ol' recognition of the self through media. I need to hear about how he would encounter a story about someone who came back wrong (I'm gonna assume there's plenty of "wrong" pov stories floating around by the 24th century) and absolutely weep. I need to see Julian mourning Jules, taking years and years to process his feelings, experiencing guilt about how he, the imposter, didn't deserve to live Jules' life.

Came back wrong from the returned's pov but it wasn't an accident. It was done to you deliberately by the people who claim to love you. And now you are here, piloting the corpse of your predecessor.

Jules Bashir is dead. Long live Julian Bashir.

[mystmesstolemysoul]

Wanting to play 707s route but also knowing it'll only be 11 days and then I can never experience it for the first time again. Wanting to experience every snippet of him that I can, even if it means taking other routes of characters I don't like as much just so I can hear what else Seven has to say. Wanting to do his route and properly fall in love with him so badly, but wanting to save the best for last. Wanting to get to know Saeyoung but knowing it's gonna devastate me when it's over.

[ssaltlicker]

Thinking about all the on-screen character development we couldve (and shouldve) gotten from vi in s2. To actually see and hear her process things. Man

[goldengodcannibal]

when i say my brain just turned into scrambled eggs

[mad-hunts]

alright, i don't know about y'all, but i think motorcycle rides at night are superior — and honestly — going on one with barton? it's fun, but also dangerous. like you're weaving between cars sometimes, and also, he will leave people in the dust who may attempt to race him for... whatever odd reason dangerous, lmao

[akascow]

screaming in the car that was one of the worst shifts ive worked in a while jeezus kahrizte

[atopvisenyashill]

not an f&b aegon ii fan, not a hotd aegon ii fan, but a secret third thing (a fan of the aegon ii that only exists in my mind)

[grey-yyeepy]

actually gonna combust

[cringefaecompilation]

Wdym by mra-y arguments? I've seen some things that mill down to "Imogen is a crazy hysterical bitch that they need to put down" but i wanna know if there's anything I missed :0

i kinda brushed up on it in the ask, but the insistence about imogen not giving a crap about his feelings because he’s a man is/was weirdly popular. which is a flagrant lie, imogen understands how this mission sucks for him getting triggered day in and day out by having to interact with the guy who traumatized him, and has enough empathy to not want to take away the gods for fear of mass-traumatizing others. also, if you think she hates him or thinks her trauma is “worse” skill issue, no the fuck she doesn’t. please actually watch the show instead of getting angry at a “no boys allowed” twitter user quip about how much they want imogen to punch him in the face.

this also affected fearne a bit too, mostly in the way of “if only dorian was here, he would understand how orym is feeling/ashton is the only person in bh that cares about orym’s feelings” as if fearne isn’t his best friend or went through similar things. also dude’s just very “don’t rock the boat-y” in all his actions and often intentionally distracts the team from his feelings because he doesn’t want to bother them and at some point you can’t blame everyone else for it.

unlike most drama, this one actually has reasoning behind it. unfortunately, that reasoning is stupid. it took the massively equally dumb shipping drama behind the beau.jes community that was inundated with trans woman exterminatory radical feminists and applied it to im.odna and bell's hells. while there were and still are people who acted like women were perfect and all the men were abusers in the c3 fandom, a lot of complaints about the guys ranging from casual nitpicks to bad faith fanfiction were painted with the same brush of “crazy man-hating feminists” (because i guess trans women don’t exist or something?) and acted like all the women were evil demons getting every one of their eviiiiiiiiil actions excused because they had estrogen in their bodies. it was fucking dark. if you headcanoned imogen as a lesbian you were basically chucking heterosexual little boys into a meatgrinder. why else do you think laudm.oore got so insufferable?

look, i get it. it got annoying seeing people demand fcg get blown up for being reckless or that laudna should eat orym or that they should have abandoned ashton on the side of the road any time any of them did something sort sighted. but the way to get around that is not to start saying that imogen’s meant to go full dark phoenix and kill the party because she’s crazy and murderous or that laudna is just a delilah chrysalis from day one and is biding her time to strike. or that they’re going to be evil demonic lesbian twin bbegs that get murdered and then perc’halia and fjorester can make out on their grave.

on the flipside, watching people chuck orym and ashton under the bus any time one of them did/does something that they took personal offense to is so odd it loops around to being funny. double if they’re a delilah stan. like, who is worse for laudna? an abusive white supremacist-adjacent woman that tortured her nonstop for 30 years and tried to kill her thrice over the past month or two guys who act like selfish tunnel-visioned pricks to her intermittently? like you think that it’d be no contest, but a shocking amount of people choose the abusive woman because they headcanon her to be far more interesting than she really is and/or “at least we’re not forced to think she’s a good person!”

[fate-defiant]

Honestly what with him being stuck in one unaging, unchanging state with his only remaining connection to his former self being this vague notion that he must fight and protect and sacrifice with no regard for his own well-being - there really is something of The Ghost Knight in Mytho.

[fatmaclover]

the general audience for sunny is by far the funniest part. my dads the guy who got me into sunny and hes literally a fagdyke just as much as me. in like season 2 he told me "and you know that mac is gay, right? i know he sucks pretty badly in these seasons but youll like him later on" and i replied "yeah!! dennis also seems pretty gay idk" and this man who had seen season 16 before i had (let alone all the other shit) went "oh no, no dennis is actually really straight. they make that perfectly clear" hes been into this show SINCE IT CAME OUT.

[sorryimananti-romantic]

omg i dont think u remember but yk how i mentioned in an ask that i was better than some smart dude (who i had a rivalry with) at physics?? so the "physics girl" title has been given to me (word got out that i got the highest physics exam score in my grade??) BUTTT this semester i have NOT been focusing in class, i havent attended 50% of our classes (mostly due to practicing for plays, attending school club meetings, falling ill once or twice), and 2nd semester topics are much harder than 1st 😭 AND this exam isnt gna be prepared by our teachers which means i gotta revise EVERYTHING we've covered?? 😭😭😭😭

im fearing that if i score low ppl will think im a fraud/will be disappointed in me/will think i cheated on the other exams ESPPP the physics teacher like omg he has so much faith in me its so overwhelminggggg i think i told you he prepared a physics question in our grade quiz and he said he knew i'd get it correct DUDEEE imagine if i score a 60 when my prev exam scores were 85/92 like he'd be soooo disappointed 😭😭😭😭😭😨😨😨 "anon what happened to you? you used to be so good at physics, UNLESS.... you used to cheat?? 😧" I CAN ALREADY HEAR THE CONVERSATION NOOO 😭😭😭

and dont even get me STARTED on maths like im literally becoming worse with time BROTHERRR the only topic i understand is geometry bro i think im failing this year 😭😭 BUT its fine bc i wanna fail either way (story for another time?)

omg i do remember you the one that made me think academic rivals AHAHAH

okay okay i hear you, this situation sounds all too familiar but listen--

you really don't need to worry about what other ppl will think, it happens! i hope your grade doesn't fall that much if at all, but don't be so worried about what other ppl or your teacher will think. nobody will think you're a fraud or you cheated just bc you didn't do as well (and this hasn't even happened yet!) it happens to the best of us!

i hope you have enough time to plan out how you're gonna revise everything, and since you're good in physics, i believe you will ace it this time too. it doesn't even have to be as good as last time, but around that grade should be fine! (manifesting you score even better tho). but don't let the worry eat you you'll only be wasting your time stressing about scenarios like these bruh 😭 just study hard and you'll be absolutely fine, no matter the outcome! and don't forget to have fun too- you know what they say all day work and no play makes jack a dull boy or sth JKHFSDKJGHJKDFHG

as for maths, NOW THAT'S RELATABLE ASF 😭 if it makes you feel better, i was the maths ace in school until i almost failed 2 times in a row bc i didn't like the teacher and then was very average another 2 times in a row until i finally got my shit together and earned my maths ace status back (i literally wasn't the maths ace anymore but who cares) BUT YOU WANT TO FAIL? ON PURPOSE? i'm waiting to hear all about it