#i shouldn't judge though

[andy-clutterbuck]

The Ones Who Live | 1x03 - Bye

[fictionadventurer]

Maybe the problem with Christian fiction is that it's non-denominational. People are just "Christian", with no effort put into showing what practicing that religion looks like for them specifically. No indication that there are other Christians who could have different beliefs. No wrestling with differing ideas and the struggle of how one should live out their Christian faith. And that makes it unrealistic and unrelatable.

[thecruellestmonth]

Jason's feelings about Sheila Haywood

Batman #427 (1988)

"God, it must have been hard for you."

"...I'll save you... Mom..."

Batman: Gotham Knights #44 (2003)

"...I love..."

Batman #428 (1988)

"He threw... himself... in front... of me... in front of me... He took... the main brunt... of the blast... Such a... good boy... Must have... really... loved his... mother..."

Deadman: Dead Again #2 (2001)

JASON: "It's weird--she betrayed me to the Joker. Got us both blown up--but I'm not mad at her. It wasn't really her fault--her whole life was screwed up. Things just... happened. [...] You gotta tell me--is she going to make it?"

DEADMAN: "She's fading pretty fast, kid--"

JASON: "No, I mean-- her soul. What's going to happen to her... afterward?"

DEADMAN: "That's not for me to decide."

SHEILA: "Jason tried to rescue me... We almost... made it... So close... He turned out to be such a good kid..."

JASON: "Thanks, Mom..."

Batman Annual 25 (2006)

He remembered most of what happened. The search for his mother. Her betrayal. Joker. And his own murder.

Task Force Z #8 (2022)

"I died trying to save someone I cared about."

[outism-had-a-purpose]

Ahab at the N Corp company mandated girl's night out

[noirandchocolate]

A judge just called me because she's working on the opinion for a case I did the research memo on. And she asked me. If I could heavily edit what she'd written because. She's read my memos before as well as this one and finds my writing excellent. And because. Her presiding judge told her to rely on me. Because he's done so in the past and I am 'brilliant' apparently. And also because. Other judges she's worked with have raved about me. And she knows they have copy-pasted my work to make their opinions. And she doesn't want to do that, because she's new to the job and wants to improve her own writing style before she starts using shortcuts. But she hopes I will help her out. With that.

Because my writing is just so good and she wishes she could write like me.

=')

My heart is so full of niceness now.

[aaslwooo]

Favorite outfit

Favorite hairstyle

Favorite weapon

[snow-and-saltea]

yesterday i spent 45 minutes of my life watching a video essay criticising the use of cheap shock values and crossing of taboos for a video game and i went from "he has a point even if he's explaining it in a really inflammatory way" to "oh umm... i can see how he thinks that way even if i don't agree" to "oh this guy's just straight up using people on tumblr as material for an audience to get mad at like other outdated people on the internet. nvm he's just an asshole"

[3amclothesmonster]

Vent(?) TW: Mentions of WW||

How someone I knew expected me to react to them calling me a Nazi after only saying I'm German:

[bookishtheaterlover7]

For someone Regina claims to hate so much she sure talks about him a lot…

🤭 Exactly!

I have a friend, who does talk about him, and some people might see that in the wrong way, but it's really more of tough love. And feeling the anger of every stupid step that's taken in this shitshow.

The way the Wicked Witch is acting, is definitely not it. She should have left the Fandom a while ago. Or instead started to talk about the show she named her page after, maybe some other Fandom she's part of. With the weird ass ships the she ships, but who am I to judge THAT? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[itwoodbeprefect]

once in a while i encounter a tumblr post that mentions in passing that writing your fic immediately into the ao3 posting window is an actual thing some fic writers do, and every time i shudder. the world is full of very brave people doing very scary things

[strawberry-sorbet]

Went to a concert tonight and the girl in front of me was writing My Hero Academia fanfiction on her phone between sets. The commitment of fic writers truly knows no bounds.

[phantasticlizzy]

If you're happy about more than 1400 Israeli people being murdered brutally, most of them civilians, then unfollow me please.

[purpleshadow-star]

The "I love you" problem

Mike's main problem in S4 is that he can't say "I love you" to El, but why is that a problem in the first place?

Stranger Things uses the show don't tell technique exceptionally well, so why would they change that for their main pairing?

Lucas and Max have never said they love each other on screen, but there is no doubt that they do. We see it in S2 when Max opens up to Lucas. We see it in S3 when they playfully banter with each other. We see it even when they take sides in the Mike and El debacle, they still go right back to being comfortable and having fun with the skittles at the hospital. We see it when they make fun of Dustin together when helping the Byers move out. We see it in S4 when Lucas invites Max to his game, then expresses his concern about her and her wellbeing, despite being broken up. We see it when Max listens to Lucas's game on the radio, despite rejecting his ticket to go see it in person and seeming like she didn't care about it. We see it when Lucas rejects Max's letter and instead insists that he's there for her, right then. We see it when Lucas doesn't leave Max's side after she almost gets taken by Vecna the first time. We see it in the Creel house, them planning their movie date, Lucas's agony when Max dies, the way he moves her body out of the way of the gate, the way he stays by her side when she's in the hospital.

Joyce and Hopper have shown their love too, wothout ever saying it. We see it when Hopper is always Joyce's first call when something is wrong, we see it in S2 when Hopper is right there to support Joyce and Will at each appointment, we see it in S3 when Hopper goes to Joyce for companionship and to complain about Mike, we see it in S4 when Joyce goes to Russia to save Hopper without a second thought, we see it when Hopper endures torture to protect Joyce, we see it when Hopper does what he can to ensure Joyce's safety when she gets to Russia.

Nancy and Jonathan have also shown their love. We see it in S2 when Jonathan tells Nancy that Steve asked him to take her home after the Halloween party because Jonathan was willing to give up his chance with Nancy as long as Nancy was happy, we see it when Nancy leaves Mike behind in Steve's care to go support Jonathan when they had to burn the Mind Flayer out of Will, we see it in S3 when Jonathan risks his only source of income to help Nancy pursue her story, we see it when Nancy talks about secretly keeping Jonathan in Hawkins when it was time for the Byers to move, we see it in S4 when Jonathan and Nancy are both able to list multiple qualities about the other that they love, we see it when Jonathan risks his relationship with Nancy in order to ensure that Nancy can follow her dream.

We are shown the love of many pairings, multiple times, so why are Mike and El different?

Clearly, El doesn't feel loved anymore, which is important. In S2, Mike called her everyday until the Mind Flayer appeared. At the beginning of S3, they spent all of their time together, but only a few episodes in, it was clear that their relationship wasn't built on companionship and trust like Jopper's, or honesty like Lumax's. Their breakup was the beginning of the end.

El breaks up with Mike for lying to her, and although they make up at the end, their relationship isn't the same. Before S4, Mike says he loves El once on screen, and El isn't even in the room. El later tells Mike that she loves him, but he doesn't say it back.

Then, in S4, after months of El writing "love" and not getting it in return from Mike, El expresses that she doesn't feel loved anymore.

But, that's okay, right? Because we've heard Mike say it before, nevermind the fact that he pretended to not remember saying it, so that must mean he does love El, right? After all, Mike isn't the best at showing his emotions to most people, so it's not totally unrealistic that he wouldn't say "I love you" very often. He doesn't even need to say the words, he just needs to say "of course I do" (or something along the lines of that). But... but he doesn't say that. He says "who said that I didn't" and "I say it" (which we know is a lie) and "you're being ridiculous" and "you know what I think of you." But, clearly El doesn't know, since she expressed the fact that she thinks Mike doesn't love her.

This, in and of itself, is a major difference from all of the other cannon pairings. With everyone else, they know their partner loves them because they've shown them that they love them. With El and Mike, El clearly doesn't feel like Mike has shown her that he loves her. In fact, she feel the opposite. She feels like he has shown her that he's scared of her and that he thinks she's a monster.

We've only seen the "I love you" problem one other time, back in S2 with Steve and Nancy. Nancy didn't love Steve, and in the end, she couldn't say it to him. She is able to express her love for Jonathan later on, so clearly she doesn't have a problem expressing her feelings because of the way she was raised.

This parallel between Mike and Nancy and Steve and El is too obvious to be an accident.

In the end, Mike is able to say "I love you" to El, but he surrounds it with lies and half truths, and instead of it being a freeing experience, the vines keeping El trapped only tighten when he says he loves her.

He says a lot of stuff, but we only see one memory, and this memory is framed in a lie.

We are shown a lie and we are told, by Mike, that it is the truth.

The show don't tell method showed us the tightening vines throughout the monologue. It did not show us Mike's love for El.

[coccinellaseptempunctata]

okay pt 2 time

[bybdolan]

Swifties are always annoying, so I agree with you (I said this as a die hard Taylor fan, but I'm so over swifties complaining about everything and being embarrassing)

i just feel like we have reached a point where some Swifties are complaining about Taylor, other Swifties are complaining about the perception of her (I wonder how much these two actually overlap in a weird way) and it just :/ takes the casualness out of being a fan? Like it is supposed to be a fun hobby I feel and sometimes I can't help but wonder if this way of being a fan is. Fun? That said, I obviously understand the desire to protect your idol from criticism you deem unwarranted, but I personally kind of draw the line when this defense comes from a place of "you should know everything about Taylor all the time and take all the intricacies of her life and career into account before making a judgement" when it comes to things like her fashion or vocal ability (it's warranted when people take a stab at her art or her character imo), because not everybody is a diehard fan and I generally don't like any kind of fan behavior that veers into "name 10 Nirvana songs before wearing their shirt!" territory. Sometimes people just dislike something because of their tastes or knowledge on a topic and not because of a bias against Taylor.

[cangrellesteponme]

me, talking about my art in my resume: i. am such a passionate illustrator. so many projects. skills i've worked on my entire life. hm. yes. very serious about my craft.

me, taking about my art in real life: bro i drew such a juicy thigh i'm so close to throwing everything away to become an nsfw artist no joke bro it's all about the vision but let me just learn how to draw some huge--