#regarding Best Girl

[blackbatcass]

sometimes the ghost of kelley puckett (he is still alive) haunts me. does he know. does he even know. he’s so detached from the comics community and he’s such a private guy (I RESPECT THAT WHOLEHEARTEDLY) that i really and truly do not know if this man knows how much cassandra cain means to us. does he know batgirl 2000 is heralded as the bible of dc solo books, as a lot of people’s favorite comic ever written. does he know how much we love cass. how we write essays over her character and how amazing she is and how she changed our lives. does he know how adored his writing is. does he know he wrote the best comics character introduction of all time. does he even. know.

[myreputatioooon]

buy low-key Cahara deserves a good ending or at least a better one.

Okay maybe not actually in a good-good way but in a bad-good good-bad way that IS good-good as long as you shift your morality fifty degrees to the left.

Cahara who came to wretch a monster out of Fear & Hunger itself like The Knight D'arce, Kaiser's Most Blind Loyal, not to save the monster and let it rampage for centuries then on, but to provide for his Beloved and Future Child.

Cahara who took in a Child under his care. A Girl many others would regard as dead weight or meat or a shield against Fear & Hunger. Protected her from the horrors whereas The Outlander Ragnvalder The God of Ultraviolence crusaded against it within and outside the dungeon, legacy fading into nothing. like He was supposed to

Cahara who guided her like his own unborn child and brought her to the pit of the God of the Depth's corpse, and witness her ascent to godhood as The Dark Priest Enki The Enlightened rejected it.

Cahara who cannot be a father to His Flesh and Blood, His Beloved Celeste for he is the Father of Fear & Hunger. The Ascended Goddess has acknowledged his suffering. The suffering that will continue if he lives, so he shall now forever rest.

Cahara who taught Her dances with daggers and gifted Her dolls to dote on in the Divine Dungeons.

Cahara, Father of the Goddess of Fear & Hunger and Father of The Cruel Age which his own beloved girl drives.

Cahara, who's name is blessed, praised and scorned to come all eternity. Who's Beloved Celeste is taken in by the Goddess's worshippers, whose baby never knows a day without community and family under the care for the sister they'll never have.

Cahara who's family is a holy, divine bloodline. The only one.

Cahara who never wanted any of this

[itsalwaysforyou]

just remembered a wip i had which was jay at uni meeting normal people and desperately trying to act cool and normal whilst internally screaming about being in a whole new place with all new people and not having his gang with him

[frodo-of-the-nine-fingers]

god the way flint's "Defined by their histories... distorted to fit into their narrative... until all that is left of us... are the monsters in the stories they tell their children." ties back in so perfectly with his interactions with abigail ashe. like he's seen it already, he's been in that story already and he Knows god, he knows, and silver just can't see it yet

[otacringe]

happy pride

[chloeseyeliner]

what the fuck??!

why is uni filled with so much drama?

i just want to study, work, exercise, figure out how to handle my finances and what to eat, sleep, write fanfiction that's never going to see the light of day, walk with nature surrounding me, be grumpy inside because the bus is over-crowded, take part in research, repeat.

why?

i can't do this.

i really hate drama. i have never been involved in it. ANY TIPS? 🤡🤦🏻‍♀️

[scoobydoodean]

I see this held up as major proof of Dean's badness, but couldn't it also be proof of Cas having faith Dean can get past anything without Cas having to change his behavior? The way it's structured the onus is on DEAN to work through it, not others to change or make amends. ---- CASTIEL: You know, Dean, he – he feels things more acutely than any human I've ever known. So it's possible he could work through this. One day, he may explode and let it all out and breathe deeply and move on.

I see what you mean in a general sense, and it's extremely possible that Cas is thinking about his own past fights with Dean and Dean forgiving him, and from the perspective of the critique you have in mind that you're refuting, I agree. But of course deancrit casgirls will forever insist that Cas has never in his life done anything harmful to Dean either accidentally or on purpose, so any time Dean might dare try to hold him accountable for anything, he's actually just making shit up and being toxic and controlling, so here Cas is just apologizing for his own abusive relationship. You can only get their take by being deliberately obtuse/disingenuous.

That said, the context of that line (from 15.13 "Destinty's Child") is Cas answering soulless Jack's question about whether Dean will eventually forgive him for murdering Mary.

CASTIEL: Hey, Jack. JACK: Cas, you know what's good about being dead? CASTIEL: Uh, as I recall, very little. JACK: Well, when you come back, you – you really get into all that life is. Hot, cold, sweet, spicy, funny, scary. CASTIEL: And are you? "Into it"? JACK: I want to be. But I don't... feel things the way I used to. Before I lost my... CASTIEL: Your soul. JACK: I used to feel things. In my bones. It was glorious, and sometimes unbearable. But I felt them. Now, I understand joy or sadness, but... I know those things aren't in me. I understand why Sam and Dean were angered by what happened to Mary... CASTIEL: By what you did to Mary. JACK: Yes. I see that I've caused them pain. And it's clear that things have changed. Especially with – with Dean. Will he ever forgive me? CASTIEL: You know, Dean, he – he feels things more acutely than any human I've ever known. So it's possible he could work through this. One day, he may explode and let it all out and breathe deeply and move on. JACK: How long will that take? CASTIEL: I don't know.

And yeah—I have seen people refer to Cas's little speech here as "condoning child abuse" and other bullshit. Because how DARE Dean not forgive soulless Jack for murdering his mother (something soulless Jack is unable to actually really acknowledge he did). I mean clearly any time someone murders your mom because she made them mad and threatened their sense of security by asking if they're okay and saying their concerning actions can’t stay a secret… That’s just natural understandable stuff! You need to forgive the person who murdered her instantly and if you don’t idk you’re kinda overreacting don’t you think? :/ I mean your mom probably deserved it kind of anyway for reading the room so wrong and talking about getting a person help. And I mean if you don't forgive the person who killed your mom or do anything trying to stop them from hurting more people you're really a child abuser... toward an adult... who murdered your mother in cold blood and is unable to even understand why it was wrong in any sense other than an intellectual one like he read it from a book... preferring to refer to it as "What happened to Mary" instead of acknowledge it as something he himself did because he was mad and felt threatened—which is what he circled back to in "Jack In The Box" too. It's only when Jack gets his soul back that he's able to actually feel true empathy, acknowledge his real actions and the gravity of them, and give an actual sincere apology. Because his soul is actually important—something this fandom refuses, by and large, to notice.

Anyway, this fandom's take on Mary's murder and soulless Jack vs. regular Jack is overwhelmingly a bag of wet third grader vomit and feces so what can one expect?

[gwydionae]

Never have I been more grateful that time travel exists in the X-Men universe.

[cureblogging]

Gonna say something potentially controversial:

I think Heartcatch suffers from the Up phenomenon in that people remember it as an excellent, if not flawless masterpiece when it actually has One (1) excellent, if not flawless moment in the beginning and is otherwise nothing special.

[suffarustuffaru]

i just. remembered again that i have a fembaru fic but also the premise is. Very Messed Up hah and also it was written before the canon genderbent au with its official genderbend names for everyone so its also outdated on top of that T^T i had like. Genderqueer subtext going on too. but i also wrote this fic like almost two years ago and havent touched it in forever so im unsure if i should go back to it…. o.o but i would love to finish it one day if only for my own satisfaction hah… i had a very detailed outline for ch 2 (its a twoshot) and several scenes written already anyway!! (and also i would probably update those names, make minor edits, etc etc hmm…)

[handfulofmuses]

i hate how well that goodbye was animated.

[moonsidesong]

i'd love to refresh my memory on puyo and get back into the series more properly like i was in 2019-2020 but to be honest its also an incredibly exhausting series to get into just because of how scattered and strange its history is.... everyones always like "oh madou was so much better because it had more lore" but theres like a billion different versions of the lore and large chunks of it are still(?) untranslated and nobody can agree on which one is the real one

[jumpscaregoose]

watching @gelatinous-jellyfish read shaman king made me realize just how much random bs knowledge I have

I like to joke about my "encyclopedic shaman king knowledge" but man it might be true

I'd see something I recognized and be like "I spent eight months researching what that symbolized" or "I know why that thing's weird it's because x y z happened" and you really don't get to test that sort of knowledge outside of that specific scenario

I felt very smart it was great

[mikoran]

i think part of mike thinking hes in love with el is him having this mindset that “well, el has saved the world so many times and she has superpowers, so i have to like her” (see: always bringing up her powers and like nothing else), so i think that will also having superpowers and saving the world would force him to realize that “oh shit, thats admiration for her superpowers, and i admire his too” and his feelings for will would become much more apparent because he definitely feels something else for will that isnt there for el. he wouldnt be able to confuse the admiration with attraction anymore

[steelycunt]

driving up 2 my uni city on friday n moving into my new uni room in my new house...cant wait 2 decorate it i have such a plan i have posters i am so so excited.... : ^ )

[k1rishiki]

the funniest* (*not actually funny at all) genshin Thing is that since the writing of female characters tends towards being uhm. the same few traits copy and pasted across like half the cast of girls no matter how much it makes sense for them to be acting that way based on the preestablished facts about them, if you put the 3000+ year old god who's ruled tyrannically over a nation, whose tyranny was the result of trauma caused by the sudden loss of her sister, and is just now centuries later coming to terms with her death and her people's needs next to the girl who's just REALLY into larping and ask 'which character is better written?' the answer will ALWAYS be the latter