#of all the things they coulda done

[cyathol]

rambling

I don't HATE ATSV for what they did with Miguel, honestly and tbh considering of how much Miguel's personality is "fluctuating" inbetween runs which means there's not really a sturdy base to work with... most of the choices they went with with him I can get behind pretty well, HOWEVER, it stops at him "restraining himself from snapping the arm of a 15 year-old" who wants to save his dad

I'm new to Marvel comics as a whole, read -most- of Miguel's runs myself just a few months ago (y'know silly brain-worms had to get the maximum amount of serotonin possible) but this version of Miguel O'Hara is just starting to feel really really wrong. It just feels so off, especially considering he's a shocking FATHER. Beating up Miles AND sending Gwen back to her universe, back to her father that Miguel last saw pointing a gun at his daughter just seems so- y'know.

To me, at least, what made Miguel interesting for a big part is his moral compass. Always trying to save everybody, heck, even the villains. His constant struggle to make everything work, his viewpoint and understanding of the world. Only few things were kept consistent throughout all the different runs but his moral compass stayed (not talking about Secret Wars 2099 Miguel, he should go to jail for his fashion sense alone lol) but that just feels erased. Similar to his struggle to break free of Alchemax and their control, Miguel creating his own organization which *enforces* control just seems wild to me. I guess it plays into the "becoming what you swore to destroy" trope but here it just feels wrong.

Yeah lol, I just hope they manage to redeem him properly in Beyond but until then I'll just make up for the damage they did with this sacred power otherwise known as headcanoning byeeeee🏃‍♂️

[mrsthunderkin]

I'm working on a lil somethin somethin

But SHIT why'd it have to have so many SKELETON PARTS IN IT

HECK

[yanoharuhito]

[simptasia]

i'm getting my cervix poked today and not in the fun way. nevertheless it must be done, and i highly recommend cervical screenings to anybody that procedure applies to. early detection is so so important when it comes to cancer, my mum would still be alive if they found it in stage one, so i implore you not to ignore your body

[queers4years]

Indigenous Hawaiians really had a good system going: wake up reaaally early and do most of the days work while it's cool and by the time the sun was up and it got hot the work was done and you're free to surf and socialize. I wish the white people realized they themselves could work smarter and not harder and get time to relax. Instead of calling Hawaiians lazy (and being genocidal about it)

[warmcoals]

weird to think of yr life as over at 30 but theres a recession coming up and im fully without career and the fascists are solidifying their victory in my shitass country and the world and the seasons are fucked forever so idk whenever i look up from the goofy toybox im rooting around in joyfully i realize im just sort of in the last throes of something and there just isnt much throeing left to do now

[todayisafridaynight]

Okay okay okay last diversion before I get to Love is a Flower and The Mole Song Final and The First Penguin... Thinking about this middle-aged lady whipping out her phone to film Aoki's stabbing... you will always be famous to me

OK RIGHT I remember rewatching Y7s ending for Some Reason and when I caught this I choked

[confetti-critter]

@dragonpixies they're messy (I never clean up around the nails, I just hope it comes off in the shower or when I'm sleeping cuz I'm lazy lol) but here they are!

^ that's all the colours I used in order

[kindacreepy-kindaugly]

I guess it feels so comfortable cause it reminds me of the way things were at their best

[chocolatespyro]

Uh I still think Cabby is cool. Im just tired i think

[deadlittledogs]

What are your plans for your birthday?

bro what am I supposed to do, you all know I don’t have a life and spend all my time being alone and weird in my bedroom 😭 what do you want to hear me say? That I’ll be spending my birthday by myself in my room playing with hot wheels?? WELL JOKES ON YOU CUZ I MIGHT GO TO A GOODWILL……. TAKE THAT ANON….. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME 🧁

[firebirdsdaughter]

Okay I can’t not say something…

… I dunno what’s going on in Geats. I’m not watching it. Sounds like my man Michianga is getting some shit which sucks, when will Takahashi treat the purple guys right???

I say, not even sure I’m spelling his name right.

But I genuinely cannot believe people are still trying to come for Horobi on this.

So let’s clear some things up.

1) Horobi was absolutely set up. Probably wasn’t the Ark’s plan from the start exactly, but she knowingly made him dependent on her and psychologically abused and manipulated him for years. Disconnected from her, Horobi was unstable and trying to grapple w/ trying to think for himself. He was heavily traumatised and easily manipulated, making him the perfect patsy. All she had to do was poke Izu’s blind devotion to Aruto a bit and have her use her usual brand of insensitive, socially unaware ‘help.’ That situation was absolutely orchestrated.

2) Is two things. Izu could easily have dodged that shot and choose not to, and Horobi had no reason to think she had no backup (which was ridiculous to begin w/). He’d made it very clearly he considered backups to be a form of immortality for ai, and we have no clue how he would have reacted if she dodged bc she choose not to. Obviously Horobi ‘shouldn’t’ have resorted to violence to ‘end’ that interaction, but he was not in a mental place where he could make that distinction. It’s all he’s ever known, it’s predominately the only way anyone has ever treated him. He was panicked and she was harassing him. He was desperate to end the interaction in anyway possible, and he’d already tried walking away. But there is no way he ‘knew’ he was ‘killing’ her (and, well… He didn’t). He actually seems genuinely shaken that she just took the hit, being unable to respond to Jin’s question (which he always has before). He wasn’t planning on ‘killing’ her at all, he just needed her to stop. She also choose to go in there in the first place. That’s like… Not to compare any of these characters to dogs in that way, but that’s like a domesticated Pomeranian walking into a playpen w/ a recently ‘rescued’ wolf that’s been abused and used in fighting rings and trying to play and being shocked it got bitten.

3) There were so many people who could have done something. Jin, who’s been so ready to take hits for people he barely knows before, just stands there. There were plenty of humans around! Fuwa and Yua, who started this whole damn thing, were nowhere to be seen, and Fuwa had an opportunity to stop the fighting and fucked it up. Like I absolutely believe there’s a correlation between Fuwa shooting Horobi for asking him that question and Horobi shooting at Izu to get her to stop provoking him. Aruto himself is more busy trying to force the HumaGear outside to go back to how he thinks they should be then dealing w/ the actual root of the situation. If he actually cared as much as he claims, maybe he’d realise how much suffering Horobi is going through and actually try to address the situation, rather than leaving it to his secretary who is in no way capable of doing so?

Basically, the fact of the matter is that this was not Horobi killing Izu in cold blood, it was more equivalent to a wounded animal trying to defend itself. She choose to go in there, back him into a corner, and choose not to back off when she saw he was becoming agitated. She choose not to dodge. He fired back in an attempt to end the interaction, bc she was doing more harm than help. Ultimately, I’m not trying to pin this on her, either, although I have Issues w/ how she was portrayed. Izu was never going to be able to help Horobi there bc she just could not understand what he was going through. In her mind, devotion to Aruto makes everything right, Aruto is the absolute best thing ever. And that’t not her fault, that was how she was made, and he inadvertently groomed her into that. But let’s not get me started on Aruto. The fact of the matter is that this was literally everyone’s fault. Well, it’s Gai and the Ark’s fault (bc the Ark is Gai’s fault), but if Horobi and even Izu herself had done nothing different but someone else present actually used their common sense for five seconds, this would never have happened.

Literally, this is saying that a traumatised, abused child soldier lashing out bc they feel backed into a corner and scared out of their minds is deliberately aggressive. Horobi was protecting himself the only way he knew how, Izu was (unintentionally, like she meant well but meaning well does not equate to doing well) harassing and provoking him and randomly decided not to dodge for some inconceivable reason, and everyone else decided that clearly, the sheltered ai w/ limited world experience and knowledge was obviously the right person to deal w/ the traumatised, abused, unstable one.

Also Fuwa and Yua started it and Fuwa had a chance to stop the fighting and fucked it up. An in character fuck up, maybe, but a fuck up. Aruto was more bothered w/ getting his free labour back than helping the traumatised child soldier. Jin randomly decides to be useless.

Edit: bc I realise I forgot them, Naki and Ikazuchi aren’t even there, they just show up to talk shit later like what the fuck guys maybe actually make and effort before you start badmouthing your supposed family member who you know has been horribly abused and mind controlled all his life.

GAI AND THE ARK.

Aaaaand… I’m not talking about after bc I think I’ve ruffled enough feathers.

Basically, while the situation in Geats does sound much more straightforward, I will not stand for people depicting Horobi as some knowingly malicious killer when he was very clearly not in a space where he could or knew how to make those calls. The man had only just gotten disconnected from the Ark, he was just learning how to make decisions. He didn’t ‘choose’ to ‘kill’ Izu, he acted on an instinct to protect himself out of fear and then he himself did not understand his actions.

[the-punforgiven]

God the Mirrah Chain Mail/Creighton's Chainmail is such a good armor piece I miss it so much in Elden Ring

[emeraldguard-the]

my favorite thing about Hunter being everyone’s favorite is that you could literally erase him from the narrative and nothing would change

[kariachi]

Things that will never fail to aggravate me: That despite giving us a villain with literal toothy maws in his palms Ben 10 refused to actually do anything with that concept or expand on the trait at all and instead tossed it aside after his premiere episode.

[castorochiaro]

CHIBI MAUI CHIBI MAUI CHIBI MAUI