#the things that cannot be chosen

[thegoldenorb]

Sleepy babies 💤

I commissioned @taxolotl for this art of Chuuya and Yuuko!

[saaraofthesand]

Dinner with the Mafia fam (based on an AU I’m working on)

Chuuya, feeding Yuuko: Om om nom

Gin: Chuuya-san, you’re making weird faces again.

Chuuya, still making weird faces: No, I’m not.

Kouyou: You make weird faces, Lad.

Chuuya, turning to Kyouka: Do you have to read at the table?

Kyouka, reading a book about rabbits: Yeah.

Q: *pulling at their whole steak with their teeth*

Chuuya: Smaller bites, Q! Yikes! Nee-san, can you help the carnivore cut their meat?

Kouyou, sighing: *summons Golden Demon to cut Q’s steak*

Chuuya: Q, you have something to tell your Nee-san about school?

Q: Uhm, well, we dissected a frog!

Chuuya: Q got sent to the office again.

Kouyou, not paying attention: Good. Good!

Chuuya: No, Nee-san, that’s bad.

Kouyou: What?

Chuuya: Q got sent to the office again.

Kouyou: What? What for?

Q through clenched teeth: Nothing!

Chuuya: They put a tack on the teacher’s chair, during class!

Q: Nobody would believe that! He put the tack on his own chair. No one even knew I told him to do it.

Kouyou: You told him to do it and you still got away with it!? Excellent!

Chuuya: Nee-san, we are not encouraging this!

Kouyou: I’m not encouraging! I’m just-

Chuuya: Nee-san!

Golden Demon: *Cuts through Q’s plate*

Kouyou, stopping Golden Demon: Great! First Gin’s car, now we have to fix the table!

Chuuya: Gin’s car? What happened to Gin’s car?

Kouyou, giving Q her plate before leaving the table: Here. I’m getting a new plate.

Chuuya: *Clears his throat* So, how ‘bout you, Ryuu? How was your mission?

Akutagawa: nothin’ to report.

Chuuya: you’ve hardly touched your food.

Akutagawa: I’m not hungry for meatloaf.

Chuuya: Well, it is leftover night. We have steak, pasta, what are you hungry for?

Q: The Weretiger~

Akutagawa: Shut up!

Q: Well, you are!

Akutagawa, pointing his fork: I said shut up, you little insect!

Q: Well, he is!

Chuuya: Do not shout at the table! Nee-san?

Kouyou from the other room: Kids! Listen to Chuuya!

Q, muttering into their cup: He’d eat if we were having Atsushi-loaf.

Akutagawa, throwing down his fork: That’s it! Rashomon!

[atomicpirateperson]

so I realized that around this time of the year is already past my 1 year anniversary of being hyperfixated on Rob?? time flies

this is the timeline of how it happened according to some vague memories:

1. i happen to see some random video of The Rerun on like, YouTube I think

2. me: hmm i think that one eyed guy is giving some real gender envy– wait. oh no. its happening. he's the new Chosen One, isn't he

3. im not hyperfixated im not hyperfixated im not–

4. I AM SO FUCKING HYPERFIXATED I LOVE ROB FROM TAWOG HE MEANS EVERYTHING TO ME!!!!!!

5. rob is a major part of my life and my headspace now. i couldn't stop if I tried, because some part of my brain views him as an actual close friend, and therefore abandoning this hyperfixation would feel extremely cruel. i would never do that to him and therefore he will be my imaginary bestie/adoptive son forever. i will never grow out of it. i am perfectly okay with that

[zeb-z]

Cellbit who holds his shit together, pieces together the clues, and solves the issue while walking on a tightrope, where if he cannot correct for the mistakes made, the fallout would be catastrophic. He cannot fail to solve the case, he cannot fail to cure his friends, it isn’t an option in how desperate the situation has gotten.

He’s relied upon by everyone as the leader of the order, shoulders heavy with the burden. He is intense when he needs to be, gentle when a soft touch is required, and keeps his head when the situation is so intense the others are speechless.

He gets through Forevers stubbornness, reassures Pac in his sorrow and indecisiveness. It’s a fucked up scene and he handles it well because he has no other choice.

He doesn’t cry until it’s all over. Just for a second, when the moment is over, and he can take a breath of air. And even then he leads the rest of them through clean up. He makes sure Pac gets home, gets Forever to a proper place to rest, ensures the rest of the group is okay after what they just witnessed.

Then the moment he leaves the others, he finds another critical clue that he can’t just ignore or put to the back burner.

Another mystery, another crisis, another billion clues he’ll have to organize and follow up on and solve, because he’s the investigation guy, the leader of the order, and the island is counting on him. The kids are counting on him. He doesn’t get a chance to truly breathe. To fully sit down and let himself crumble, let someone, anyone, else be the strong foundation, because if he can’t solve this, who will?

Even with his family returning to him, it’s no wonder he feels so alone. Out of the frying pan and into the fire, I guess.

[thatscarletflycatcher]

From time to time I'm reminded of how S2 of Agent Carter wrote the most insulting backstory possible for Peggy. "She was a shy, submissive creature" sir, have you met this woman. "His brother tells her that she was born for adventure so she must join the SOE" sir, you are setting this in the middle of the battle of Britain. No one is thinking adventure here. The country is getting blitzed and on high invasion alert.

[lemonadeslice]

🪶 hugo’s collection 🪶

[pikkish]

Yeah we've already talked about how outright stupid the lore n writing for modern Doom is, but tbh I can understand why they had to do something with Doomguy, why they had to make him The Specialest Boy instead of Just Some Guy. Do I like how they did it? No, I would've taken it a different direction. Do I think that hugo could've done it well even if he took it in the direction I would've? No, I have minimal faith in his story writing. But realistically, how many times can a guy singlehandedly accomplish the impossible before you have to acknowledge he's very much not Just Some Guy who happened to be at the right place at the right time? I think that, with how every single other person on the Phobos UAC base were killed in Doom I, doomguy stopped being Just Some Guy the moment he decided to do anything other than just lie down and die.

[creatively-cosmic]

missing numbers lore

[ante--meridiem]

Not replying to them because if they took my first reblog in that bad faith I don't expect them to take any further engagement any better, but how the fuck did my interaction with this post go

Me: No, asking someone for the first time if they want to hang out somewhere to test if they'd be open to friendship is clearly not "boundary pushing" in the way op means, but here are some things that could plausibly look similar but would be bad (proceeds to list touching someone who isn't comfortable with that as something not to do no matter how close you think you are)

OP: you're condoning assault and going to hurt someone.

What the fuck gives? Literally the only thing I condoned was being the first to suggest things that might deepen a friendship (someone has to do that!) (yes, of course that isn't actually pushing boundaries, but the fact that it isn't was my whole point?), and the rest of my reply was spent listing ways that trying to do that might go wrong.

[vipermenace]

Started working as a substitute custodian!

[thegoldenorb]

Father-Daughter Dance <3

art commissioned from @kokoasci

who’s the child?

[antianakin]

So I've been thinking about those posts that have gone around protesting the fandom inclination to not like villain redemption arcs because of the puritanical values that go along with believing people don't deserve the "rewards" that come with redemption arcs, usually: love, acceptance, understanding, etc. and the idea that no person deserves to be denied the basic things every human being should be granted.

And, of course, applying that to Anakin.

Because as someone who does not truly LIKE Anakin, I'm usually the first person to not be inclined to forgive Anakin post-child murder, post-genocide, post-betrayal. I'm generally the first one to believe Anakin can't get better once he's chosen to do his worst. I've called him a rabid bear that just needs to be put down for his own sake and everyone else's. There isn't a cure at this point, he can't be saved or redeemed.

Even Luke doesn't really REDEEM Anakin, Anakin's still only doing what he does to save someone he likes. Great, he throws down a regime to save a family member, where have we seen him do that before? Oh right, when he threw down democracy to save his wife and instigated the beginning of the Empire. He didn't destroy the Empire because he wanted to make amends. He didn't kill Palpatine to save the galaxy he'd helped destroy. He didn't do any of it because it was just generally the right thing to do or because he recognized just how much pain he'd caused and was seeking to do better as a person overall. He does it to save ONE PERSON, and we can pretty solidly say, he wouldn't have done it for ANYONE ELSE, probably up to and including Leia.

Which makes me believe that had Anakin miraculously survived killing Palpatine, he wouldn't necessarily be a better person. He wouldn't truly work to make any kind of amends to the galaxy he'd brought so much pain to.

And what kind of amends could he even DO at this point that would make any kind of difference? He's committed like 167 genocides at this point, oppressed an entire galaxy, killed billions of children on a whim, destroyed whole planets. What can he POSSIBLY do to make any real amends for that? What could possibly make up for that in any meaningful way? He can't undo the Jedi genocide and quite honestly no one should ever let him near a Force sensitive person, especially a child, again. He can't undo the three decades of oppression, he can't undo the fact that the Republic that existed has been basically burnt to ash and needs to be rebuilt from scratch and, again, quite honestly, no one should ever let him near politics ever again.

The best thing Anakin Skywalker can do for the galaxy at this point if he manages to survive is just disappear from it. Whether he dies or just walks away and spends the rest of his life meditating on everything he's done wrong and leaving the galaxy he's brought so much pain to well enough alone, I don't care. Luke can go visit him if he wants to, I guess, but no one else should have to deal with him.

I think that's where my biggest grievance lies in any kind of "Vader Lives" AUs, or "Vader changes sides inexplicably post-genocide" AUs. Because generally, now EVERYONE ELSE IN THE GALAXY has to deal with him like he HASN'T committed genocide. Like he HASN'T murdered mountains of children for the sake of selfishness. As if he isn't someone who would happily do so again if it came down to it as we see in ROTJ when he happily brings down another government to save one person. If saving Luke in that moment had required another genocide instead of just killing Palpatine, we all know he'd have done it. He absolutely would've murdered any number of children to save HIS child. Because he hasn't truly changed and his motivations for saving Luke are almost exactly the same as the motivations he had for saving Padme, it's just that the requirements shifted and the galaxy got very lucky that saving Luke ALSO meant taking out the Emperor and Anakin himself.

Why should the galaxy at large be obligated to share it with someone who would have happily killed them all not so long ago, just because Anakin MIGHT one day learn to be a better person? Why are they obligated to just live the rest of their lives hoping he doesn't decide to go ahead and commit his 168th genocide if Luke stubs his toe on the wrong planet? Why is their fear acceptable in favor of Anakin getting a chance to be good?

Once he's decided double genocide is acceptable? Once he spends DECADES oppressing everyone he can find because misery loves company? I don't really see a way out for him that isn't vastly unfair for everyone else.

[musiclover2732]

if people could just be normal about the sexualities of complete fucking strangers on the internet for five fucking minutes that would be great. it is so fucking easy to not harass celebrities online about their personal private information that the fact that anyone would even think to do it boggles the mind and yet here we are. just enjoy their art and take what they feel comfortable sharing with the public at face value. sharing your art with the public should not equal a permission slip for everyone to dig thru and scrutinize every second of your life. no one owes the public and so-called “fans” deeply personal information like that.

[soldier-poet-king]

I said I wasn't gonna be mean and argumentative bc it alienates people and makes me feel bad abt myself but this is one (1) thing I'm certain about and it Actually Matters

No Jesus didn't say that being rich is inherently evil and all rich people go to hell but he did very much say the whole camel and needle thing. And rich people are SOOOOOO desperate to make it about anything other than wealth.

And like. "Not all rich people" isn't exactly a good argument here. The VAST majority (if not all) methods of accumulating wealth are unethical, either directly unethical, or at the very least profiting off of an economic structure which is designed to disadvantage the many for the benefit of the few. Yes yes there is no ethical consumption under capitalism or whatever, but there's a major difference between....buying everyday items and living on an average wage and the vast accumulation of wealth we see in the west.

I'm not even talking about the ultra rich! (Although I'd certainly argue they are the most unethical here, and the unbalanced ownership of the means of production IS a problem, regardless of your opinions on Marxist theory). But I'm talking about the comfortably middle class here too! I can't stomach it. And I genuinely don't understand how people can live like that and are still able to live with themselves. Too see suffering everyday, not even globally, but in their own cities. Obvs the exploitative ultra rich are The Real Problem here, but I think we're becoming far too comfortable with the accumulation of even casual wealth, when poverty and desperation and class inequality are only worsening.

And just to kick the hornets nets because I can and am frankly reaching a point of idgaf anger, Christians making these arguments in defense of wealth often tend to hold certain opinions about the government, and taxation, and how charity should be an individual decision and not "enforced". Okay. Fine. I don't actually like the govt either and in my ideal world sure that'd be the case. But I live in the real world and in the meantime people need to be fed and housed. However, these are the self same people who are often defending their own comfortable middle class lives and disposable income* and who aren't participating in the "freely chosen" mutual aid they apparently prefer. It just. Hm. (Leftists are ABSOLUTELY not off the hook for this one either, but when it comes to the explicitly religious argument against wealth, it oftener is a more conservative issue. 99% of religious leftists I know are radicals)

Anyway! Greed is perhaps the worst sin! Imo! The root of the majority of societal ills! And I will not fuckin stand for this rich people apologism! One good egg genuinely trying to do good in a sea of selfish people does not change the fact that the methods of accumulation are unethical, (and if it is inherited, holding onto unethically gained goods for your own benefit while others suffer is STILL unethical)

*to be clear I'm not saying we should all be ascetics. I like my creature comforts too. I'm soft and weak. But within reason. Within a certain degree of limitation. There is a point beyond which not only can we not live with our conscience, but we have a moral obligation to help each other, to do something with that wealth. Not just sit on a nest egg for another few decades so we can go on some extra vacations when retired. And yeah it's a process and we're not all zaccheus to transform ourselves overnight. But cmon. Most of us aren't even trying.

[balladetto]

(to be angry for yourself you must first care for yourself in that consuming capacity. you must be able to recognise that these are things you do not deserve. the question is has link not yet realised this, or is he refusing to acknowledge it because the thought of someone else going through everything he's had to feels worse)