#the wall ones are fine it's whatever

[xiomeebo]

replaying skyward sword right now and I am having the worst time trying to take out the fucking spiders.

[beatcroc]

pest control.

bonus:

*UPDATE: i made a sequel

[niinnyu]

Here's why I think jjk 261 is bad writing and wasted potential.

I've tried to separate more objective stuff and my opinions so I've made them into separate sections.

1. Jjk 260: I've already stated my issues with how jjk 260 ended and this applies tenfold now with this chapter. Buildup to sidestep to something completely different nullifies your buildup and is jarring to read. You also cannot blame villains in the story for undermining a character if you, as the author, keep doing it.

2. Okkotsu Yuuta's character: Yuuta's plan and willingness to use Gojo's body if he dies feels incredibly ooc and very uncompelling.

Yuuta is one of the few characters who's been able to see glimpses of the slightly more human side of Gojo "The Strongest" Satoru (he was my one and only/love is the most twisted curse of all). He has *just* seen the catastrophic consequences of a body used by someone else as a weapon. He was willing to go against a villain purely so that Gojo wouldn't have to.

You're telling me the same Yuuta was that ready to use his sensei's body and brought to anger when someone questioned the ethics of it?

Yuuta saying 'if no one else has the guts to then I will' means nothing becauseif his idea of becoming a monster includes using Gojo's body then he is the only one who can do it. All while implying cowardice of the others for "not having the guts to do so" (while being in Maki's presence and with Yuuji's absence, both of whom have been not self described as monsters).

Yes this is him stepping up to the task of being the strongest. But it doesn't feel like the big sacrifice of his humanity he says he doesn't care it being, if he's okay with it the moment the possibility of having to do so comes into light.

It just comes off as cocky and inhumane. And if that *is* Yuuta's character now, show me reason to believe this shift in personality in him specifically.

Also if Yuuta gets so mad at Gojo for being the "monster alone", why is his solution to do exactly that.

The easiest way to have the same events play out, but keep characters intact and have it be much more compelling would be:

Yuuta is presented with the plan of using Gojo's body. Have Meimei or Kusakabe, who've never really interacted with Gojo in any meaningful way to see him as more than his power, bring it up. Or maybe while brainstorming with everyone he comes to theconclusion himself with a lot of dread.

Yuuta immediately rejects the plan because he wouldn't do that to his sensei. Him having to throw his humanity away isn't his issue. He won't allow something like this happen again. And especially not to Gojo whom this was used against firsthand. He plans to kill Kenjaku himself.

Yuuta is reminded that if push comes to shove they still might have to if Sukuna continues to pose a large threat, but since he's the only one who can, it'll finally be only his decision. A panel of internal dialogue shows that Yuuta knows this is true.

Yuuta gets the formality "permission" from Gojo. Gojo says "who cares what happens to my body once I'm dead" and Yuuta *then* gets angry because Gojo of all people knows that he should care. Yuuta notices how Gojo also sees himself only as a weapon for others and calls him out on taking the burden all by himself (being a monster alone).

Fast forward to when Yuuta is dying and being kept alive by Shoko, Nitta, and Amai, Yuuta knows that Sukuna is still going strong and he has no choice but to use Kenjaku's CT against all his hopes because he knows he needs to.

Not only does this align with Yuuta's character a bit more, as someone who cares a lot for the people in his life including Gojo, and abides by his concern people at large, it also gives us a moment to see how heavy an ask it is of Yuuta, and forces the reader to be much more sympathetic of the choice he's had to make. How he'd rather not have done this and only went through because he's desperate.

3. Gojo's influence: This chapter essentially disregards any influence Gojo has had thoughout the story outside of having physical.

The main reason he'd not killed the higher ups waaay before now was because he knew the people who'd take their place would continue to pull the same shit.

Gojo ideology and the reason he went into teaching was to bring about a new generation of sorcerors who would know better. To dismantle the system that doesn't see sorcerors as more than dispensable tools for their power balance purposes, from the inside out.

I've seen people talk about how this ending for Gojo is significant because he isn't an exception to the cruel jujutsu system. Yes! True! He's been facing that his whole life! And that is exactly what he'd hoped to change through his students!

Yuuta using Gojo's body for his power feels like something the higher ups would not think twice about ordering. This was the perfect opportunity to show that the kids Gojo brought up *despite* this system are better than what the higher ups were.

And although throughout his life he too was not exempt as a jujutsu sorceror of being seen as solely his power (he'd also never allow anyone to see him otherwise). He sees, right at the end, these kids that he's helped train, and grow, and keep alive, know just a little better. Know *of* the human behind the power even if they don't *know* him.

OR! If you wanna stay grim about it, show that Gojo failed in this endevour. That the system still continues. Yuuta has made himself a weapon that is used because of his CT and Rika. That Yuuji has only ever been seen as a vessel, he'l he was created solely as one. That Yuuta goes to great lengths to keep his friends safe and Yuuji does so because he's already (kinda) lost them. Show that *they* still hold onto the parts that make them more than tools even if the system still doesn't.

And acknowledge the failure that it is on his part.

Because with this chapter Gojo, even just narratively, continues to be just a weapon.

Below the cut are my pretty coloured opinions about the chapter.

1. Payoff followed by setup and why Shibuya is still some of Gege's best writing: (ended up being long and not specific to this chapter so I'll make it it's own post lol)

2. Okkotsu Yuuta: I am frankly tired by the amount of importance Yuuta has been getting since the culling games ended. The only real narrative significance he has is being a student of and related to Gojo and the previous protagonist. He has no arc, no narrative weight, no personal stakes that other don't have.

He was an interesting character back when he was first reintroduced into the main story. As an unbiased executioner who would be there to kill Yuuji if Sukuna took over, both a threat but also an ally until then. The framing also made him more of a threat against Yuuji than a threat against Sukuna. Interesting!

He also has no personal conflict with the villains. The closest he got was wanting to kill Kenjaku because 'he won't let his sensei kill his Best Friend again', which is personal once removed since it's more for Gojo. Which was also a nullified sentiment because Gojo died before facing Kenjaku anyway.

He is just an overpowered character with no developmental backing. I still won't believe that Yuuta using Gojo's body is stronger than Gojo, because it is still Gojo who had had to condition and train his body to be able to handle the power he wielded. Yuuta has had a lot of groundwork already done for him in Gojo's body so even if he's able to do more damage than Gojo, it's still only because he's standing on Gojo's shoulders. People talking about "are you Gojo Satoru because you're the strongest or you the the strongest because you're Gojo Satoru" will be answered here need to remember this.

And since when has either of them cared about the Gojo clan looking bad to mention this lmaao what?

3. Kenjaku's relevance: Yuuta copying Kenjaku's CT being such a flippant discussion made me so mad lol. Your telling me they were seeing killing Kenjaku as a minor stepping stone to a bigger plan. When Kenjaku has been alive for yeaaarrrs on end pulling who knows what all shit that got all these balls rolling in the first place?

I know it easy to do in retrospect with Kenjaku already dead in current time and Sukuna being the current threat. But that's just undermining the threat Kenjaku posed and the "victory" that killing them was (even as anticlimactic as it was).

Seems like Gege had to do his best to brush off Kenjaku since they was proving to be a much more interesting villain than the Big Bad Sukuna, but man way to make your own rather well written character feel lame.

4. Gojo killing the higher ups: While the panels of Gojo wanting to shield his students from the bloodshed he was about to cause was sweet, I still wish the second years had siccesfully forced themselves in and joined him. It's another place where they could've shown Gojo fostering a generation that follows through with his ideology and plans because they get how messed up the system is.

When the higher ups were initially shown to be killed before Gojo vs Sukuna, the chapter had Inumaki and Yuuta talking in the hallways of the higher ups' hq. The implication that they'd also done it in the month of preparation made it feel like everyone was joining in and getting shit done. Yes it's satisfying knowing that Gojo got to go through with something he's wanted to do for a long time, but almost everyone has the same beef with the higher ups. Give everyone or a representation of everyone a slice of the action.

5: Shoko hate: Completely unfounded. People expecting her to suddenly have so much more agency than Gege has ever given her just because they're sad about their fav is stupid. And if you need to be angry direct it at Gege's writing that chose to use her opinion for comedic purposes.

Also question why you care about her ability to do something only when it comes to your fav male characters are facing difficult situations. Remind yourself she's the only overworked bloody doctor/ healer assisted by only a 15/16 yo underskilled underprepared child (Nitta) in a society that is still facing the effects of Shibuya. Also go away stop pretending you care.

I have more issues but whatever. Jjk fans who's favs are dead and never mentioned again be glad!! They're safe!!

[novantinuum]

gnawing at the bars of my cage

can we please Stop telling SU blind reactors all the fandom drama and SU crit that came out of every episode so we can allow them to just enjoy the show like a normal person at their own leisure and make their Own opinions thank u

[moeblob]

What Deacon thinks: what did that mean? did he want me to wear a collar too? why else would he mention my neck? i mean, if he /asked/ me i would wear one but he didn't so would wearing one be weird?

What Ymber meant: It's nice to be near someone who isn't tethered to this world to serve it with a physical reminder for all to see.

[pyrosomatic-metamorphosis]

i've mentioned here and there that i made a relationships/dynamic spreadsheet. i have finally put it to use. look on my Works, ye mighty, and despair.

-extra note: i am not omniscient and i cannot watch every stream. i may have missed a sibling declaration or two.

-extra extra note: i currently speak only english and used google translate for the rest. if theres a translation error I'd love to know- i wont be able to go back and fix these, but im always so curious about how accurate google translate can be

extra extra note pt 2: do. do other languages use guardian as in "legal guardian" as in "not a family member but still Primary Caregiver of child" because i am suddenly aware those translations might not be correct. on the other hand tho if google translate decided that the parents are guarding warriors of the eggs im not going to argue

[icewindandboringhorror]

Recent game related things .. hrmm...

[ultimatepeter-man]

Hi do you think Wolf Spider started out as a normal Spider-Man or that he always had the spider legs as part of his powers?

OHOHOHOHOHO BUDDY YOU HAVE OPENED A CAN OF WORMS!!! Wolf Spider occupies my brain 24/7, it's unhealthy how much I think about him and I have a dozen different ideas about how he came to be and why he is who he is. I have two different headcanons:

Ya'll remember season 2, episode 25, when Otto was thinking about injecting Peter with the Goblin serum to see what it'd do to him? My first origin headcanon is that Otto DID inject him with the Goblin Serum. Since the serum is a amalgamation of Peter's DNA and Venom (which is also Peter's DNA), when Otto does inject him with the serum...nothing happens.

Or, at least, they think nothing happens at first. But overtime, Peter starts exhibiting more spider-like traits, including fangs, organic webbing, and strange limb-like stumps that are beginning to grow from his back. His skin turns into an ashen gray and hardens, a human's version of an exoskeltion, and his eyes go black and red (headcanon within a headcanon, much like how spiders have poor eye-sight, Wolf Spider also has poor eyesight and relies more on his other senses to guide him).

Just like how the serum had an effect on Norman and made him go absolutely insane (or, more insane than he already was) it also fucks up Peter's brain and drives him closer to insanity until, eventually, when a piece of the Siege Perilous lands in his dimension, he decides he's gonna go out there and kill other Spider-People and put the rest of the Siege Perilous back together.

2) Origin headcanon #2, when Peter was first bitten by the spider, instead of keeping it to himself, he got really overwhelmed with it, especially after Ben died, and ended up going to Norman Osborn (since the spider that bit him was from Oscorp.) Unaware that Norman is actually a terrible human being, Peter believes him when he says he's going to help.

But then Norman ends up kidnapping/holding him captive in his labs, and has Otto get to work figuring out why the spider gave him powers and how to replicate it. (He also faked Peter's death so people didn't start wondering where he disappeared and so they wouldn't go looking for him.)

As the experiments on Peter continue, he ends up kind of getting an extra dose from the spider (as it is still alive, like we see in the finale of season 4), which, as you can imagine, has an interesting affect on him. It's like I described above, his skin gets ashen and hard, his extra spider-limbs grow from his back, he gets fangs, and his eyes darken. The entire process was excruciatingly painful and the affects did immense damage to Peter's psyche.

In his anger, pain, and grief, he ends up breaking himself out and killing Norman in the process (right in front of Harry Osborn, who later becomes the Goblin Peter fights). Peter is free, but he's very different. Aunt May is deep in depression and grief after losing Ben and Peter, and Peter is very disgusted/ashamed of his new appearance and can't bring himself to face her. He continues living and growing, eventually picking up the monkier "Wolf Spider" and gets more bitter and angry as life goes on. He eventually snaps and goes full "villain" when Aunt May dies, ashamed that he didn't talk to her before them.

When a piece of the Siege Perilous lands in his dimension, he uses it to see into other dimensions, and is absolutely furious as there are other dimensions where he wasn't experimented on, where he became a hero, and where he still has friends and family to support him. He adopts that mentality that "if I can't have it, then no one can" and sets out to collect the rest of the Siege Perilous to do just that.

So...yeah, you could say I think about Wolf Spider a completely normal amount, heheh.

[magnoliamyrrh]

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[thereareeyesinsidethetrees]

we haven't mentioned horrific flesh creature ford to you all yet

hungry guy that can't eat

sleepy guy that can't sleep

guy that looks almost like a normal human being sometimes, but more like a wyrm-wolf-thing made of blood and sinew other times

real bitey guy but you can tell whether it's a love bite or not. if it is, he might even be so kind as to retract his teeth for you. if it isn't, you're losing limbs because he's biting you with multiple mouths all filled with razor-sharp sea glass teeth and all at once

guy who happy stims by forming several more arms and flapping them all. guy who hides in the cabinets and on the ceiling when he's overstimulated

guy who overheard stan mention someone that tried to kill him once in the past and pretended to have no clue what he was talking when said person showed up on the news as a pile of red paste and viscera the next day

guy who loves cooking with mabel. guy who will maim anything that tries to hurt her or waddles

guy who is happy to show dipper all the weird shit he can do so he can get some experience studying anomalies, but makes sure not to show him any of the more intense stuff because he doesn't want to scar the kid

guy who can never die and yes he is upset about this

guy who helps soos fix stuff cause his flexibility and ability to grab things from very far away is very useful

guy who is always running out of time and he can't explain why or how

guy who (incomprehensible shrieking)

guy who isn't the least bit bothered by the fact that he can open his ribs up or turn his limbs into stabby bits or y'know. the whole turning into a wyrm-wolf-thing shebang

[erin-gilberts]

This one family I used to babysit for confused the absolute hell out of me as a teen, but honestly, putting together in my late 20s that they were most likely Messianics made SO MUCH about them suddenly make SO MUCH sense.

[zarovich]

does one ever truly stop being suicidal or do you just get better at ignoring it. i dont know

[slingbats]

I am going to need that rewrite on my desk by tomorrow, 12 point font, times new roman, double spaced

noOOOOOO IT'S TOO MUCH WORK!!! I DON'T HAVE TIME AND I DON'T CARE ENOUGH........ girl help!

my rewrite where uhhhhhhhhhh. everything is the same except the writers actually care about female characters. a lot of decisions were made because of actresses no longer being available so plotlines like fish's are more or less the same but like, Ivy either gets to grow up normally or is never a child at the beginning to start with (you can go the weird plant body route if you have to keep her relatively younger since this is a prequel ig), and I don't... even know what to make of KK or Isabella, and Sofia should just be fucking. dont tell me there isn't a single female italian bodybuilder who can act, I don't believe you. let her be buff. let her take up space. let her be huge and wear vintage fashion.

also Oswald is fat and trans

[sonknuxadow]

the person running the artfight tumblr account is so brave because if that was me i would have turned into the joker by now with the way like 60 percent of the posts ive seen from them are them answering questions that have either already been answered a million times on the blog before or is something the sender would probably know the answer to if they read the rules . or both

[everymlmhybrid]

this part genuinely makes me feel like eating dry wall like i can't explain how i feel about it without making some of you finally tire of me and block me about it i think

[plushri]

literally giving up with this doctor just going to wait until I move next year =/ she needs to get her hearing checked out fr