#laugh at this ridiculous man with me

[sophiamcdougall]

Oh my God Commissario Ricciardi, you hapless English homosexual trapped in the body of a straight Italian, how are you still prissing your way across Naples, repressing so hard that when yet another hot aristocratic lady is like "would you hold this for a second? It's my underwear" you're like "why far be it from me not to help you with that completely random and totally platonic problem you're having."

[rooolt]

Apollo four teens is honestly the episode of all time. The intro is a banger, they go so hard into the teen marriage, scary is insane, my bestie hero oak is there with all the drama she brings, and of course, Team Stunt Teenz

[moongothic]

A stupid Crocodad related mental image that keeps on haunting me is Crocodile somehow getting to witness a Usual Strawhat Banquet, seeing Luffy eat The Normal Amount of Food Luffy Usually Eats and think to himself "...yeah that adds up"

[une-femme-de-lettres]

Imagine Sharing a bathroom with the boys in the safe house The temperature mentionned is in °C

You have to share a bathroom with the boys of Task Force 141 at your safe house. You have to take turns showering. One night, Ghost’s turn comes after yours.

You’re back in the main room, chilling with the others and suddenly you hear Ghost scream bloody murder in the bathroom. You’re all stunned and alert, waiting to know what’s wrong but you have your idea. Ghost opens the door slightly and shouts through the whole place.

“Who takes 70 bloody fucking degree showers!!?”

“Sorry,” you yell back a little embarrassed but very amused at his outburst, “I like it hot enough to hurt,” you shrug.

He’s just fuming inside the bathroom. “Yeah? I’ll be sure to make it hurt next time, then!” He slams the door and you’re just left a little flustered because, what does he mean he’ll make it hurt? And you suddenly want there to be a next time, just to see where this is going…

[possamble]

realizing im kind of a weirdo about laios and marcille

[viiinz]

everyday I think about him (Ippolit Terentyev)

[danthropologie]

danielricciardo: My family’s in Florida… I’m in New York @colbertlateshow

[monstrsball]

oikawa making a dramatic love declaration in the rain because he's a romantic. suga can't help but laugh but he's blushing too and he invites oikawa into his apartment and shares his umbrella with him for the rest of the walk. and he gives oikawa a towel and some dry clothes. and he still hasn't actually responded to oikawa's confession and oikawa is getting nervous but then suga says that of course he likes him back. and they make plans to go on an actual date soon.

[malikselfindulgence]

Sorry for the uptick in system stuff Im lowkey struggling and need to see system positivity posts or I'll explode

[sapphire-weapon]

My favourite thing ever is the way Ashley gets Leon to smile. Honest to god, his most sincere and genuine smiles are the ones he's given Ashley.

Now if she could just get him to laugh, that would be something completely unprecedented.

Sorry, it just occurred to me literally today that Leon never laughs -- even one time -- at any point in this series. Other protagonists, at the very least, laugh at how stupid a villain's plan is sometimes. Not this guy. Not our Leon. He's too dead inside. Bro doesn't even laugh at OG Salazar, who may as well have circus music playing in the background any time he's on screen. We stan a depressed king.

I was actually thinking about this a little last night -- again, in the context of the whole "Ashley is Leon's anchor to reality/his road back to himself" thing that I've talked about before, while also paired with the shitpost-but-not I made the other day about Leon's sense of self-worth and identity.

Leon drifts further and further away from himself as the series goes on, and not only does he not smile anymore, he becomes downright sullen. There was a time -- a significant period of time, actually -- where you could have said that one of Leon's defining traits was his optimism. That stops being true by the time of Damnation; Leon's optimism is replaced by hollow machismo in a poor attempt at a coping mechanism in that movie -- and, by the time of Vendetta, even the machismo has fallen to the wayside. By the age of 37, Leon has completely and utterly embraced the creeping sense of despair that's been hounding his steps for years.

That has never been who he was. But it's who he is now.

And, as soon as I had that thought, something occurred to me that I somehow had not noticed in the 18 years since RE4 OG has been out:

Ashley is a foil for Ada.

That wasn't her intended purpose when she was created, but it's the narrative role that she's come to inhabit as the series has gone on and Leon's character has progressed without her.

In OG canon, Leon thinks of Ada as a part of himself that he can't let go. But the longer he clings to her, the less of himself he becomes.

And the last person to actually see him as his true self, lifted up from the despair, and without hiding (fully) behind a veneer of machismo was Ashley -- someone he did let go. Even in OG, he is very genuine and very sincere with his affection for her (platonic or not) in a way he really isn't with anyone after RE4.

So, when you point out that his smiles for her are genuine, there's really something to that. He trusts Ashley with a piece of his heart that he doesn't show to anyone else post-RE2. Like, literally, the last person who probably saw him like that was Sherry, and we already know that Leon estranges himself from her almost completely after they're taken into CIA custody following RE2.

And the Remakes make this way more obvious than the OG games did, too -- not only because of the RE engine being great for facial expressions, but because of the way the script changes make certain parts of Leon's character more noticeable. If you go straight from RE2make to RE4make, the entire opening sequence involving the cops and the hunting lodge is absolutely horrifying. If I was a new fan coming in from RE2make to RE4make, I would be knocked on my ass and going "This is not my Leon. This is not the sweet boy that I know. What the fuck happened to him?"

RE4make does such a good job with sharply juxtaposing who Leon was with who he is now. By the time of RE4make, Leon is so beaten down and tired and closed off and angry and, honestly, scared -- that he almost kind of feels like a completely different character. Except, he's not a different character. He's still Leon -- just, Leon with his blinders ripped off and his heart broken.

And, we know that he's still Leon, because every once in a while, the sweet boy that we know comes back. It's infrequent, and it's only for a few moments, but he's still in there. And it always -- every single time -- is only ever Ashley that pulls it out of him.

And Ada? She forces him to retreat again immediately, and he locks himself back up tight.

So, when Ashley gets permanently erased from Leon's life and Ada becomes more of a permanent fixture in it, that sweet boy from RE2 disappears, and he's replaced entirely by the version of Leon that's heartbroken and angry all the time -- because Ada is a constant reminder of all that he's lost, whereas Ashley, as his only true success story, was a hopeful reminder of all that he could potentially be.

I honestly don't think that Capcom even realizes that this is how they've written Leon's character. I don't think it was intentional for Leon's smile to fade with Ashley's absence in his life.

But that's just kind of how it happened.

[twilight-deviant]

TOMORROW!

[meownotgood]

dub aki has unreasonable amounts of sass

[blindmagdalena]

I'm sorry you were having a rough day yesterday, so have this incredibly silly Homelander brainrot: If you're purposefully being a brat/naughty with Homie when he's busy, he will deadass put you in a timeout until he's free to deal with you - such as stranding you on top of a skyscrape or up a tree where you can't get down.

HAHAHAH oh my god, the audacity of him. i can already see him with his hands on his hips, tipping his head forward like, 'are you done bein' a silly goose? because if not, i can put you right back in the pond you fished this attitude out of.'

[apolloamy]

my sister is having an exchange student over and these are the worst days for my dad. unfortunately hearing about these stories is super entertaining to me

[bylertruther]

i just find it endlessly fascinating that when it comes to who and what allegedly ruined the trio's day at rink-o-mania...

eleven tells angela that she ruined her day for humiliating her like that in front of everyone, and

mike tells will that he sabotaged their day by moping, rolling his eyes, and barely saying anything.

.... right after eleven got harassed and humiliated by everyone on tape and ran away crying btw. like, literally right afterward. that all just happened to his girlfriend, the person he allegedly thinks is the most incredible person in the world, and yet the one that's he's blaming, is angry with, and was secretly watching like hawk that whole time is will, because... he wasn't talking to him or cracking so much as a smile at his jokes, which hurts because mike is upset, too, but at least he's still trying and will isn't.

so clearly he's the bad guy here and the reason they're all upset. not angela and her cowardly friends who did something terrible and unwarranted to his girlfriend, but... will. his best friend who he felt like he lost, who was the one thing that made his home feel like home because he's different than all their other friends, whose drawings still adorn his walls, who never reached out despite him still trying and trying and trying to get through to him, and who now doesn't even want to talk to him apparently, but has the nerve to blame him for what happened to them.

that's who ruined their day according to mike.

not angela, but will.

but, like, yeah no that totally tracks, dude. definitely 100% makes heterosexual and totally non-insane sense, michael. you're definitely not proving that you lost focus a long time ago and that you're hurt because you feel like your feelings for him, whatever they may be, aren't reciprocated, nah. will is totally, undoubtedly the weird one at fault here and what happened to eleven was no biggie in comparison nor was it the more pressing matter at the moment. #justnormalguythings 💯. 🤨

[permanentreverie]

genuinely still laughing my head off that i literally went on a date with a man that was 16 years older than me