#to make one kid as sad as possible

[littleeyesofpallas]

Okay so i still have L5R verymuch on the brain and trying to find ways to incorporate a fun occult supernatural plot to things I can't help but look back on Samurai Sentai Shinkenger of all things and love what a fucking wildly good premise it had. Not for the stupid hero squad, but for the villains.

The Gedoshu[外道衆]: "Heretic/Demon Masses" (lit. Gedo[外道]: "Outside-way") are the race of monsters, ayakashi, menacing tokyo every week. But unlike the usual invading force of aliens or whatever else that every season of super sentai has, the gedoshu leader, Chimatsuri Dokoku, has a very specific goal and and very specific mechanism behind it.

In this setting the ayakashi are all former humans who transform directly into monsters after committing some corrupting act, usually tragic, that allows strong negative feelings to consume them. And any time humans feel misery and sorrow and pain, their tears become the water on the river Sanzu, the river that divides the world of the living and of the dead, and from those waters new monsters are inevitably born --never crossing the river to the afterlife, yet not truly alive or human anymore. And it is on a boat on that river that the big boss, Chimatsuri, has been sealed in a kind of limbo between life and death.

So, to facilitate his escape and ultimately revenge, he sends his minions to earth in order to cause so much human suffering that the river Sanzu overflows, allowing him to just ride his ship into the human realm without technically breaking the terms of his imprisonment.

And like? That's so fucking cool??? Like that is a great set up, and it's just wasted on a regular rotation kids' saturday morning show??? And I love that unlike the usual routine of slapping some monsters around once a week, the premise makes it clear that the villains are still very much making progress towards their goal even if the heroes beat them. The accumulation of human suffering is inevitable, it's just a question of how soon it'll hit critical mass, which is maybe the best way to keep the enemy threat feeling real even as they continually lose individual fights.

Also this season had kind of a mixed bag when it came to monster of the week designs, but the big recurring villains were all phenomenal

[newtlesbian]

going further. franks child self was living in that one room with a strange weirdo boy he dreamed up but never really had. now his inner child isn’t alone anymore. he plays games with his real charlie in their terrible one room apartment. getting weird with it and being okay with being weird no matter what everyone on the outside might think. sharing a bed together to feel the comfort in being close to that

macs child self had charlie the whole time. inseparable. a package deal. the most genuine connection and comfort in both of their neglected tiny lives. not just because they were otherwise alone. decades later theyre not going anywhere. now their inner child rides bikes together they throw rocks at trains together they teach each other about the world just like they needed so desperately in old times

dennis’ child self never had charlie. not until highschool. but that was exactly when he experienced his csa. his inner child found charlie at the exact right moment. caught him when he fell. he got his child self back through charlie just as he lost feeling. and now what do the two of them do together? they go recreate memories and recapture lost youth with a mutual unspoken understanding of why

they all need charlie. relaxing into his genuine youthful energy lets them feel that way again.

[sukibenders]

One of Rhaenyra's biggest opps (in HOTD) really was her own father. Because how are you going to proclaim your daughter as heir, only to then marry her best friend and have four kids, three sons, in an environment that is against women already as is but even more so with one sitting on the Iron Throne? And then, not only, do you not prepare her for anything political but scold her publicly, which isn't good for her image, and just....hardly do anything to aid her until you're on your last leg? And yet there are still fans saying he was a "great dad" and that he "did all he could". HA, I THINK NOT!

[tennessoui]

omg ur obi wan and babies ask just made me 🥲🥲🥲 i love fics with adopted father obiwan or any variation of obi Mom cuz that man needs a baby with him always he’d be so happy 😭😭😭

just no more sadness if a baby loves obi and only wants obi ♥️♥️

omg ok i was thinking about this earlier today but like

au where serious jedi master senate liaison obi-wan's favorite thing to do every morning is make funny faces at the two babies in their carriage across from his unofficial seat on the space star wars public transit, and the babies LOVE him and always giggle and clap and wake up and wave and gurgle and laugh, and their father, a serious looking man that obi-wan thinks he definitely should recognize but definitely does not, allows it with a begrudging sort of smile and eventually starts to make sure he's always sitting across from obi-wan, as he gets on the transit speeder after obi-wan has already ridden two stops.

one day, obi-wan even works up the courage to wink at the father, who blushes scarlet red before accidentally getting off a stop before he usually does.

but then obi-wan is called on a mission off planet and he must go and it takes weeks, and when he comes back he's wounded and has to heal up for another week or so before he can go be the senate liaison again, but his first day back, he takes the same transit speeder at the same time he always does.

and the father gets aboard the train two stops after, but this time he sees obi-wan and makes a beeline (shoves some old lady sorta out of the way) to sit next to him. and he's like, 'my twins cried for two days when you weren't here. you're not allowed to leave again, everyone was looking at me. i'm anakin skywalker, by the way.'

and obi-wan is like 'oh like the senator?' because he works with the senate, he knows about senator skywalker's attempts and fits and starts to end slavery in the Outer Rim.

and anakin is like 'i AM the senator. also do jedi do babysitting. because my babies are a bit in love with you. and so am i.'

[gibbearish]

am finally back home and can say without a doubt that i am just fundamentally not built for long distance travel however the train was much nicer than planes

[lastnightonthecyclone]

Another fucking wip on fnaf because inconsistency is my skill

[im2tired4usernames]

I hate that I literally just do not trust any of the older folks in my family to do right by anyone

[hyunjining]

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[kelin-is-writing]

goddammit... i want dabi to be happy so bad... i want him to have the justice and happy ending he deserves...

[brookheimer]

from the succession podcast it sounds like kieran thinks roman has successfully pushed down the voicemail/possible guilt about logan’s death and is genuinely like .. not thinking about it, which i find really surprising honestly. is that really not going to come back? trying to figure out whether this is a “pre-grieved” situation (read: obviously a failing attempt at repression) which was my original take, of course, but the fact that kieran says, like, “i’ve actually thought about that” makes me think it’s not something that will come up in future episodes — if repressed guilt/fear/self-loathing ab possibly causing logan’s death is part of roman’s ‘arc’ this season, why would kieran say like ‘oh i’ve actually thought about this!’ like, that kinda makes it sound like it never comes up again, so kieran’s come up with his own take. but i mean… we’re supposed to think roman “yeah i pre-grieved” [one episode later] “i’m dead. i’m gone. it’s over for me” roy successfully pushed down the fact that his last ‘interaction’ with his dad was calling him a cunt over voicemail (his first time standing up to him Ever) which logan may or may not have heard before his death — and may or may not have CAUSED that death (we know the phone was found in the toilet, after all)??? successfully pushed it down my ass

[ask-artsy-oncie]

Its just like. I just got my drive for animation back today of all days but I've committed to making a bunch of Valentines dolls and I have to finish them early enough so people can order them and have them *arrive* on Valentines Day and AUUUGH.

Just wish my brain worked properly. Yknow?

[happyendingsong]

someone in the tags of prev took it as a launching point to compare shiki w beat ( :) 👍! ) but fairly firmly lands on it being shiki's fault she and beat aren't close in neo because shiki's such a selfish bitch ( :( 👎! )

trying to pass off beat not knowing who in universe hello kitty is as shiki's fault for 'prioritising herself' is so funny please. i think if one of your multiple soul bonded besties invented in universe hello kitty, it is YOUR moral obligation to know who in universe hello kitty is. that's on beat.

[twoheadedfawnn]

peach is down i hve nowhere else to vent 😭

[femvaylin]

I think I need to go work with kids for a while. Pick up a couple of shifts. I keep having dreams where I gently guide young children through life and teach them life lessons.

[here-there-were-dragons]

given how tightly “ages 9 and below” flight rising’s content restrictions have been lately i’m surprised they even allowed the pirate npc. like.... they do know what pirates are, right? “plunder” isn’t just a cute playful little meaningless roleplay word it means stealing shit from people by attacking and probably killing them. plunder is stolen goods at gunpoint. is the pirate npc... actually a pirate? like where does he get his stuff? pirate’s not an aesthetic category it’s a historical group of raiders that were known for among many other things robbing, killing, and occasionally raping and possibly kidnapping people. you can’t just slap “pirate” on without dealing with the implications there! if he’s actually a pirate there’s a high likelihood all those nice goods he’s selling at the grand exchange were taken off a corpse floating above the leviathan trench somewhere! there’s no way he’s here legally unless there’s some serious shady shit going on with the local governing bodies! if you’re so damn committed to having the kiddiest of kiddie-safe games you can’t just toss in an allegedly actual pirate as a salesperson npc and act like nothing’s weird there!

like either patches is a regular, possibly adventurous merchant who’s larping as a pirate for gods only know what reason, or he’s some kind of pirate-themed revolutionary who only attacks ships owned by the evil empire or something, or in their ever-increasing fever-pitched quest to hypersanitize the hell out of everything for the poor 13+ year old Literal Infants who will die should they find out something as dark as the color red exists the content restrictions team and writing department over at flight rising are being hypocrites again.

[theonlyadawong]

reading people reviews of home movie and either im a genius and im the only one in the world who understands this movie or im an idiot and everyone else understood the movie and i didnt