#he takes things a bit far

[bibannana]

Kit *sipping his caf as a chime goes off around the temple*: Ah daily announcement time!

Anakin *dramatic arse*: Good morning everyone, this is your local disappointment speaking-

Kit *spit's out his caf all over Mace*

Plo *sighing*: Master Kenobi I do believe that is your-

Obi-wan *sprinting walking calmly out of the mess hall*: Anakin!!

Yoda *nodding*: Local disappointment Skywalker is.

Taglist: @soliloquy-of-nemo @nekotaetae @staycalmandhugaclone @jiabeewrites @sexy-rex

[nerdpoe]

Damian's online friend is sleeping over at Wayne Manor, and its going great.

Well, until he dies.

They had all gone down to "sleep", which meant that they had Daniel go to sleep while everyone went out on patrol.

Upon returning, Damian checked on Daniel.

Just to make sure that his Grandfather had not sent any assassins that had taken advantage of Damian's weakness in friendships, of course.

Daniel isn't breathing.

When Damian goes to check his pulse, it isn't there.

Damian storms out of the room on a warpath; he would find who had killed his friend and he would make them pay.

Danny wakes up six hours later on a metal slab in a secret underground lair with one Leslie Thompkins hovering over him with a scalpel.

[apollos-boyfriend]

kevin mcallister gets criticized for his choices so much but like. home alone does such a good job to lay out why he doesn’t do the obvious. the phone lines aren’t working, so he can’t call the police. and even if he could, he wouldn’t, because the movie clearly establishes that he fears the police due to having gotten caught shoplifting and being chased down by a cop (additionally, we as the audience are shown the police’s incompetence and unwillingness to help). he doesn’t get help from his neighbors because none of them are home, and the one neighbor he knows is busy dealing with his own issues. this movie does nothing but lay out chekov’s gun yet every year i see the worst lest media literate takes imaginable. c’mon guys.

[clowndensation]

there’s a question to be asked i think about to what extent “getting out” can be conflated with “being saved” in this show, and what freedom actually means to any of these characters.

like you can argue that shiv saved ken by voting against him on gojo, but what if your intent behind saving someone is to inflict a worse punishment than if you’d just left them trapped? can a child weaned on poison survive on milk, or are you just sentencing them to a death by inches, starved of the only thing they know? and if you save someone specifically because you know that being saved is the worst thing that can happen to them, is that kindness or cruelty? at what point does a good thing become a malicious act?

and you can say that roman is finally free, but what exactly is he free from? the company? his father? does unlocking a cage mean saving a dog, or are you allowing him out on the street knowing there’s a kill shelter nearby? if the driving anxiety behind roman is that he’s an idiot and a failure—that he’ll never amount to anything, and trying will only lead to pain—and he’s finally cut loose once all of those anxieties have crystallized into cold hard fact in his mind, what has he actually escaped from? if the cage is in your mind, is it even possible for somebody else to unlock it?

the fundamental truth of a tragedy is that even being saved can be a death sentence, if the characters are incapable of escaping the thing doing them the most harm (themselves and their childhoods)

[skitskatdacat63]

2024 Chinese Grand Prix - Fernando Alonso

[domoz]

tobiizu au(s)

[tyrantwombat]

No, but seriously, can you imagine how utterly surreal it is to be Song Taewon and have two of the most unhinged people on the planet both decide to become intensely invested in your life and health after knowing you for like five seconds? One of them uses aggressive mob tactics to try and get you to let them chauffeur you around, the other is a little guy you could crush with your pinky on accident who hunts you down in the middle of a pit of monsters with a packed lunch convinced you will starve if he doesn’t personally feed you. You have to play an intense game of de-escalation at literally all times to keep this same random guy from calling and yelling at your boss about your sleep schedule, and this is still an improvement on that time you barely convinced him it wasn’t necessary to utterly annihilate your place of work to get you more vacation time. The other one has probably historically attempted to set your closet and/or you yourself on fire so he can buy you clothes.

You just want to live your corporate slave life and resist the dark yearnings of your soul in PEACE but instead you’re having to dodge two very powerful men who both desperately want to take care of you.

[puppyeared]

for like 3 weeks i was wondering why i was sleeping so much and felt listless. and just now I managed to email 3 people and responded to a month old message in the span of an hour because I got back to TAKING MY FUCKIN MEDS..........

[royalarchivist]

There’s not a lot of Karmaland enjoyers on Tumblr, but I need everyone to see this clip of Quackity, Rubius, and Luzu in therapy anyways because I’ve never heard Quackity laugh this hard

[sysig]

Pivotal bright spot (Patreon)

[corfisers]

the problem with recommending saezuru (which i don't do anyway, but let's pretend i do) is that i feel like you have to see the car crash first to not take some things at face value

[magnifiico]

fair warning that if you write a young royal (whether the character is literally a Child or just a young adult trying their damn best in such an important and stressful role), mags is obligated to adopt them

i don't make the rules – bc lbr, even if i did, mags wouldn't follow them

[skrunksthatwunk]

have just been introduced to a kitten named rascal who lives on my floor and whose babysitters (who are not his owner?) were trying Really hard to goad me into adopting which like. he's a little baby and he's so so so silly and he barely even bit me but like also. this cat isn't yours???? anyway if the owner's giving him up then I might finally have a cat which like AHHHHHG

[welcometogrouchland]

I love it when "they should be at the club" is like, an actual character dynamic, with person A looking at person B as they work themselves to the bone/throw their own happiness away for the greater good/take on more responsibility than anyone could ever hope to bear and they're just like. Hey. You should be at the club

[dent-de-leon]

I'm looking at Molly and Caleb, and their need to be GOOD for others, and I go "Damn, what are ya gonna do when it's a relationship with TWO (2) SUBS-"

Then I realized they can be good boys by being good doms for each other. Caleb and Molly the Vers Duo, in this essay I shall-

asksdflkhf-- Okay but I will never get over Lucien admitting he likes that Caleb called him a good boy, or the fact that Taliesin said Molly is a very self-sacrificing character, that his blood hunter powers are, "...all about the desire to be a good friend and a good family member." As both Mollymauk and King, Tealeaf keeps expressing how he tries to be a good person. Molly's always believed in leaving every place better than he found it. And after the Nein sacrificed so much to resurrect him, King admits, "I hope I deserve to have woken up surrounded by such people."

Molly wants so badly to be good, and so much of that stems from his fear that the person he was before was someone cruel and vicious and haunted. He takes pride in being, "a good person, a fine person, a happy person." I think about how Molly would bring Lestera her favorite wine and snacks, how he'd gush about just how much he adored her. The way he always followed her around like a lost puppy when he still felt so terribly lonely and Empty. Molly taking all of her lessons to heart and carrying on her teachings, wanting to keep her legacy alive. Hugging her coat to his chest for comfort and wearing it every day.

He's just...so soft and sentimental and sweet. I think he'd do everything he could to be good for Caleb--a good friend, a good partner. And especially earlier in the campaign, I think that would look like Molly letting Caleb take the lead, because he's still struggling so much with opening up and intimacy, still so scared of letting anyone get too close. Whatever their relationship looks like, I think Molly would only ever go at his speed and comfort level. It's really part of why he's not as forward as King is with Caleb I think; because back then, Molly must've felt Caleb wasn't ready for a relationship, wouldn't have been comfortable with anything more than some kind words and a gentle forehead kiss just yet.

But yeah, Caleb definitely has that constant desire to be a good person too, and it makes my whole heart ache. I'll never recover from Liam narrating the resurrection ritual; how he says that it just feels so good and cathartic for Caleb to finally use his magic to heal, the comfort and warmth of knowing that he's not being used as a weapon anymore. That his power is his, and he can use it to leave the world better than he found it, that he's so much more than destruction and fire and ruin--that he's nothing like what Trent tried to make him.

So I think taking care of Molly would also bring Caleb a lot of comfort ;; No matter what, I feel like they'd both just be so sweet and compassionate and try to always prioritize each other's comfort--

[demonsfate]

They really, really, REALLY did. Because if they truly wanted the "forced to do bad things" they would've... shown him as a miserable, guilt ridden, remorse filled man throughout the entire game. Not a man who says "pitiful!" and "you are all pathetic!" and "let's annihilate them!" etc etc. But no... Jin just fuckin'... was as bad as they can make him. Like Alisa's death scene actually makes me laugh just because of how MUCH they have to hammer in Jin being a Cartoon Villain. Like it wasn't enough that Jin forced Alisa to fight Lars and now she's Le Gone. But then they had to have him say "good riddance to a worthless piece of junk", continue to insult her the entire time, then make fun of Lars for feeling bad, ("don't tell me... you were in love with it?). It just feels like they're trying way too hard to present Jin as a bad guy. Like we get it, he's a jerk now.

And I often show these images - but they really do demonstrate how he is a completely different character. Or as you said, unrecognizable.

Like T6 Jin just... isn't Jin to me, he'll never be Jin to me. And that just makes me sad that T6 will forever be ingrained in his character's history. Even if he does act far more in character in T8, and he's back to being the Jin we knew... T6 is still canon and it still leaves a stain on him. Nobody can bring up Jin's character without bringing up T6. It's why I was really hoping for a retcon... but no, they just opted to choose to not explain his change[s] in character and just expect nobody to question it.