#punisher crack

[marvelgaynesstothemax]

:3

[rennyrose]

Weird eyes

[houseswife]

one of my favourite things that the house md writers ever did was balancing out the overwhelming Heterosexuality™ of huddy’s getting-together episode by adding in whatever the fuck you call this

[hannibal-is-my-comfort-show]

[apoorhuman]

Solomon: sometimes i looked at mc and thinks, "are they even human to begin with?"

Simeon: why would you think that?

Solomon: well *points at mc punishing the brothers*

Mc: *dragging Levi and mammon while pinching their ears* the both of you seriously needs to behave today I am not in the mood, you understood?

Levi and mammon: yes ma'am!!

Mc: good *letting go of the hold* now go to your classes!

Levi and mammon: *walking fast to their class*

Solomon: see?

Simeon: I mean you're right but those are nothing compared to when mc pinch lucifer in his thigh while sitting because he's been shooting glare at the other person

Solomon: what?

Simeon: nothing *smiles* let's go hurry to our class

Solomon: okay..

[greensaplinggrace]

‘he’s so annoying!’ ‘he’s so pathetic!’ ‘he’s so evil and bad!’ like I’m sorry that I’m attracted to brats what do you want from me

[thankstothe]

[nanomooselet]

Little but Fierce VI

She winds up… there's the pitch…

Poor Nick. It never stops being funny. I'd feel sorrier that this happened to him but he's such a bastard in his introductory episode. It's like karma in advance.

Heheh. Kar-ma.

Meryl and Wolfwood behave very much like siblings to each other, while Vash and Roberto treat them like their awful terrible kids. Roberto does actually try reach out to Vash as a mentor once or twice, but of course Vash is fuck-off old and doesn't need that kind of assistance, so he's gently deflected. Roberto is old and wise enough to keep his distance. Nick, for his part, enjoys pissing Roberto off, and Roberto is for his part duly pissed off.

Still, Vash is the reason they're all even there in the first place and Meryl shows him concern. And Vash, in his way, fusses over Nick the way Roberto feels responsible for Meryl. A lot of what Vash does, he's doing pretty much solely for Wolfwood's benefit. I mean, look at this pathetic wet kitten of a man - you can't tell me he doesn't need it.

I've already talked at some length about why exactly Vash is like he is about Wolfwood, but what's he like about Meryl?

Pretty much exactly as fond. He's just quieter about it. To my read, he's confident she and Roberto can look after themselves and each other. That's really endearing to him, but not something he has to do anything about. And Meryl's not suffering the same kind of identity crisis as the Punisher/Wolfwood/Nico. Meryl knows exactly who she is, she's just trying to get everyone else to acknowledge it, and Vash does so from the first - she's never anything but "Meryl" to him, not "newbie" or "little lady". She never has to demand that of him.

Nor is she in directly a victim of his godawful brother, which thankfully means she isn't his responsibility to help - or at least, no more so than any given human. Also, it's Vash. What's that? Someone is invested in his well-being? Golly, that sounds suspiciously like he's being cared for (which of course he doesn't deserve), or (more reasonably) like someone vulnerable to being caught up in Knives's manipulations. Or just someone vulnerable to Knives period. Stampede out!

I though you guys were buddies./I thought you three had something special. 

No way./Yeah, not really.

Too bad for him, he's met his match in Meryl Stryfe.

In direct contrast to every other character around Vash, she's only one there not because she has to be, or because she needs or wants something from him, but because she decided to be. She's one of the only characters with agency, after all.

Real people aren't monsters like that./He's a man, not a monster.

But I won't give up, no matter how unreasonable the assignment!/I won't abandon an assignment just because it's silly.

We can't just leave him hanging here./No way. We can't just leave him here.

And she's also decided he needs help. So come hell or high water, this man is getting helped.

It's her knack for finding the truth without quite knowing the reasoning behind it. In physical terms Vash really, really doesn't need help, and it's the mistake Knives always makes; that because Vash ostensibly doesn't have powers like him, he's in need of a defender. (And because this is Knives, that means it's up to him personally, and he's entitled to Vash and his exclusive love/loyalty/devotion in return. Any protests Vash makes are clearly just human corruption.) But what Vash actually needs is something his brother has never, in any version of the story, demonstrated the capacity to give him. Even sensitive little boy Knives back in Maximum relied on others for reassurance up until the moment he decided he couldn't.

Vash is more inclined to be someone others rely on, to the point of being maladaptive. It's being unable to help that gets to him, especially when he's held responsible.

What he needs is emotional support. Or, well... faith.

Wolfwood gives that to him eventually, but it takes some serious work, and it comes with its own attendant difficulties, like the fact that Nick's not in a position to extend Vash help himself no matter how much he might want to. Nick is, like Rosa and like Vash, a pragmatist. Do what you have to do.

Meryl has never needed that kind of direct demonstration. To her, Vash is a person, and people always need help, and she's not going to be prevented giving it. End of discussion. And despite being mistaken on some particulars, on this point she's more right than even she knows.

The contrast with Wolfwood is incidentally why Meryl hitting Woofwoof with the truck isn't just fucking funny, it's the perfect way for him to be introduced. He can't catch the same bus as Vash by happenstance because this time Vash is his actual target. He can't have Angelina II because personal transport is autonomy he's not permitted to have.

Instead, Meryl's own autonomy and narrative significance had her run the plot right into him, completely ruining whatever plans were laid for his entrance. Notice Roberto tries to steer Meryl away from the collision course they're on, to no avail, and Vash winds up flipped over. Fantastic.

Wolfwood is getting dragged around; Meryl is the one doing the dragging. When she discovers Vash's secrets, she works to accept them and integrate them into her worldview - which means that the moment she learns he's a Plant, she doesn't reject him or become fearful of him. She instantly accepts that must mean the Plants are also people. That gives her a fuller understanding of the conflict, and especially Vash's view of it, than most. It's not a matter of "Whose side are you on?" It's "How do we move forward together?"

Wolfwood's knowledge has all been filtered through the Eye of Michael, so he's more aware of the details, but can't disentangle his true beliefs from the ideology driving them.

Meryl has a better understanding of the abstract. And that, in turn, entitles her to learn what the available methods are, and judge them...

...But it also entitles her to something more precious: Vash's unquestioning trust.

It's certainly much less dramatic than the demonstrations between Vash and Nick, but I have to say: any amount of exposure to Knives and his histrionics would leave me, at least, pretty relieved to have it.

Part I

Part II

Part III

Part IV

Part V

Part VII

Part VIII

Part IX

[meshimellow]

some meditations on one rodion romanovitch

+ color variants ^_^ down here 👇

[shannonsketches]

Not to be gay on main for unbridled power but we don’t talk enough about how Ganondorf broke the fucking master sword and it took ten thousand years for it to recover and get strong enough to beat him

That’s like. When they first started growing wheat in Mesopotamia. They had to start charging a godsword non-stop from that point in history to have enough power to kill one man in 2023, and even then you had to fall back on the power of friendship.

this man can crack the globe like an egg but he chooses to be petty and I respect that

[marvelgaynesstothemax]

Frank: How do I make a date really romantic?

Curtis: Try being mysterious.

[Later, on a date with Matt]

Matt: So, where are we going?

Frank: None of your fucking business.

[kramersoup]

peter lorre characters + textposts

[chvoswxtch]

I found this beautiful picture of jon and I needed to share it with y’all bc it’s my new favorite picture of him ever and I will be using it as my go to reaction picture for everything now thx

[goldenamaranthe-blog]

In the big cat au I think the keepers need to have a meeting about thieves, zoo security and how their cats reacted.

What? Enforcing security measures? But how will we get all of the shenanigans?

*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*

Glynda: Alright, we need to start enforcing stricter security.

Ruby: Why?

Glynda: Because after those two thieves failed in their mission to steal the Tiger/Panther cubs, they came back to try and steal the Miracle cubs and now they're no more than snow leopard droppings.

Weiss: That's a problem why?

Glynda: The media is having a field day!

Yang: But all of our security measures are up to code, and we have signs everywhere saying "Don't Interact with the Animals" unless they're in the petting zoo.

Glynda: Don't start with me, Ms. Xiao Long. That tiger that's been shadowing your every move hasn't exactly had the cleanest record. Breaking out of the enclosure, with your panther that has also broken out to track you down on more than one occasion might I add, and gallivanting around the city, stealing from the Old Man Butcher's.

Yang: Hey, that was great advertisement! The old shopkeep was able to retire after all that publicity. "Meat so good even the King of the Jungle wants a slab!"

Glynda: Your four's big cats have been proven to be bloodthirsty monsters.

Blake: I think the phrases you are looking for are "Protective Mothers" and "Mother Nature's Survival of the Fittest at its Finest".

[rukafais]

I like how Artemis does his stupid wingsuit shit like he thinks he's the cleverest man alive, and then eats shit and has to get scraped off a mountainside, and then in Sellswords hes like SCREAMING every time Jarlaxle grabs him and jumps off a ledge so he can use levitate

Did you give yourself a fear of heights with that dumbfuck stunt Artemis. Did you

[leodehurlvant]

Okay but hear me out, what if instead of Fyodor being immortal his ability could transfer and fyodorise ppl and all the Fyodor worked as a hive mind