#he's the biggest hypocrite. do-nothing. asshole and I hate him

[dirtytransmasc]

(personal vent about my sack of shit father ruining christmas again)

me, my fathers only "daughter"/child:

helps my grandmother for weeks to prepare for his christmas party that neither of us wanted (he goes way over the top. invites his friends that are all loud drunks. cooks food we don't like. keeps the whole house up partying into the early hours of the morning. makes a mess and refuses to clean up after himself. doesn't spend time with us and instead hangs out with his friends, even for family holidays and events. etc.

me and my grandmother are disabled, constantly in pain/have stomach issues, and generally just want to be left on our own for holidays, so the whole event is just awful for us)

has been up since 6* in the morning, continuing to prepare for his party so he doesn't throw a hissy fit, running on only a few hours of sleep*, running around from store to store, cleaning, cooking, decoaring, etc.

spends hours trying to wake him up.

after doing everything I am capable of skill/strength wise, I took a two hour power nap before guests come.

helps serve dinner, makes drinks, fulfills every task my father gives me to maintain the delicate peace in the household, cause my grandmother wants to murder him*.

does all of this with no complaint.

my father:

promises his full and undivided attention and help the day before the party (this is the only day he's offered the slightest help outside of making a huge dinner no one but he and his friends wanted), he then breaks this promise, does nothing, delegates every task my grandmother has given him to me, and then leaves at 6 at night to go party, ignoring the amount of cooking he needs to finish.

doesn't come home for almost 12 hours (he came home at 6am), waking me up*, sleeps till 1, leaving me and my gradnmother do 90% of the things that needed to be done today (as his guests are coming at 4).

invites more friends than he originally told us about, ditching us after dinner (which we served) to go hang out outside and blast music so loud it shakes the house.

and then complains that I "slept all day" and "did nothing" so now I need to clean the whole kitchen and all the dishes of over 15 guests, not him, the reason there's such a mess to clean.

he continues to demand this even after something he cooks, knowing I hate it and it makes me feel ill, and stinks up the whole kitchen, making me go lie down because it made me nauseous and gave me a migraine.

I then get to spend the rest of my christmas eve cleaning, doing dishes, while barely holding back tears.

thanks dad, for ruining an already awful christmas, you fucking asshole.

[shadowqueenjude]

“Bitch” wow! I don’t see the reason for getting so heated over these characters. They don’t actually exist you know? You’re not defending anyone’s honour or being some saint here. I didn’t mean anything in a bad way, I was trying to have a rational conversation because I’ve never come across an IC hater and wanted to know why you didn’t like them. But obviously having a rational conversation is out of your zone of abilities since it didn’t take a lot for you to get down to name calling. My only suggestion to you because I truly wish the best for you is control that anger and learn to listen to other people before someone shows you your place. It won’t be nice. Good luck bbg 💜💜

You're the one coming in anon and shitting on characters that I like. What did you expect??? I'm going to defend my characters, obviously. You want my dissertation on why I hate each member of the Inner Circle? Let's start with captain asshole Rhysand: Rhysand: Sexually assaulted Feyre, did not apologize, licked Amarantha's boots for fifty years to "protect" no one since he only rules 1/3 of his court. He claims to be uber powerful yet he can't control misogyny within 2/3 of his court. But it's totally fine to go into Tarquin's house, steal an important possession, then act superior later when his wife's antics in Spring caused Summer to be invaded. Pretends to give his wife a "choice" while not giving her crucial information, i.e. that he wouldn't be helping her out with the Weaver at all. Locked Lucien in a house, made rape jokes about his mother, altogether treated him like shit for no reason. Then the Inner Circle acts all shocked and furious that their "masks" as "bad guys" fooled everyone and act violent towards literally everyone not Inner Circle there. Rhysand forcibly shut Tamlin's mouth, Feyre burned Lucien and Eris's innocent mother, Azriel nearly choked Eris to death. Ironically, Cassian acted the most sane here. After Tamlin saved Feyre and Rhysand's lives multiple times, Rhysand has the gall to tell Tamlin to kill himself despite knowing they'll need him as an ally, which is a terrible thing to do and also made Lucien's life harder. ACOSF he locks Nesta in a house and hides the malignant nature of his wife's pregnancy from her. That's just the gist of it. Cassian: Rhysand's dog. He need to grow a fucking spine. He never defends Nesta in front of Rhysand, and constantly abuses her physically and mentally. Won't let her eat sugar, forces her to train, tells her everyone hates her, makes her hike a fucking mountain for having the nerve to disobey rhysand and tell feyre the truth she deserved to hear. Then again in HOFAS not defending Nesta in front of Rhysand when he was screaming at her for giving away the trove and telling her she should've killed Bryce instead. THAT. IS. YOUR. MATE. He treats all the women in his life better than her, like mor and feyre. Azriel: A fucking weirdo violent creep. He needs to man tf up and admit Lucien is the superior man. His creeping on Mor for 500 years when she's clearly not interested is not cute. Nor is choking Eris to death in an important political meeting. Nor is treating Elain like a helpless object and masturbating to a gag gift he gave her. I'lL dEfEaT hIm WiTh LiTtLe EfFoRt boi stfu no you can't and Lucien has done NOTHING to you. I have absolutely ZERO respect for a character who treats the nicest guy in the series like that. Elain is not a child to be fought over. He's so pathetically jealous that Lucien is a good dude and has a mate and is better than him at everything. He needs to admit his homoerotic desire for Lucien and get it over with. Or let Eris humble him. Either way. Mor: the biggest hypocrite of all time. I aM a DrEaMeR aNd I gOt OuT so did it ever occur to you that maybe you're not the only dreamer? You're not even going to try to save good people stuck under the Court of Nightmares or ask your High Lord to? You just write them off because you're the only good one? And you want to throw Nesta into the court of nightmares? You don't do shit when Cassian is harassing Nesta? You're a bitch and not a girl's girl at all. If there's ANYTHING women should be united on, it's creepy dudes. ESPECIALLY if one of them is your best friend. Amren: this bitch should've stayed dead after ACOWAR. How dare she talk to Nesta the way she did in ACOSF? She KNEW how much Nesta was hurting and she did it anyway. She's over 15 thousand years old. What a bitch. They're all part of an elitist establishment and the epitome of modern politics that needs to be destroyed. Oh, I'm sorry? Should I apologize for saying "bitch" when you're the one coming in hot on my anons? How about you get a life besides harassing people who disagree with you first?

[booradigm]

Y'know reading your post about that anon who acted like you're just being mindlessly critical and hateful is so good, cuz when will this attitude where just because someone is critical, they're automatically not allowed to even argue? VADD is fairly a toxic cesspool I had refused to jump in, only see posts where ppl talk openly and honestly about how bad it is

VADD is honestly a good life lesson in Fiction for me, it's basically proof to see just how Media literacy is non-existent and biases are terrible to the point, you can't say anything without others coming at you like cutthroat knives, there's nothing wrong with being biased about a character, it's another story when you act like another one is bad compared to your faves even when they do the exact same thing, it's hypocritical at best, it's funny though, they do say what you see is how you are, the state of your emotions, I can say some Callisto's fans are as hypocritical as he is, you don't get to act "Oh I'm so pitiful" after a long history of being a tyrannical monster, I prefer someone like Eros from Your Throne, the guy has a Greece origin name and the same title as Callisto but Eros' character is handled way better, why? He's written to be hateful and disgusting and that's exactly what he makes the readers feel: Hateful and disgusted

There's nothing wrong with having disastrous characters, what is wrong is the narrative being the biggest hypocrite by treating them as what they're NOT, not what they are

I would rather Callisto stay a well-written asshole and have anyone call him out on him being disgusting, then whatever he is now

EXACTLY. I totally agree with you. People often dismiss genuine criticism as “mindless hate” rather than consider its legibility. We shouldn’t have to tiptoe around every negative observation just because it’s not what we want to hear.

It’s not about being biased in favor of your favorite characters, it’s about REALLY SEEING what the story gives us (even though there are a hella lot of plotholes; so ig we just have to make do with it).

SOME Callisto fans never want to admit his wrongdoings, instead excusing it as something like "Oh, he almost got assassinated as a child, you can't blame him-" YES WE CAN, his original plan and intention for becoming emperor was literally to take the ENTIRE EMPIRE DOWN WITH HIM.

Listen, I feel for him, really. It must have been terrible the way he grew up, but that is NOT justification to plan genocide (he never said he'll 'kill' them, per se, but he clearly intended to ruin the MILLIONS of lives within his empire, aka 'destroy the empire').

It gives reason to his behavior but doesn't excuse it. Yes, he changed his mind about it after he met Siyeon, but are we REALLY going to ignore the fact that he is GENUINELY SELFISH?

No, don't just say "but he's turned a new leaf, he loves Siyeon so much, he's willing to die for her and give her everything" like it's a big deal when, in the first place, he's willing to take down everything or kill anyone for NO REASON other than that he "wanted to". (Literally, Siyeon herself died so many times in game because of him, he is THAT uncaring of human lives.)

It really takes the awe out of it when you think about how lowly he considers human life in general, and how willing he is to kill someone or an entire empire that it WOULDN'T EVEN BE A BIG DEAL to him that he'll do it if it concerns his loved ones.

Then again, it's understandable to want someone who won't hesitate to put you first even at the cost of others (which is why I think people love Callisto so much, since he's loyal despite being selfish and possessive), but at the same time, let's not act like he's NOT a bad person.

"But he's a great husband-" and? Being a good spouse is different from being a decent human being. "He's still the ML of the story-" no one needs to like him just because of his role. "Idc, I still like him, he's my husbando even if he's crazy-" good for you, just don't be a hypocrite and hate someone for the same reason you love him.

Eros from Your Throne is a great example of a character who is handled in a way that makes you feel exactly what the narrative intends, though I have to say that Callisto still somewhat does that, too (considering the majority of the community adore him) despite some of us not getting the hype.

Anyway, it's always good to be able and willing to point out inconsistencies or call hypocrisy for what it is. Media literacy really is not common in everyone, but people should still try engaging honestly - even if it stings- and recognize that they don't need to romanticize a character to justify liking them, and a well-written asshole can still be compelling.

I really don't mind it when people love their fave characters enough to glaze them (I literally love Penelope enough to begin learning how to draw), but let's remember to cultivate media literacy and honest engagement, ESPECIALLY since one of the main themes of VADTD is not taking everything at face value and instead looking deeper.

At least that's what I got when the novel kept dropping bombs like the details on how Penelope was neglected and reduced to a "childish idiot", Siyeon is a piece of Penelope’s soul, Yvonne is already dead and Leila’s using the body as a vessel, etc. (Though it's a shame none of the characters really grew as people).

[tinamaetales]

They never fcking loved us

“It doesn’t get better, it doesn’t get easier. I can’t keep lying to myself, saying “I’m gonna change” I’m poison I come from poison. I have poison inside me and I destroy everything I touch. That’s my legacy. I have nothing to show for the life that I’ve lived, and I have nobody in my life who’s better off for having known me” - BoJack Horseman, Season 3 Episode 12

My family is filled with hypocrites. It took me years to realize how bad my family is, both sides actually, until I got to know more people and hear their stories and eventually concluded that dysfunction is not a common trait of a family. While listening to other people’s stories, I realized that not everyone was raised in a chaotic household. But an even bigger realization of mine is that I never asked for perfection in my family, just a life free from dysfunction. 

Starting this blog post with the sentence “my family is filled with hypocrites” seems a bit harsh but it’s the truth. The truth, most of the time, is ugly and painful and that is what I want to discuss in this blog post which I would like to call a “short trauma dump essay” So here is the ugly truth, my family is filled with hypocrites and my biggest fear in life is to inherit dysfunction and pass it on. Every time I look at myself in the mirror, I never really like what I see. Aside from my physical features, I really do not like who I am on the inside. I hate the fact that I share the same DNA as my toxic and abusive father. I hate the fact that I came from a catholic family who is always present in Church events but are also the biggest haters of this world. My family are the first to drop various bible verses as an advice or warning and yet they themselves cannot practice what they preach. It seems as if I belong to a family that is all for show. A family that is obsessed with portraying a certain kind of image to the public to hide the rotten and stink. And I am getting really tired of this. I refuse to suffer the same fate as my mother.

Everytime I browse through family albums, I cannot help but wonder how on God’s beautiful earth did my family come to be? When others would look at those photos they might have the assumption that we are a normal functioning family. We get to celebrate birthdays, christmas, new year, and other usual things a typical Filipino family would celebrate thus, those photos looking festive or joyous. But that’s not what I see. What I see are a bunch of pretentious people who are hiding their filth from the world. We may look normal on those occasions when, most of the time, other people are invited like friends, neighbors, and workmates, but that’s the thing about my family: we are all just a bunch of pretenders. My father loves to show off. He was always loud and proud every time there’s an occasion and he got to drink with the entire neighborhood. He loves to tell stories about how he sacrificed being far away from his family so he can earn more money by working as a seaman. Of course, the typical sentimental ass sht FIlipinos would buy that story and would think that he is this great father and husband but he is not. The only people on this earth who have the right to tell whether he was a good husband and father are my mother, my sister, and I. We all could say that he is way too far from that good person he is portraying. My father is a fucking monster. He is the kind of person that should have never been a husband and a father in the first place. Having someone like him to become someone’s father or husband is something that I would never wish for anyone, even on my own enemies. Being in the same house as him was so suffocating. It felt like I was living in hell. Everytime he comes back when his contract ends is the start of our fucking nightmare. I can never have a peace of mind being under the same roof as this misogynistic, abusive, and narcissistic asshole. In fact, I became very scared of talking to men because of him. Whenever he is around, we cannot eat properly. It is too hard to digest food as he seems to count every chew. He counts every single thing he does and buys for us. Even complained how expensive education is. But that asshole has no problem funding the drinks for the neighborhood’s weekly inuman session. He has no problem giving money to all his useless relatives in the province. Even complains of having to pay for my hospital bills every time I get sick but he is the bloody reason why I became sick in the first place. But the funny thing about this asshole is that he is so fucking religious. He would “kneel-walk” from the entrance of the church up to the altar while praying. As I mentioned earlier, I came from a family that is all for show. And this guy is the fucking leader of it. I will forever mourn the life that could’ve been for my mother. I feel so heartbroken for her. I cannot make sense as to how a beautiful and smart woman like her ended up with such a horrible person like my father.

The thing about people like my father is that they are the ones that have the image of a good person because they were just so good at marketing themselves as such. So now that I learned how to fight back, I was branded as the bad one. I think it was in 2020 when I finally confronted my father because I wanted him to actually do something in solving all the problems he created and it ended badly. He is the kind of person who would scream at you and would break things when he is mad even though everything is his fault so one could only imagine how that argument went. He threatened to punch me and even attempted to throw a glass bottle at my sister and yet the story he told our relatives (my mother’s sisters) was that he was the victim. So obviously, the story was about how rude and evil we are towards him. My aunts will not believe us, did not even bother hearing our side of the story. One of our aunts even sent a message to my sister saying that she was disappointed in us because she thought we were good kids. She immediately jumped into the conclusion that we were the bad ones here. But then, what do I expect from someone so religious and so hateful? Why is it that these overly religious people always find it difficult to believe that fathers do not deserve any amount of respect if they are abusive? They always throw that one commandment, “Honor your father and your mother” every time a child would stand up against abuse. Bunch of hypocrites. 

All my life I fought so hard into ensuring that I do not become the very monster that is my father. I refuse to let the environment I grew up in to shape me because if I allowed it then I will just continue the cycle. But life really does have its way, huh? I told myself after I got my College diploma that I will make up for all the losses I experienced growing up (babawi ako sa sarili ko) and yet even dreaming about that became a luxury I could not afford. My father fcked things up again so I ended up becoming the sole breadwinner of the family while paying off debts. There are moments that I will just snap and say mean words because I was so tired of the way my life has become. It made me realize that I might actually inherit his temper and that alone scared the shit out of me. The quote I put above is from BoJack Horseman and I felt chills the first time I heard those words when I was watching the show. When he said, “I’m poison. I come from poison. I have poison inside me and I destroy everything I touch” it scared me because like him, I came from poison too. I feel like no matter how hard I try to escape dysfunction, I can never really run away from it because I came from it and it was my “normal” so one way or another, I will always become the dysfunction that I was born into. I simply have no idea how to become a “normal functioning” human being because I never really knew what it was like growing up. My own family never knew what life outside of dysfunction is. 

When I started writing this article, I felt anger all over my body. I am just so mad at the kind of life I have lived. Reminiscing about my years growing up, especially the times we spent living in the same roof as my father, is a scary road to travel with. It is very triggering and painful to look back but it is also painful to think about the present because nothing much has changed. Now, my family is more divided than ever. My sister and I were branded as the black sheeps because we finally stood up for ourselves and they label my mother as an enabler of our “bad behavior”. I used to be bothered by what my relatives say about us but then I realized they never fcking loved us so why let their opinions affect me? Because if they are really my family and if they love me, they would want to know my side of the story too instead of being concerned that I became a disrespectful daughter. I am done being the silent victim. I want to heal from this and healing starts from acknowledging that I came from dysfunction.

X, 

TinaMae

PS, Taylor Swift’s “Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?” is the perfect song for this blog post (and my life)

[aeligsido]

Dick and Jason's fanon relationship for the ask game

Someone wants to see me go apeshit and honestly I have no problem with that lmao.

There’s a lot to say about Jason’s and Dick’s relationship in general, and even more about their fanon relationship (vs their canon one or on its own). If you follow me you probably already know that Dick’s and Jason’s relationship is one I hold close to my heart.

(rest under the cut, careful, it's long! also cw for canon dad bruce i guess, and various mentions to Jason's death.)

For some reasons, fanon likes to imagine that Dick was an awful brother to Jason when he was Robin, even if there’s nothing on page in the comics to support this. (There’s actually more about them being close/trying to get to know each other and spend time together than anything else, really.) I guess it’s to add to Jason's angst, like, I legit never saw any Dick fans use this trope. And like, it’s valid of them I guess, it’s just really frustrating for me who loves Dick and loves Dick’s and Jason’s relationship -- because their whole thing is that they're a found family, and specifically a chosen family. They keep choosing each other (and that’s why, in part, I love them) and accepting each other as family, when they were younger and when they’re both adults as well. It’s just… In canon they have such a huge influence on each other -- like, baby Jason wanted to be just like Dick and took example on him, Dick after Jason’s death decided to not allow any minor on the Teen Titans again, etc… I’ll even say that Dick tried to be better for Jason, both when he was alive and after he died.

Fanon tends to gloss over all of this to go immediately to “Dick was an asshole, he was never here for Jason, everyone hated Jason because he wasn’t Dick/because Dick was mad at him”, and the likes. And it’s frustrating because their relationship is way more complex and way more positive than this. And even when they’re shown in a more positive light, we always end up with something like “Dick was super mad at Jason but then he warmed up to him, Jason used to be scared of Dick’s and Bruce’s yelling matches, they had a really rough start but it went better in the end but it was never enough, Jason is super-jealous of Tim because Tim got big brother Dick, Dick tried to do better with Tim because he wasn’t here enough for Jason”... And again, most of those are very frustrating if not downright a disservice to most of the characters.

So, let’s be clear here: Jason and Dick never had a rough relationship, in the sense that they did have some wrong ideas about the other, but it was all before meeting the other. And all of this is a reboot -- in precrisis, they knew each other before (or at least Dick knew Jason’s parents), and Dick wanted to adopt Jason himself (he was just eighteen lmao, and Jason was like twelve or thirteen I think?). And postcrisis, what do we have? Jason being rightfully upset because criminals and more importantly, Bruce, keeps putting him against Dick’s example even when he doesn’t know him. Dick being rightfully upset because his father figure, who fired him under the pretense that Dick was too young and shouldn’t be a vigilante, who never tried to apologize even when Dick went away, who took one of the last link Dick had of his biological family, this man turned around to take in a new kid out of the blue, gave him the Robin name and title (who are, again, one of Dick’s last links with his family), and literally adopt him (which he never did nor talked about with Dick himself, who always wondered what he was for Bruce). All in the biggest hypocrite moment ever, but that’s another story for another time.

And what happens when these two rightfully angry kids meet for the first time? Well, Jason tries to prove himself to Dick. Dick chooses not to take his anger on the kid and actually protect him. They team up. Dick ends up giving his Robin costume to Jason, with his blessings and his number so Jason can contact him if he needs or wants it. Dick reaches out to Jason after like, one hour at most of meeting him, and you know what? Jason accepts it, takes it gladly, and is happy about it. Because he received way more than he expected -- Dick’s support, and someone in his corner. And after that, for the little time we see them together (which isn’t by the characters’ choice exactly, but because they were both in different books and they didn’t have time to exploit their relationship on page -- like, the Teen Titans comics at this time were. A lot. A lot was happening oduhgui. Plus, Dick was considered a Teen Titans character back then, not a Bat affiliated one like he is today.), they were getting along well, and even seemed to share some inside jokes (it’s not exactly the term I’m looking for, but ways to deal with a parent/your parents in particular, or something you share and joke about because you have this same experience like siblings). They were not the closest, but still close enough to realize they had spent time together. That, plus the famous ski trip they went on together! (I want an issue with just this ski trip… srly we’ve been robbed).

So, the idea that Jason and Dick didn’t like each other, that Dick was an asshole to Jason, or that it took Dick time to warm up to Jason? Nope. Like, it’s far from canon, and honestly it can get me out of a fic so fast. Most of the time if not all the time, it’s played for Jason’s angst, and the fic doesn’t care if it’s deeply OOC for Dick (let’s be honest, it’s the case for any of Tim’s, Jason’s, or Damian’s angst -- Dick is often just used as a prop for it, no matter how or if the role doesn’t fit his character. I’m not judging, everyone enjoys whatever they enjoy, it’s just frustrating as someone who loves Dick and wants to read him to mostly find him written like that). Now, since Dick wasn’t mad at Jason (but at Bruce, the real culprit in the story tbh), you can also get that no one in the heroes community was mean and/or mad at Jason either. He was actually well-liked, especially by the Titans, and he showed a lot of maturity when teaming-up with them. Baby Jason was a sweetheart and you can fucking fight me on this. To continue on this -- there weren’t any shouting matches between Bruce and Dick to scare Jason away, since Dick and Bruce just,,,, you know, didn’t talk to each other, actually. Dick was angry and hurt about Bruce’s action, and Bruce just decided not to address it and to continue as if everything was normal. (Like, honestly, Jason and Dick, the actual children, were more mature than Bruce odiufh.)

NOW just a little point about the Tim-Dick-Jason situation before I go more in depth on the Dick and Jason after Jason’s come-back to life. Tim’s and Jason’s relationship is a complex one and not for this post (maybe for another one later), and I used to love Dick’s and Tim’s relationship before Tim stans destroyed it for me? However, I still love them even if I can’t focus on them anymore, and what I can say is that the idea that Dick was so nice to Tim only because Jason died is like… A huge disservice to both of them, to their relationship, and also deeply untrue. Sure, Jason’s death impacted Dick and the way he interacted with Tim; but not to the extent of that being the only reason why Dick was around then. I think it’s important to note that Dick was in therapy for some amount of time after Jason’s death (I can’t find if he started it before or after, but it doesn’t change that he was in therapy and talked about Jason and his relationship with Bruce), and I do think it influenced his presence around Tim. Mostly also because then Dick was aware that Bruce was in no shape to care for a kid or be careful around Tim, so Dick took upon himself to train Tim himself. AND some time after Tim started as Robin is also when Dick first established himself in Blüdhaven. I’m not sure both events are at the same time, but they’re close enough.

It’s important to realize that when Jason was Robin, Dick had no reason to be around him; Bruce had fired him and never acknowledged their father-son relationship, leaving him to fend for himself without knowing what his place at the Manor was, Dick has the Teen Titans that he was leading, a girlfriend with Kory, he was a young adult trying to live his life with no tie to anyone else. And still, Dick reached out to Jason to have a relationship with him.

Now, with Tim, Dick’s situation was very different -- his and Kory’s relationship ended toward the same time, Dick went to Blüdhaven so was closer to Gotham, he wasn’t with the Teen Titans all time again. That’s basically when Dick shifted again from a Teen Titans character to a Bat-affiliated character, and it shows in his relationships -- he’s allowed to be closer to Tim than what they would show with Jason, but his relationships with every other characters who aren’t Bat-affiliated kind of,,,, faded in the second or even third place. Seeing Tim’s and Dick’s relationship develop on pages was easier. Dick wasn’t close to Tim or an amazing big brother to Tim because he was feeling guilty about Jason, but, as weird as it is, because he was allowed to by DC.

NOW -- for the other part of this, aka their relationship after Jason comes back!

Again, I won’t pronounce myself on the whole Tim-Jason thing because it’s complicated and deserves its own post lmao. BUT I do have things to say about what fanon makes of Jason and Dick then!

And honestly, I can’t keep going with this part without saying that like,,,, Fanon doesn’t get Dick’s character. It just. Doesn’t understand him. It would deserve its own post as well, but there’s one thing in particular about it that poses problems when talking about Jason’s and Dick’s relationship: Dick doesn’t always share Bruce’s morals and beliefs.

More, even, and it’s honestly a pet peeve of mine -- Dick is not Bruce’s Golden Boy. And Jason more than anyone else knows this, because he was there when they were not talking to each other and were basically,,,, not present in each other’s life. I personally hate Jason referring to Dick as “the Golden Boy” or anything like this, because, if anything,,,, Jason is Bruce’s Golden Boy, honestly. He’s -- or, he was after his death -- this standard, this perfect kid no one will be able to compete against, not even Jason himself.

So. Yeah. I really dislike fanon insisting on this one, especially since the only instance of Jason calling Dick like that is from Truth and Justice, from 2021 aka this year. We all know where it comes from lmao.

To go with that -- fanon often if not always has this idea that Dick has to make amend for not being here enough for Jason/for being an asshole to Jason, and how Jason is so nice for forgiving him, or how he’s angry that Tim got Dick as his big brother when Dick hated him, etc. I ranted about all of this just before, so you can get that my feelings on this are far from positives lmao. It’s wrong on so many levels.

I would also add that from what I read of Dick, he is way more flexible about the whole killing thing that Bruce will ever be. Like, outside of the fact that he himself killed the Joker (sadly not permanently, a F in the chat for Huntress who was tasked by Batman to revive the clown), he isn’t as judgemental on it, if not at all. If there’s someone who would just be happy to have Jason back without throwing a fuss about all the killing, it’s probably Dick lmao. As shown after the whole shitshow with the Joker -- Dick is more scared and apprehensive of Bruce’s reactions to him killing that about the fact that he himself killed someone. (I would go as far as to say that he didn’t have any regret in killing the Joker but oh well.)

So, yeah. Fanon does like the take that Dick would side with Bruce and act like his perfect second-in-command, never doubting his decisions, never calling him out on anything, and hating Jason/not trusting him/thinking he’s crazy because of all the killing thing or whatever else. And, like, it doesn’t fit Dick at all? Nightwing isn’t one if not the best leader of the DCU because he keeps on following Batman without asking any questions. Hell, they had a fallout in the first place when Dick was still Robin because Dick was questioning him and his decisions! And it never changed! Dick uses to,,, not let it slide but be more forgiving with Bruce after Jason’s death because he wanted to be here for the new kid(s) and keep on supporting Bruce,,, but it doesn’t mean he always agrees with him or don’t tell him when Bruce acts full of shit, actually. So. Yeah. Dick would be more welcoming of Jason in general -- not happy with the killing and probably that they would talk around it (since, honestly, a lot of Jason’s acting out come from his issues and traumas), but he would still welcome in and help him in general. And. You know. Be there for him. Like he always was.

And, because it’s one of the things that makes me emotional over anything -- Jason trusts Dick. He still sees him as his family, no matter what. If there was someone Jason was not angry at after everything, it was Dick. Like, the Brother in Blood storyline (if I remember the name correctly, the one set after Blüdhaven’s destruction, when Dick is back to living in New York and Jason goes around in a Nightwing costume to kill people and basically fuck up with his big brother lmao)(also the one with Tentatodd LMAO), is literally Jason,,, maybe testing isn’t the right word, but it kind of is at the same time, but just making sure that Dick is still his family -- because it was clear for him but he wanted to make sure it was the same for Dick. And like, listen, it makes me emotional. This boy is angry at the whole world and with good reason but he can’t find it in him to be angry at his big brother I’M EMOTIONAL OKAY.

TDLR; in general, fanon like to put them against each other -- the fact is, in canon, they’ve always chosen each other as family, and always called each other brother even while, you know, not always agreeing on everything, or being angry against the other, or just being a normal sibling. Dick has always come running when Jason called him, and Jason has always gone to Dick when he needed someone in his corner, someone he trusts, before and after his death alike.

And I just like… Have so many beefs with how fanon treats them, because more often than not it’s just to add unnecessary Jason’s angst, and it always takes a toll on Dick’s character. And as someone who prefers when people are fighting together instead of against each other, you can get what I prefer for these two difuhv.

Plus. It’s just the love between them, the real found family, the fact they chose each other and never went back on it, and. It’s just. I love them. Their canon relationship is so good, and fanon usually do them dirty.

So. Rip fanon Dick’s and Jason’s relationship, but you’re not for me.

[ohthatsviolet]

Hideaway

Characters: Octane & Pathfinder (Miroctane mentioned)

Words: 988

Summary: Octane isn’t happy about being back in Olympus and wanders off during a training session. Pathfinder tries to cheer him up. 

Ao3 link will be in the RBs

One of the best things about being daredevil, besides having the wind in your hair and adrenaline pumping through your veins, was having the nerve to attempt things others wouldn’t dare. It was a good quality to have when you needed some time away from everyone else; or at least anyone who didn’t have the fearlessness to follow you. That’s what Octavio was hoping for right now, and what had brought him to the roof of the Reverie Lounge during one of their training exercises. He didn’t want to train, he didn’t want to be here and he certainly didn’t want to listen to all of his friends be in awe over the place that made him feel so much dread. He wasn’t sure why he hated Olympus as much as he did. Maybe it was the fear of being known as Octavio instead of Octane, or maybe he just didn’t want to risk running into his dad; who knows? He’d spent some time here when he was younger and he and Ajay had some good memories of this place. But for some reason, it didn’t feel the same anymore.

Everyone was so excited to be here. Even Ajay had awed at the high structures and lush plants and grasses, before awkwardly stopping and scolding herself. Octavio let out a long sigh. He felt so alone because he didn’t share their excitement and wonder; or maybe it was because he’d made himself physically alone by climbing up here, with the help of his jump-pads. At least he thought he was alone as he sat on the building’s edge, allowing his legs to hang freely over the side.

“Hi, friend!” Octavio bristled at the sound of metal footsteps coming towards him. “Why are you up here all by yourself? All of our friends are down there.” “Why are you up here?” Octavio returned his question, drawing his knees into himself. “I saw your feet dangling over the side of this building and I had to make sure my friend was okay!” Pathfinder replied, in his typical chirpy fashion. “I followed your jump-pads until I decided it would be easier to use a zipline!” Octavio let out a loud, unamused snort. “Ziplines are the lame-o’s way up. And I’m not your friend.” The robot tilted his head as a question mark appeared on his display. “Of course you are, friend! You are very special to my best friend, which makes you my friend!” The speedster sighed heavily and looked down at the arena below them, his mind drifting to Elliott. He was out there somewhere; probably telling jokes and fooling around like he usually did. He loved him so much and yet he didn’t really want to be around him right now. “Go away, compadre,” he eventually said, turning himself away slightly. “I want to be alone.” “Being alone with your thoughts isn’t always the best thing to do,” Pathfinder persisted. “It just makes you more sad. Elliott told me that.” Octavio snorted again, more genuinely this time. His partner was being terribly hypocritical by giving that sort of advice, though he couldn’t say he was surprised that the MVRN had believed him.

“What do you know about being sad?” he asked. “You’re a robot. You don’t have feelings. Not real ones.” Pathfinder didn’t respond for a few moments and Octavio thought his question may have broken him. “I do feel sad sometimes, friend. When I first woke up, I was all alone and I was very sad because I didn’t know where I was or where I was meant to be. That was the saddest I ever felt.” Octavio hadn’t really considered that and suddenly felt like a bit of an asshole. “Right. Lo siento. You must have felt...super alone.” “I did. But then I met my best friend and he told me to join the games and now I have so many friends!” “But don’t you ever feel like...you have all these friends around you but they don’t really...understand you?” “Yes,” Pathfinder replied simply, with a nod. “Just now you thought I didn’t have feelings! But I do! You didn’t understand how I work but now you do!” Octavio shrugged and shook his head, his gaze falling to his well-bitten fingernails. “That’s not what I meant.” The MVRN’s screen displayed another inquisitive mark. “Then what did you mean, friend?”

Octavio remained quiet for what seemed like forever, trying to formulate an answer in his head. “Erm...I don’t know, amigo. Everyone else is so psyched to be here and I’m just...not. But I don’t wanna be a party pooper. It’s not my style. So, I came up here so no-one would know.” “Except for me!” Pathfinder clapped excitedly. “How exciting.” “Sure...whatever.” “I don’t think you need to be all alone, friend. I don’t think any of our friends would want you to be sad. Especially Elliott.” “Elliott is my biggest problem,” Octavio muttered, beginning to pick at his nails. “He thinks this place is awesome. I...don’t want to ruin his excitement but I don’t want him to get too attached either. I don’t wanna live here. I like where we live now.” “I like it too! My warehouse is there! And also Elliott’s bar. I don’t think he would want to leave that behind, friend.” “Si...yeah, you’re probably right. Gracias...I guess,” Octavio said, beginning to get onto his feet and stretch his legs out. “I guess we should get back down there. We won’t win any championships by sitting around, doing nothing. Well...maybe I still would…” “I’m glad you’re feeling better, friend! High-five?” The speedster paused for a moment before reluctantly touching his hand against Pathfinder’s waiting one. “Hooray! Let’s go! Who’s ready to fly on a zipline? I am!” “Yeah, yeah,” Octavio muttered, as he followed the robot back onto the ground. “My jump-pads are still cooler though.”

[shootyrefutey]

Khaos Reigns (2/2)

I had to rewatch this half hour of cutscenes because I feel like I got absolutely nothing on the first watch. Things just happened. It ended so abruptly I was audibly confused.

I'm pretty sure someone on Twitter got mad about Orin from Armageddon getting genderbent. Probably called it woke or something idk. I'm just wondering where the hell is Taven in all this. Does he even exist? The Pyramid of Argus does so I assume he's asleep in some random timeline.

A lot of this story is just encountering a khaos version of a character with an ugly outfit talking about how much they love chaos and then fighting them. They beat them and move onto the next one.

Why does Kuai Liang have more tension with Cyrax when Sektor is literally right there. She still allied with Bi-Han. Kuai Liang continues to be insufferable, like they just wanted to add a bit of tension so they gave him Hanzo's hot-headedness without remembering why Hanzo was like that. I miss the old Kuai Liang who was cold and stern yet caring. I know it's a new timeline and that Kuai Liang was a wisened man in his fifties but it's such a downgrade.

Awwww a little pillow for Bi-Han's head. I love how he looks like a sad kitty in this game and 1. Funny how nobody calls him Noob Saibot. 

I love how Noob does interesting things with his shadows. Catching bombs, suddenly splitting apart to grab them. He's far more unpredictable than Titan Havik.

I still hate this Bi-Han even as Noob. He's not fun miserable like he was in 11 where he intentionally brings up his opponents biggest insecurities to rile them up (no matter if the target was bigger and stronger than him, he had this inhuman fearlessness about him). This game's Noob Saibot is just the egotistical and spiteful kinda miserable. Narratively, what's even the point in this change? He's the same dickhead he was before.

Not gonna lie when they were trying to bring him back to life with the Kamidogu I thought of the scene from Sonic 06. I thought someone was gonna kiss him back to life lol.

They would not do the romance if Sektor was a man, just saying… (but from the small time they shared together in 9, male Sektor and Bi-Han also have no chemistry whatsoever). I do like Sektor in this game, I think her backstory of her being the Lin Kuei's head mechanist. Idk much else about her other than her ambitions and pride in the Lin Kuei. I guess because Bi-Han already feels like what Sektor was in the old timeline (being the son of the Grandmaster and then later killing him to attain power, having a huge ego, being an irredeemable asshole). So it's just not an interesting pair at all. And the way Noob pushes Sektor away at the end? Girl, please leave him.

Ah yes, put the priceless artifacts in the Temple of the Elements. Nothing of worth was stolen from there ever.

We also couldn't get over how ugly the Khaos designs look. I typed 'EWWWWWWW' in my notes a lot. Also for a 'khaotic' variation these guys are oddly colour coordinated. Seems rather orderly. They fight just as usual too.

Havik having all six Kamidogu is treated too lightly in this story. When Shujinko gave all 6 to Onaga, it was a far more direct threat. It meant Onaga was extremely close to being able to merge all the realms together and bring back the One Being. Instantly you know this means disaster. I will concede that the Kamidogu looked goofy as fuck in Deception that it was hard to believe they were so powerful, although I did like how they felt distinct enough from each other like they represented each realm and marked Shujinko's journey. These Kamidogu just give Havik more power 'to project his chaos into all realms at once'? Chaos is such a meaningless buzzword in this game, so this threat means nothing to me. I think turning the Kamidogu into the Chaos Emeralds or Infinity Stones just makes them far more generic and subsequently dull.

For a titan, Havik really isn't that strong. Aren't Titans like above Elder Gods?

Ah, so Havik is a hypocrite. He's just a guy who wants power.

Scorpion- You mustn't fight! Noob- I want to fight! Fuck you!

Smoke didn't even come through the portal. Oh the writer hates him for real.

You know what they say, the more the merrier!

Khaos Takeda is the son of Khaos Kenshi? The only remotely dilfy Kenshi in this game and he looks like that????

That was anticlimactic.

Me and my friend both lost it over Bi-Han's Kombat Kasket. Why put him at the Temple of the Elements anyway? Other than a Mythologies reference. Surely that's not the only place to hide things?

Cyrax deserves better than serving Kuai Liang.

It feels like nothing happened in this plot.

Currently catching up on Mortal Kombat 1 cutscenes. Finally started to take notes and will be sharing my thoughts as I watch. (will be in the reblogs)

[sluttyten]

Hi is it okay if I rant? This may be lengthy. But If not feel free to delete this I don’t wanna put all my grievances on you bc I know how that may be annoying!

So lately I feel like a dumbass for being attracted to a guy who I know is a jerk. We literally met from arguing with each other and not getting along. We have mutual friends so we are around each other a lot and argue a lot in our groupchat and it’s a huge turn off bc we’re grown lmao and there’s no reason for him to constantly pick arguments w me or tease me like a childish boy. But he’s also said things that make it obvious he’s weirdly attracted to me too, like one of our biggest fights was because we were playing a confession drinking game w friends and he said “the girl I want to fck the most is also the most annoying girl I’ve ever met” and one of our friends was like he’s talking about YOU. It was a shitty thing to say like he says things like that and it was so childish and it started an argument that ruined the whole night. But he’s rude and our friends let him get away w being a dick but I don’t so I think that’s why we clash. I get called sensitive all the time for it. And just knowing that he annoys me seems to egg him on more so I mostly ignore him. he’s just a sarcastic asshole and always needs to be the center of attention. He’s not a terrible person but I just know he’s not my cup of tea.

But at the same time..I think he’s cute and really smart I always have and we have sexual tension. Like I can admit when a person is attractive even when I don’t like them. Anyways over the weekend there’s this festival a town near us has yearly and my friends and I went and rented a cabin and did some drinking. Oddly enough him and I got along and I wasn’t drunk I was just like tipsy but we were talking about stuff that’s been going on here in the US. So ig I should say I’m black and he’s asian so we were talking about some touchy topics with poc (we were 2 out of 3 of the only poc at the cabin and plus it’s already a pretty conservative racist state) and it came up bc of an incident at the bar where the bartenders ignored me and helped all the white ppl until my white guy friend said something and I didn’t even realize it was most likely race related like I’m just used to it but when we got back to the cabin he brought it up and asked if I was okay which really surprised me and lead to that whole conversation which made me look at him differently and kinda made him even more attractive. After that the whole night we just kinda hung out w each other and like clung to each other, were dancing together and just really touchy idk it was weird bc we hate each other so our friends noticed immediately 💀 but i didn’t care cus in the moment we got along really well for the first time. Soooo fast forward to get to the point, I kinda sorta let him eat me out in the restroom and kinda palmed him through his shorts 😭 I got really caught up and into it but when I realized I just made up some lie about being really tired and feeling sick

but that was 2 days ago on Saturday and now that I’m home I’ve been thinking about it and feeling bad like maybe I should’ve returned the favor for him and get him off too? But something in me stopped me. he hasn’t said anything bad about it he’s been very nice actually or just acting like nothing happened which I appreciate bc our friends kinda assume something did since we disappeared but thankfully he walked up to me the next day and promised he wouldn’t say anything unless I did. I haven’t decided to tell them yet bc I know how hypocritical it seems since I bash him all the time and also it’s not like I have to tell anyone. But he’s been cool lately, we’ve been texting outside of the groupchat which we’ve never done before but it’s been friendly and funny conversation and even talked on the phone last night (which for me is a big deal bc I hate phone calls). Anyways I’m kinda having regrets about it all just bc I think back to some of our past arguments or issues with one another and they’ve been bad before. But at the same time...he has really nice lips and is really good with his hands and mouth 😭 and like he’s not a bad person he’s just not my kinda person so maybe a hookup or two isn’t bad? But Idk how I feel about catching feelings for him. Like what would you do??

Oh my goodness this was lengthy lol

But I think if he’s changing then maybe it’s alright to see where this could go for you two, but if you think he’s still going to always act childishly and call you annoying and like you like a kid does, then maybe just try and do a hookup thing if you do want that

[darkamor37]

I Hate Facebook

Social Media was created to connect to people, but not to disconnect with someone in real life. In within the modern, I don’t think anyone knows the word: Respect and Control. I see a lot people swearing on a normal conversation, especially when you’re talking any toxic related stuff, because they’re bunch of bigoted a-holes. Now, I could see this as an influence to raps, and probably the person who type this is an internet hooker who thinks that swearing rabidly are so cool when they technically don’t understand that word, either that the person who posted it is a kid traps in an adult’s body.

And don’t even start with Facebook. For me, there’s two type of Facebook user, the normal ones, and the techno cavemen. My life was once never disturbed by anyone, I barely even have the interest in our social media because I was busy playing Contra, then some lolicon came to my life and yet... I actually hate Facebook because of what happened between someone I like and our pissing contest.

Facebook or any social media site, in definition, are made as a medium for people to be socialized, but to be decivilized. While my initial hatred was tempt when someone in Facebook were posting too indecent picture without thinking on who will be his audiences. And some of them were minors actually.

But how- on Earth that this things are allowed to be post, just because it is not a link that social media could blocked. 

I was never the biggest fan of Facebook, I admit that everything that’s new is so mundane to me. The only reason I made an FB account because of this guy who’s keeping my blood boiling. Facebook is basically the gateway to ruin your relationship to your love ones. That time, I was using someone’s name to spy this guy, who I’m just gonna call him Captain N.

I had once a friend who I end up being my second love interest and thanks to Captain N, I broke it and now she’s initially afraid me, she doesn’t want to talk to me because I was such an asshole to her and deriding the fact that that Captain N was stabbing me at the back. There’s three reason why I occasionally tried to delete my account for the third time.

One, the Hentais, it’s these type of people that are completely persistent than me that it’s utterly kind of annoying. These “Perarbs” who constantly sending friend request and just begging to send nude pictures of you. For what purpose, because there bunch of bigoted asshole who thinks some Filipina are that dumb when this “Perarbs” are just way too determine to score someone. Well, that’s technically kind of racist but I don’t think there’s anything far worse than being engaged in a scandal.

Now, just think about it for a sec. Facebook is designed for the people around the globe to be socialized, not to be decivilized like some kind of an animal. I don’t understand why they didn’t include them as animal and chained them.

And why is that downloading image from a non-friend is allowed? Like look at this stolen pic and then edited in Photoshop, are you mad?

But the biggest flaw on the design in Facebook is the inability to control friend request and messages whether putting it to your friends only especially in Messenger. Sure you have the option for friend request but what about your messenger.

Now, on my second reason, I confessed that I’m guilty as well about how I went from a raving madman on a rampage because I was so pissed from my second reason. Too much freedom. Because a lot of people in Facebook are just bunch of douchebag who thinks that what they are posting are completely free from technical limitation, this is something that’s violating the Facebook policy, there’s like something so indecent and almost kind of offensive about this kind of people like Captain N and the people are far from immature than me.

Why not stop whining about that and just shut the f up. Sure, you can keep posting this, but don’t you own Facebook to make your rampage as if you’re the greatest human being ever exist.

And it’s kind of bothersome when people like Captain N are using someone’s image and use it to make a dummy account which by the way an ingenious plan to make me suffer for the rest of my life.

And don’t you think that people who went overboard shouldn’t be allow to use Facebook. FB users may have the freedom of speech, but since when the use of freedom of speech turn into abused.

Fake new is nothing new to me, but sending me this pornographic image and claiming that her virginity is my first priority is just the next level of sexual harassment to the person I respect the most. I hate people like Captain N who are essentially a half ass bastard. Because people like you don’t deserve to the right for the freedom of speech. And which is my final reason, the lack of Facebook action in terms of bullying, sexual harassment, and the used of scam and fake news.

Facebook might have been spying on you, but do they do something when a person like him ruins something that’s important to me. My whole life crumbles to depression when he started on taking his revenge on me, making fun at me, making me an egotistic narcissistic who is now rejected by society. Does he even understand what he has done to me?

People think that these kind of joke are funny, well... I hope he laughs at me, because at the end, I will be the one to laugh when he realized that I am still a better person than him. Sure, that’s sound like kind of a hypocritical, but yeah... I’m evil. Because at the end, I asked God since when did I have the right to feel happiness?

I feel like the primitive nature of our past is far from updated and our future is so outdated. Sound so confusing, me either. But I’m a SJW or something, I just need a voice to chance Facebook’s policy in terms of privacy and equality.

But nevertheless, I pondered within my mind and soul that the immorality in social media has becoming far worst, it’s the most complex nature of mankind. You can’t controlled fate, fate controls you, and you by any means is fate itself.

[booradigm]

Y'know one of the reasons I decided to write is because I hated the current state of Fiction so much (All kinds of shitty tropes) that I decided to write stuff just so I can make a difference, it's pretty self served but anyone can check it out

The biggest example is The Scarlett Princess, I still haven't made a main storyline book about it yet but I wrote a bunch of short stories relating to the worldbuilding since this story isn't entirely about Wanri, the titular The Scarlett Princess, but long histories of Empires, kingdoms and countries on one continent

Wanri herself is the main character but that doesn't mean other characters don't have their own stories and personalities, I can say my best attempt at writing a true villain and trope reversal is Wanri's Father, Aiden, he was the stereotypical Crown Prince before he was the Emperor, I don't sugarcoat his character at all: He's selfish, evil, cruel, he's not even being a hypocrite about it, he knows he's a tyrant and he's proud of that fact

There's nothing to be misunderstood about Aiden because he doesn't have any misunderstanding: He was born with the gold crown on his head, Crown Prince, his siblings can't replace the fact that he'll be Crown Prince, his parents love him and no cheating bullshit with his Parents. He was powerful and privileged and not once did he think of himself as "lacking" because he didn't lack anything, sure he might have some thoughts that he's wrong in any way but he kinda just doesn't give a shit, the man got it all, that's why he's shamelessly terrible, bro forced his wife to marry him out of obsessive love and have children just so she won't leave him, not because it's his job as the Emperor to make heirs, he didn't care about his children one bit, even Wanri at a young age realized that her Dad didn't care about her wellbeing and he only had her and her brother so their Mom wouldn't try to leave in any way

THIS is why I hate shitty dads in Manhwhas cuz they're always the victims even though these assholes didn't care much about another human's life, why should they care about their children and somehow I should feel sorry and swoon over them? Bullshit

That's why I make Aiden someone who's stereotypical but also not at all, his behaviors and personality is proof of his upbringing and it's hard to blame his Parents much since they did love him fully but overall how he turned out eventually everything is his own fault

Hope you don't mind this OC yapping, I originally made this story in my immature Manhwa phase so it might have some biased shits in it but yeah I'm tryna polish it more

Yeah, I get the whole cliche tropes thing, they can get boring to read about. I'm not that much of a writer, but it's cool you're doing it, bernkastell11. Those kinds of things take a lot of creativity and building from scratch.

The Scarlett Princess sounds interesting. The most complex stories would be the ones with characters treated with the same importance as MC, with their own lives, like you said.

Wanri’s father Aiden sound more like a villain to be found in reality, making him more believable, since people like that who are given all are AWARE of it (usually) and take advantage of it regardless of consequences and without remorse. Why would they care? They can AFFORD to keep doing it, so they WILL.

He's really similar to people who abuse their power and privilege without taking accountability.

Claude from WMMAP is an example of those abusive fathers you mentioned, who are - yes - usually cast as 'tragic' figures. Real 'woe-is-me' types of characters whose former abuse are usually presented as justification by either their fans or the author who wrote it.

I'm not against villains being someone people can sympathize with, in general, but it's so often a cheap way to 'solve' family issues and let them off the hook with NO consequences whatsoever that makes most authors of it look lazy or just plain ignorant with how much bad a person like that can affect those around them EVEN IF they turn to better people.

"Oh, I know I killed you in your last life, but you see, your birth killed my wife, so I took it out on you, but now I'm over that, so I'll treat you like my daughter now" types of shit.

It's fine that works can be immature or have bias since that shows as a reflection of yourself as a writer. This can even work well if it's done in POV of the character.

And don't worry, I liked reading about it, so thanks for sharing, bernkastel11!

[arlakos]

Marinette’s list of Parisian Warcrimes (Or why I need to vent about all the bad stuff Marinette has done)

Yeah, I’m doing this.

People be talking on Tumblr about why Marinette is the best character in the show and talking shit about every other character, from Adrien so I think I'll do what I do best and piss off people.

 You want another Adrien salt Fic about why he’s a stalker to validate your sensitivity to everything that triggers you?

 You want another AU where Chloe goes full-on villain and asshole mode so that you can be just another Astruc stan?

 Do you want another Lukanette fanfic because Luka is the ‘Better Adrien’ even though all he does is play a guitar?

TOO BAD! THIS TIME WE BE DOING SOME MARINETTE SALT AND WE GOING IN HARD! WE ARE GONNA BE RUNNING THIS BLUE HAIRED GIRL INTO THE GROUND THE SAME WAY THE FANDOM TREATED THE OTHER CHARACTERS!

THIS IS PAYBACK FOR ALL THE SALT FICS THAT HAVE BEEN FORCED TO SEE THAT DON’T EVEN BOTHER TO USE NATURAL LOGIC!

(And I'm gonna love every bit of it)

So without further ado, Marinette is sentenced to be salted on the following charges:

Having a planner that tracks Adrien's every location/activity so she can stalk him at all times and actively uses (Stormy Weather).

Using her powers to prevent Adrien from dancing with another person (yes, even if that person is Chloe) (Bubbler)

Stealing Adrien's phone (Copycat)

Reading other peoples letters, even if they did throw it in the garbage (Dark Cupid)

Abandoning Paris (Ladybug Origins) (Yes I know people are going to be angry at me especially for this one, but if Everyone gives shit for Chat Noir for doing the same thing in Syren, then Ladybug gets it as well. No double standards on this post)

Literally destroying Max’s hopes and dreams by beating him in a game entering a tournament just so that she could be with Adrien. I don’t care who was better in the game or won, Marinette had no prior interest in the tournament and even knew how much Max wanted to enter, yet still done it anyway the second she realized Adrien was there. Yeah, others will say its cute that she wanted to be with Adrien, but if she really wanted to spend time with him, all she had to do was, you know, ASK LIKE A NORMAL PERSON!!! (Gamer)

Ladybug not listening to advice on where the akuma is all because she didn't like Chloe. who made a small lie before to her. Yeah Ladybug, someone making a little lie to save themselves embarrassment is really valid enough of a reason for their opinion and advice to be worth nothing. And it caused another akuma, good for you. (Antibug)

Oooh, a big one...Marinette stalked Lila and Adrien pretty much all day, under the guise of ‘not liking liars’ (yeah right) and once she had a ‘valid’ excuse to pretty much ruin Lila’s chances of wooing Adrien (whether or not she had an actual chance is irrelevant) she transformed into Ladybug and ABSOLUTELY EMBARRASSED HER AND HUMILIATED HER right in front of Adrien, when she could have just pulled her aside and just told her off in private and quietly so that she wouldn’t do it again. When Adrien questions her says she did it with the excuse of ‘not liking liars’. (Volpina)

Not telling Fu who the book belonged too when questioned on where she got it. I get that this was an excuse to prolong the shows run time, but if you were going to bring this up in the show and pretend that what Marinette did wasn’t a big deal, then they shouldn’t have added it in the first place. (The Collector)

Not bothering to tell her grandmother the truth and sneaking off to hang with her friends. (Befana)

Ladybug leading on Chat Noir. If she really didn't want to go, she could have just outright said No and be done with it, instead of just a ‘maybe’. (Glaciator)

Ladybug Literally not telling Chat Noir about the Guardian or where the hell all these heroes are coming from. There was literally no excuse, Adrien didn’t need to wait ‘until he was ready’, he literally became a hero the same time as Ladybug, it wasn’t like he was ‘the new guy’ and Ladybug was ‘the more experienced one’. I can give this to Fu as well, but I still feel that Ladybug should’ve told him regardless from the get go, she trusted a man she hadn’t properly met until 1 season later more than her own partner who stuck with her since day one. (Syren)

Taking pollen away from Chloe... yeah this really doesnt count. I just simply liked Chloe’s face in Malediktator when she saw Pollen again.

Talking shit about Chloe behind her back then acting all friendly to her as Ladybug when she needed her to become Queen Bee. Not really bad, it's just incredibly rude. (Maledictator)

Again, the same shit as Stormy Weather, instead of being punished for having the planner that details every bit of Adriens day to day activities, she gets rewarded by the writers. Not so much a Marinette crime as it is and ASS-truc crime. (Troublemaker)

Snooping through Marcs Private book, annoying him when he wanted to be isolated, and just straight up not having Marc give him the script himself. She could have tried just bringing Marc to Nathaniel and showing him the script together. (Reverser).

Making a lie about organizing a party when she definitely didn’t plan one. Yes, even if she was going to do it afterwards and planned to make the pastries herself for the party. She really is a hypocrite when she comes to lying, even though that’s a personality trait the writer's press is the reason why she hates Lila. (Season 2 Finale-Catalyst and Mayura).

Sabotaging Kagami’s attempts at being with Adrien. (Animaestro)

Marinette telling her Grandpa that rice bread is better than wheat bread. Anybody who has tasted bread would say otherwise. Although to be fair I blame Tom for this and this isn’t really as bad as the others (Bakerix)

Marinette throws Chat under the bus by pretending she loves him and leaving him to face Tom when the entire thing was her fault. I know she did it to protect her identity, but it still was an ass thing to do, and Chat found Marinette in her own house, Marinette could have used any excuse, including but not limited to, baked goods. (Weredad)

Marinette... LITERALLY... TRIED TO BREAK INTO ADRIEN’S HOME... ALL BECAUSE LILA WAS THERE...if the fireman was smarter than most other characters in the show he could’ve literally called the cops on her, leading to her getting arrested and Gabriel (or even Adrien) filing a restraining order against her. That and she steals Juleka’s bike. Not cool dude. (Oni-Chan)

Marinette not making it very clear to Chloe that she can’t get the miraculous back under any circumstances due to her exposed identity, especially after Chloe claims she’ll need them again. (Miraculer)

Marinette sneaks into the boy’s party despite wanting bro time, all because she wanted another botched attempt to confess to Adrien. (Party Crasher)

THAT CREEPY SCENE WITH THE ‘ADRIEN WAX STATUE’. I dont want to talk about it. You know which one I'm talking about. If you don’t, thank god, but IF YOU THINK THAT WAS CUTE IN ANY WAY OR THAT ITS ADRIEN FAULT BECAUSE HE STOOD STILL, YOU NEED TO GET YOUR HEAD CHECKED. (god i still have nightmares) (Puppeteer 2)

Not really a crime, but talking literally all the miraculi when you only needed a few. What would happen if she screwed up and Hawkmot got all the miraculous, or lost a few for the Akuma to obtain? (Kwamibuster)

Marinette (or Lady Noire) being an absolute dick to Misterbug during the entire time they were fighting Reflekdoll, insulting Misterbug for misusing his power when she does the same thing and claiming Misterbugs usual job is ‘easy’. Yeah...no. Fuck you Lady Noire, go eat a cataclysm to the face (Reflekdoll)

Marinette sabotaging Friendship day for Kagami just because she didnt want the latter to see Adrien.. at all. (Ikari Gozen)

Claiming Adrien is a good guitarist when Luka is an actual one. Not a crime, just dumb (Desperada)

Giving a Miraculous to Adrien when she can’t even control herself around him and could be distracted (Desperada)

Being too cute in that picture Marinette and Adrien sleeping together on the train. Yes i know this isn’t a crime, i do like some stuff about her, i just think the pic is really cute. (Startrain)

(Look at it, they’re adorkable. Awww....)

(Wait, aren’t I supposed to be salty?)

NOW, for the biggest crime of them all...

Literally not confessing to Adrien even once. Aside from the fact its turned the ‘romance part’ of the show into a joke, Marinette not telling Adrien the truth already or lying about her feelings is the reason we have the ‘Marinette is just a good friend meme’. No wonder he thinks you are ‘just a friend’. THAT’S ALL YOU HAVE BEEN TELLING HIM. 

My evidence? EVERY SINGLE EPISODE!!!

...

Ahhhh. Much better.

Well, now that I have successfully gotten rid of all that anger and salt and manifested it into a physical memento of my anger for this show and its main character, I’m going to relax while people get mad and triggered that I insulted the ‘Perfect Marinette’ and leave me angry messages. For all those that listened and don’t hate me or even agree with what I have said, thanks for reading my large amount of vented writing. I hope you have a pleasant day.

Let's hope for season 4 of Miraculous to be better now that Zag is back. The fandom knows we don't need another salty season.

[janiedean]

now I'm curious what Heidegger did if you're open to elaborating :P

I am always open to rant on heidegger *rubs hands* THEREFORE I SHALL NOW GO ABOUT IT:

now, problem #1: heidegger is SADLY seen as like THE BIGGEST GENIUS GAMECHANGER OF THE 20TH CENTURY, THE BEST, HE CHANGED EVERYYYTHIIING blah blah blah, to which I say: BULLSHIT

and now we go on to the fact that THE FUCKER DIDN’T EVEN FUCKING KNOW WHAT HE WAS SAYING BUT WROTE EVERYTHING IN SUCH A WAY THAT IT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE TO UNDERSTAND IT IF YOU DIDN’T BREAK YOUR HEAD OVER IT *and* on top of that his mantra was saying that you weren’t a true philosopher if people could understand what you were saying’, which means that since everyone things he’s a genius WHAT HAPPENED SINCE THEN WAS THAT EVERYONE STARTED WRITING STUFF PUTTING IT IN A WAY THAT THE AVERAGE PERSON WOULDN’T UNDERSTAND and I hate it because that’s how the category got the fame of ‘ah those people thinking about thin air and expressing themselves without making people understand’ WHICH IS NOT TRUE THAT’S NOT WHAT PHILOSOPHY IS ABOUT

when I say the fucker had no clue, I mean that literally he wrote this essay in the thirties then twenty years later he writes a letter to someone else about it and says ‘I RE-READ IT AND I THOUGHT I PUT A BIT TOO MUCH MEAT ON THE FIRE’ translation for I DIDN’T UNDERSTAND WHAT THE FUCK I WAS WRITING

which also adds up with the fact that the moment you actually understand something and dig in deeper in his bullshit you find out IT ACTUALLY MAKES NO FUCKING SENSE/DOESN’T HOLD UP AND I HATE IT

I shall now give you TWO examples of that before I move on to the stuff that also made him a literal piece of shit under all senses

now, the essay above was a complete fucking lsd trip about how you could understand the essence of the world THROUGH ART which was a complete mess but like at some point he goes around ranting about this van gogh painting with two farmer’s shoes. heidegger is all there like SO SINCE THESE SHOES BELONG TO THE FARMER/HIS LANDLADY WHO ALSO WAS A *FARMER* YOU CAN SEE THE DIRECT LINE TO THE EARTH and a whole load of other bullshit that hinged on THE SHOES BELONGING TO A FARMER/A POOR PERSON right, so yours truly goes like ‘hey you know what I’m just gonna go read up on that painting so I can bullshit the exam if needed’, I go look that shit up and THE FIRST THING WIKIPEDIA SAID WAS THAT THE SHOES BELONGED TO VAN GOGH AND ANY CRAP ART HISTORIAN AT THEIR BEGINNING OF CAREER WILL KNOW THAT so why??? why??? that makes your entire dumb point FALL DOWN, WHY?????

other essay: heidegger decides to teach us all that THROUGH POETRY YOU CAN SEE WHAT LANGUAGE IS MADE OF, which you say okay fine, he’s gonna use more than one poet to prove his point, right? NO, he goes for german poet friederich hölderlin and nO ONE ELSE, and like you could already argue that if you’re discussing LANGUAGE using *one* poet just from your mother tongue is kind of stupid but nvm that, in the middle of the usual nonsense he goes like OH BECAUSE SINCE HIS POETRY WAS THAT GOOD/DEEP/WHATEVER HE COULD SEE THE TRUTH OF LANGUAGE™ THROUGH IT AND THAT MADE HIM GO INSANE, except that if you know anything about the dude’s life it’s pretty obvious that okay he had a bad mental breakdown at some point but the signs started being seen after his sweetheart died so like......... THAT WAS NOT ABOUT THE POETRY™ IT WAS ABOUT THE FACT THAT THIS POOR GUY ALREADY WAS MOST LIKELY SCHIZOPHRENIC AND THE GIRL’S DEATH MADE IT WORSE like it’s not a mystery so why

and that is just TWO things you can possibly grasp but like being and time is all like that about I’M EXPLAINING YOU THE MEANING OF EXISTENCE and honestly fuck that noise

now you’ll say okay that looks like this dude conned half of the world into thinking he was good but what’s the rest of it bc your vehement hatred of him can’t just be that

WELL POINT IS THE DUDE WAS A DAMN CERTIFIED NAZIST™ WHO WAS ALSO A HYPOCRITE TO  BOOT AND I HATE HIS ASS TO DEATH

now we can start with the fact that he was a pupil of other important philosopher™ edmund husserl of whose work I’m not a fan but who personally I have nothing against, now this dude already planned to leave him his position but WAIT HE WAS JEWISH, what happens when hitler comes to power? he gets laid off ofc and heidegger SAYS NOTHING AND TAKES HIS PLACE AND REMOVED THE DEDICATION TO HIS FORMER MENTOR FROM THE 1941 EDITION OF BEING AND TIME and basically he never said or did shit against the regime and imvho it’s obvious reading his works that he... bought into it, but wait more on that later

on top of that the fact that he was supporting the regime/not doing anything against it and having affairs with his students two of which had jewish ancestry/were jewish JUST FUCKING IRKS ME because while I’m not gonna bitch about the affairs since he and his wife most likely had some... agreement bc his second son was from her lover not his but he recognized him anyway and he had affairs all around I suppose that was fine, but WHAT THE FUCK YOU’RE A PROFESSOR AND YOU FUCK YOUR STUDENTS? IDC THAT HALF OF ACADEMIA DOES IT YOU’RE STILL A PIG ffs

ANYWAY like the thing is that since everyone thinks he’s A GODDAMNED GENIUS (my ass) EVERYONE HAS CONSEQUENTLY IGNORED THAT HE SUPPORTED THE GODDAMNED REGIME EVEN IF JUST AFTER THE WAR HE WAS SIDE-EYED FOR THAT never mind that in some goddamne other essay from the 50s he compared concentration camps to industrialized agriculture and ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS, and like NO ONE ACTUALLY SAYS HEY YOU NEED TO STUDY THIS ASSHOLE BC HE’S IMPORTANT FOR CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY BUT KEEP IN MIND THE NAZISM IS STRONG which would be honest naaaaah most people in academia used to pretend he just collaborated and the likes -

until someone published his private diaries a few years ago when it was obvious he was supporting the regime and suddenly 80% of academia was like:

BECAUSE OF COURSE HOW COULD SUCH A GENIUS HAVE AGREED WITH HITLER WELL he did fuck off

and you’ll say okay but why does it piss you off so much? IT DOES BECAUSE THEN I HAD TO SIT THROUGH LECTURES OF PEOPLE BITCHING ABOUT ANCIENT GREEK PHILOSOPHERS BEING MISOGYNISTS WHEN IT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THEIR THEORIES AND I WOULDN’T HAVE PRESUMED AN ANCIENT GREEK DUDE WOULD KNOW BETTER while I’d presume someone in nazi germany with a brain functioning would have known better and could have known better, but NO WE’RE IGNORING THAT BECAUSE WE CAN’T ADMIT THAT OUR PRECIOUS GENIUS WHO ALSO IS IMVHO NOT WAS A GODDAMNED HITLER SUPPORTER

AND I HATE THE WHOLE HYPOCRISY OF IT like please I don’t mind studying people’s work when I hate their ideology but I hate people pretending it wasn’t like that just because it would make the dude look bad yeah guess what idc also because 99% of what he said was bullshit anyway

tldr: the asshole was an unrepentant nazi supporter who didn’t really change that much after the war, 90% of his writings is incomprehensible and what’s comprehensible is basically ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME and on top of that he’s the reason why all contemporary philosophers can’t talk in understandable terms by the layman if you pay them to AND why everyone thinks we’re a bunch of stuck-up fucks who spend their time thinking about nothing and I really fucking hate that asshole’s guts and if there was ONE overrated person in the history of philosophy it was this piece of shit and that’s 100% of the reasons why I avoid contemporary philosophers like the plague if I can afford it :)

thanks this was my ted talk I hope you enjoyed it ;) ;)

[laceymorganwrites]

Hot lead singer

Word Count: 1,506

Pairing: kinda Kid x fem!reader

Warnings: cursing, Symptoms of anxiety, alcohol abuse, sadness

Summary: Kid is fed up with the band life, but starts to have a crush on a certain someone who is Always at his shows

Kid sat on an uncomfortable couch backstage, spreading his legs and resting his elbows on his knees. He had his hands folded and his head laid in them. He groaned. Fuck was he sick of this. Of his bandmates, their fans, their stupid fucking manager, everything. It was too much, the success, it made him feel more machine than human and he´d be destroyed if he didn´t deliver. But who did he even deliver to? Nobody cared about his music, not one soul on the planet. The worst thing were the fans, those hypocrites, singing along at his shows and not knowing what the words meant. Nobody understood, nobody got him. And that frustrated him, greatly. Why did he even care? He just felt so empty and numb, it made him sick to the stomach. He wanted so badly to feel, anything at all. Kid sighed and stood up sluggishly only to stretch his arms and throw his head back. Then he proceeded to walk up the few stairs until he reached the stage. He could already hear the crowd´s screams and feel the vibrations of their voices as he made his way into his position. He grabbed the mic, the lights went on, blinding him and then he sang. Every time he did, time went still. The only thing he remembered afterwards was him getting off stage and then driving to some club to get drunk and laid. The club his band and him were in tonight was pretty decent actually and Kid went straight to the bar to order anything which would make him feel alive.

After a few drinks however he got sick of the people clinging to him and decided to go home.

Sleep didn´t come to him however, so he took out his sketchbook and drew a bit, he painted the blurry crowd he saw every night, the only face he drew clearly was yours, he painted you in a red atmosphere, you always stood out to him somehow.

You were a fan of his music and Kid saw you singing his words back at him with passion every night and it made him flash you a crooked smile, it made him happy.

It was weird being happy, honestly, he never was before, he just barely got by.

And now some stranger he never even talked to was occupying his mind, clouding the rest of his thoughts.

Kid needed some outlet for his thoughts and emotions, he always did, ever since he was a child. Back then he just excelled in utter violence, beating people up was all he needed, call it revenge,

what the hell did he care.

Over time however he accustomed to writing down whatever was on his mind, be it lyrics or that stupid diary he told himself he´d never write into. Now there were already seven of those.

He needed to be busy, otherwise his mind would take over and make him feel actively shitty.

Of course he hated himself, he was self-aware after all, his subconscious always made him feel like complete crap, but he didn´t need to actively think about that, because if he did it would stop him from being of any use whatsoever.

Whenever he was in an active state of self hatred and awareness, he was numb, the agonizing screams of his victims and all the insults he got, got louder than gunfire, he saw the faces of those he brought misery clearly, he saw their shaking disappointed heads and tears.

And then he saw you, smiling at him.

At this point he found himself in complete silence and back in his home.

Those were the times he came up with new lyrics and melodies, practicing and trying new things all night, switching from piano to drums to bass to guitar.

The piano and the guitar were reserved for songs about you, Kid wrote a lot of those recently but never had the guts to share them with anyone, not even with Killer.

It was silly, he didn´t even know you.

And yet he felt a weird connection to you, your face was the only clear and genuine one he made out ever night. Kid didn´t know what it was about you, but somehow he felt like you were the only one who gave a shit about him. Not even his music or lyrics per say, but him as a person. Which was weird since you were complete strangers. But still, it was a comforting thought.

In a world full of people who hated him and let him know, full of people who feared him and therefore ignored him, people who wanted to please him and were afraid of getting on his bad side. He got so mad because of all the people who looked at him with disgust.

Kid didn´t know why but the next time they played a show, backstage before they went on, he had a word with the band.

“Um, guys… I need to talk to you about something. So, I´ve been a fucking asshole lately, I mean I always am but you know what I mean. And I wanted you to know why. I don´t know if you´ve noticed, but there´s this girl at every one of our shows, she´s not a groupie, she´s just kind of there. Fuck that sounds stupid. But she always sings along and looks so happy and it´s really cute. Eh, anyway. I just wanted you to know that in case you were wondering why I was so distant lately, it´s because of her, cause I´ve been sketching and writing about her” Kid awkwardly rambled on, watching the amused faces of his bandmates. He felt his cheeks flush in embarrassment as they started laughing.

“You mean (Y/N)?” Killer asked, making Kid look confused.

“Is that her name? And how do you know that?” he asked, nothing came to his mind that would make sense.

“Well, she talked to us at the bar a while ago, complimenting us. She´s really sweet, she likes you, you know?” Killer commented.

He would never forget you, usually the only ones who talked to them were the groupies who just wanted to get laid, but you were different.

You actually really liked their music and the way they played, making you very liked among the members. You would have long and meaningful and fun conversations with them and they really liked that.

In those conversations you let it slip multiple times that you thought Kid was cute and the others would always joke that he´d kill you if you told him that. And not only did you find him cute, you also loved his lyrics and found him incredibly hot.

The band members promised you not to tell Kid, but oh well, if he was too dense to notice it himself. It was his fault that he missed you anyway.

“You´re fucking shitting me...” Kid exclaimed as Killer told him how and that they knew you.

Before the argument could commence though, it was time for the show.

And again, there you were, singing his words back to him. And again his heart started racing and he could feel the adrenaline pumping like you transmitted it directly to him.

He couldn´t help but smile like an idiot, jumping around stage like a fucking madman, his sweaty hair got in his face, but he didn´t care. On the one hand he never wanted this moment to end, he felt way too good seeing you, but on the other hand he wanted to talk to and get off this stage as soon as possible.

After they were done, he ignored all the groupies and hurried to get backstage and to pack away the equipment.

To his surprise you were there with the rest of the band, laughing with them as you also helped get the instruments ready.

“So you finally get to meet our lead singer” Killer smirked, nudging your shoulder. You weren´t prepared for this situation, so you could only imagine how bright red your face must´ve been right now.

“Um...hi...it´s nice to meet you” you quickly grinned at him, reaching out your hand for a greeting.

Kid still was in shock of seeing you so suddenly, looking at you in confusion.

“Eh, sorry, that was weird. Who the fuck does handshakes with bands?” you giggled in your nervousness after Kid didn´t react.

“Anyway. You´re amazing, your lyrics are just great and I swear the front row gets pregnant every time you do this...” you impersonated his moves on stages in your awkwardness, making him laugh out loud. It was flattering, really. But only from someone as cute as you.

“And, oh fuck how could I forget the way you play guitar? Fucking amazing! And your hair looks so fluffy, I just…. you´re amazing, okay?” you told him, almost out of breath from your rambling.

Kid just chuckled, looking over at Killer with the biggest fucking smile on his face.

“Can we keep her?” he asked cockily.

[sun-summoning]

@serafina-constantine​ -- re tinder au:  Aww I was hoping to get team sasuke’s reactions to them finally getting together 💖

ok here you go. everyone (not just team sasuke) is answering the same question: how do you feel about sasuke and sakura getting together?

i. karin and suigetsu

“wait, so why are we doing this?”

behind his video camera, naruto scowls at his cousin. his instructions were very simple and very clear and yet karin still needed to be a pain in the ass.

“because naruto wants to use this footage when sasuke marries sakura,” suigetsu replies instead.

“what the hell?” karin frowns. “is he...is sasuke going to propose to her? they’ve been dating for, like, five months!”

“the heart knows what it wants, karin.”

“the heart is illogical and--”

“sasuke isn’t going to propose!” naruto interrupts. “why would he do that?”

karin laughs. “the real question is why would sakura even accept?”

“true love?”

“tch.”

“anyway--” naruto clears his throat and nods to his camera. “answer my question.”

“answer mine!” karin snaps back. “tell the truth.” her smile turns devious. “are you actually going to try using this as retroactive footage at a wedding they’d have ten years from now? are you planning that far ahead? you loser.”

“of course not!” naruto denies. “and you’re definitely not giving me ideas!”

“what if you’re not his best man?”

“obviously i’d be his best man.”

“but he has a brother.”

“sasuke and itachi don’t have the same relationship that we do--you know what? just answer my question!”

finally, karin just sighs and looks at suigetsu. they both actually face the camera, now wearing looks of contemplation.

suigetsu goes first: “i didn’t really think he’d succeed.”

“really?”

“yeah, he’s so awkward, you know?”

“he is,” karin agrees with a wince.

“also, i assumed she’d just slap him? or get a restraining order?” suigetsu scratches his head. “i don’t know man--the whole thing was just a bit...weird. ya know?”

“but it was true love,” naruto says.

“maybe to sasuke. but maybe to a sensible girl that was just creepy.”

“maybe you’re wrong.”

“do you want my opinion or not?!”

karin shoves suigetsu and sends naruto a glare to stop him from fighting for sasuke’s honour as a stalker.

-

ii. hinata

hinata’s hands, previously stuffed into her pockets if naruto recalled correctly, were currently in front of her. she was in the process of trying to dislocate her fingers or something as she took quick nervous breaths.

“um.” naruto smiles at her and she turns red. “we can just, like, not do this if you’d prefer?”

“i--it’s okay!” she replies. “how do i feel about sasuke getting together with the girl he liked?” she grins, but it’s shaky and so clearly uncomfortable. “i’m glad.”

“that’s it?”

she blinks. “were you...expecting more?”

naruto grunts a goodbye and goes off to find someone shadier.

-

iii. shikamaru

shikamaru actually laughs in naruto’s face.

when he settles down, he shakes his head. “naruto, you wildly overestimate how much i care about sasuke’s love life.”

-

iv. juugo

“sasuke’s dating our bio tutor?” juugo scratches his head. “aw man! do you think she gives him a discount?”

“you make her sound like a prostitute, juugo.”

-

v. itachi and mikoto

naruto manages to get reactions from sasuke’s brother and mother when they find each other outside sasuke’s graduation ceremony. he’s off somewhere with fugaku taking photos of him like the proud father he is. and, if naruto saw correctly, sakura even stopped by briefly to leave a nice dusty rose mark on sasuke’s cheek.

“i’m pleased that he found his way to his tinder girl,” itachi tells naruto. “sakura makes sasuke very happy.”

“tinder?” mikoto echoes. “is that a game?”

itachi, the biggest whore naruto’s ever met, smiles softly. “something like that, mother.”

naruto makes a face of disgust. “have you met sakura yet, mrs. sasuke’s mom?”

mikoto raises an eyebrow at them. “naruto, i met sakura before all of you.”

“you did?”

“the work ethic in that girl is astounding. and she’s positively brilliant. she’s worked with some of the best researchers in our field--”

“this is boring,” naruto interrupts. he lowers his camera. “are you taking us out for dinner to celebrate that sasuke actually succeeded?”

mikoto shakes her head fondly. naruto’s been part of their family since he met naruto in primary school, so of course he’s invited.

-

vi. ino

“look at this bullshit.”

ino holds up her phone to show naruto sakura’s instagram page. among photos of various landscapes and meals and selfies, naruto notices a few with sasuke. quite a few with sasuke.

“aww.” he enlarges one of them and coos at the image of sakura smiling in a field of sunflowers with sasuke standing beside her looking as constipated as ever. “they’re so cute!”

“i know right!” but ino’s grin soon morphs into a scowl. “but he’s always around!”

“i mean he mostly just sits there on his phone looking at neko atsume. he’s actually really forgettable.”

“can i live?!” ino snaps. then she stops, her jaw dropping and her eyes widening. “fuck my life,” she whispers. “i’ve been spending so much time with sasuke through his stalking and then when sakura actually deigned to date him that i’m...picking up his habits.”

naruto pats her on the shoulder. “remember when we were younger and i used to say ‘believe it’ a lot?”

“yeah, i wanted to rip your tongue out.”

“okay, rude.”

“it was annoying--”

“let me get to the point!” naruto clears his throat. “anyway, one time sasuke said it too and it was basically the highlight of my adolescence.”

“that’s sad.”

“don’t be a bitch because you’re turning into sasuke.”

“i guess he’s alright,” ino concedes as she looks at her nails. “he’s a total loser and he’s so awkward, but...” she shrugs. “he makes sakura smile.”

-

vii. neji and tenten

“to be clear, we were never on this ‘team sasuke’ or whatever insipid name you’ve chosen as of two minutes ago.” neji hyuuga takes a sip of his tea for good measure. “but, i suppose, sasuke is an acceptable choice.”

beside him, tenten wears a tense smile. “what neji means to say is that we’re happy for them.”

naruto nods, uncomfortable in the presence of sakura’s friends. they were never really part of the tinder-turned-stalking phase of sasusaku beyond their comments on sakura’s instagram (to naruto’s knowledge, at least).

“are you though?”

neji opens his mouth to reply, but immediately grunts, and judging by the way he’s wincing, naruto can only imagine tenten attacked him under the tale.

“yes,” neji replies curtly. “so, so happy.”

-

viii. sakura

“how do i feel about sasuke and i getting together?” sakura echos, staring at him as though he’s the one who’s weird. “he makes me--” sakura shrugs. she looks down. “i’m happy?”

“why do you sound unsure?”

“i’m not unsure. i’m just uncomfortable.” she gestures to his phone. “you’re literally recording this.”

“i’m--” 

technically, footage of sakura wouldn’t be totally necessary to have in whatever video he might make ten years from now when sasusaku get married. sure, sakura saying how she’s super in love with sasuke (or whatever) would actually be a pretty cool ending to that potential video, ino had a pretty good line he could use there. 

sighing, naruto turns off his camera and puts his phone down the table. 

sakura nods in approval. “for the record, i know how the whole story went.”

“oh?”

“yes, from the tinder swiping to itachi’s little bet to him being afraid that i’m the type of girl who says i’m not like most girls.”

“yeah, he was scared of that.” naruto clears his throat. “also, i don’t know what you’re talking about.”

sakura rolls her eyes. 

“wait, so you know about all the stalking?”

she winces. “i hate that word.”

“sorry? i’m not the one who invented language though?”

“let’s go with recon.”

naruto waves a hand. “fine. so you know about all the recon?”

she nods and takes a sip of her drink. “sasuke told me. i think he figured it’d be better to tell me himself than let anyone else tell me instead.”

“controlling the narrative. smart boy.”

“hm?”

“nothing. scandal. anyway--” he taps his chin. “how come you aren’t, well, upset?”

that makes sakura laugh. she throws her head back and when the giggles peter down, the grin she wears is downright devious. “because then i’d be a hypocrite.” she winks at him. “do you really think i didn’t do my own research on sasuke when i finally got more information about him at ino’s party?” she leans in closer. “or that after we actually started dating, i didn’t do my research on his friends and family, naruto?”

naruto fights down a shudder. “what. the hell.”

“social media is a terrifying thing.”

-

ix. sasuke and naruto

naruto has already burrowed himself on the other side of sasuke’s bed, too scared to sleep on his own after a full day of reading creepy stories on r/nosleep. 

“i’m going to die.”

“you’re being an idiot.”

“no, i think there’s a ghost girl who’s going to come for me!”

sasuke makes the usual show of demanding naruto leave, but naruto just swaddles himself even more until sasuke goes to retrieve another blanket for himself. he throws that on the bed and laughs a little when it hits naruto.

naruto watches as sasuke goes about his evening routine from plugging in his phone to watering the succulent on his desk to putting it on his window sill so it can watch the sunrise. when he settles on the bed, he takes his phone back out like a classic millennial and opens his chat with sakura.

“i’m right here,” naruto tells him.

“but if i ignore you hard enough, you might disappear.”

“your life would be the worst without me.”

“it’d definitely be quieter.”

“and more boring!” naruto pokes him. “you should be more grateful, asshole. i’m the one who helped you find your tinder girl.”

“tch, no you didn’t.”

“you whored me out!”

“you would have whored yourself out either way.”

“you take that back!”

sasuke easily ignores him to message his ~*~girlfriend~*~. naruto wants to be insulted, but he can’t really blame sasuke. sasuke has always been terrible -- terrible -- at building and maintaining relationships. the fact that he now has a girlfriend who thinks he’s slightly more than passable as a human being is a wonderful thing. 

when sasuke finally turns off the screen of his phone, the room goes dark. naruto presses his head against sasuke’s shoulder partly because he’s feeling affectionate but mostly because he’s scared of the dark after all those creepy stories on reddit. 

he ignores the way his best friend grunts. “hey sasuke?”

“hm?”

naruto pauses. they don’t do mushy, but naruto wants to tell him, “i’m really happy that you found sakura.”

“oh.” he hears sasuke shift as he nods. “me too.”

“she’s a good match for you. and she’s...nice. she really likes you.”

“yeah.” sasuke clears his throat. “i. um. i really like her too.”

“good.”

“naruto?”

“hm?”

“thank you,” while normal people might go in for a hug in this moment, sasuke shoves naruto back to the other side of the bed, “for helping me find sakura.”

“of course.” he’ll always have sasuke’s back, and he knows sasuke will always have his. 

naruto grins up at the darkened ceiling, unafraid of the potential of ghost girls looming down on him -- not with his best friend by his side. 

[eldunea]

god ok i haven’t even started anakin’s blog yet but i already have his entire pokéverse thought out here i go

ORIGINS.

anakin was born in my fakémon region of preuzien to an enslaved old prussian (prūsai) family. in real life the old prussians were exterminated but in the pokémon world they were made the slaves of the junker ruling class. when the allies came into germany after wwii they tried to put a stop to this but unfortunately were not entirely successful.

as in canon, he has no biological human father, he’s like……the universe’s kid or something, it’s where he gets his insane powers from. in this verse he is also definitely a chosen one, but don’t take that to mean he isn’t a douche because he still totally is

like in canon he was a racer, but he didn’t race pods he raced dragons. his master knew he could make big bucks off him from an early age due to his abilities so according to prussian custom he was put on a dragon before he could learn to walk and learned how to ride that way. 

he speaks three languages: german, prūsiskai (the old prussian language) and english. his inability to speak japanese has been a weakness of his that he wants to improve on, and so he is studying that as well.

his first pokémon was a racing noivern that he named majjis, which is old prussian for “corn.” she loves her name and he didn’t even change it after he went vader, it was real fucking obvious which one of “team sith” would go back to the light side when all the other admins named their pokémon stuff like “void devourer” and “bone crusher” and here was darth vader with his ace named fucking. corn. he is currently 36 and starting from like age 10 he never lost a single race while riding corn until he was finally defeated by his son luke.

also like in canon, he won his freedom in a race but was unable to free his mother. much like lotor at the age of 12, anakin had the sense to get the fuck out of preuzien, but unlike lotor, nothing pressing dragged him back. he went to make a name for himself as a trainer and racer around the world, and also became the world’s strongest psychic.

he did go back to prussia briefly to rescue his mom. by that point shmi had been brutally beaten for refusing to give sexual favors to her master, and died in anakin’s arms. enraged, he slaughtered the entire family that had enslaved him.

DESCENT AND REDEMPTION.

as in canon, he was tormented by prophetic dreams of his lover padmé amidala dying and was corrupted by sheev palpatine to join the sith order (colloquially referred to as “team sith”), a criminal organization in orre that stole some of team snagem’s shadow-turning techniques and aimed to do it on a grander scale. palpatine’s goal was to build something known as the shadow star, a weapon so powerful that when aimed at a planet, it could turn all beings shadow, even arceus. the sith order would then use shadow control techniques to rule the world. but one thing that palpatine was also obsessed with was the search for immortality, which is how he baited anakin into joining him--by promising he could save the one he loved.

when anakin became darth vader, he allowed palpatine to turn him into a SHADOW HUMAN, just like all the other team sith admins. this means that much like a shadow pokémon, the door to his heart was sealed and much of his original personality was subsumed into just. this roiling inner turmoil of anger and violence. formally, nobody knew that star trainer and dragon racer anakin skywalker was actually underground crime lord darth vader, but they could all tell that something was really, really wrong because he started becoming colder and more withdrawn to his fans that he had formerly loved. 

nobody guessed that he had become a shadow, however, because they all attributed his change in personality to the cybernetic enhancements he had been given. by this point he had lost half his head and three of his limbs in battle, and so they were replaced with prosthetics and his artificial brain was enhanced with programming for metagross supercomputers. metagross are known for being assholes who think more like machines than living beings, so it was easy for his adoring fans to believe that anakin’s change of personality was no fault of his own.

he was purified by his children, luke and leia. they were battling rivals who later discovered that they were twins and figured out who their father was. meeting them, he felt human again for the first time when he was around them…then they told him they wanted to defeat the evil darth vader and darth sidious and restore balance to orre, and he was just. well this is awkward.

his first instinct was to just kill his children but something held him back. so instead of killing them, he accompanied them on pointless missions that would ultimately lead them nowhere near close to defeating him and sidious--just to keep them distracted. little did he know, the more he fought alongside them and spent time with them, the more his heart gauge was emptied and the closer he became to purification.

much like a shadow pokémon, the more he was purified, the more his body and brain resisted it. finally the temptation to stay shadow became too strong, at which point he told his kids he was vader, locked them up, and turned them over to sidious to dispose of them. they managed to escape, however, after which there was a double battle of luke and leia vs. vader and sidious. the twins found themselves quickly overwhelmed, and sidious was about to kill them--when the sight of the two children about to die in front of them instantly emptied the remainder of anakin’s heart gauge. finally feeling real love again for the first time in years, anakin killed his master and saved his twins. luke and leia then took him to a purification chamber to be fully restored.

CURRENT STATUS.

anakin has returned to preuzien to become one of its strategic gym leaders. his gym’s theme is sky battles, which are fought only by pokémon that can stay airborne such as flying-types and those with the ability to levitate. though this may seem to be restrictive, anakin can still fight with a diverse mixture of pokémon.

he’s actually a league member in two regions: preuzien, aka german prussia, and prutenia, the newly-instated old prussian nation. essentially he’s a diplomat but in many ways he’s the wrong choice because……darth vader, have you fucking met him? however, lotor deliberately chose someone who was angry and undiplomatic to fulfill this role because he wanted to make it very clear to the german prussians that the rights and sovereignty of the prūsai are completely non-negotiable and there is a guy in the prutenian league who will happily beat the shit out of anyone who says otherwise.

he and lotor have a very strained relationship. on one hand anakin has healed a lot since he left the sith, and he is very concerned because he sees lotor going down the same path as he did. but on the other hand he still has a long way to go yet acts like he’s 100% redeemed when he lectures lotor, and lotor sees right through this…then when lotor calls anakin out on the fact he still has issues, anakin gets all pissy. also, anakin correctly suspects that lotor is using him as an ally for his “chosen one” status, inviting him to the league and giving him a second chance in spite of him being vader because he wants to get on the legendaries’ good side by treating their chosen one well. basically them being colleagues is an Angry Bastard Disaster that they need a lot of sorting through if they are ever going to be on truly good terms.

one time anakin straight up “force choked” lotor using his psychic powers in a fit of rage. lotor taunted him by choking out the words “vader…you haven’t changed.” this could easily have led to lotor’s death, as anakin was highly emotionally charged, but instead of snapping his neck psychically at that moment he dropped him to the floor and left the room. a sign of hope in their relationship perhaps?

honestly he’s? still a fucking mess??? like just because he left the sith doesn’t mean his issues are over. he’s still angry over his mother’s death and over padmé’s death, and now he’s angry that he let palpatine manipulate him and suffers from crippling guilt that he nearly killed his two kids. not to mention psychologically he’s part machine now so he has forgotten how to be human in some ways, and it’s in this way that he still hasn’t stopped being vader.

he doesn’t feel love for anyone except his twins, majjis, and padmé. he feels small likings toward other people and pokémon and he is trying to turn that into something deeper, but he’s still extremely stunted.

he gets terribly impatient with humans when they’re not as precise or as exacting as he is. in the og movies darth vader hated anything that he perceived to be incompetence, and anakin is the same way…except now that he’s part metagross, his standard of “competence” is so far above anything humans can do that he inevitably gets irritated and lashes out at people just for being human.

he’s lost all interest in “the little things.” he doesn’t appreciate the warmth of a sunny day or the coolness of a soft breeze or seeing a pretty looking bug on the sidewalk or anything like that, the only thing he is fixated on 24/7 is sharpening his intellect. he’s kind of like sabrina in that way.

MISC.

this would be his battle theme, full stop.

he has an aegislash variant that is basically a lightsaber: the hilt is metal but the blade is pure energy. 

he is an overprotective dad and in that way he’s kind of a hypocrite, because of how he was once the biggest threat to his kids before he reformed. he gets rEAL FUCKING ANGRY when leia starts dating han solo, saying he’s just a street rat from orre and he’ll eventually stab her in the back and she’s like do i need to remind you of how you almost killed us?

he doesn’t need to hold out his hand to force choke someone bc that’s not how psychic powers in pokéverse work, he just does it because he’s a dramatic little bitch

he eventually has five grandchildren, all of which he gets overprotective toward. on luke’s side: ben skywalker. on leia’s side: jaina, jacen, anakin and ren solo. and if you thought him disliking han solo was bad, you should see his reaction when ren starts dating palpatine’s granddaughter rey…he just tENSES any time he’s around her saying i sense a great potential for evil in her and his kids are like oh really, well we’ve been sensing that in YOU ever since we met you and we don’t judge, so………damn i hate canon reylo but i mean it could work in an AU where kylo ren was never evil

[j-exclamationmark-l]

I'm so frustrated.

I thought my days of being stalked were over. I'm approaching the end of my 20s, I dress mostly in men's clothing nowadays, I'm confrontational and cruel and have erased any softness from my personality.

How many stalkers have I had now? There was the asshole in college who assaulted me, when everyone told me it was my fault for "playing hard to get." I should have reported him. My biggest regret in life is not reporting him to the police. I was in my own dorm, minding my own business. No matter what I was wearing, I wasn't asking for it because I never thought it would happen. Fuck everyone who told me I deserved it. Fuck everyone who told me not to go to the police.

There was that asshole's friend, the one who first stalked me on facebook. I'd block him and he'd create a new profile to harass me, telling me he was suicidal and he dropped out of college because of me (because I didn't ask him out? God knows he didn't even ask me). He told me his therapist thought I was a monster for shoving everyone away - not that it matters, he's human scum, but i pushed everyone away after i was assaulted by the first asshole. I had pages of accounts by him that I'd blocked.

Then there was the old man. I think I've talked about him here before. He was so fucking creepy. He moved into the apartment above mine, and no one was willing to help, not the police, not Leopalace, the company that owned the apartment.

I fell in love, once. I'm ace (possibly aro?), I've never had a proper family, and I'm rarely shown kindness, so it was hard for me to recognize. It took me a long time to figure out. Years. He was my best friend. He disappeared, almost two years ago now. I still dream of him. My subconscious just can't let him go.

I began asking around. Have you seen him, have you heard from him. My close group of friends (our close group of friends) had no idea where he went. He told me once we were his best friends - a huge relief, I didn't want my feelings of "best friend" to be one-sided. He always took such good care of me. But still, no one had heard from him. Our messages weren't even marked as "read."

So I became desperate. I know if he wants to be left alone, that's his business, but I dream about him all the time, and I worry. What if he needs us? I know I had a tendency to be cold, what if he mistook my coldness as genuinely not caring about him? I remember the time we got curry together, just the two of us, and they brought out our rice in heart shapes and I was so embarrassed that I began smashing it. It wasn't him. I didn't hate him. I'm just allergic to emotion.

So I rebooted facebook and began messaging anyone I could think of, just to see if he was still alive. I get that if this was someone I met yesterday, it's okay to ghost them, but not someone you've known for nearly eight years. I had no idea he was unhappy with us. I wanted to know why. I know he doesn't owe me closure but I crave it. I just wanted to know that he's still alive. If at all possible, I'd have liked to know what I did to upset him. But I know he doesn't owe me that.

It's like taking out a spirit board. I was so desperate for closure that I was willing to summon the devil (in this case, the devil being facebook).

What answered me was not anything I meant to summon. An acquaintance from high school, not even a friend, not anyone who knew my missing friend, not anyone I reached out to, not even someone on my official friends list on facebook.

I thought telling him I was in Japan would deter him. I'm sorry if this is sexist, but I know there's only one reason for someone like him to contact me. I experienced hell in America. I'm not prepared to move back there for this idiot. I only answered once every other day, never twice in the same day.

So he began calling me. I didn't know that was possible on the hellsite that is Facebook. He woke me up, he called me while I was at work.

Why? We weren't even friends!

I tried to feel out if he was depressed or needed help - even that, I know, is too much, because we're not friends and that's not my job. I'm sick of people telling me about their suicidal thoughts. I'm sick of having to be others' crutch to lean on. But he just kept asking mundane questions and making stupid remarks about the job that I've honestly grown to love (especially now that that bitch Kristie is gone).

Maybe he did need help. I did hear one source of confirmation from all the friends I consulted, that calling someone like me (a stranger in another country) isn't normal. I still can't get over the audacity he had.

So I had to burn my spirit board (delete my facebook for the final time). I just… I still can't get over it. In America, no one valued me. I was never considered pretty, just "Asian." I would have killed to know anyone considered me pretty back then. To my teachers, I didn't even have a name. Except for my Korean AP English teacher, everyone just called me "the Chinese kid." Only one teacher knew my name, and I messaged her last year to say thank you. No one even cares to know how I'm doing. They just take and take and take and chip away at my sanity.

Now I don't care about "pretty" or "not pretty." Even if people consider me attractive, it only leads to trouble. Even over New Year, I had issues with a friend who couldn't grasp that I'm just not interested in sex. Saying "it doesn't have to mean anything" doesn't even make it better, it makes it worse.

Maybe I'm being hypocritical, wanting to be cared about yet pushing everyone away. But this last contact, I don't even feel cared about. There's no way he actually cared about me, he never knew me. Waking me up with goddamn phone calls is unacceptable.

Maybe I'm being hypocritical, because I think about my friend who disappeared every goddamn day.

Went out drinking Thursday with friends. Finally had the guts to ask a mundane question about him, a question that doesn't change anything ("the last time you heard from him, which account was it from? The one with his name or the one he named after me?" "The one he named after you."), and immediately vomited afterward. I could still feel the acid in my throat Friday, burning my esophagus and my nose. I couldn't sing at all yesterday.

I went home and cried. Nothing new happened so it doesn't make a lot of sense.

Why - how can so many people harass me and try to contact me, yet the one I want is, for all intents and purposes, dead?

I mean, hes not dead.

I know where he is. I know that he is still alive. But somehow it's less painful to imagine him as dead.

I've had a headache all day today and skipped out on orchestra rehearsal. I've taken handfuls of ibuprofen but my headache won't go away. I've drunk cup after cup of tea (both caffeine and non-caffeine type), had lots of water, and it still won't go away. My vision is blurry and my head is pounding. I actually passed out at my desk earlier, in too much pain to even make it to my bed, which touches my desk.

Maybe I'm just sick.