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[divinector]

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[codenewbies]

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[lesbian-megurine]

[ starter for @casinorabbit ! ]

If you'd told Sanae that she would end up working in the Red Light District, of all places, she would scoff and roll her eyes.

For as little as she'd gone out and about these years, even she knew that Kabukicho was far from an ideal place to live. Surrounded by people drowning in their own vices, their own fixes to make this hellhole just a little more bearable. Wounded hearts tearing each other to shreds, and the consistent threat of being picked as easy prey for a wolf's hunger.

Sanae, however, was never one to half-ass anything. Even in circumstances like these.

So, she's been laying low in this new place, playing the role of bartender well enough to learn more about this new world. She doesn't want fame- not the traditional kind- but rather... respect, for her mastery of endurance.

She listens to the woes of the customers, asks them about their lives here, recommends them different girls. All the while, she keeps notes on what this particular audience liked best in these performances.

She supposes her history in that is useful for this, if nothing else.

The first thing she learns is how popular the top performer is, the so-called Lucky Bunny of this Casino. She wasn't just excitable, she channeled it into a catchy song and dance. A sensual siren who sways on the stage, selling herself as a drug to be hooked on, with the promise of temporary passion.

The next thing she learns, as she finishes locking the last supply drawer in her Dressing Room, is that the Lucky Bunny is a pain in the ass.

Letting out a sigh, she secures her usual eyepatch around her eye, looking over herself through her vanity's mirror. She hums one of her original tunes to herself, running a hand through her hair. Making it messy, but not dishelved.

After all, she was never one to chase people.

No, Megurine Luka attracts, as any magnet should.

[eossa]

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[rickybaby]

"At the end ... I say at the end, but honestly, Q2 was - we need to talk about it and figure it out. At the time, it didn't make sense to me, but also you can't have drawn conversations because time is the essence. But yeah, both runs I felt like our plan was well off. At the end, we're struggling to get the lap in, so creating enemies in the last corners overtaking. I hate when people do it to me, but I'm being told to do it, otherwise we won't get a lap in. Still, you start 1 - 2s behind Zhou, you're not going to get a good lap in dirty air. That was certainly not one of our good sessions. We will address all we need to. What's done is done now. We're 15 and that's that, but we've struggled this weekend. The last three weekends haven't been easy but we've found a way to make it work. This weekend, as a team, wasn't going to be easy and the frustration comes from that as well because we don't have the luxury to not get it right. I felt like both runs in Q2, we were doing a very questionable run. Far from optimised, but not saying we could be P8 or something like that, but we didn't give ourselves a chance today. After we debrief and get everything off our chest, I'll look forward to a hot shower"

[oscconfessions]

only the ogs remember when the oscc blog was titled "confesshawn", the header being tacomic discourse and the askbox only being "confess"...

fun fact! i changed the blog title because people started calling me confesshawn. and we changed the header because well... -🫒

[mentattea]

i have an AU where under the baron's influence, Alia orders a Piter ghola, but the OG plan goes awry when Piter No.2 does remember his previous memories and teams up w Alia to contain the baron, to enhance their joint slay & to make each other worse.

[theriverbeyond]

did you have a coherent picture in your head when you read about the bone monsters, the one in the laboratory and the one that killed everyone? I was struggling tbh

my idea for the bone monster is like what if a T rex was quadruped with accessory bone-sword arms that didn't touch the ground and also a massive and very long prehensile tail and face spikes.

big thank you to Sue the Trex for being my bad photoshop model!!!!

also i couldn't resist making this meme:

[tea-and-secrets]

BASED AS FUCK HEADER so many places online and particularly on Tumblr are so insanely hostile toward systems. I follow an AITA blog and every time one where someone involved is a system I have to scroll by because I know the AITA is just gonna be someone asking if they're an asshole for abusing a system all of the comments are "the system is the asshole because they're a chronically online delusional faking 13 year old manipulative sociopathic narcissistic immature freak" which not only shows off like ninety OTHER layers of ableism but is also just. so much fucking vitriol toward systems for no reason. On other confession blogs there's always a dozen confessions about how evil fakers online are tricking innocent singlets into thinking everyone has DID and they always have like 9 times the usual amount of reblogs and all the tags are like "#THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!". There's r/fakedisordercringe and "best of fakedisordercringe" compilations on YouTube and people on TikTok love to not only make 30 piece long slideshows about evil fakers online (see above) but then also it's like. the funny haha meme on there to tell systems they deserved their trauma and should go through more of it. This has just turned into a rant there is SO much ableism I see and suffer thru online as a system member so thank you for showing explicit support for systems. It's tiny but it means a lot to me to know that not everyone thinks of ppl like me as monsters who "get what they deserve" yknow

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[imawgine]

Hii could you find taylor icons that match this header please?? Thanks!🤍

Hii, made! i hope you like babe ♡

♡ Taylor Swift Icons ♡

♡ se pegar, gostar deixa um like pf ou dê créditos no twitter @imawgine ♡

[divinector]

Responsive Header with Full-Screen Search Box

[codenewbies]

Responsive Full-Screen Header

[insecateur]

nngghhh. wèbbe désîgne

[eossa]

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[dementedspeedster]

Alright here's my thoughts on a way Thad could have essentially a 'redemption arc' Post-FMA and post death. (Actually in retrospect Post-Rogues Revenge to be specific. I just lump that with FMA. Though I don't accept what happened with Josh Mardon).

This post started as a response/add-on to @radioactive-earthshine's post here, so a bit of its phrasing is in conversation with that post. Though i have done some editing since my first draft of this post.

Please excuse my rambling as I love thinking of Thad from a perspective of post-FMA and post-death and having come back to life for a second chance.

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Notes:

General Note (before or after you read this post): I guess my big caveat with this idea is that at least some people have to be willing to give Thad a BIG chance and let him try to prove himself in order for it to really work. People gotta be cool with

*1 - Why post Thad's death? - I see Thad's death as a catalyst for him to change or be open to some change because death is such a huge consequence of his actions, but also because 1. Since he's a speedster he's not dead in the traditional way thanks to the Speed Force essentially housing speedsters. And 2. It also gives hm time away from other people and the influence of the Thawnes in order for him to think. He can look at his life and reexamine his own thoughts, feelings, decisions, and essentially his entire life and for once reflect on his own without having to confront someone else, prove himself, or defend his choices in that moment. He can just reflect. Though that won't fix everything. Instead, it is an impetus for Thad to change. (Also just from a comic/visual medium perspective I think it would be cool to delve more into the speedsters who are 'stuck' in the Speed Force. But that's a conversation for another day.)

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By looking at Thad’s actions post Mercury Falling as being due solely to him and his feelings and desires such as a sense of bitterness, a desire to prove himself, and as a way validate his own existence such as through killing Bart, I can see Thad (preferably post his death)*1 realizing that his previous actions were never going to lead to his own validation. Thad killing Bart while it might have felt good in the moment, ultimately meant nothing and was a bittersweet endeavor because after that moment he loses all purpose and drive with his victory over Bart. He realizes that he was just falling to his own bitterness and the teachings of violence and hatred from the only life he knew.

With the realization that his past actions weren't right, that they didn't truly bring him happiness or validation, he can progress from where he was before. He would no longer be reliant on his hatred toward Bart to propel his life, but instead he would live for himself and live his own life for the first time. He would be free.

Now, just this concept where Thad no longer shackled to his hatred toward Bart in itself could lead to so many different scenarios and paths for Thad as he builds a life for himself (and I could go into that), but specifically in relation to a 'redemption arc' it would lead more specifically toward the tribulations that come with self-discovery and building a life for himself now that he is alive again. Now, I say this specifically with a social perspective in mind with regard to this bit. Because Thad post death would be trying to build a life for himself while people/heroes/most of the Flash Family consider him a villain and still hold his past actions, like killing Bart, against him. It's gonna be hard for him to go through this 'redemption arc' and there are gonna be consequences for Thad's past through how people treat him, but despite that he's still going to try. It's a scenario of self-betterment, but also I think unconsciously he's also trying to make up for what he's done by being a better person than he was.

Setting-wise this arc would be set in the Twin Cities are. Either Keystone City or Central City, so he can't help, but run into members of the Flash Family. But these potential/chance meetings with other Flash Members allows him to make connections; good, bad, and just neutral depending on who it is in the Flash Family he meets and if they're familiar with him.

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Regarding the topic of redemption when applied to Thad/how he would personally handle the process of redemption/changing:

I think redemption for Thad would be half him fighting his own 'inertia,' his resistance to change. Part of Thad would still be so ingrained in the idea that he is "bad," a villain, and a Thawne (even though he's abandoned the family in every way except name) because that is what he has known for so long and because that is what people are telling him definitively when they see that he's alive again. Thad believes these sorts of things about himself and is also unwilling to let go of his past because it is all he has ever know, so he is fighting the fact that he actually is changing as a person. And this would be further reflected in his actions. He would be consciously putting distance between himself and the Flash family, he would be punishing himself for his previous actions, and SAYING that he has not changed despite how actions would show that he has. Thad's stubborn, but I also think that he would be scared of change as well, and at this part of his life would very much be his own namesake, Inertia.

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Briefly regarding what his actions would look like at this time as he finds himself and his own life:

I say in this scenario he would overall straddle a sort of anti-hero line though his actions skew toward more heroic, though not to the same degree as heroes. It's not out of a desire to do right for others, but it would be selective in a way and drawing from what he cares about. Like, sure, if he's in the area he will save someone who is in danger, but more specifically I think he would be real conscious of how younger metas are treated, so no one ends up being used like he was in his youth, that they can have a childhood he didn't have, so he would speak up in those kinds of scenarios. Regarding labels: Thad still would probably still stubbornly label himself a villain because of his unwillingness to consciously/overtly change himself as I previously mentioned, but also because of the perspective directed toward him by heroes. Though people can call him whatever they like, but he's still going to do what he think is best.

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Forgiveness

I agree that forgiveness would be very difficult, but I also think that it would be possible for him to interact with the Flash Family albeit selectively. I think that people like Max and Barry would be the most willing to give Thad a chance and willing to understand that he was used, manipulated, and essentially a child soldier, but also willing to give him a chance and see that he is not the same person he was before if they ran into him again.

Max and Barry are my top contenders for giving Thad a chance because respectively Max understands Thad to a degree. He's experienced who he was a child and the thought he gave to being a hero and potential he had. I don't think he would try to force Thad to become a hero again, but would meet him with some understanding though it might need to be earned somewhat after knowing about Bart's death. I think Max would have to see a bit of a change in Thad for him to fully try to connect with Thad again. It would take a bit of work.

As for Barry, I think he would in general be more open to giving Thad a chance simply if Thad expressed it. I think, in part, it is due to how disconnect Barry sort is from a lot of major events that have happened to his family and in particular Bart. He would be taking Thad more at a face value because he doesn't know Thad or his past. He probably wouldn't know how Thad kidnapped Iris in his youth, and he might not know that Thad is the one who killed Bart (that would probably depend on what he's been informed of by the rest of the family).

Overall, this scenario regardless of who would be willing to give Thad a chance would mostly cause some discord internally for the Flash Family, as they all would have different perspectives of Thad, but also probably regarding perspectives of 'redemption,' whether people can change, and specifically whether Thad can change or if he even deserves a chance.

Ultimately, though what this all would culminate to is either Thad very very VERY slowly becoming sort of a part of the Flash-family or sorta absorbed within the Flash-family circle in the sense that some of the members are willing to give him a chance. (I think there's a touch of hilarity and awkwardness just at the thought of someone like Barry inviting Thad to a holiday dinner. I also think it's also a good way exploring family and the complexities of family and family dynamics when you add someone like Thad to the mix. Kinda like a relative you're not fond of or the black sheep of the family who has history. There's just so many themes that open up when you add Thad to the mix.) It's very much a black sheep scenario. Or that his 'redemption' allows for him to slowly make up for his past. People can feel however they want to feel toward him, they can distrust him still or think it's an act, but the fact he's make strides for himself and as a person slowly becomes undeniable in this scenario as time goes on.

I also think both "outcomes" would allow him to have future appearances and interact with members of the Flash Family as he goes through the process of trying to prove himself/make up for his past.

And that is basically how I would write Thad in a 'redemption' arc. It's not a traditional redemption, but instead it's more focused upon consequences, actively working toward being a better person that you were before, and focused more upon the development than the outcome.

If you have any questions feel free to ask and I'll try my best to answer.

[occasionalblockwatcher]

I'm a shit tagger so I'm not gonna delete shit bc it's too much work but officially exiting the qsmp sphere. As a staunch believer in workers rights, I can't stand for worker exploitation and I'm sorry but ain't no way Quackity didn't know. That money for the server comes out of his account. Gross.