#misinterpretation my beloved

[callmeizukunotdeku]

"You're lying," Damian said. 

And honestly, Tim had to laugh, "I don't know why you think I am. I asked to keep a cat, Alfred said no, and that was that."

"But that..." Damian furrowed his brow. Tim's voice was taking on a different tenor than usual. Something a bit more strained. "He let me have a cat."

"Yeah," Tim said, cringing when his voice cracked on the word, before trying to play it off with a casual shrug, "you're his son."

And Damian was fooled for a moment. He had his mouth half open to reply that he was the blood son. He was different. Superior. 

But he paused upon the fact that Tim hadn't just made that point for him, he'd given him an example. 

The cat. 

Tim had wanted one and been refused. Damian had wanted one and had been obliged. 

He had wanted a dragon and been obliged. 

But Tim couldn't have a cat, and Damian, whenever he asserted his superiority, had thought he was lying. 

He was lying in a way. They were the same. Tim was a well-respected associate of his father, but... 

You're his son. 

But that didn't mean as much as Damian assumed it did. 

Damian assessed his options before doing something he usually avoided. He swallowed his pride, looked at Tim, and said, "I...don't fully understand what your place is here."

Tim gave him a smile filled with enough sympathy to make something ugly roll in Damian's gut. "Me neither, kid. Me neither."

[drykoolaid]

Merry chismas/ happy holidays ☺️☺️☺️ ✨🎄🎅🦌💗❤️‍🔥🍠👰‍♀️

She’s trying her best <3 (click 4 bettr quality)

Anyways, happy crhistsmans guysss

I have a bunch of wintery ahh wips that I wanna try and get out this week (that I prob won’t be able to)

Holy shit I need to sleep

If this post gets 30 likes I’ll make them kiss

Don’t play wit me

[solo-walker]

Mark. I have so many thoughts about Mark. A boy growing up with an alcoholic for a father (he still hasn't stopped. Perhaps he can't, thinks Mark. Or won't). He turns to the local priest, seeking solace, but finds more jibes. More ridicule. More reminders of the fateful day when he failed to stop his father from getting behind the steering wheel. It's his fault, isn't it? Who cares if he was seven, he was already holding the tattered household together, he should've been more forceful, should've scolded and fought and gently guided his reeling father back inside should've done more but he didn't. He couldn't. He failed them and all he had to show for it was a coffin and his father's racous voice calling his name and a scar he swore he'd never let anybody touch because he'd be damned if he let anybody ignore him the way his father had when he'd spoken up, asking him, pleading him, to get out of the car. He'd be damned if he ever let anybody make him feel that powerless and small ever again.

Mark is such a great character and such a great example of how one's childhood affects one's behaviour as an adult. I love how you can see the traces and effects of the incidents of his childhood and his upbringing in his behaviour in the play. I love how you can see him try to deal with his problems but in all the wrong ways. Because he needs to hear an apology. He just needs his father to own up and say “i'm sorry”, to say, “it wasn't your fault, it was mine”.

But he ends up seeking this sense of closure through Clarissa.

[helpmeimblorboing]

I’m starting to pick up on the fact that a lot of you may be clinically stupid

[that0nebird]

I feel like people rarely talk about how Yoosung WAS being gaslit about Rika’s death when he knew something was wrong and everyone consistently said he was paranoid when he WASN’T. He was never allowed the chance to properly grieve and air out his (correct) issues with V and the shit surrounding Rika’s “death” until MC joins the RFA.

[violent138]

It is such a pleasure to have mutuals that post/reblog different fandoms, because once a post about Perry came on my dash and I went, "Perry White did what now? He's trained as a spy?" and it was about Perry the Platypus and awesome.

[awestruck-atrophy]

cartoony blood flat color kayne malevolent

[lover-of-skellies]

Fic idea: you, the reader. The YN. The MC. Whatever you wanna be called. You are very sad and lonely, and you have the social skills of a chicken nugget

You stay up too late, going through countless different internet rabbit holes, and you find a page that's about summoning demons. Incubi and succubi, to be more specific. The page says they can take the form of whatever/whoever you find the most appealing, so you decide to summon one. Just for the meme, really, and because you're desperate for a friend

When the lovely demonic being finally shows up, they're several hours late and extremely chatty. You can smash if you want, but like. 99% of the story is just showing how you very awkwardly figure out this new friendship with a creature who doesn't really fully comprehend human boundaries and things. They know how to reach you, and you told them to come back whenever they want, and now they won't leave

You're stuck with an incubus/succubus that's chatty and forgetful, probably clumsy and down to smash whenever, but for the most part, they just wanna eat canned fruit and watch cat videos with you

[eye-of-elias]

Thinking about how balls to the walls insane it is in hindsight that the vitriolic hatred tma fandom had for og elias while the final season was releasing really all stemmed from a single maladjusted friendgroup that eventually ended up imploding

[outlying-hyppocrate]

ignore the fact this was written in notepad. btw. also ignore some of the unnessecary yapping its important for the oc lore making trust.

and heres the playlist,,, :3

THIS FUCKS SO SEVERELY THANK YOU. ALSO THE PLAYLIST GOES SO HARD. AND I ENJOY SADOMASOCHISM IN A WAY THAT IS SO NORMAL SO I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS. ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

[justanothermineblr]

Something somethings herobrines behavior of stripping leaves comes from the alpha-days, where leaves didnt decay & the tunnels are signs from him where to mine to find ores & the stalking was just him being shy.

[gooberdraws]

Just watched Matrix Reloaded and forgot how much I am OBSESSED with that fight scene on the freeway. First off, everyone’s outfits are so cunty I love it. Second, the techno music fucking slays like I can’t ✋. Third, it’s such an insane fight sequence I literally start foaming at the mouth y’all. Please if yall have never watched the original 3 movies, PLEASE tune in it’s absolutely worth the watch. The fight sequences are absurd but glorious, the outfits are serving, and in general it’s an excellent sci-fi franchise.

Matrix my beloved trilogy (we don’t talk about the 4th movie) that was completely misinterpreted by certain groups of people 🫶

[spacedlexi]

me trying to stay sane when i see some Fandom Shit that makes me mad

[manofmanymons]

(Possible spoilers!!) Have you ever thought about how maybe one of the reasons why Kaito gets so upset whenever someone claims to "know" what Miu wants/likes is because that's probably what her stalker did? Claim to know her better than herself/her family?

I think about these siblings and their past a lot lol. I'm so curious how their personalities and their relationship must've been like before the incident. Hope you have a good day!

Yes! It seemed like that guy made a lot of claims about what Miu wanted and how she felt that weren't true but that their parents believed anyway. Seeing as Kaito is generally the one who's more hung up on what happened back then (namely that he didn't notice sooner and stop it), it makes sense that that would be why he overreacts to anything that even slightly reminds him of it. If the last time someone tried to tell him they know what she wants, they were trying to manipulate him into letting them hurt her, he wouldn't exactly be keen on letting anyone else get away with it, even if their intentions are innocent.

On that note, hot take but I think that whole situation is also the reason he gets Weird™️about Takuma asking about what he loves about Miu. Cuz understandably I feel like most people's initial reaction to him saying he's not into his sister seemingly unprovoked is "hey what the fuck?" But like,,,in the context of everything they've been through, I can see how being asked if there's some reason he cares about her so much would read like an accusation to him. Like he was being compared to that guy. I mean, it kinda was a weird question to begin with--why would he need a reason to care about his sister?

Slightly unrelated tangent but I personally always found it weird that the other characters acted like it was weird that he worried about her so much. Like bro that's his baby sister. She's 2 apples tall. Even without the tragic backstory any half-decent brother would be worried alkkfdjak.

Anyways on the note of what they were like in the Before Times, just the other day I was telling one of my friends about how much I love MarineAngemon as a partner for Miu. Bc thinking about how...oh hell I haven't played this game in a MINUTE, I think it was the fake Syakomon(?) that accused her of pretending to like things she hates and hate things she likes + how she loved how cute the amusement park mons were + the way Kaito talks about her I feel like he's not actually being totally delulu about how cute she is. I feel like she probably did act a lot more cutesy but stopped because of Certain Life Events. So having her mega be something very small and very cute but still very strong is Neat, I think. Like she got a piece of her real self back and isn't so afraid of it anymore.

I'm also pretty positive that Kaito's always been a doting loser alfdkja. Like,,,his response to Minoru being worried about him letting Miu boss him around was just "hey how long do you think I've been doing this big brother thing for" lmao. Literally 0 backbone on that boy. As long as it isn't dangerous, Miu gets whatever Miu wants ToT And Miu saying he used to always pat her head wtf why are they so cute.

ALSO I NOTICED THEY BOTH REFER TO TAKING DOWN THE MASTER AS GOING AFTER THE "FINAL BOSS" SO YOU CANNOT TELL ME THEY DIDN'T PLAY A LOT OF VIDEO GAMES TOGETHER. NERDS WHO BOTH USE VIDEO GAME TERMINOLOGY IRL I LOVE THEM.

Anyways thanks for giving me an excuse to talk about Miu and Kaito again, I miss them dearly every day of my life and think about them constantly.

[anthonycrowley]

i neeeeeeeed to not listen to podcasts about things i know more about than the hosts it’s literally unhealthy

[morethanwonderful]

Back when I was first reading Tai Sui, I remember that when I read "we will meet beyond the bounds," for the first time, I misunderstood what Zhou Ying was talking about. I didn't catch the reference to reuniting beyond the false "bounds" of their world, and I thought "beyond the bounds" was a euphemism for beyond the veil of death. "We'll see each other again in the afterlife," in other words.

It took until Xi Ping thinking about his own interpretation of "beyond the bounds" for me to realize that ZY wasn't necessarily talking about death at all, but simply escape. It was kind of a big "oh shit" moment in the course of my readthrough.

Then, of course, Zhou Ying's quest to get beyond the bounds doesn't reunite him with Xi Ping after all, and Xi Ping makes a bet with Bai Ling in their old age. Who will see Zhou Ying first—Shiyong in the world of humans or Bai Ling in death? And Xi Ping loses that bet.

So now the question of Zhou Ying's meaning is haunting me. Xi Ping thought he meant beyond the bounds of the constrained world they inhabited, but was my first reading actually wrong? Did that gambler Zhou Ying really think he had a chance at seeing Xi Ping again, only to lose his bet? Or did he suspect he might die apart from Xi Ping all along and cloak an insinuation of the afterlife in language his cousin could accept? Or was it both, maybe? Was he accounting for both possibilities and using obscure language on purpose for double-speak? I know he says he "won't die," but does not dying mean seeing his Shiyong again before death?

I'm inclined to think it's something like the last one these days, if only because I think dual meanings and passive self-destruction suit Zhou Ying, but who knows? Every version is perfectly heart-wrenching in its own way.