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just-like-playing-tag · 2 years

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I think Norman considered going to the human world and thoroughly studied the problems there, or at least wanted to keep it as a backup plan. So when he called Emma out and doubted their acceptance in human world, it wasn't a blind fear, he knew how dealing with the humans can be more difficult than killing the demons. But I think he didn't expect to receive help from the Ratris, he doubted his own survival and, of course, he wasn't updated due to the lack of recent books.

I think saying "Norman was wrong for choosing demon genocide" undermines the weight of this decision. It's not like he was doing it because he wanted to play villain. It was simply the only choice he was left with.

Anon are you... Calling me out for something I've said or, I really can't tell 😂😂

Overall, I widely agree. I joke on genocidal Norman a lot, but I do deeply believe Norman wouldn't have gone for the eradication of demons if he thought there was another way- or better, if he allowed himself to believe there was another way. I think a lot of people tend to forget the factor that Norman thought he had a very little time left to live (less than a year), and was willing to do anything during the time he has left to make sure his family was going to be safe; according to the 5th chapter of the fanbook:

Shirai notes that Norman had a short lifespan and couldn't build the world Emma desired without killing the demons. Norman wanted to ensure a safe world for Emma and everyone. Shirai thinks Norman might've chosen a slightly different method if he wasn't running out of time.

(Thank you so much @1000sunnygo for the translation!!!!!!)

At the end of the day, I truly believe Norman is a genuinely good person at heart; the narrative displays pretty neatly how the act of causing the death of demons was killing him inside, and I do think he would have gone for another way if only he believed he had alternatives. You see, I think a lot of criticism towards Norman in the paradise hideout / royal capital arcs is for his will to kill demons, but maybe that's not totally fair: in the end, he never wanted to do it- he just thought he had no choice.

And I mean, that's the part I think people should focus on? That's Norman's real flaw: closing himself into believing there's no other choice. It's such a big piece of Norman's character!! “I've exactly calculated all the alternatives, and there's no other way”. It's exactly what got him shipped in the first arc, and Shirai made it a point to make the reader understand Norman hasn't changed since then.

Norman's approach is *so* different from Emma's, maybe it's one of the things that tells them apart the most. Where Norman thinks there's no other possible way, Emma builds a new way. Which leads us to Norman's other - and probably biggest - flaw: his inability to ask for help. His whole eradication plan was conceived that way because Norman never thought anyone, besides from him and his fellow Lambda death-sentenced, could have a part in it; let alone his most precious friends Emma and Ray. He wouldn't take Emma and Ray's help into finding an alternative solution to eradication. He wouldn't admit he was in chronic pain and on death row, because he was never willing to cry for help. One of the few firm points through tpn development was having Norman asking for help, because that's such big part of his character!!

And I'm so happy he got to!! I'm so happy he got to grow and learn he doesn't have to carry it all alone, and I think we shouldn't forget about that :)

#Writing this hoping Aly changes their mind and adds Norman to their edit compilation PFFFTT #tpn norman #tpn emma #noremma #tpn #the promised neverland #tpn manga spoilers #tpn ch 153 #tpn ch 130 #tpn ch 145 #tpn analysis #mine #Tagging Sunny in this because I know you're always happy to read Norman analysis 😂😂#people asks me stuff

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beatcroc · 1 month

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#pizza tower #bigtop burger #and here i thought my reading into it a bit too much was just me being typically pretentious and overanalytical for funsies. but no #theres legimitately stuff there to look at. god #if there is one surefire way to give me brainworms about something....any capacity of implied lore will do it #pizza towerd doesnt have MUCH but theres enough.#bweeeaaahh #Popular post #your prize for 1k is i made this post explicitly as a psyop to get people asking what pizza tower is

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smeddiemunson · 4 months

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(part 1 here) (part 2 here)

Gareth, in a feat of truly impressive self-restraint, lasted all the way through their band practise before asking.

The four of them packed into Eddie’s van. Gareth had ultimate dibs on the front seat since he’d known Eddie the longest, despite being in different grades.

“So,” he said, breaking the expectant silence. “Steve Harrington?”

Eddie groaned and let his head thunk against the steering wheel, not even flinching when the horn sounded. “Please don’t.”

“Nah, man. It’s all good,” Jeff soothed as he leaned through the gap between the front seats. “We’ve not got a problem with it, but Harrington? Really? Not exactly your type.”

Eddie laughed humourlessly. “You don’t even know the half of it.”

Gareth turned in his seat to share a loaded look with the two sat in the back as Eddie started the van. They were planning to find out the all of it.

“And you guys just don’t have a problem with it?” Eddie asked once they were well on the road to Loch Nora. “I know you don’t exactly have the best memories of him from school.”

Eddie tapped his fingers against the steering wheel in a rhythm that didn’t even match the tape that was playing quietly. He was nervous and Eddie hated being anything other than completely sure of himself.

“You’re right, we don’t have the best memories of him, but the guy saved your life, Eddie,” Gareth reminded him gently.

It was the worst phone call he’d ever received in his life. He couldn’t imagine getting another one like it. Wayne on the other end, breathing shakily as he told Gareth that Eddie was in the hospital, that he wasn’t waking up but that he was going to be okay and that he thought Eddie would really like it if his best friends, his brothers, were there when he woke up.

It had been hard seeing Eddie like that, small, frail and paler than usual, no rings or battle vest, no Eddie. Steve and Wayne had been sat at his bedside, both just staring into the middle distance, when they had filtered into the room. Gareth remembered so vividly the sinking feeling that he felt at the quiet. Eddie hated the quiet, he was never quiet.

And maybe it had been the wrong thing to do, to interrupt Steve and Wayne in such a way, but Gareth knew Eddie. Wayne, for all he tried, never really understood his nephew and Steve was clearly a new development.

So he started talking. He talked about school, about the assignment he was working on, and he talked about the girl that worked behind the counter of Camelot, and he talked about his mom chewing him out for almost crashing her car. Jeff and Grant, who knew exactly what he was doing, picked up the thread when it sounded like he was running out of steam.

He just couldn’t stand to let Eddie exist like that.

Gareth owed him that much. Gareth owed him everything.

Eddie who had stood on lunch tables and made himself the centre of attention, the target, when Gareth couldn’t fight off the tears after getting an F on his history midterm. Eddie who got them their first paying gig as Corroded Coffin and pushed them all to take their music seriously.

He joked about them being his sheep, but he wasn’t exactly wrong.

“Yeah, man,” Grant doubled down. “We can’t hate him anymore. Without him you wouldn’t be here. And you trust him?”

“With my life,” Eddie confirmed with conviction.

“Then that’s good enough for us. It’s all water under the bridge,” Jeff concluded. “Now turn that fucking music up, I don’t want to cry in the back of your shitty van, Ed.”

Eddie cracked the music up with a blubbery laugh and all four of them yelled along with Ozzy for the rest of the drive.

The door to the Harrington house was opened before they even got out of the car. Steve stood there, excitement buzzing around him.

"Ed," Gareth stopped him with a hand on his arm before Eddie could scamper off. "Do they know about you?"

Eddie shook his head. "Only Buckley."

Gareth nodded once and jumped out of the van. He was still too short to climb out normally, and at seventeen, he didn't have much hope for a late growth spurt to help him out with it.

“You been waiting for us all this time, Stevie?” Eddie teased as he slammed his door shut.

Steve laughed, stepping out the door with bare feet on the porch so he could accept Eddie’s hug. He didn’t have a shirt on, pink scars on full display, and short yellow swim shorts on. It was nothing short of a miracle that Eddie still had the brain cells to flirt.

“We could hear you guys coming all the way up the street.” He explained as Eddie let go of him. “Ozzy?”

“Oh for fuck sake,” Jeff muttered from his place at Gareth’s shoulder. “How is Ed not seeing this?”

“He had to do senior year three times, dude.” Grant fired back from Gareth’s other side, but still not loud enough for Eddie or Steve to hear. “Steve could plant one on him right now and he’d still find a way to make it a just friends thing.”

Steve, having finally managed to pull his focus away from Eddie long enough to see his other guests, waved them over. “Come on in guys.”

Gareth made sure to share with Steve what he hoped past for a friendly, macho and athletic half handshake as he passed him to go through the door.

“Thanks again for having us. You really didn’t have to invite us,” Grant said, using the good manners his father taught him.

Steve clapped him on the shoulder. “No way, man. I’ve been trying to get Teddy to bring you guys over for ages. He talks about you all the time.”

“You talk about us, Ed?” Gareth asked with a shit eating grin.

Eddie pushed at his shoulder, sending Gareth stumbling towards the open french doors. “Yeah and I’ll talk about Tammy Thompson if you don’t shut up.”

Jeff and Gareth snickered together. They knew all about Gareth’s benadryl induced dream about Tammy Thompson because when he told them he was still half high on the same benadryl.

Gareth huffed but didn’t say anything. He didn’t doubt that Eddie would follow through with his threat if pushed.

Out in the garden, it seemed that the party was already in full swing. There were scattered cans, Robin and Nancy were giggling together at something, and s portable stereo playing The Cure.

Steve smiled shyly. “We got started without you.”

His voice seemed to draw the attention of the other four people. They all stopped in the middle of their conversations.

“Whoa, dude,” The guy with long hair that Gareth didn’t recognise said to break the silence. “Your cult looks super culty.”

Gareth froze. Jeff and Grant did too.

But Eddie, determined to always surprise them, just laughed. “Not a cult, my man.” He kicked his shoes off by the door (surprising how little care he paid them since he sulked for a week straight when Jeff accidentally scuffed them) and started making his way over to the sun loungers. “This the legendary Corroded Coffin. Gareth, Jeff and Grant.”

He pointed them out each in turn then shucked off his shirt and started working the intricate handcuff clasp of his belt.

Gareth pretended he didn’t hear the strangled noise that came from Steve’s throat.

“And guys, this is Argyle. You know everyone else.”

Gareth waved politely but awkwardly and it was returned by a chorus of ‘hello’s.

Once Eddie had divested himself of his jeans, the black swim shorts he had forced underneath them sitting starkly against his pale skin, he dipped back in his jeans pocket to pull out two perfectly rolled joints.

“I brought party favours!” He waved them in front of Argyle’s face how he would sometimes play with the stray cats that skulked around Forest Hills.

Grant groaned. “Eddie, you know I can’t afford weed right now.”

Eddie scoffed at him. “These’s ones are on the house, Ad-Grant-age. This is a party after all.”

Steve, somehow having forced himself out of the trace that Eddie’s torso had put him in, was the first to start moving. “You guys can change inside if you want. There’s bedrooms upstairs or the bathroom just past the kitchen. I’ll get some more drinks. Can we switch this tape?”

The rambling did nothing to hide the redness of his cheeks. If anything it just brought more attention to them.

“Your tapes are shit, Steveo,” Robin informed him happily. “But this one is also awful, so yes I will change it just for you.” She ignored Jonathan’s annoyed hey and beckoned Steve to follow her.

Eddie settled on the sun lounger next to Argyle, already having pulled a lighter from somewhere.

Gareth took that as his cue to drag Jeff and Grant inside to change.

Jeff, as soon as they were out of hearing range, asked, “When has Eddie ever given us free weed?”

Gareth shook his head. “I’ve known about this crush for less than a week and I’m already tired of it. We have to do something to get them together.”

Grant narrowed his eyes. “You already have a plan, don’t you?”

He pushed them both towards the bathroom. “Get changed, our work starts today.”

(part 4)

#steddie #eddie munson #gareth emerson #steve harrington #corroded coffin #bit of a longer one but Gareth was having feelings and i needed to let him have his feelings #pool party/ operation get steve and eddie together planning party next part #again if you asked to be tagged; i don't do that because it makes me anxious and i wouldn't write anything #so figured it was better to write the stuff and not tag people than force myself into anxiety and never post anything again :)#my fic

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brookriver · 3 months

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i still get notes for these two posts sometimes; i'm glad they're still amusing folks after all these years

#transformers #maccadam #transformers prime #tfp #optimus prime #arcee #tfp optimus prime #tfp arcee #arcee is speedwalking and optimus is checking the rafters for squirrels don't ask questions #also hi to the two or three people who followed me for transformers stuff and are still active #my art

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possibly-not-a-ghost · 6 months

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Fake Cryptids, Real Ghosts

Ok, so dp x dc/batfam because this AU has me by the throat but what if it's the fake cryptid batfamily AU who never joined the JL.

Just...imagine it. The Batfamily has been protecting Gotham quietly but fiercely by scaring the daylights out of criminals as creatures that go bump in the night. A bit of stage magic, frightening method acting, contortion, a whole language comprised of chirps, growls, and body language, and the best tech possible and you've got a recipe for striking fear into the hearts of everyone.

They've got shrines on the rooftops, vaguely on the JL radar (Cause really, who's gonna believe that Gotham, one of the worst cities has a demon problem? Constantine? Homeboy took one look at Gotham and went Nope.) and they're protected cause any self respecting Gothamite wouldn't go spilling the beans to Outsiders. The Bats keep them safe. Who would believe them anyways?

Enter half dead, half alive Danny Fenton.

Danny Fenton who has a best friend's named Tucker and Sam who find out about the Gotham Cryptids, and go absolutely ham on research because here lies something,a bunch of someone's who are Other. Maybe they're creepy but they're cool and they're Heroes and they help people.

Sure, at first it was an attempt from Sam and Tucker to help their best friend feel less alone in the face of other, more 'normal' heroes and people out there in the world. Maybe they try to further bury the Bats online cause if anyone understands keeping on the down low, it would be Amity Parker's. For awhile, Danny Fenton, sometimes Phantom is simply happy to know he's not alone.

Then he's outed and his sister who's long since been ecto-contaiminated is put at risk there's nowhere that seems safer. Gotham is a chaotic city, even without the Bats factoring in. After all Gotham has (Demons-Spirits-Creatures?) The Bats already. Who would care if a halfa and his sister hide out there? As long as they're respectful of their territory, it'll be fine right? Besides, they've got to warn the Bats anyways about the GIW and government. They're coming after ghosts, who knows if they'll be next? Spooky things have to look out for each other after all.

Cue shenanigans as Phantom who stops hiding all of his creepier traits as a ghost walks up to the Totally Human but Faking it Batman with really thoughtful gifts for all of their shrines (And one fruitcake), no heartbeat and an earnest plea for a safe haven in their Haunt because the Ancients taught him manners and the importance of respecting another entities territory.

#dp x dc #dc #batman #danny fenton #danny phantom #fake cryptid batfam #This has been living rent free in my head for the last week just picture how hysterical it would be #The Batfam in this AU who go about like normal people during the day but are Dramatic Nightmares come nighttime #rook posts stuff #rook writes stuff #kinda #Danny and Jazz being SO RESPECTFUL of the Bats #and while Danny knows they aren't ghosts he never tries to pry because they deserve their secrets #meanwhile in the Batcave Bruce and fam are going nuts because here's a literal dead child asking for a safe haven in Gotham and HOW DOES HE #FILL OUT THE PAPERWORK FOR A DEAD CHILD ALFRED HELP #and when they finally meet Jazz while still being unaware of Danny's Halfa status (He forgot okay? He's used to the ghosts who already Know #cause his sister is alive but we found ancient art depicting Phantom and ok family of choice is a Thing we respect but also what #OR Danny and Jazz try to hide in this AU even from the Bats but honestly all the ideas in my head keep making me snort #fake cryptids real ghosts au

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tianhai03 · 5 months

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some re8 doodles ive done in the past two days

bonus: (featuring dante from the devil may cry series)

#drew that first two ethan doodles bc i saw a lot of people drawing him like that in fanart and i was talking to a friend abt it #they asked for some examples to look at but i couldnt find any so i decided to draw him myself lmao #then people on twitter liked it a lot and asked me to draw more re8 stuff so i figured yea why not #always fun to draw something different every now and then :)#anyway im still in the middle of watching a shadow of rose playthrough i cant wait to see whats gonna happen next #<already knows one of the biggest spoilers it has but still wants to see how emotionally painful the story is gonna be #resident evil #ethan winters #rosemary winters #chris redfield #alcina dimitrescu #karl heisenberg #allyart #cw // blood #forgor to tag the blood my bad

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bunnieswithknives · 5 months

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“David, what the FUCK.“

part 2

#dhmis #don't hug me i'm scared #two of us AU #two of us!david #two of us!red #two of us!duck #this is my first real attempt at a comic so sorry if its terrible lol #i wanted to post this earlier but I had school #this might get a second part #People asking about duck well here he is #the first puppet David made! hes uhhh not very well constructed #he fills the 'father' roll that Roy played in the original #he mostly just sits around like a lump but will occasionally ramble incoherently about old people stuff #Roy calls Duck his granddad and Lesley is like 'wtf u are not related to that'#fun fact: he is the only puppet capable of swearing because David hadn't figured out how to turn that off yet #they get an entire episode dedicated to Duck teaching them swear words while David desperately tries and fails to stop him

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turrondeluxe · 22 hours

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#i SWEAR i will answer the asks i got this just got into my brain and wouldnt leave lmao #yi knows your ip number #i was thinking in here they are around 3 years actually #we still got no canon knowledge on who is the eldest and who is the youngest but i headcanon it like #uno (oldest and will always let everyone know) odyn (second oldest and oldest middle child) moja (youngest middle child) yi (youngest)#yi isvery smart for her age!!!#she already reading and writing and dissing her brother look at her go!!!#im also not putting a read more on this one because the last time i did that so many people were yelling at me in the tags #to not put my stuff under read more #I LISTENED OK #HERE YOU GO #FORCES YOU TO LOOK AT MY SILLY STUFF #peepaw and babies au #tmnt #tmnt the last ronin #the last ronin lost years #tmnt uno #tmnt moja #tmnt yi #tmnt odyn #tmnt mikey #tmnt michelangelo #doodles #my art

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pupppppppy · 27 days

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I just skimmed through the art part of your blog and holy bajeebus your LMK art is so beautiful and the headcanon ideas you come up with are so good I wanna steal em-

Kinda wanna see like a part 2 of the little angst you did between MK and Macaque a while ago. It's so interesting and I wanna see Macaque's reaction in your art style. (You don't have to of course, it's just a suggestion [idk if i spelled that right])

Thanks for reading and hope you have a good day/night!

Hope this is to your liking ^^

Part one here

#I’m sure there are some character nuances im forgetting but well 🤷🏽#I want their misunderstanding or whatever they have going on between then come to a head. literally just going ‘wait what’#for me I think it’s entirely possible that there was an actual fight and maybe tension leading up to that point #cause I feel like macaque is not just bitter about thinking he died to wukong but maybe some stuff that built up to that #maybe the fight was just the breaking point. maybe they’re idiots who don’t talk about it because they think they’re on the same page idk #chipper-smol wrote a cool theory abt them using macaques ‘you’re nothing’ line in s4ep1. from what I understand it could be a direct parall #parallel to when he said that to MK right before MK regained his nerve and hit macaque in the eye.. since flying bark foreshadowed monkey mk #waaaay back in season 1 (where his shadow is his monkey form in the opening) i think that could be deliberate #and they could have gotten billy to voice an entirely different line for that scene. but they reused his line from s3 #in a very specific scene with wukongs narrative foil. hm #that aside I would have liked to hear billy voice the ‘you abandoned me’ line that would have killed me. but that’s just me lol #also looking at this I should have shaded the last frame to make it look more dramatic and serious but I ran out of time :(#if anything I want to see MK try and help them get back together. poor kid tries so hard to understand people so I think it would be cool to #see that happen. that’s what I like about him.. he asked macaque why he was working for LBD instead of accusing him of dooming everyone bc #he wants to and he tried to comfort spider queen by admitting he was scared of LBD too 😭😭#my art #myart #Lego Monkie kid #lmk #Monkie kid #lmk spoilers #Lego Monkie kid spoilers #lmk macaque #six eared macaque #lmk sun wukong #lmk swk #lmk MK #lmk xiaotian #lmk season 4 #Lego Monkie kid s4

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kyouka-supremacy · 1 day

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Wait there's no WWII in BSD?? I knew there was a different, additional "Great War" but—

Well... It's hard to say.

I've always been under the impression that something close to WWI happened (bsd's “Great War”), and no WWII was ever mentioned. Yet if we follow that logic, some things don't add up. As shown in chapter 73, the borders in north Europe are the same of the current, post WWII and post cold war with no Denmark for some reason:

which are different compared to the post WWI borders (notice the change in Germany / Poland confines):

Furthermore, the UN canonically exist in the bsd universe, and the UN was created as direct consequence of WWII... I find it really hard to figure wether the organization would exist or not if WWII never happened.

And those are just the two major things, but there's so many other little consequences of WWII and of the cold war that pervade our society (the technological advancement, the deeply roothed capitalistic system, the civil rights standards¹ and more) that as it appears - not paying mind to aesthetic liberties - are more or less the same in the bsd world.

I always linked bsd's “Great War” with WWI: because WWI is typically associated with trench warfare and Yosano's chapters portrayed a trench-based kind of war, because WWI is literally called “Great War”; but maybe I've been misleaded. As I seem to understand, The Great War 大戦 as it's called in the manga is used in both the WWI and WWII Japanese names, 第一次世界大戦 and 第二次世界大戦 respectively. Perhaps, it could then indicate WWI and WWII being one single big war in the bsd universe² (but honestly, then the translation choice of calling it “great war” in the official English edition of the manga is misleading at best, given that's the actual name of one of the most widely known wars in human history).

In the end, I guess it's just that the course of history in the bsd world is fundamentally different than ours, although it surprisingly still lead to a quite similar society with similar laws. The timeline too is different: it took us 70 years after the second world war to reach this level of technology advancement, yet people in the bsd world have more or less our same technology level, with airports, cars, laptops and smartphones³, and it's only been 15 years since the end of The Great War; man, that's for us like if WWII had ended in 2005, most people alive in the bsd war still remember living through it. That's why I'd say it ultimately lacks sense to try and reconduct bsd's Great War to one of our world wars, or question if our wars ever happened, because the history of the bsd world is just different.

¹ Well, maybe not all civil rights standards, taking in the absence of juvenile laws. Maybe the bsd world really lacks the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

² Which by the way is the take of some historians in our world too, WWI and WWII being the same war with a short break in the midst.

³ and to an extent even greater technology, given the advanced cybernetics apparently portrayed in Stormbringer and ai technology of the Eyes of God. Then again, it's an unfair comparison with a world with superpowers...

#Sorry if this sounds convoluted tonight I can't write #You can probably perceive me rewriting this three times because I kept changing mind on the matter...#Maybe you should try ask this to @/artemiida‚ she's definitely more knowledgeable in history than me!!#bsd #bungou stray dogs #people asks me stuff #mine #But also: author simply didn't put that much thought into it.#You couldn't have Akutagawa checking the time on a wristwatch in chapter 38 if WWI never happened–#but that's not exactly the kind of thing you think about when working on a manga ahah.#In the end the narrative consistency is all that matters.

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