#poor arc

[dangthatsspiral]

I was in fact, a poor little bitch….

[bigfatbreak]

Birds of a Feather previous / next

tw: blood

[edwinisms]

george rexstrew deserves awards for many things but i have to say. edwin’s bloodcurdling scream as niko gets killed deserves a whole award unto itself. like. that scream did not feel at all like a tv show scream. to a somewhat jarring degree. and i can’t express how much I respect that

[sirazaroff]

Train station reflections

[njere]

I love drawing Luffy getting on his nerves

[korkorali]

The Misogyny of It All

So a lot of Della Duck Discourse is rehashed all the time, points are made again and again, but one thing that I almost never see people defend -and conversely, see people attack all the time- is The Line.

You know what I'm talking about. The Line from Glomtales.

"Your plans, your schemes, they only lead to bad things for your family. If you want to be a part of this family, you've gotta stop."

That one.

Now, what exactly Della was trying to get across with that line is a whole other can of worms that deserves its own post (basically she -and also the writers- horribly failed her Speech check).

What we're going over here is how that mimics a certain line from the last season, said by a parental figure to a child, that gets so much less flack. That, in fact, often gets paraded around as 'an interesting twist on a character.'

"You are not family!"

I have never seen people attack this line with the same amount of vitriol as they attack Della's, which is funny when they're the exact same line.

Actually, not even that- Scrooge's is worse.

It's more direct, it's literally yelled at Webby, it doesn't even attempt to address the issue Scrooge had (Webby blaming him for what happened to Della) and instead just straight-up attacks her as a person.

Now, to be fully honest- I like this line! I do genuinely think it's an interesting route for Scrooge to take, and is quite realistic to the grumpy old bastard. It's just funny that nobody ever comes to Webby's defense the same way they do for Louie.

Because the thing is- between Webby and Louie, one of these two has genuine, canonical issues with feeling like they're not a part of the family, like they're an outsider amongst those they love the most, like they don't belong.

And it's not Louie.

It is a consistent part of Webby's characterization that she feels like she doesn't belong. This gets touched on in all three seasons (and honestly, it could be argued that it gets worse after this moment).

Conversely, that just is not a part of Louie's canonical characterization. Even in the first episode of season 2, the one where Louie gets the closest to an 'I don't belong in this family' moment, it's less 'I don't belong here' and more 'fuck me I am terrible at adventuring'. And! It gets resolved in that episode!

(Of course, there is absolutely something to be said for how it's resolved- specifically by Scrooge encouraging him to be a scheming little bastard, which then thusly becomes the thing that threatens his family the most. Which would, logically, be a pretty big blow to his self-esteem. This isn't what I'm here to discuss right now but it is genuinely interesting.)

Louie never really shows an issue with feeling like he doesn't belong in his family. He shows a disconnect with his family at times, but in canon that never really evolves into a full-blown feeling of displacement. It does get close in Glomtales, but never quite reaches it.

So it's 'interesting' (read: not interesting) that Scrooge's fuckup here gets brushed away pretty easily. A lot of the time the line just straight-up isn't addressed, and when it is, often times it's about how "Oh he apologized to Webby offscreen, obviously."

Which.

Not he did not.

I mean, let me be clear: I don't mind it when that's the answer. It works for me to just brush it away if it's not meant to be the focus...

But Scrooge almost certainly didn't apologize for it.

As 'New Gods on the Block!' Showed us, Scrooge is downright awful at realizing when his actions have hurt people.

More likely than not, Scrooge would just assume that everything is fine and would avoid bringing it up at all costs because he'd feel awkward about it. Because he is, very importantly, not good at talking about things he doesn't want to talk about.

So why is it that Louie is always the one feeling like he doesn't belong? Why is it Della who is always a terrible parent for what she's said? Why are Webby's feelings of disconnect never really given the same gravity as Louie's? Why is Scrooge's blunder let off the hook super easily?

It just feels silly to me.

And, well.

Kinda like the fact that, since Scrooge is a guy and Webby's a girl, and Della is a woman and Louie's a boy, has something to do with it.

I'll happily give the benefit of the doubt and assume it's not deliberate, but quite frankly it is a double standard.

I think that people would be less upset with the Della Duck Discourse if Scrooge was held in a similarly critical position over what he's said and done. If it was acknowledged that Della isn't uniquely awful in what she says and does, and that a lot of the others have fucked up in extremely similar ways.

(I mean for fuck's sake, everybody goes on and on about how Della left her kids for ten years -which, for the record, wasn't what she wanted to do- but nobody ever criticizes Donald for taking the kids away from their family and never talking to them about Della- which is something he actively and deliberately chose to do)

TL;DR: The fact that Della gets intensely criticized for what she's said and done, but Donald and Scrooge are conversely celebrated as 'interesting' and 'complex' for what they've said and done, even when it brings harm to the kids, is a blatant double-standard. And if you don't think that this double-standard is bad or wrong for existing (or even that it Doesn't Actually Exist), instead of immediately claiming that it's a non-issue, maybe try to look inward and figure out why you really think that is.

[hootydoot]

What's the point of all this? I mean, why?

[iwasbored777]

I'll never recover from the fact that the first time we see Logan, he's drunk, lonely and depressed and everyone in his world hates him, while in the last scene he is so happy, having fun with his new friends in his new home. Logan helped Wade save the world but Wade saved Logan.

[summerdoddles]

The fear of being abandoned (1/?)

(still thinking of an au name)

also MK villan design (wip)

[nephilimbrute]

(from the new marina interview) i don't think she's okay

edit: it's fake i made it. it's for my side order au, lore here 😇 tag for it is on this post

this part is specifically about this bit here vv

i'm glad it was so believable tho. spent like hours on this perfecting the characterization n editing. there's more to this btw, i've done other mock interviews

[wallflowers-in-the-wind]

Tamlin: Feyre I need to take care of something can you please-

Feyre: NO! I do what I want!

Tamlin: Feyre please…

Feyre: You can’t stop me I’m going for a walk!

Tamlin: Feyre enough! It’s not safe and there’s something bad happening soon that I’m trying to prevent so you can get better and our people will be safe so just stay here please.

Feyre: How could you?! *collapses onto fainting couch* I can’t live in these horrible conditions.

Rhysand: *breaks down the door* Did someone say abuse?

[somewherefornow]

BRUCE WAYNE/BATMAN & DIANA/WONDER WOMAN in BATMAN (2016)

[spooky-activity]

💕✨🌚🌑Shadowheart🌑🌚✨💕

[orphiclovers]

no but SP is so desperate to take yhk out of their own (honestly superior) 3rd round and show them his own special little 1863rd worldline like 'guys look! I have a perfect world too :)' and they are just Not having it. Kim Dokja goes back to his round in the end after accidentally convicing og 1863rd Yoo Joonghyuk to literally create the 3rd round and ruin all of Plotter's plans in the process. sp gives 3rd Yoo Joonghyuk 1863rd rounds records and he barely reacts or cares. THEN 1863rd Han Sooyoung ALSO leaves his super special worldine, as she was planning to do from the beginning, to go to the og worldline and eventually, the 3rd. Even the dokkeabi king dgaf about this world and lets hancorp kill him easily, and I cannot stress this enough, afterwards HE ALSO FUCKS OFF TO THE 3RD ROUND AS THE FOURTH WALL!! NO ONE LIKES YOUR SHITTY WORLD SP! he would probably be upset by this if he hadn't FUCKED OFF TOO, to live in domestic bliss with od!!! Oh my god!!!

[bibannana]

Ahsoka *baby padawan who is new to the 501st, holding a tooka kitten who climbed into her pack on a mission*: Well I guess you're mine now.

Fives *nods*: Looks that way Commander.

Ahsoka *tilts her head observing the tooka*: I think I'm going to name you after the bravest man I know.

Anakin *getting proud, thinking that it's him*: Why thank you-

Ahsoka *holds the tooka up in the air*: Rex

Anakin *double take*: What?!

Echo *almost topples over laughing*: Oh he's going to love this.

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

fantasy au whiteboard scribbles <3