#this is a bit of a ramble

[persona-brainrot-real]

I don’t even know how to articulate my thoughts about Akechi and Sumire in the third semester. Something about Akechi, whose entire life was dictated by grief over his mother and the resentment of her killer that he stopped living it, seeing Sumire doing the exact same, grieving her sister and resenting herself as her sisters killer. It’s no wonder he hates Maruki so much for how he treats her and feeds into her desire to live as Kasumi - when you boil it down to it, Maruki’s endorsement of her desire to live as Kasumi isn’t all that different to Shido playing along with Akechi’s desire for revenge, both of them letting the vulnerable child think that they had an ounce of control in their decision.

He protects her every chance he can without ever being condescending to her but it still comes across patronising because she’s standing next to Joker, whose competence he never once doubts. He asks her if she’s okay, if she can handle it, and then turns to Joker and says don’t let me down. He checks in with her constantly and he realises what the issue is with her identity but never presses it so she can figure it out herself forgetting that if it wasn’t for the right circumstances and the confrontation with Maruki that she could never have realised or come to terms with it, just as he never realised that he was never going to get his revenge on Shido.

And in the middle of that you have a guy who has just watched all of his friends abandon him for a better, happier life with their old friends or old family and despite everything they’ve done together he realised he doesn’t really know them all. Not Kasumi, who was actually Sumire, not Akechi, who was lying to him the whole time they were friends (but who he suddenly has to trust completely because he has no other choice, who is STILL lying to him by never mentioning that he’s going to die soon) and not any of the Phantom Thieves, stop having time for him the moment they have other friends.

Maruki managed to make a reality that was completely isolating for Joker, gave him Akechi as a consolation prize for taking everyone else from him (exaggerating for effect: I know he and akechi wished for each other. The point remains that this was the only option Akira has for company after everyone else is given their friends or family back).

Does this make any sense. Can anyone hear me.

[hersurvival]

His head lied on my chest,

Sweet and vulnerable,

Says something with little hands

From deep within

Holds on to me.

"Maybe it's the longing"

But these days he's not so sad.

And tomorrow night when I am gone,

Alone in my own bed for the time,

He'll tell me he awoke looking,

Searching to his right

For me to still be by his side.

@nosebleedclub September 21st - Healing Lamb

[rriavian]

Every now and then I'm tempted to come off anon on ao3, and every time I talk myself out of it. I had an agreement with myself that when I hit 10 fics in one fandom I'd come off anon for it...but that milestone has come and gone. At this point I think it's more of a habit than anything else, and as soon as I do it for one I'll feel less anxious, but I'm still relatively shy and I've written some very different stuff across different fandoms/different series. Is it weird to worry about people being like 'this was you???' because I'm probably overthinking it but...yeah. Minor concern (ok major concern).

I'll probably agonise over it for another couple of months and then suddenly decide to just do it. But yeah...it's something I've planned to do but not yet managed to be brave enough to actually commit to.

[an-overcaffeinated-npc]

I don't mind the idea of being perceived by strangers because I know that mostly I am a short interaction/thought in thier life and then we both move on with our lives

But the idea that I am perceived by my friends frequently!! and that they have feelings towards me that I don't know about!! That is not ok, nope don't like that, what thoughts are you having????

[some-pers0n]

I hate how people will look at popular indie artists who had one or two songs go viral on TikTok and start making fun of anybody who listens to them. "Oh you listen to Lemon Demon, Will Wood, Jack Stauber, Glass Animals, and Mother Mother? Tsk, don't you know that is stupid TikTok neurodivergent white transmasc preteen music? It's so mid and bad you should listen to real music–" you are a pit of misery

[hoodiemanic]

Titans tower summary ft that 1 quote

[egophiliac]

missed the mark by (looks at calendar) uhhh. hm. but I really wanted to do something for the 5th anniversary! happy five years to these idiots 🎉

[manhattan-gamestop]

Me explaining why my grades were/are shit

[crowkip]

yeehaw, baby!

[runawaymarbles]

The thing I keep coming back to, with all the *gestures expansively* is that real life doesn't have peaceful epilogues.

Every single win has to be defended. Forever. I'm sorry. It sucks. The Nazis lost until they stopped losing. The US had abortion rights, and then 50 years later it didn't. Empires fall, and then they invade other countries again. Oppressive regimes are overthrown and replaced with other oppressive regimes. You will never finish the work etc etc etc. Which is why it's so fucking important to be able to acknowledge and celebrate progress, when it happens. The people who came before you didn't put in all that work for nothing, and you aren't, either. You can't save it all for the Ultimate Victory because there is never going to be an Ultimate Victory. There's no such thing as a time when everything is good, and ours shall not be the commune of Heaven.

[kiras-law]

light "if someone tries to read my diary i will set my drawer on fire" yagami

[vandersprodigy18]

This episode really demonstrates why M9 won the battle royale. They really are nigh unkillable.

They are rolling like dogshit and losing spell slots left and right, have less PCs than the VM fight at the Key, have taken exhaustion points and soo much damage, and their healing is being sabotaged.

But they still managed to complete their encounter in less than 1 episode. They managed to avoid all the obstacles leading to the boss fight. They had no deaths.

This party build is legit insane. Theyre so mobile, cant pin them down. Their casters control the battlefield. Their tanks are basically immortal. They have 2 guaranteed Divine Interventions, 2 Mass Heals. They have 1 Vestige, and an unending well of tricks in Fjord and Veth. They are dripping with advantages, resistances, and rerolls.

Mighty Nein most qualified assholes for the job fr.

[the-worms-in-your-bones]

This entire era was just rtd doing nostalgia bait for his previous era without actually bothering with a proper plot. Bringing back legacy characters can absolutely be done well and has been in the past, but here is really just felt like it was overshadowing the doctor. And I’m sure 15 will get overshadowed by a lot of fans because rtd had tennant before him and Billie piper after him. Both are good actors who played well liked characters, but they aren’t the entire show, they are not more important to doctor who canon than everyone else. Can’t we just take the time to appreciate a new actor who was delightful in the role of the doctor

Not to mention the racism of it all, rtd has a track record of sidelining his characters of color, and unsurprisingly he did it this time too. Ncuti was the first black doctor and him and Belinda were the first fully nonwhite tardis team, and yet we had so many doctor lite stories and Belinda’s characterization was basically forgotten in favor of focusing on the white companion from last season

[columboscreens]

[chronicowboy]

"Hey, Buck, guess you're out on a call. Should've known. Bell probably rang the moment I dropped my last fare off. Anyway, just calling to check in. Hope it's an easy one! Call me back when you get a chance."

"Hey, Buck. You would not believe the ride I just had. Had to take them all the way up to Mesquite. Dead silence the whole time. And they weren't even on their phone! Whatever. It was an extortionate fee, thank God. And they tipped pretty well, but I was bored out of my mind. Hope you're having more fun than me. Call me back."

"Goddamn, you're busy today. Ravi say quiet again? Go easy on the kid. He can't be blamed for your crazy superstitions. Be safe. And call me!"

"Hey, Buck, hope you're doing okay. You've been MIA for hours, and I'm not above admitting I'm a little worried. Got my fingers crossed it's a bunch of fender benders. Nothing big. Just let me know you're good, okay? Even if it's just texting me an emoji from the back of the truck."

"Buck, come on, man. Jesus, I feel crazy. I don't think we've gone this long without speaking since I got out here. Chris has been making fun of me all night for being glued to my phone. Says I'm worse than his friend Jason waiting for Miley to text him back. Like I'm some lovesick teenager. Um. Anyway... Please just let me know you're okay. I'm worried sick over here."

"So many fucking voicemails and I just realised you won't even be able to listen to them if you're that busy. I feel like an idiot. I'm gonna hang up and text you. Please ignore my spiralling when you get home. God, you probably think something's wrong. Fuck. Idiot. We're fine. Everything's fine. I just miss you. Anyway."

Hey, Buck, ignore my voicemails. Nothing's wrong! Everything's fine, I'm just worried about you.

Send me some proof of life?

And call me back when you get the chance.

Be safe out there :)

[apricustar]

i can’t stop thinking about how intentional it felt that buck’s big grief moment—his most open, honest reflection about bobby with someone in his life—was with tía pepa. not eddie. not maddie. but eddie’s aunt—eddie’s family.

it’s soft, intimate; a conversation underlaid by years of something we haven’t seen on screen, but that exists all the same—an undercurrent of familiarity, of care, of a relationship built quietly in the background.

and the thing is, pepa doesn’t speak to him like a guest, doesn’t treat him as her nephew’s coworker (or old coworker, i guess): she calls him evancito, later cariño—terms you don’t just throw around. those names come from genuine affection, closeness—love.

and then there’s the moment she calls him our eddie. not my nephew. not eddie. our eddie. buck is already part of the ‘our’—already included, inherently.

all of this tell us everything the show doesn’t say out loud: that this isn’t new. that buck is already hers. already family.

and that line in the episode description? buck contemplates where he’s supposed to be.

yeah. it’s here!!!

in this home. in this kitchen. with this family—the family and life he and eddie have been building together for the past 7 years.

this is where he belongs, the people he belongs to.