#is this making sense?

[bluiela]

honestly, gwynriels and elriels would make such a great enemy to lovers' story.

[c0ffinrehearsal]

no bc the thing is….u don’t have to interact with something u don’t like online. it’s free and easy to mind your business and leave ppl alone instead of trying to pull them into an argument just bc no one taught you how to play nice.

it’s like y’all want everyone to only play with blocks bc they’re you’re favorite but some people like cars or dolls instead and like, just find the other people who like playing with blocks and hang out with them instead of telling people they’re stupid for liking something different from what you like.

[fluffypotatey]

dub natsu and sub natsu are 2 different people

[teeny-tiny-revenge]

Thinking about Ed's purgatory coma dream again and I'm getting struck with how some elements of it suggest he's actually distantly aware of some stuff about the real world/his body in the real world?

Like, sure, from a Doylist perspective, Ed enters the dream world by washing up on a beach and he has all the injuries he got during his suicide by mutiny attempt because in the beginning of the episode the audience is supposed to believe the bit where Izzy says they dropped him on a sandbank and let nature do the rest. With that in mind it would be believable that he somehow was washed to shore on some island by the tides (and then things start getting weird and we and Ed realise that it's a dream, while in the parallel plot line it's revealed that Ed is actually on the Revenge and has been there the whole time).

But I'm a fan of Watsonian takes, and so, Ed is conjuring up this dream, and it makes sense with his last memories. There was a storm, he could have been thrown or washed overboard, that makes sense. He is badly injured at first. He passes out again in the dream. Is clearly in pain, can't get up when he comes to the second time. Does he subconsciously feel the real pain from his actual injuries? Is he drifting in and out of consciousness, but can't even stay in a dream at first, because he got hit over the head with a cannon ball and that's probably a whopper of a concussion?

Like, his subconscious hallucinates a "reality" for him that makes sense at first, and then it strays away from this realism, as dreams do. He goes from too weak to get up or resist being fed soup to walking around. Hornigold turns out unkilable.

But when he is asked to make a list of things to live for, the first of them is warmth. Yes, there's probably symbolism there, and warmth is a metaphor for many good things, but also, his near dead body is laid out on a cot (table?) in a dark, slightly flooded storage room. He must be there for hours. He's gonna be freezing! He's injured, he can't move, he's wet, he'll get cold very quickly. And this is a dream and it follows random dream logic in many ways that become increasingly obvious the longer it goes on, but some of the sensations from the real world bleed through. He's hurting. He's cold.

And as soon as Stede pulls the cloth from his face, he's aware he's not alone. He doesn't know who it is or what it is and he's still in the dream world where he's underwater (waiting to drown), but a few things do get through and inform the way the dream goes on. And this time instead of pain and cold translating into the dream, it's the sense that someone's there for him, that he isn't alone, and he starts to hear Stede's voice. Because yes this is all a near death hallucination, but he's not actually dead, he's still there in his body.

[crimsonservbot]

You ever hear that old chestnut about how most people neglect the part of the story of Icarus where he also had to avoid flying too low, lest the spray of the sea soak his feathers and cause him to fall and drown? You ever think about how different the world would be if Icarus died that way instead? If the idiom was to Fly To Close To The Sea? A warning against playing it far too safe, about not stretching your wings and soaring properly? You ever think about how Icarus died because he was happy?

[valtsv]

so last year during a period of intense suicidal depression i made this necklace that i always wear, right, and the thing is it's genuinely brought me a lot of comfort and relief and i've developed a strong sentimental attachment to it, to the point that i can inarguably state that it's had a net positive effect on my mental wellbeing. however i did now just have to stop to almost throw up laughing because i realised that i've succumbed to the amulet.

[macdenlover]

it came to my realization that 99% of my fandom related headaches would be cured if everyone understood this

[oifaaa]

I honestly do just presume everyone in the world has watched naruto I just can't comprehend a person that hasn't witnessed rock Lee take off his training weights or seen naruto sit sadly on a swing 50 times so when I see someone say they've never seen naruto I just don't believe them they have definitely watched naruto it is a universal life step

[sparklebyte]

“here’s what we know about the uhc shooter”

WRONG! He is a suspect and we should treat him as such. He should be treated as innocent until proven guilty, not guilty until proven innocent. He’s a person of interest not the killer. I don’t care what the media or authorities are saying, he’s a human being who deserves a fair trial and deserves to be treated as innocent until proven otherwise.

[courtjestersanonymous]

If a felon is president, every felon needs to be able to vote immediately from this moment forward

[inkskinned]

please i love you i'm begging you bring back suspension of disbelief bring back trusting the audience like. i cannot handle any more dialogue that sounds like a legal document. "hello, i am here to talk to you about the incident from a few minutes ago, because i feel you might be unwell, and i am invested in your personal wellbeing." "thank you, i am unwell because the incident was hurtful to me due to my childhood, which was bad." I CANT!!!!

do you know how many people are mad that authors use "growled" as a word for "said"? it's just poetics! they do not literally mean "growled," it's just a common replacement for "said with force but in a low tone." it's normal! do you hear me!! help me i love you please let me out of here!!!

[petshopbutch]

submissive in the way a livestock guardian dog is submissive to the sheep it kills wolves for

[baobei-bu]

Clan head!Gojo

[transpeterparkcr]

honestly kudos to Elementary for gender swapping John Watson in what we all thought was an attempt to make johnlock palatable to the masses and then proceeding to not only make them entirely platonic but also become the ONLY modern adaptation where i actually feel like them being platonic makes complete sense

[aroaceleovaldez]

one of my favorite subtle implications in the series is that it seems the Titan Army was fully banking on Percy being the host of Kronos. Why else would they make their main base a cruise ship if their primary enemy is a son of Poseidon? Named after Andromeda, the wife of Perseus? Why would they work on Oceanus specifically being free so much? Side notably with other children of Poseidon? Why plant Zeus and Hades' items of power on Percy when Luke already had them? Why only Zeus and Hades' items, not Poseidon's? Well because they really need Percy as Kronos' host, that's why. (and Poseidon siding with them because of that would be a bonus as well)

I like to imagine Luke's cabin on the Princess Andromeda is fully decked out with like "WELCOME PERCY" and sea-themed sheets and everything and he hates it so much cause it's a constant reminder he failed and he was Kronos' second choice. Also then he gets his super special pegasus not even exactly stolen by Percy, but the pegasus willingly defects to be Percy's personal steed instead, which must just be insult to injury. Luke has immense one-sided beef with Percy and Percy has no idea.