#unity spoiler

[alien-girl-21]

this is what the transition between epiphany of love: the origin to europapa feels like

[jacketpotatoo]

The thematic implications of Caitlyn transitioning from solely a sharpshooter, to learning the ropes of hand-to-hand combat, and how it follows her growing distrust in Ambessa. If the weapon is a reflection of mentality, it prefigures Cait's mental expansion - away from narrow-minded thinking and acting from a distance. Instead of tackling from afar, she melds her skills in accuracy and deduction *with* close-up action. This is her power play. "Vision" is cait's strength (as opposed to "Might" and "Guile" and "Sacrifice") and Ambessa qualifies this with the phrase "tunnels in your eyes". Ironically, she trains Caitlyn and literally gives her the tools to pull away from her rifle-mindset. In teaching her how Noxus views strength, she offers her the keys to dismantle it

[monkey-network]

[fumifooms]

I don’t like minimizing the importance and gravity of Laios and Toshiro’s fight into just being a childish squabble, even if to a degree it is framed that way, because to both of them it has a lot of personal significance and emotional weight and runs very deep to their characters… The fight isn’t nothing it’s a LOT, they made up but it’s not something easy to express and to get over for either of them which makes it all the more meaningful! I’m on both sides but there very much are sides, there’s no "they’re both having a ball, Toshiro and Laios hand in hand yay" side to the fight, that comes after

The fight with Toshiro WAS very scary to Laios, almost existentially so, but it’s moreso the "I thought I’d made a friend!!" bit and my god. My god actually

Like it’s not "just" about oh his friend liking him less than he thought, THAT IS SO MUCH. It’s a bond he thought he had being a lie it’s all the time and moments spent together either being a lie from his perspective or marred now looking back. It’s not only being upset at Toshiro for lying but upset at himself that he’s so easy to fool, it’s being upset that there’s something so wrong with you that you can’t even tell if your "close buddy" even actually likes you or not, it’s like. Holding my head. He can’t trust his own vision of events that happened do you see. There’s always this film of distrust that it could be a lie that should be there when he interacts with people there’s always this sense of cloak and dagger to expect backstabs out of nowhere because you CAN’T see it coming you CAN’T you CAN’T there’s something about you which makes it impossible so you CAN’T-

He’s so scared of not being able to read people. He knows it’s a weak spot he has, he’s always known. All of these bits are centered around social expectations and betrayals, the assumption that he doesn’t belong either in society or with other humans.

And Laios’ level of awareness is actually sort of complex to analyze, but it’s there, there’s how out of him and Falin he was the one sensitive to the ~aura of hatred~ he felt from the townspeople, there’s of course his nightmares whispering to him about the mocking looks, and how yeah actually he realizes that his gold stripper coworker was taking advantage of him. There’s of course the Winged Lion speech about his trauma and how he fundamentally mistrusts/dislikes humans to some deep seated degree, this distrust that he still keeps under control always. There’s how pre-canon he often wanted to suggest eating monsters but never worked up the courage to bring it up with the others. There’s how he comes across as stoic when he isn’t being enthusiastic…… We don’t know how aware and wary he is exactly in the moment but we do know he has some anxiety around social stuff, and looking back he does notice and aughh augh, the sense you have to hide yourself to not get hurt, and be on your guard and shit and.

When you don’t know what to look out for and when to look out for it, the general ‘common sense’ of not always trusting people or noticing when someone’s messing with you becomes hypervigilance in social settings

"Man they really know what you hate huh." Being socially unaware literally plagues him, he knows, he knows it so well.

It’s so quick that it’s almost hard to digest how literal and blatant Laios summoning his monster to crush all the people who’ve hurt him is. His literal go-to coping mechanism for comfort in his literal monster-induced emotionally intense nightmare, saving him by taking away the upsetting element (the humans)

"Monsters are his coping fantasy, where they can whisk him away from humanity, all the hurt it’s caused him and its arbitrary rules" with the subtlety of a brick. Monsters are his comfort safe zone "because they kill humans" yes but no it’s because he pits them as the guardians against humans who to him are in the role of the agressors. To him they represent freedom from the shackles of what it means to be part of humanity, a fundamentally social species

[demigoddessqueens]

What in the Les Mis - Assassins Creed Unity

[clovariia]

hasbro is killing g5 mlp, which means it's officially my city now...say hello to my new and suspiciously familiar "ocs"

[as-snow-falls-on-desert-sky]

I curated a list of the Rick and Morty episodes that distill the full arc of the show. If u wanna torture your friends into joining you in this madness:

Pilot

Rick Potion No. 9

Close Rick-Counters of the Rick Kind

Ricksy Business

Auto Erotic Assimilation

Big Trouble in Little Sanchez

The Wedding Squanchers

The Rickshank Redemption

Vindicators 3

The Whirly Dirly Conspiracy

Rest and Ricklaxation

The Ricklantis Mixup

Morty’s Mindblowers

The ABCs of Beth

The Rickchuriaun Mortydate

Edge of Tomorty: Rick Die Repeat

The Old Man and the Seat

Claw and Hoarder: Special Ricktim’s Morty

Never Ricking Morty

Promortyus

The Vat of Acid Episode

Childrick of Mort

Star Mort Rickturn of the Jedi

Mort Dinner Rick Andre

A Rickconvenient Mort

Rickturnal Friendshine of the Spotless Mort

Forgetting Sarick Mortshall

Rickmurai Jack

Solaricks

Bethic Twist

Final Desmithnation

Jurasic Mort

Analyze Piss

A Rick in King Mortur’s Mort

Ricktional Mortspoon’s Rickmas Mortcation

The Jerrick Trap

That’s Amorte

Unmortricken

Mort: Ragnarick

Fear No Mort

[ricksanchezbignaturals]

ik this isn't new or anything but the fact that aside from morty, the whole smith/sanchez house is canonically queer is so freaking cool! seriously how did this show amass so many anti sjw reddit ass men as a fanbase when 80% of the main characters are queer? i think summer got a female love interest in 2019 and beth's whole sapphic horse girl thing happened last season, but jerry and rick have been canon since season 2.

like idk im just saying this show is awfully gay and has been for a while. i genuinely don't get it when i see people bitching about rick and morty going woke or whatever.

i don't have anything like intellectual to say about the representation or queer themes in the show, it just makes me happy. having a family sitcom where the family is a fruit basket with one token straight isn't exactly a common occurrence, and it just so happens that's what my family's like. shoutout to morty and my mother, we love our allies

season 7 spoilers

YESSSSSS summer gf arc?

anyways i doubt she's coming back i just think it'd be pretty sick and dope if she did

[spockvarietyhour]

Spaceship Unity, "Glasnost"

[denkilightning]

ill just leave this here and go cry about it

[riptidesblog]

If Rising Dragon is a spinjitsu based technique about motion and Shatterspin is a (corrupted) spinjitsu based technique about strength...are there five more spinjitsu based techniques about life,energy and the rest of the source dragon concepts?...Is Dragon Form,a move based on spinjitsu,one of those?

[alien-girl-21]

I fear discozwemmen might be my new 2002/2001

[some-creep]

Two of him...

[sweet-like-cinnamon-5]

In which (1) person knows what's going on, and it's Unity Kinkaid 🩷

[umberandmochaagate]

Like I said I watched Sinners again

In this second audience it was a few Black people that cheered and clapped when Sammie started reciting the Lord's prayer. But when Remmick began to finish the prayer, I heard gasps.

[writing-for-life]

Lost Hearts Everywhere…

…or why comics issue #16 is so central to the whole storyline of The Sandman

We are currently reading #16 of the comics in our community (join us!), and I don’t know about you, but seeing Lost Hearts in context of the whole run always makes me a bit unwell because the visual and thematic parallels are just so strong…

About Lips, Hearts, Living, Dying & Dreaming

Sleep of the Just : Lost Hearts

About Family, Gender, Losing Your Heart & Desire

Tales in the Sand : Lost Hearts

Speaking of Which: About Interfering Cats, Their Toys & Memory Fragments

Overture : Lost Hearts

About Not Wanting to Kill, the Consequences of Failing in One’s Duty & Why Responsibilities Mean Everything

Overture : Lost Hearts

About Being Tired & Walking Away, Victories & Defeats, Life & Death

Lost Hearts : The Kindly Ones