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*petting my cat* please cure my depression cat: *prrbhbphr* me: thanks

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IT IS VERY REAL!! ALWAYS BE AWARE.

Don’t take them off when you immediately see it. Wait until you get to a different destination bc they’re trying to distract you by getting it off then abducting you. Same thing goes if you find something on your windshield, it’s a distraction so they have time to get you.    

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in case you needed this

‎⍟ Captain America

‎⎊ Iron Man

‎⧗ Black Widow

‎✇ Hulk

➳ Hawkeye

‎✵ Captain Marvel

‎۞ Doctor Strange

‎ϟ Thor

‎४ Loki

‎꘩ Ant-man

‎ᗢ Scarlet Witch

‎✪ Winter Soldier

🕷 Spider Man

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"Should parents read their daughter's texts or monitor her online activity for bad language and inappropriate content?"

Earlier today, I served as the “young woman’s voice” in a panel of local experts at a Girl Scouts speaking event. One question for the panel was something to the effect of, “Should parents read their daughter’s texts or monitor her online activity for bad language and inappropriate content?”

I was surprised when the first panelist answered the question as if it were about cyberbullying. The adult audience nodded sagely as she spoke about the importance of protecting children online.

I reached for the microphone next. I said, “As far as reading your child’s texts or logging into their social media profiles, I would say 99.9% of the time, do not do that.”

Looks of total shock answered me. I actually saw heads jerk back in surprise. Even some of my fellow panelists blinked.

Everyone stared as I explained that going behind a child’s back in such a way severs the bond of trust with the parent. When I said, “This is the most effective way to ensure that your child never tells you anything,” it was like I’d delivered a revelation.

It’s easy to talk about the disconnect between the old and the young, but I don’t think I’d ever been so slapped in the face by the reality of it. It was clear that for most of the parents I spoke to, the idea of such actions as a violation had never occurred to them at all.

It alarms me how quickly adults forget that children are people.

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“But Joshua was going to kill everyone in Shibuya!”

No, he wasn’t.

He literally fucking wasn’t.

If you’d bothered to even start the post game content, you would know that Joshua was going to destroy the UG, with the RG only being affected in an indirect way. This is literally said in the first secret report.

“he plans to destroy the UG”. The UG, y’all. Yes, everyone in the UG would have been erased, but it’s important to remember that everyone in the UG is already dead. They all had lives, they all already died fair and square. They’re on borrowed time, and the composer has the right to end it. If Joshua’s plan had succeeded, nobody in the RG would’ve been harmed. He would’ve destroyed the UG only.

How would he have done that though? Well, literally two secret reports later, it’s explained that the UG would collapse in the absence of a composer without a successor having killed the previous one (thus being able to be the new composer):

The composer is not just the ruler of Shibuya, the composer is Shibuya. When Joshua said he was done with Shibuya and wanted to wash his hands of it, what he was really saying was that he was going to kill the composer, himself, and leave Shibuya without a successor, thus destroying the UG.

In other words, Joshua Kiryu was so lonely that he was going to end his own life, and TWEWY is the story of him being convinced by Neku Sakuraba that life is worth living. 

Understanding this is key to even beginning to understand what TWEWY is actually about and that’s why this is revealed so early in the secret reports, and yet so many people still don’t get it and think that Joshua was just an evil jackass.

I’m posting this in anticipation of the upcoming remake because i know that a new wave of fans are going to not play the post game content and go with the “Evil Joshua” interpretation. I’m begging you, when that happens, please be ready to tell them to read the secret reports, or just refer them to this post.

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The worst thing about anxiety is that you know those thoughts are irrational, you just can’t seem to control them

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WHY ARE NONE OF YOU FUCKERS FLIPPING SHIT?!?

NASA HAS DECLARED PLUTO A PLANET AGAIN

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For one to be so cute,one would require a snoot. Though you do not have a snoot, for you are a rocket that goes shoot. A star in my sky, makes my emotions fly high, one day the knot, may I tie.

❤❤❤

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i enjoyed this very much, thank you andrew huang.

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On Shinso and Aizawa

No, this is not a shipping post.

So I have many feels about episode 20 of Boku no Hero, but one of the things I would like to talk about here, is the relationship between Shinso and Aizawa.

We see that Shinso has made it to the duel phase of the Special Olympics. And while his easily excitable friend is shouting about how weird it is that Shinso made it this far, Aizawa is basically sitting there going “I TOLD you guys.” To Aizawa, the entrance exam was bullshit, because it gave a huge advantage to people with physical quirks. And Aizawa, of all people, should know this. I mean. A young Aizawa wouldn’t have made it through that entrance exam.

Aizawa is a hero through and through. He has the heart of one. This man pitted himself against an overwhelming amount of villains, knowing he probably wasn’t going to make it. He literally put his own body between a coordinated surprise attack and his students in the hopes of giving them time to flee. And he would not have been able to enter UA if he was their age. His quirk is to shut off other quirks. It wouldn’t have worked against the robots of that year’s exam.

Part of what makes the hero business harder for Aizawa than for, say, Endeavour or All Might is that Aizawa’s quirk is very specialised, and there’s nothing physical about it. He basically had to make up a new martial art using the power of scarves in order to also have a physical component. There’s a reason that Aizawa is always telling his students not to be a one trick pony and that’s because he had to learn not to be one in order to even qualify as a decent hero. And he knows not everyone has to struggle that hard. When you have a powerful physical quirk, it’s easy to believe that it will be enough.

So it’s not difficult to imagine that Aizawa recognizes a younger version of himself in Shinso. This is a kid with a Super Powerful quirk, who has some serious trouble finding the right little slot to fit in at UA.  Because that school is not adapted to accommodate his strengths and overcome his specific weaknesses.

There’s a panel in the later chapters where Aizawa is talking to Shinsho and you kinda feel like they could bond. These two have a lot in common, after all. They both have some sleep schedule issues, judging by the bags under their eyes, they both like cats and they share a common perspective on the world of quirks. We don’t really know Aizawa’s background (yet), but it wouldn’t surprise me if he really, truly gets what drives Shinso. And honestly, I hope he starts mentoring him. Because Shinso deservers better.

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au meme (send me a pairing & an au and i’ll make a graphic):

@sailor-zeplin asked: stonathan + harry potter au

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“I don’t wanna hurt anybody, especially not you”

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i don’t have an ink pen or fancy paper so how about

minktober

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So day 2 and 3 of Inktober. Yuno from Mirai Nikki and gengar from Pokémon

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||Izaya is both an Anti-hero and Anti-Villain

The fact that Izaya wanted to start a war for his own ends(albeit partially understandable ones, considering his fear of death), not to mention him framing people for murder and other things, makes him not ‘good’ per say, and undoubtedly questionable. But the fact that he hasn’t killed anybody(and the novels even saying he values human life just like anybody else; wasn’t somebody that would kill without batting an eye)(and don’t bring up Shizuo, because that’s a double-sided matter), hasn’t raped anybody, and hasn’t committed any crimes worse than any of the other characters makes him not ‘evil’. Not to mention the fact that he went against one of the antagonists, Amphisbaena, and pretty much got them broke apart. Aside from him working on both the side of the police and the mafia. Above all else, the fact that he probably doesn’t love himself and the fact that he cares about Shinra down deep, in his own way(the only way he knows how), and the fact that he punches a telephone pole when he FINALLY truly realizes that Shinra is not only his friend, but his only friend, and he gets scared because he doesn’t want Shinra to be mad at him for nearly betraying him, and then the fact that he runs away from what he did, and basically sacrificed his friendship, not facing Shinra after that - and one very importantly the fact that his twisted personality is most likely caused by not only partially Shinra’s stabbing, but also parental neglect, a very realistic cause of a twisted personality like his, makes him human. And that’s all he is: he’s just human.

 He is not an ally of justice, but neither is he an abettor of villainy. He is simply unwaveringly honest to his own desires.

 - Sunset With Orihara Izaya.

This is why Izaya could be considered both an anti-hero AND anti-villain, especially in the novels, which is something I love about him.

Also, I really dislike when people say he “tried to convince a girl to commit suicide”, because while he may have been in the ‘wrong’ either way(considering the things he said was kind of cruel), that accusation isn’t true, and the event with Ryo wasn’t even in the original novels, but that aside, with Manami and the other girls (who were the last people he decided he would do the suicide meetup with, which means there were no more after that.) the novels clearly said:

Meeting with people who wanted to kill themselves—he’d already done it over twenty times. During these meetings, Izaya noticed that many of them didn’t have much in common. The attitude people had towards death varied widely, with some people maintaining a smile at all times. There were even some who clearly wanted to die, but still recorded TV shows before they went out. But—none of the people Izaya met had ever really committed suicide in the end. This made him feel rather ‘disappointed’.

- Durarara!! LN 1 And why did he feel ‘disappointed’? It’s not in his character to be purely sadistic and just want to see people die for no reason. He wanted answers, but in actuality he also couldn’t stand that they were making fun of death. They say they want to die, but in reality, none of them ever went through with it, because he destroyed their resolve, he not only scared them out of it, but in fact traumatized them, partially by projecting his own fears onto them. 

What were they thinking when they decided to die? Was there really no other way? Or perhaps, who did they want to die for? When people decided to die, just what kind of deep despair did they have in their hearts? Orihara Izaya loved humans more than anything else, and thus wanted rather badly to know the answers. But, he hadn’t met up with them because he wanted to talk them out of committing suicide. And the reason those people who met up with Izaya never committed suicide wasn’t because they never had the intention to die in the first place and had come just for fun, nor was it because they’d backed out. Izaya’s true nature, was slowly revealing itself from its easygoing guise.

After listening to their reasons for suicide, Izaya finally raised his voice and asked a different question breezily. “So, what’re you going to do after you die?” On hearing the sudden question, the two women froze, and then gazed at Izaya dumbly. “Uh…you mean like after going to heaven?” She’s already decided to kill herself and yet still wants to go to heaven. How bold can she get? But of course, it’s things like this that make humans all the more interesting. “Does Nakura-san believe in the afterlife?” the other woman asked Izaya. Nakura was the fake alias Izaya had randomly come up with for himself. 

Izaya smiled and shook his head at the question and asked them instead, “Then do you two believe in the afterlife?” “I do. But instead of an after-world, I think people become wandering ghosts in this world…” “I don’t. Death is an expanse of nothingness, just a piece of darkness…but that’s much better than this.” On hearing their answers, Izaya made a huge mental ‘X’. Aw, how disappointing. This is really disappointing. A total waste of time. They’re only junior high standard. The atheists last time were much more interesting. These two only care about themselves. Izaya then concluded that the two women weren’t serious about death. Or perhaps, they were envisioning death in their own ways. He narrowed his eyes and smiled mockingly. “That’s not good. How can people who want to die think about life after death?” “Eh…?” The two of them were completely baffled, as though they were looking at something completely illogical. Izaya continued. “Thinking about the afterlife is a right reserved for only the living. But, if this conclusion something you thought about endlessly, and considered thoroughly, then I have nothing to say. But, being forced into the abyss of despair—like getting your life savings scammed by some Lombard…people who have been forced into their hopeless situations by external factors—only then do they have this right.” Izaya went on smiling and said lightly, “But for you, you gave yourselves these problems right? You’ve already decided to walk the path of hopelessness and you still place your hopes on an afterlife. I don’t think that’s a good thing to do.”" - Durarara!! LN 1 Also, in the anime, it almost seemed like the blood splatter on the pavement was hinting that Izaya had, in fact, coerced somebody to commit suicide or let somebody die, but the novels say he didn’t, so that would be going against the truth. The novels are the source I’m going by.

““What? What do you mean I’ve gone too far? I don’t get it.” (-Izaya) “That’s because…” “You—” The women were interrupted by Izaya’s hardened response. “Didn’t you want to die? So what does it matter what I tell you? Even if you were lied to or scolded…you’ll be disappearing in a while anyway. So if you’re anguished because I lied to you, then why don’t you just bite your tongue off? Did you know by biting your tongue off to commit suicide, you won’t die because of blood loss, but because of a momentary shock that causes the remaining part of your tongue to compress the trachea and thus results in suffocation. That way, all the things you find unpleasant will be gone. You wouldn’t exist anymore. It’s that simple, and you say I’ve gone too far. I think you’ve gone too far.” “I understand that! But…” “You don’t understand at all.” This time, Izaya was talking to the woman who had said ‘death was an expanse of nothingness’, and the tone he spoke in was even more forceful. —With that smile on his face. “You’re the one that doesn’t understand. You don’t understand at all. You just said death was just a big piece of nothing, right? But, that’s not true at all. I guess you wanted to say, that you wouldn’t have any worries any more. But death is actually just disappearing. Your troubles won’t disappear, just your existence.” The women did not respond. They were transfixed by Izaya’s smile. Izaya’s smile was getting more and more hideous, and it seemed to the two who were listening to him that it was hardly human. “A situation where nothing’s there can’t be called ‘nothing’. And it’s not the opposite of ‘something’ either. The nothing you speak of is where there really is nothing but eternal darkness. But, this notion is based on the ‘existence of the darkness’, so how can it be nothing? If you want to be rid of your sorrows by dying, then you need the ‘knowledge that you’ve escaped your troubles’. Isn’t that something? So like I said, you don’t even know what you’re thinking, and you don’t even know that you don’t know a thing, so you definitely won’t be able to envision something like that. Your ways of thinking aren’t different from most people. Opinions at this level are something even elementary school students who don’t believe in life after death can understand, fear and worry about right?” In reality, these two women both knew Izaya’s theory was full of loopholes, and there was plenty of room for a rebuttal. But they thought, even if they retorted, could they communicate with the person before them with just mere words?— Such thoughts didn’t arise from doubt, but fear.

“But…this…isn’t this just what you think?” The woman mustered all her courage to force out those words, which faltered easily as she saw Izaya’s smile.

“True. I have no idea about that. The fact that I don’t believe in the afterlife, is something I just decided for myself. But, it would be good if there was one—I can only assume though.”

Ha Ha. Izaya let out two syllables of a frigid, dry laugh, and went on in a breezy voice.

“But it’s different for you. You’re doubtful about the afterlife, but you still want to die. Don’t tell me your religion teaches you to commit suicide, and even encourages to ‘kill yourself because you can’t find a job or because you’re having relationship problems’? If it was like that, then I have nothing to say. I would even think that you’re amazing—but if not, then just shut up.”

Finally, as if he wanted them to agree, he cocked his head slightly and slowly revealed his conclusion: “If you’re just a casual believer of the afterlife, don’t go around discussing it, OK? It’s an insult to the afterlife. It’s an even bigger insult to people who don’t want to die, but are forced into it by their circumstances.”

- Durarara!! LN 1

That last line is one reason I love Izaya, and it’s not something one would hear somebody who simply wanted the person he/she/they were talking to to commit suicide say. He’s so complex, and he is neither good nor evil. There’s very often hidden meanings behind Izaya’s words that do perhaps make him questionable, but also relatively human. That showed just how much he values human life. That’s why he’s such a great character; even if he isn’t really that great of a person, he still has his own small set of morals that make him very interesting, and most definitely not two-dimensional, though far more so in the light novels.

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