Shockingly underrated thing about Leo is that he’s legitimately charming when he wants to be?
He’s the Faceman! He’s persuasive! That’s not just some random title he gave himself with no backing to it. People will listen to him. Even if they think he’s being annoying or if they’re upset at him, people listen to him anyway! There’s a reason his bros push him out front to talk to people, and when this happens, that talking nearly always works.
Moreover, Leo knows people. He looks at them and takes into account how they act and what they’re like as he makes his way through the conversations. It’s easy to forget this aspect of Leo’s character because he only brings it out when he really needs (read: wants) to, but it really is a notable part of him that always love to see.
And I say charm in particular because he has a knack for not only getting people to pay attention, but for getting people to stay and listen to what he has to say.
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being normal about thistle and the touden siblings in the most insane way because imagine you're a sad out of touch hopelessly devoted little magician whose family has been actively pushing for you to see this path of self-destruction that they set you on to its fatal end and being confronted with that sends you tumbling down a doom spiral to hell from which there is no escape but then suddenly from out of nowhere two brainless randos bust into your house and offer the first real acts of kindness and gentle touch and validation of your personhood you've received in at least a few decades if not centuries if not your whole life (for want of which you Did All This Shit in the first place), and unlike the other dickheads breaking into your house all they care about is Being Nice To You For Free and deep frying your security cameras and tbh you wouldn't know how to react to this on a good day whatever that looks like so you just go along and eat their funny snacks and tie them both to a pole like puppies you picked up off the side of the road and then with all that said and done you immediately die
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Guy who totally isn’t failing to process hir emotions about starting grad school tomorrow and not knowing if it’s the right choice: i hauve to fix hazbin hotel
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OK I keep seeing these "Sassy keeps finding Ted when he's sad, she's a bad person for wanting to fuck him when he's down in the dumps"
And truly, are all the people reblogging this under 20? Because there's this weird infantilization of Ted going on, like he's some high schooler getting seduced by the teacher's assistant or something.
Ted is a middle-aged man going through some tough times. He is not being preyed on, he is not being harmed. He, like pretty much every allosexual man on the planet, enjoys sex; he specifically enjoys sex with Sassy.
Sassy is not some conniving bitch who's exploiting or otherwise hurting Ted. She, like pretty much every allosexual woman on the planet, enjoys sex; she specifically enjoys sex with Ted.
Please for the love of fucking god knock it off with this "She should leave Ted alone!" Ted does not want Sassy to "leave him alone," as evidenced by Ted telling Sassy something that he possibly hasn't even told Rebecca yet. True, it's clear he doesn't want a romantic relationship with her, but that feeling is mutual, and they are still GOOD FRIENDS WHO LIKE AND TRUST EACH OTHER. There is nothing unhealthy or unethical about their relationship; just because they fuck doesn't mean they owe or expect anything more — or less — than friendship.
This show has been very careful to make its relatively few female characters into whole, interesting, and mostly good people (with the possible exception of Jane, who is clearly written as an excuse for Phoebe Walsh and Brendan Hunt to improv their scenes together and go hog wild). Disliking some of them is fine, everyone's got different tastes. But making up an entire sinister reason for Sassy to want to fuck Ted other than "he's cute, he's sweet and he's hung like a horse" is weird. (Aside from which, what... exactly is Sassy's nefarious plan, here? Having a satisfying orgasm or three?)
Plus, the puritanical thread through this is creepy as fuck. Casual sex is not unhealthy! One-night stands are a fine way to live your life! Fucking your friend is not inherently manipulative or wrong! Because I tell you what, if I had a friend like Sassy (or Ted!) who offered to fuck me when I was down in the dumps? I would buy them a little award that said "BEST PAL EVER" or something.
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“See, whenever I pass the ball to you…
…it means that I trust you. You get it?
Partnerships like that are a rare thing.
Don’t take it for granted.” -Cheng Xiaoshi
(Season 1 Ep 3//Season 2 Ep 12)
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"it's just russian miku" this, "you're overreacting" that, "it's unfair towards regular russian artists, they are not responsible for the war" bullshit.
You know what's unfair? What our artists are killed by russia, and you are still promoting russian ones, and verbally attack or harras Ukrainians who display dissatisfaction with it. It's unfair that after more than 300 years of russian imperialism, of them explicitly and implicitly oppressing Ukrainian culture and artists, of them appropriating anything of Ukraine that did become famous on the world stage, of two genocides, one a hundred years ago, another ongoing, of them destroying our cultural heritage, of them imprisoning or killing our artists -
You still side with them, and have the guts to ask - well, what's the harm in russian Miku? What's the harm in this young russian artist? And what Ukrainian artists, it's not like they ever created anything I recognise? Unlike the great russian culture.
You ask, why shouldn't I uplift an innocent russian artist? Why should I empathize with Ukrainians? I dunno, man. You can go fuck yourself for all I care. I have no hope for you or the world we live in. I can explain over and over again that giving visibility to a russian artist= giving them money= giving money to russian gov = russian gov makes rockets and kills Ukrainian artists. Or occupies a village, a town, a city, and if you somehow survive, you won't be able to be, or become, a Ukrainian artist anymore. Do you think it's fair? Do you think it's fair when Ukrainian artists are killed and art is physically destroyed and if something is saved by chance it will be stolen? 'that's war' then why do you not apply the same logic, that it's war, it's genocide, when we simply ask not to promote russian artists? Why are we in the wrong here, when we don't ask even for a decimal part of what we experience - we ask not to uphold a culture of oppression and imperialism? It's not about Miku, man. It's about the general situation.
And the general situation is, russians are killing us, and you help them.
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I am going to be very real and raw and honest and brave etc etc but like. people who respond to horrible accusations coming out about a popular/well liked figure with some variation of “I can’t believe people actually liked them I always knew there was something off” are exactly as annoying and parasocially obsessed as the people who refuse to believe things because “omg no they would never do that.”
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