Saw a post where people in the notes were arguing that behavior is only manipulative if it's intentional and planned, and tried to "prove" it with, like, Baby's First Example Of Manipulation ("if you don't do xyz, I'm gonna do abc.") and it's been ten minutes and it's still giving me hives. They were literally like "do we need to take 'manipulative' away and put it on the shelf" because they don't understand what manipulative behavior is.
Look if you (generic) think manipulative behavior has to be conscious, intentional, and planned, you are absolutely clueless and ripe for being manipulated. People can be i.n.s.a.n.e.l.y. manipulative without realizing they're doing it, and not recognizing that is, frankly, dangerous.
Signed, someone who has been repeatedly abused by people who certainly thought they weren't manipulative BUT ABSOLUTELY WERE.
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spent a month mashing two of my long term hyperfixations together into an AU, bone apple teeth
I wouldn't consider this a crossover as much as an inspired AU because autism brain drew parallels between the two narratives and I think it would be fun to explore the earlier years of the apocalypse, before the world is absolutely decimated (alongside many of the resources), before the fam loses Donnie and Raph, et cetera. I have Plans™
Paying homage to this iconic panel from The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys: National Anthem:
Still finalizing each of the bro's code names, but here are the initial drafts and close-ups of their designs:
Riff-Raph
Donamite
Antimatter Master-Plan
Magic Mic
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nightmare's gang but they're one of those youtube family channels that extorts the kids. HEAR ME OUT HEAR ME OUT
i mean cmon man managing his multiversal takeover scheme must take a lot of money. nightmare needs a source of income. so what better than to torture and extort his gang even more. he makes them behave and act entertaining for the camera because if not they get beat and punished. he has cameras everywhere in the castle for content and to monitor everyone. people online are worried about the "kids" on the channel because they are CLEARLY being abused and exploited. nightmare gets a feast of negativity from these peoples' worries. now do i think that he would be cruel enough to force his gang to act like children for this channel?? i dunno,,,,,,,, perchance (YOU CAN'T JUST SAY PERCHANCE)
idk there's definitely a lot more than could be done with this stupid idea. but i just think,,,,,, i just think it would be funny,,,,, think about it,,,,,,,,,,
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love thinking kipperlilly spends her afterlife looking for lucy in a familiar forest
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You ready?
(crying) OKAY BUT. Echo didn't even HESITATE. He didn't tell Omega to go with them to safety. He didn't ask, are you sure. He knew she would stay, and he didn't question that. He RESPECTED IT.
She's finally their equal.
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Power Seal?
what's that?
Ever wonder why you hear ancient stories about wild raging tyranitar burning villages to the ground, but in trainer battles on tv, a well trained lycanroc can get hit by a hyper beam from one and still be standing? Type advantage aside, thats thanks to power seals!
A standard diagram of a heal ball here. The blue rim, in different colors but in all pokeballs, is where your power seal is. PSA: If you ever notice a crack in that, GO TO YOUR NEAREST POKEMON CENTER IMMEDIATELY! Trade machines can exchange the same pokemon to another empty pokeball, and if you tell a nurse joy its because the seal is broken they’ll transfer your pokemon to a new pokeball for free
But anyway, power seals do exactly what it sounds like: they limit the power of a pokemon’s moves, so that in battles you can only ever knock out your opponents pokemon, and that a trainer’s togedemaru shocking you on accident wont literally kill you. Some people forget because they grow up around pokemon owned by trainers, but wild pokemon are way stronger than we give them credit for. Seriously, we don’t tell kids to avoid the tall grass for nothing. A power seal on your pokeball breaking means your pokemon is suddenly at its full power and very likely to actually hurt other pokemon in battles, so you need to get the pokeball replaced immediately
And if it worries you, pretty much all wild pokemon are aware that being caught means their power being limited, even if they don’t know exactly how. Thats why even the sweetest wild garchomp you have a bond to likely won’t just agree to be caught, lots of pokemon want a battle before you can catch them because they want you to prove you’re stronger than the power they’d be giving up
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Can't believe Paul really said "in spite of all the danger... I'll do anything for you" and John still doubted him
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without you
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Can we acknowledge for a second how insane it is that both Wally and Bart had to have significant character arcs to understand that sometimes people die?
With other heroes it's just a fact of life. People die. People die all the time. That's just the job. There's no escaping that. There was never any room for doubt.
They try as hard as they can to save everyone but they're only human. Sometimes they can't and sometimes people die.
But for Wally and Bart?
Oh man.
Wally was aware of the concept of death. He'd seen corpses, he knew that people died and that it was a commonplace thing.
But someone dying on his watch? Failing to save someone, no matter what the circumstances, was not even an option to Wally. It didn't happen. He was fast enough to make sure it never happened.
His actual literal catch phrase as the Flash was "Nobody dies."
I'm not joking.
He even had a storyline where a lady was thrown out of an airplane and Wally, who obviously can't fly and who would have no way of saving her, jumped out after her because nobody dies. And he did save her. He figured out a new way of using superspeed while plummeting to his death. The moral of that adventure to Wally was that no one should die ever when he's the Flash because he can always save everyone if he tries hard enough.
He then had another adventure where someone was going to die and he couldn't save them and he could not handle that. This man STOPPED. TIME. He stopped time because "if time doesn't move then they can't die" and he intended to never restart time because he was having a full blown panic attack over someone dying on his watch.
Thankfully he was able to calm down and figure out a plan to save them. He had to accept that it might not work and they might die and he had to be okay with that. Because he tried his best and that was all he could do. He did end up saving everyone in the end. No one died.
But I mention this because the man was in his mid 20's the first time he actually had to come to terms with the inevitability of death.
He wasn't being naive or ignorant. He wasn't being arrogant or cocky. The man had legitimately never failed to save someone.
Now Bart, in comparison, had to face death in general a lot sooner than Wally did. Wally was basing his conclusions based on his experience but Bart legitimately had no idea what death was.
He had to learn that people could die by witnessing the people he cares about have close calls. He had to learn that he could die by experiencing his own death.
I'm honestly not entirely convinced Bart has had to accept that he can't save everyone. There are arguments to be made for sure but I don't think he's ever explicitly had that "Oh shit, I can't save them. They will die" moment.
Regardless though, I think this really speaks to their abilities and efficiency in the field. Also their sheer power. It doesn't matter if it's a city of 2 million people and there's a nuke 1 second away from detonating. It doesn't matter if the criminal has a hostage at gun point and has already pulled the trigger. It doesn't matter if a building gets hit during a fight and crumbles into dust. There will be no casualties. There will be no hostages. There will be no friendly fire. They save everyone. No exceptions.
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you kissed a bear???
Also, how did a wolf chip your tooth?
I've actually gotten to kiss a handful! A fun mix of adult and cub Kodiaks and black bears. (All hand-reared, well-socialized bears born and raised in captivity please dont try to kiss wild bears guys. I shouldn't have to say that but this is tumblr so I am)
The thing about bear kisses is that they are great because the whole time you're struck with the awareness that the only reason you're getting away with it is because the bear likes you and is letting you.
Granted the bear cubs got kissed whether they wanted to sit still for it or not. It's good socialization to be cuddled and waddled around by a strange woman who keeps smacking kisses on your face.
(as for the wolf, her name was Twister and she got so excited to see me once that she launched up to give ME kisses and my short ass arms were no match for her determination. Wild enthusiasm + Wolf Velocity + Short arms = Chipped Front Tooth from Excited Baby desperately trying to lick my face. She's been the only Wolf Launch I wasn't able to intervene in time lol.
In addition to chipping my front tooth she also smeared just. SO much mud onto my face that I was basically unrecognizable)
Thank you for the ask!
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Jason and Miles on their way to to get Miguel in trouble with Mama bear Bruce.
"I'll tell Bruce you've been transphobic with me!"
"Telling you not to punch Jason isn't being transphobic, Gwen."
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I think it's worth noting here that although Kazuki got triggered by what happened to the umbrella and what could've happened to Miri, he doesn't lash out at her and yell at her or say mean stuff to her, or give her The Glareᵀᴹ and a cold shoulder.
It would be so easy to do that but he didn't. He instead comforts her, saying "these things happen, I'll get you an other umbrella".
I dunno but it says alot about him as a person.
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Bumblebee Week Day 4 - Secret
I've been here waiting for the longest time
I can't believe it's real
You lose the battles that you never fight
Can't hide from what you feel
(Come on!)
No more compromise
This is do or die
And now you've crossed the line
You'll wake the beast inside
No more compromise
This is do or die
I'll warn you one last time
You'll wake the beast inside!
Song: Sonic Frontiers OST - Break Through It All
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so
as a rangers fans, I need other rangers fans to stop excusing the hits Rempe makes as him being tall. " oh he's 6 ft 7 !!!!! "
okay and? jamie oleksiak is 6 ft 7 and I've never seen him try to take out someone's head like that.
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if netflix makes Luo Ji non-chinese I'm going to throw myself off a fucking cliff
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Losing the idgaf war over here but re: “tsukasa needs to be saved from wxs/rui actually wants to hurt him”
Read it’s on! Wonder halloween
Read it’s on! Wonder halloween!
Rui: ascending to the stage from the seats won’t have enough of an impact. He needs to make a powerful impression as a knight…
Rui: Oh, I’ve got it! That will definitely be better! But I’ll have to assess it’s practicality and safety first.
Read it’s on! Wonder halloween!
Rui: anyways, the stage is sorted and we’re ready to hold our show. I’ll start planning the next one in the meantime.
Rui: hmm… maybe I can make it easier for tsukasa by reusing some of the gimmicks that worked with him last time.
Read it’s on! Wonder halloween!
Read it’s on! Wonder halloween!
Tsukasa: ah, it’s wire-flying time!
Rui: he somersaults in the air and flies past his pursuers…
Emu: that’s going to look INCREDIBLE ♪
Tsukasa: this is just the kind of daring performance I was born for! What comes after that, Rui?
Read it’s on! Wonder halloween!
Read it’s on! Wonder halloween!
Rui: but you have me mistaken, Tsukasa… I… I’m making changes to improve the show…
Tsukasa: and I’m telling you to quit lying like that!
Tsukasa: I told you that I’m going to make the most of the role you’ve given me. I’ll pull off whatever you throw at me, no matter how tricky it might be!
Tsukasa: we have the potential to put on a jaw-dropping show, but you’re holding back!
Read it’s on! Wonder halloween!
Read it’s on! Wonder halloween!
(Asked if he was mad at himself for getting hurt) Tsukasa: Of course! I still am too! I killed the director’s confidence, didn’t I? I’m not a star, I’m a disgrace!
Tsukasa: a real star inspires their director to entrust them with any role! To unleash their imagination and try new ideas!
Read it’s on! Wonder halloween!
Read it’s on! Wonder halloween!
Read it’s on! Wonder halloween!
Read it’s on! Wonder halloween!
READ ITS ON! WONDER HALLOWEEN!!!!!!!!!
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