#problematic dynamics

[polypomefiore]

gonna post the question here too

do y’all have any professor x student ships?

[electroempathy]

Maybe I like that Daniel looks 70 and Armand looks 27, MAYBE I'm a pervert!

[tobyisave]

Little animations for my DR tic headcanons!! To be so clear this is *not* me trying to create good rep, this is explicitly me projecting my own tics onto some little guys using gimmicky plot points and then making art about it! so like. grain of salt and a little ableism cw 👍

Chiaki who freezes and shudders in overstimulating environments, ostensibly because her tics are triggered by sound/light/motion — but then in Ch.6 you learn she was actually just lagging when the computer had too much stuff to render nearby. This makes it even more disorienting postcanon when they remember the real Chiaki, who had a slightly different personality and completely different tics. Most of them were omitted from the AI because it was averaged from the memories of several students (including Hajime) who never noticed or mistook them for fidgeting — helped by the fact that her tics vanished whenever she was focusing on a game. It's convoluted but in a way that I think suits the source material lol.

Kokichi who is an expert at making tics look intentional, because he'd rather come off as "annoying on purpose" or even pretend to mock the disorder he secretly actually has than just admit there's a part of himself he can't control. And he certainly doesn’t need anyone outside DICE realizing the tics are a very honest indicator of his stress levels. He treats his own outbursts as cues to whine that he’s bored; he makes meaningful eye contact with Shuichi whenever he can’t stop blinking, because he knows it’ll make Shuichi lose his mind trying decode a Morse code message that doesn't exist; and in the killing game he pairs his motor tics with the straitjacket uniform and a cringy Joker impression to create some campy caricature of “crazy” that scares the people who are idiots (Kaito) and makes everyone else think he’s just doing an offensive bit — which, for better or worse, he kind of is.

[impsandstars]

“Cause every time we touch…”

[bottombaron]

oh ok so its the usual no-homo bullshit you always hear, good to know.

[unknownhyperial]

Hey guys did you know I like Royalrabbit- /silly

[cringefailvox]

polyvees could abolish age gap discourse forever with the simple notion that it is actually at its MOST compelling when we accept & cherish how vox is old enough to be val's father and velvette's grandfather

[horreurscopes]

this is my brother and i need a shovel to love him (prints)

[the-mpreg-guy]

where are my problematic professor rowena/college student sam fanfics

[charmac]

Me, age 13: been getting really into South Park lately

Me, age 18: if you like and enjoy problematic media you should choke and die

Me, age 23: been getting really into It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia lately

[mlmshark]

I don’t usually engage in ship discourse but why are people literally just making stuff up to make shadownilla look problematic when it’s really not

“Shadowmilk and Vanilla are related, they have the same soul jam!” No, they’re not! It literally said in the first chapter of Beast Yeast that all the new souls jam owners had to prove themselves to get it, they did not get them from relation!

“Shadowmilk stalked Vanilla as a child!” *loud incorrect buzzer*! The cutscenes of Vanilla’s childhood memories are made up in dreams to mess with his head and ability to think! And again in the last point, they had to prove themselves to get the soul jam, so Shadowmilk would not have known Vanilla as a child!

It’s okay to not like a ship! Maybe you don’t like that dynamic, maybe it makes you a little uncomfortable, that’s okay! But stop spreading misinformation to make other people look bad becuase they like something you don’t!

[justplainlovely]

I got into a fight in the comments section on Pinterest where people are still saying that Cooper is married. This is what I’m talking about when I say media literacy is a lost art. Like unless something is spelled out for people by the character it concerns, it doesn’t exist… even though side characters were discussing Cooper Howard’s alimony as the reason for him ‘wasting time performing at kids parties’. No. Unless Cooper himself says “hello I’m a divorced dad” it’s not real.

Similarly, whenever I’m given grief about how toxic Cooper and Lucy’s relationship is—literally no one is denying the way they met each other is messed up—they often forgo the fact that by the end of season 1 they are begrudging allies. That Lucy understands what he did to her wasn’t personal and decides to go with him mostly because she would die otherwise, but also because Cooper is her key to figuring things out. Ship wars aside, they’re on track to be at least friendly.

And those who think the possibility of Maximus not being with Lucy is the end of his character are missing the point of both his and Lucy’s character arcs. Maximus has some shit to figure out. Mainly, which side is he on. He’s disillusioned with the Brotherhood by the end, but deserting would mean his death. At the same time, he’s also got the opportunity using his knighthood to “hurt the people who hurt [him]”.

“People” being Hank MacLean, Vault-Tec, and possibly others.

As for Lucy, it’s clear that by the end of the series Vault-Tec is in conflict with her closely held beliefs. And when she inevitably discovers what Cooper knows in season 2, it’s debatable whether or not she’ll ever want to live in the vault again. But when her and Maximus run in again, it won’t be so they can escape. Both of them will have their reasons for hating Vault-Tec by then and both of them will deal with it differently. Let’s remember how they handle morality. Both he and Lucy in season 1 saw things as black and white, often to their own detriments. Lucy learned when and how to break free from that (ethics teacher) but Max, by the end of the series, is veering towards violence as the answer and he’s seeing too many problems. The bear scene and the moment with the chicken fucker come to mind when I think about his future. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have lingered on those scenes.

Anyway.

No one comes out of this unscathed.

[overthinkingmoth]

transmasc Xie Lian this transmasc Xie Lian that.

I raise you transmasc Hua Cheng.

[tackykachowch]

Don't care if it's a hot take or not, but the most complex, interesting, and arguably even the funniest, trio Jinx ever has in the show is with Silco and Sevika. And the only reason why it's not popular in the fandom is because the other two are "the bad guys". Well, not even Sevika is, because apparently Silco's death automatically stripped her of all of her past actions and moral grayness she had. But Silco is a big scary bad man who eats children for breakfast, so he can't possibly have even a littlest bit positive and interesting dynamic with Jinx and Sevika, what are you even talking about.

[nat111love]

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