#'yeah because. because the writers wanted an excuse to be assholes. you get that there were motivations here right'
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it's a little funny to me that people on here who haven't watched house md and have only heard about it through the grapevine seem to think that the asexuality episode is the only time that the show egregiously erred about a sensitive topic most people at the time knew nothing about. like i swear to god on EVERY post on here about the show being hashtag problematic there's ALWAYS someone in the comments going "and it was bad about asexuality which makes it worse!" and yes the show was bad about asexuality (i am ace. i know) and yes that happened at a time when asexuality was essentially unknown to almost everyone in america, but citing that as though it's like.... a singular event that only happened to one marginalized group who happened to be Particularly hated is like... very very Very much ignoring how frequent and systematic these writing choices were.
in curating a list of episodes to skip i'm finding archived contemporary articles written the DAY after episodes came out from various relevant organizations saying "hey!! hey!! this is the first time most of the american public has ever encountered this issue and you were fucking cruel and evil about it!!" about topics including but not limited to: asexuality, intersexism (TWICE), homophobia, Deaf culture, autism, schizophrenia, psychosis, low empathy, AIDS, and racial medical disparities. this is not the end of the list it's just the ones i can remember rn. the writers of the show did not ONLY think that asexuality doesn't exist. the writers of the show were afflicted with south-park-itis wherein every time they heard about literally any marginalized group having feelings or opinions different from the mainstream, they went, "wow, i don't like that! what's the best way to mock and belittle them as thoroughly as possible so that everyone knows that we're very very smart and know everything and these nasty people are very very stupid and deserve to be othered??"
the show doesn't Just suck about asexuality. it sucks about everything. and it's not because it's a cute tongue-in-cheek "ooo we hate everyone equally 🤗" thing. it's because the writers were actively vitriolic and cruel and inhumane about every single person they didn't care to understand. it's bad. the ace episode is not an outlier, it's par for the course for the entire series.
#house md#hate crimes md#love that that's a fandom tag. it is more apt than people realize#it's one of those shows where people always go 'hes SUPPOSED to be an asshole' and you go#'yeah because. because the writers wanted an excuse to be assholes. you get that there were motivations here right'#the same exact conceit and execution as south park. unfortunately when house is compelling and good it's COMPELLING AND GOOD#but it's not consistently that at all. there is no consistent morality or messaging#the messaging is simply 'we're angry at marginalized people and hate them and want to tell you about it'#'but some of us do have big feelings about addiction and disability and so we'll put those in there too. fuck you though'#like alright.#negative
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CASUAL part 2
see part one here.
modern!incel!asshole! eddie x fem!reader
It’s 7 in the morning. Eddie is seen doom-pacing in the halls of Hawkins High.
a/n: i promised y’all part 2 so here ya go. let’s make him pay. 💋 also shout out to @love-anonymous-writer for bringing this universe to life. a little angst here and there is good for the soul <3
who got the last laugh?
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“Please respond…please respond…please respond…”
The soles of Eddie’s shoes slam against the tiles of Hawkins High as he rushes to your locker. Meanwhile his entire soul has left his body.
You didn’t answer any of his phone calls. All the texts he sent you were left on read. Having been so accustomed to your instant replies, Eddie essentially catapulted himself into a full-blown panic last night when he saw the ominous text you sent him...and the nothingness from you that followed soon after.
The crickets of Forrest Hills that taunted his eardrums later that night served as a vengeful metaphor of the brick wall you built between you and him. The girl who once gave him everything has now started giving him nothing. You’re nowhere, but everywhere. It’s like you’ve become a ghost.
When he sees you, color drains from Eddie’s guilty face. You look so beautiful today, hair curled down to the small of your back, a nice simple dress and some slippers, with makeup ever so gracefully applied. A class act, even when plagued with the utmost disrespect.
“Hi," he says to you as he approaches.
“Hi.”
As far as Munson knows, he no longer exists to you. He's a shadow now, a carapace of a boy you used to love 'cuz now — after hearing what you heard in his trailer — you know he's not the same boy that made you feel all the butterflies. That boy is long gone. You even start to wonder if that version of Eddie even existed.
“C-can we talk, please?” he requests.
“What’s to talk about?” you challenge him, stoically. “Don’t wanna annoy you with my rambling.”
“You never annoy me…” he attempts as you mindlessly comb through your locker for your homeroom notebook.
“Mm.”
You were casual about it. Too casual about it.
“You… uh…” he clears his throat. “You made me cookies yesterday?”
“Yeah,” you shrug. “I was at your door for quite a while so you must’ve been busy. Cookies were taken care of though.”
“I see…” Eddie mutters as the pieces all start coming together.
He thinks about how he always leaves his windows cracked open. His uncle would whoop his ass if he hot-boxed the trailer again, so it became a habit. But the trailer park is small, and on certain afternoon, if someone from a nearby unit had dropped a pin, Eddie would hear it. Suddenly, fear arises in him.
Surely, you didn't hear everything he and The Boys™️ said. He had his headphones on and he couldn't have possibly been that loud, could he? Unless technology failed him again.
The warning bell sounds throughout the halls and you excuse yourself from the narrative. Eddie tags after you like a lost puppy, nearly tripping on his shoelaces along the way.
"W-wait!"
The first class of the morning is homeroom. A class you unfortunately shared with Eddie, Grant, and Harmony.
You didn't want to see any of their faces. Eddie's face would serve as a reminder of how fake and construed the fucker is. Grant's would remind you of how insignificant you were to the guys (despite how welcomed they made you feel at the start). And Harmony. Harmony's beautiful face — with a body far too developed for a girl in her grade to match — would only remind you of the fact that the girl didn't inherently do anything to you... other than be beautiful and get caught in the crossfire of horny, greasy teenage boys.
It’s a fucking mess.
You swallow hard and keep your chin up regardless. Because what other choice do you have? You either feign your confidence or let irrelevant boys crush it.
You continue strutting over to your seat as Eddie trails behind at a measurable distance. Along the way, you inevitably run into the Junior Queen of Hawkins High herself, Harmony Heathers.
Harmony issues you a sweet smile. You smile back at her in return. And you didn't even need to turn your back to know that Eddie most likely did a double-take when sliding past her.
The late bell rings, indicating the start of class.
“Okay,” your homeroom teacher Mrs. Helleck exhales as she clasps her hands together. “Good morning everybody. For Red Ribbon Week this week, we’re gonna be doing a group project. Worth 20-percent of your grade.”
The class erupts in agonistic groans while Mrs. Helleck attempts to calm them down. You feel Eddie’s gaze burn into you, indicative to the fact that he was looking forward to using you again like he always seems to do. This time around it would be for a grade instead of a two-pump fuck. But you had something else in mind.
“You will be doing a presentation,” Helleck continues. “With a partner of your choice. Your job is to create a slogan along with a list of reasons why you should stay away from drugs.”
“Drugs Instead of Hugs,” Grant mutters to Eddie.
The general vicinity collectively praises his lukewarm wannabe 4-Chan edged joke.
You roll your eyes while your poor homeroom teacher tries to proceed with her instructions, despite the immature snickers.
“You will be presenting with your partner on Friday. Do not wait until last minute to do this assignment please. Deadlines catch up to you fast.”
Mrs. Helleck makes her way over to you.
Like Dungeons and Dragons, everyone in the class is assigned a “classroom role”. You’re the leader of the pack, the ‘foreman’, to which you never understood because up until today you never had the confidence to call the shots. The alphabet has never been on your side anyways.
“Now dear,” your teacher smiles down at you. “Since your last name starts with an A, you get first choice. Who would you like to work with?”
Eddie’s gaze is extra fixated on you now. It gives you a greater deal of satisfaction than tossing those cookies ever did. It was you who had the reigns now, instead of those woman-patronizing incels.
You start to smile connivingly, to which the guys start to gulp over. You can tell they’re putting two and two together, their two brain cells collectively working over time to discover that you had a delicious upper-cut up your sleeve.
It’s the very least they can do. If they wanted to taint your name to smithereens in your absence, you’re sure as hell going to give them something else to lose their minds about in Math 3.
And when all eyes are fixated on you, you tilt your chin up to project your voice. You want to make sure everyone, especially Grant and Eddie, hear you loud and clear when you sinisterly announce,
“I pick Harmony.”
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101 for the ask meme?
Steve hadn't really understood what Colonel Rhodes had meant by "Tiberius Stone ruins Tony's day simply by existing" until he finally attended a gala with Tony. Watching Tony's eyes go wide with surprise, his face go ashen, his plastic smile stretching his wan face automatically before the dismay even truly registered in Steve's mind, it left him feeling hollowed out.
It reminded him of the face his ma made when his da's footsteps in the stairwell were heavy with drink.
Steve clocked Tiberius immediately. He was tall, handsome. Blond and blue-eyed. It made Steve think about early in his relationship with Tony, and the fear on his face when Steve moved too fast or too sharply--made him think about the apologies and the excuses Tony had made when Steve had asked if he'd done something wrong. Tiberius's smile reminded Steve of Tony's when he was being asked a question he didn't particularly like at press conferences; like he was lying, and everyone knew it, but he'd done so in such a way that the person calling him on it would be an asshole to say so. Except somehow Tiberius's smile was worse, because he looked like he enjoyed making people uncomfortable.
Steve wasn't great at rich person stuff, but he was good at putting distance between people he didn't want to talk to, so he carted Tony around the gala three times to talk to different people before Tony noticed. Tony had given him a look of speculation, then surprise, then fondness, before he'd rolled his eyes and shaken his head with a disappointed sigh and said, "I have to talk to him, Steve."
"I'll go with you," Steve offered, but Tony just rolled his eyes again. "I want to go with you."
"Yeah, well, I don't want you to punch Tiberius in the teeth, and I know you want to," Tony replied, amused and annoyed at the same time somehow, and then shook Steve's hand off his arm so he could work his way around the gala alone.
Steve retreated to the bar, getting two large ginger ales with lemon, and tried not to break either of the glasses in frustration as he wondered if this was a Rich People Thing or a Tony Thing. At least he could understand Rich People Things. Tony Things usually just made him sad.
Tony sat down next to him a few minutes later, and Steve slid one of the glasses to him. He waited a beat, just watching Tony for a moment, but his face was impassive. He opened his mouth. "So, are you--"
"I'm okay, thank you," Tony cut in, sharp but quiet. "Just please, stop talking to me."
Steve tilted his head, considering. Tony didn't look okay. He looked... blank. Like a slate. But then, at a gala, where there were tons of photographers and gossip magazine writers, perhaps the conversation wasn't necessary. Not right now.
"I stepped on some lady's foot," Steve told the bartender. "The one wearing the teal shrug. How much trouble am I in?"
"The hostess?" the bartender asked, eyes nearly popping out of her head, and Tony choked on his ginger ale.
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I’ll bite with another request.
Scaramouche being jealous that I’m always using Kaeya ingame since he’s the absolute epitome of “tall, dark and handsome” and he’s all like, “How pathetic. Sucking up to that guy like it’s your last chance at living.” when he’s actually like, “Hey asshole. Notice me. Now.”
What a pain. I have to fuck every ounce of jealousy out of him.
Just give him some attention smh.
cw: sub scaramouche, nsfw/smut, degradation, gn!reader, reader has a dick/strap-on
summary: Scara gets jealous because you keep taking Kaeya to help with your daily things! So you decide to fuck it out of him?
a/n: BITE MF- jealous scara, so stupid, fuck that jealousy outta him ‼️🙏 He just wants some attention, jeesh why r u so focused on kaeya smh /j 🙄
Minor writer, dni if uncomfortable!
"Ugh," he's groaning, annoyed once he sees you bidding farewell to Kaeya. You had him on your team again, needing some help with commissions and bounties. He's strong and a fun guy to be around!
Once you approach Scara, he's glaring at you, annoyance in his voice, "Tch, how pathetic. Can't do anything without him, really need him to keep you alive, huh." He's rolling his eyes and you just shrug, walking past him, "Well it's more fun doing things with a good friend, plus I get things done quicker." You're walking away from the city, leaving Scara standing by the tree. He quickly catches up with you, walking next to you.
"Yeah, sure. But wouldn't it be better to have someone else with you? He's weird," He speaks, shaking his head. Now that he thinks about it, no. He doesn't want anyone else to be with you. Why can't you just take him along uh?? Is that so hard??
You look at him, doubt in your gaze, "He's weird..? Says who?" Scara glares, "What do you mean 'says who'? I'm saying that! That guy is weird, changing up your little 'team' would be better." You're raising your eyebrows, looking back to where you're going, "The more you speak, the more I won't listen to you."
You two continue to talk, Scara still talking about you and Kaeya, you starting to realize that he's just jealous of you spending time with Kaeya. Trying to tell you that the guy is weird and shouldn't accompany you?? Seems like something Scara would definitely do while jealous, c'mon.
You two had walked pretty far, into some quiet area with few trees. So you finally took the chance.
Scaramouche is still talking about Kaeya until you stop and pull him by his shirt, pushing him against a tree, knocking his hat off in the process. "Alright, I get it," you start speaking, "You're annoyed at me not giving you attention." Scara's staring at you with wide eyes, before relaxing his expression. "What? Excuse me? Bold of you to assume I care for your attention, I just don't like Kaeya." He responds, wrapping his hands around your arm, "Let me go, you look stupid."
"Let you go? Oh, you wish," you chuckle at him. He's pushing you away, but you quickly take the chance to take his hands and pin them above his head. Scara blinks at you, "Uh- don't we have somewhere to go? Didn't you need some kind of materials for one of your stupid friends or whatever?" You lean closer to him, "That can wait, I have better things to do now."
"Psh, like what? Keep me here until I apologize for talking about your dear Kaeya?" He laughs, smirking at you. You shake your head, "Shut your mouth." "Oh, you wish," he quotes your words, tilting his head to the side. Alright yeah you've had enough.
You lean into his neck, biting down immediately. He gasps, "What- the fuck are you doing?" You just ignore him, sucking on the spot and then moving to another. Scara's complaining and gasping whenever you bite down harsher. But then he finally shuts up when you bite at a spot on his neck, making him gasp again. He suddenly moans when you suck another dark mark. You pull away to stare at him, "Huh? Where did your complains go?" He's got a light blush on his face as he rolls his eyes at you, "Shut up."
"Okay," you simply respond, going back to leave marks. It's not long until he's trying to get his hands out of your grasp. When you're done, you kiss every mark that you made. "Oh, for fucks sake just move on," he groans. You don't, of course. After a few more kisses, he's about to say something again, but you press your lips against his, shutting him up. Your other hand went to stay on his chest, tracing shapes.
Then you wrap it around his neck, slightly squeezing. He gasps and you let your tongue in. You move your hand back to his chest, going more down. You made out with Scara, him starting to make noise in your mouth, having enough of you teasing him, whatever.
Once you pull away, you tell him to shut up again, seeing that he's opening his mouth. And he does. "Your jealousy is stupid and I've had enough," you say, dragging the tips of your fingers down his stomach. Then you stop right above where he'd want you to touch him.
"And I've had enough of you teasing m-" he decides to speak, but you cut him off with a kiss. He tries to get out of your hand again, but do you let him? No.
You pull away from his face, sighing, "Guess I'll have to fuck that out of you, no?" He blinks, but doesn't dare to speak again.
..
He's holding onto that tree for dear life, your thrusts being rough. Your hands holding his hips as you lean down to speak in his ear, "Can you hear yourself? You're moaning like a bitch." He whines, one of his hands going down to touch himself. You see it, of course, and take your hand away to slap his away. "Don't you dare," you dig your nails in his skin, "You think you're allowed to do that?"
He moans, head falling back, "Please-" "Oh hell no, you won't get away with that," you fuck into him harder, "Ah, I'll fuck that jealousy out of you, slut." Scara's hands try to hold himself up on that tree, but you hitting him right there has him getting weaker. And once you wrap a hand around his dick-
His moans increase in volume. Your hand goes to his chest as you push him to straighten his back. You push him against the tree, hand jerking him quicker while you continue fucking him.
His hands go into fists, his head fallen back, mouth open, tongue lolling out. You can't help but laugh, leaning closer to him. "You like my attention, hm?" You speak, kissing the mark at the back of his neck. Scara whines out, "Yes, fuck, please- more, pleashe, fuck-!"
"So pathetic, Scara," you leave kisses on his shoulder, "You're so loud. That desperate for my attention, huh?"
#☆°• ☆ ask box#☆°• ☆ writings#scaramouche smut#scaramouche x reader smut#genshin impact x reader smut#genshin x reader smut#☆°• ☆ drink up
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Hey, so in your recent DRK art tags you mentioned German Sidguru being extremely different from the English, and I'm Intrigued, can you spare any details?
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the thing is actually that german sidurgu isn't all that different from the english one, the german one is just (in my opinion) a way better execution of the same concept. fray and myste are completely different characters between languages so their english versions have their own appeal going for them but sidurgu is just The Better Sidurgu in german lol
the biggest point for me is that sidurgu is primarily driven by his trauma over having to watch his family be murdered as a child yeah? from which the german writers concluded that hey, I don't think this guy would be an asshole to myste actually (which is a name customarily given to orphans in the brume). he's still clearly not good with kids and struggling to keep his patience with myste, but he makes the effort to not be cruel to a child, because he's very aware of how much you can fuck up a child forever. it's just a so much more compassionate and nuanced take. his interactions with myste are more entertaining for it too, because instead of a gruff guy being mean to a child you have a gruff guy trying really really hard to not be mean to a child and then two quests later trying to pretend he's still sternly keeping an eye on this child and definitely doesn't have signed adoption papers in his back pocket.
another thing with sidurgu is that he claims to be fighting to protect rielle, but he's really just using her situation as an excuse to act on his violent hatred of the temple knights and lash out in response to his own issues, and doesn't actually listen to what rielle wants or needs. in german it's emphasised much more that he attached himself to rielle because she's effectively orphaned too and he recognised himself in that but it's precisely because her situation hits so close to home for him that he's getting caught up in his own desire to avenge what he lost and fails to see what he still has.
after rielle and the moogles rip into him for this he actually admits using the capital T trauma word that yeah, he's been so caught up in his own trauma that he failed to do right by her, because the german script isn't embarrassed to have the tall broody dark knight say he's traumatised and begin to heal from it. the real kicker on this part for me is that after this convo in english sidurgu is like, let's go back to ishgard, and in german he additionally says they can talk things over on the way back (because he does care for rielle and does want to do right by her and he's going to make active effort to listen to her), like it's such a small thing that makes such a big difference.
in english when it turns out the person hunting down rielle is her own mother, sidurgu gets mad at her for keeping this a secret when he and fray bled and died for her. in german he rages at her mother, because he's been so fucked up from having to grow up without his parents after they were violently taken from him that he can't even begin to comprehend a parent willingly withholding love from their child. when he initially spares rielle's mother he explicitly says it's because no child should have to watch their parents die, and rielle tells him to kill her anyway by saying it's her turn to get vengeance. it's the same general plotline but it feels much more internally consistent in german.
in the english 70 quest fray and sidurgu barely acknowledge each other. in german sidurgu calls fray by name, and fray says somewhat apologetically that they're just a painful memory from a corner of the wol's heart. sidurgu responds to this by throwing his sword at fray and saying "here, this way you can't complain the issue was a blunt weapon again", clearly referencing a memory he shared with fray because the memory of fray is just as important to him as the "real" thing was. when you ask sidurgu about fray after completing all the quests he wonders why you'd bring up fray of all people now, but then adds "fine, I do like remembering him". it's much more tangible that the two of them meant a lot to each other within the very few snapshots you get of their relationship.
overall when put next to each other it just feels to me like the english script was scared of ruining the image of dark knight being so cool stomping around in your spiky armor with your bigass sword, while the german script says with its whole chest that dark knight is about traumatised people banding together to hopefully spare others some of the same pain. both scripts tell you that being a dark knight is about love, but english feels embarrassed to say it while the german quest is permeated with it at every point, in so many ways that if i wanted to list them all it'd be more efficient to just translate the whole thing directly. in being so focused on sidurgu's image of edgy brooding knight the english script ends up being way less compassionate to him.
ironically german sidurgu as a character more purposely cultivates his brooding edgy image as an extension of how much it means to him to be a dark knight, which leaves him open to other characters poking fun at him for it to humanize him and he's way funnier in german because of that. english rielle calls him a chocobo's arse and german rielle jokes that his short temper seems to be an occupational disease among dark knights. he feels more like a complete person rather than a character archetype because they actually let him have a full range of emotions. in english he loudly complains about having to help myste because idk its uncool for dark knights to actually help people or whatever. in german he says helping myste is all well and good but he's not exactly a good therapist so he really hopes some of the people they'll be trying to help have problems that can be solved with violence (and is openly excited when you encounter that girl who poisoned you at falcons nest and he realizes helping her will involve beating the shit out of her prison guard).
i'll be real i think the german team are just straight up better writers than the english team. I've been replaying the msq in german and it's a consistent pattern that the german script has more elegance, is more thematically consistent, and above all isn't afraid to let characters be motivated by emotion. i'm getting off track but you know how in castrum meridianum livia says she's going to kill you because gaius is hers and you can't have him? in german she's mad at you for killing her friend rihtahtyn (yknow, from cape westwind) and she's going to kill you and avenge him before you can take gaius from her too, which just makes way more sense as a character motivation without compromising her possessiveness. in english cid left the empire over moral disagreements in german he's additionally motivated by the complicated resentment he feels over losing his father to project meteor (which in english doesn't come up until three expansions later in bozja) and having gaius fill that paternal role for a while only to lose him to a mad search for power too. it just really doesn't compare. highly recommend anyone who can to start playing the game in a language other than english.
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Creative theft
I don’t think I’ll ever fully wrap my head around the rank entitlement some people have. Specifically in regards to paying artists, writers, crafters, etc.
* I want thing.
* I can’t afford thing.
* I’ll steal thing because I deserve it and the person who made it is a rich greedy asshole.
Stealing food and vital supplies from big box stores is one thing, but stealing from individual creative types who are probably also broke is fucking horrifying. No, you don’t “deserve” someone’s lovingly-crafted story or artwork without paying for all the time and effort they put into it. Sure, you deserve nice things once in a while, but not at the expense of someone else.
Pirating a struggling author’s books isn’t a “win” against Capitalism, it’s a “fuck you” to the author you claim to love, who sees their sales drop so far that their publisher decides there’s no demand for their books and doesn’t renew their contract. And you’d be surprised how many authors are just barely keeping afloat, even when they’re well-known names.
Using an AI program to copy your favorite artist’s style isn’t a “compliment” to them, it’s an insult. “I like your stuff but you charge too much” isn’t a valid answer, it’s just a convenient excuse to not give them any money. Artists deserve to eat, too. And they deserve recognition for the hard work they’ve done.
Buying cheap knock-offs of a dicemaker’s design isn’t some “gotcha.” You’re ruining their life and making them less likely (or less able) to create more designs. Dice-making is fucking expensive and time-consuming, and then you add in the creative effort needed in order to come up with unique designs that haven’t been done by someone else and yeah, it’s gonna get pricey. They aren’t overcharging. If anything they’re undercharging in hopes of some sales.
I keep thinking of that one story that makes the rounds here on occasion. The knitter who had a potential customer get angry because the price of the afghan they wanted was “too much.” The customer priced out the cost of the yarn and needles and decided that was more than fair. Except, y’know, that isn’t how it works. If you go to the store and buy the right amount of yarn and the needles to do it, are you going to be able to create the afghan on your own? Even if you know how to knit, can you follow the complex pattern you decided on? How long is it going to take you?
It isn’t just about the cost of the raw supplies, you’re paying for a person’s talent as well, and any skills/expertise they’ve developed in their field. Telling them that their effort, creativity, and time isn’t worth any money is fucking rude.
The only thing you’re proving by stealing from artists is that you’re a greedy, selfish bastard who cares more about your own petty needs than about the livelihoods of others.
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The feeling when your brain latches on wanting whump of That One Specific Character to the point that you find yourself scrambling for paper-thin excuses for certain injuries that are either canon or that should logically be canon even if they're not actually said to be there, to stick around long enough to scar and/or to never heal quite right.... even though the setting is a commercial D&D campaign setting where clerics, and therefore nice and neat healing magic that should just get the job done without any risk of it going wrong or anything, are of course generally speaking pretty readily available...
literally i'm just over here putting clown make-up on going oh but what if he's being a stubborn asshole about it and not letting himself be healed to prove a point, hey what if once an injury is older than like 24 hours there's a chance that even with the help of magic it might steal heal a bit wrong? like literally not even slightly how it's supposed to work but i'm just scrambling and digging for whump where i know there isn't any anyway
not just in a D&D setting where any type of injuries or illness could canonically be healed by magic, this is one of the things that bother me when it comes to whump in media — because it also happens in a setting that is supposed to be realistic or, even if it’s not in a setting where everything is supposed to be realistic, it still does happen a lot in a movie / tv show in which healing magic is not available.
don’t get me wrong, I love my blorbo. but let’s be real, we all want to see that little guy suffer.
so it annoys me to see a character in a movie/tv show (or a book or literally any type of media) simply “walk it off” after an injury that is supposed to have them bedridden for at least a week or two. or to see them appear without a scar after sustaining an injury that would’ve left a nasty scar in real life.
I know it’s all fiction and most people probably don’t care about these “tiny details” but yeah, these “tiny details” are what make us members of the whump community foam at the mouths (in a good way), and there actually are still a lot of people who are into whump, even if they don’t openly talk or post about it online.
that’s why several of my fics are about these “missing scenes” where my blorbo actually goes through a long road towards recovery after their canonical injuries, or suffers from PTSD where they have a hard time looking at their scar, etc.
also shout out to all the fanfic writers out there who dedicate their time and energy into writing fics about these missing scenes. y’all are the backbones of your fandoms.
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As much as I loved DBS: Super Hero, it did also serve as a reminder for why modern Dragon Ball gives Gohan so little to do.
What it boils down to is that Dragon Ball writers seem to have difficulty finding new ways for Gohan to develop or evolve as a fighter. This is because Gohan himself isn't interested in developing or evolving as a fighter.
By contrast to the proactive Goku, Gohan is a reactive character. He doesn't want to be a big martial arts super-warrior. He has no ambition to become Next-Gen Son Goku. That doesn't mean he won't Do The Things. He's been Doing The Things since he was four. But he needs to have a reason. Something he's doing it for.
"To be stronger/better, to push myself, to become more than I am now," is Goku's driving motive. Goku is a martial artist driven to surpass his own limits, and this drives him to keep finding new mountains to climb.
Gohan's driving motive is, "To protect my family from that asshole." He needs a reason. Self-improvement for its own sake (or, as some have offered, "to be strong enough to deal with the next guy") isn't his passion. Plus, he's already one of the strongest people in the entire universe. How much stronger should he reasonably need to be?
There are all kinds of stories you can tell with a reactive character like Gohan. He's basically a superhero archetype. Spider-Man doesn't constantly train to make himself a better fighter with every waking moment. He doesn't need to; His genre isn't one of progressive escalation.
The problem is, Dragon Ball is dedicated to progressive escalation, arguably to its detriment as Modern Dragon Ball is well past the point where escalation no longer holds any weight. The powers of the characters are so abstract by this point that they have to be defined solely in relation to each other. "Bob is STRONGER than Alex." "Yeah, well now we're fighting John, who's way stronger than Bob and Alex combined." "Yeah well Mark is 100x stronger than John!" "Frank could flex Mark into oblivion with his pinky finger."
This isn't a problem for Gohan, so much as it is a problem for the mindset people have when writing for Dragon Ball. Whether it's Toei or Toyotaro or even Toriyama himself, nobody ever knows what to do with Gohan.
Even when Gohan's in the driver's seat, he's being written by writers who don't know how to write the kinds of stories that Gohan, as a protagonist, is suited for. So they always wind up going back and rehashing things from the well of past Gohan things.
Goku gets to move forward and do new things, but Gohan is trapped in an endless cycle of doing the same three things and nothing else.
1 - Piccolo's sacrifice. Piccolo throwing himself in front of an attack for Gohan or maybe Gohan throws himself in front of an attack for Piccolo if we're being spicy today. REMEMBER THAT TIME. DO YOU REMEMBER?
2 - Gohan gets a rage boost or turns Super Saiyan 2, and then things get real. Everyone loved his Super Saiyan 2 transformation. They loved it so much they're still finding excuses to have him turn Super Saiyan 2 for the very first time again.
3 - Gohan has the power within him to win but he can't unleash it so Goku appears out of nowhere to save him and give him a pep talk, and then he gains confidence in himself and becomes strong enough to win.
To my knowledge, I don't think #3 has appeared in DBS as of yet but it was all over post-Cell Games. After everyone went nuts for Father-Son Kamehameha, we had "Goku gives Gohan a pep talk so he can win" as the resolution for both Broly: Second Coming and Bojack. Then in the actual manga, Goku made the save on Gohan during the Super Buu fight and then got sick of having to do this and fired him from protag slot entirely, which is worse.
Most of Super Hero was a lot of fun. But that final fight turning into "Let's literally bring Cell back so that we can do 'Gohan turns Super Saiyan 2 and defeat Cell' again but it's actually Cell again for maximum uncreativity"? I see you, writers. I see your total lack of ideas for this character.
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ayo! Anon who talked about that One Filipino Character Viv made (I’ll probably stick around, so just call me Studio Anon to track things) here, just wanted to air out some thoughts of the writing/worldbuilding/designs Viv had made because shitting on them is funny and it isn’t like she’ll take any criticism on them.
Something I always asked or wondered is like… where even is HB? Like, location-wise. Sure it’s hell, but… they never really specified the ring? Is it pride? Is it some other ring? I remember the whole travel-by-elevator system but I don’t exactly remember where it takes place…. It’s pretty problematic if the viewers of a show forget where the supposed main place of the ‘plot’ is placed. Because of that, it’s hard to figure out where everything else is in my head- Loo Loo Land is in… Pride? So does that mean HB is in Pride? Why have hellborns in Pride if overpopulation is an issue there…?
Also, why are the citizens of hell limited to imps and hellhounds? And yes I know there’s like, succubi and whatever those shark demons were (and as a fish enthusiast, it’s pretty telling if even they forgot those types of demons existed in the world), but they’re basically just imp bit different(tm). It’d make sense if there were different kinds of oml but we never really see that, so that was a waste.
Like, if gluttony had a beehive aesthetic you’d expect to see some bug-imps or something, not just straight up imps (they’re probably the crew’s impsonas but come on, it’s pretty sad that it was just Imps and Dogs in hell- kinda puts a bad idea that dogs go to hell or something tbh.)
Don’t even get me started on the designs of the sins, like wow.
When you think of these big, scary embodiment of sin, you’d want them to be a little threatening… right?
Apparently not, in Viv’s mind.
Like yes, it’s fun showing off the sins having more than one personality than just their sin, but that’s literally all they are. They don’t act like their sin. You know that Viv excuse- they’re in hell. Let them be awful? It’s not hard.
Sucks that the only embodiment of sins we’ve sin are just: imp but white (Lucifer, also kinda Mammon), bird (Asmodeus), or furry (Beelzebub). I don’t expect any of the other sins to be any different, I just wish that they could be the embodiment of sin and be a good character (not good morally, but decently written, but I doubt that’d ever happen), not just written out to be a total asshole so the uwu-good-sins can be all nice and cute.
It’d be cool to have a Greed vs. Lust battle, both having strong feelings of attachment to something/someone but no. They talk out their silly stupid feelings, eugh.
(Do let me know if you’d want to hear more of these thoughts- I’m a writer and designer myself and I absolutely love trashing Viv’s work because I can do better because I learn stuff.)
Pretty sure I.M.P. headquarters are located on Pride, which is how sinners are able to access them. Apart from that, yeah, it's a clusterfuck and a half.
By all mean, keep sending those thoughts! They're good thoughts!
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everyone has different interpretations of scenes, but for real that scene with jamie and roy was just plain sexist. roy seriously said "i don't know if we're getting back together because she's a woman and you never know". like what the absolute fuck was that line? they showed up to her house condescending, completely unapologetic about their behaviour, and treated her like a trophy prize. she deserved to beat them up. jamie and roy have always been troubled characters, but they were never (not even in season one) sexist assholes. the show went out of its way multiple times to establish that even when they made mistakes it was due to personal insecurity and not misogyny.
and whenever it was something misogynistic, it was heavily criticised as such, which, in this episode, it was not. a lot of people did seriously not catch the blatant sexism of it at all and went "that's how these men act" (again, what the fuck?). jamie spent season three being respectful of roy and keeley's breakup and not making a move on her, out of consideration of roy's feelings. roy, who knows how abusive jamie's father is, probably better than any other male character on the show, physically assaulted him. despite the fact that throughout the season roy has been approaching jamie with affection, realizing that's what he needs to feel secure (complete disrespect to 2x08 too, one of the best episodes of the series). and while we're on the topic of violence, roy and jamie were never this violent with each other, even when they hated each other's guts. jamie, who gave keeley a truly heartfelt apology about the leaked video, making a point to not victim-blame or engage in literally ANY other sexist behaviour, just brings it up to upset roy in a dick-measuring contest. and one episode ago, one fucking episode ago, they were all getting along, keeley and roy were obviously trying to get back together, and jamie wasn't one bit bothered by it. they were holding hands on his bed and he saw them and smiled! regardless of whether you think the roykeeley arc was rushed (i do), jamie might have been heartbroken or sad, but he wasn't, not once, established as jealous of them. and this entire season was devoted to roy and jamie becoming friends by slowly growing comfortable around each other and actually trusting each other. every single one of those things was thrown into the trash. and yeah, sure, progress isn't linear and perfection isn't possible for people, but that WAS NOT regression. roy and jamie were never sexist dicks. those were two completely different characters.
ALSO, this scene normalizes the idea that it's perfectly forgivable to revert back to sexism whenever emotionally distressed, even if you are generally not like that in your life. it's not. in reality, you're either sexist or you're not, and doing this in one scenario will absolutely mean that you will be sexist in different scenarios too. nobody in real life will be sexist in some areas of their life and feminist in others. implying that this isn't the case shows a very poor understanding of feminist theory and ted lasso has more or less done a good job at not being sexist. i feel like this really excuses unacceptable behaviour that the show itself tells us, with rupert particularly, has very real consequences that perpetuate violence against women. to me, the light-hearted resolution of that whole scene was terrible and poorly written at best. people in the writers' room typed that scene, read through it, and did not find it weird at all. though it's not the first time in the third season, see: forgiving jamie's dad and far-right bigots (???).
and lastly, when people were asking for a love triangle resolution, they meant something fitting for the year of our lord 2023. healthy communication and conversations, mutual respect and love between the charactets, maybe even polyamory (3x11 had a great ot3 set up, too). nobody meant we wanted something from the fucking 1950s. literally the only worse way this could have played out would have been if keeley ended up with the one that caused the other more damage. legit disgraceful ending for roy and jamie as characters, and for the show as well. considering everything it has stood for so far.
(i'm sorry if this reads like i'm calling people out, i'm not, really, i'm just very mad. and also really sad, because i did not go into the ted lasso finale expecting unaddressed sexism. like that was Really Very Bad. for this show especially).
woahhh there's a lot going on here, anon. For anyone wondering, I'm assuming this is a response to this post of mine. While I don't mind discussion or being called out... this does feel like something that could've very well been your own post or an open response to mine instead of an anon note. Because if you've read my meta, you'll probably already know I'm not going to agree with you on this.
Just gonna drop a few short thoughts because I don't have energy to write a think piece when my broader thoughts are already contained in my original post:
I'm not sure where you think I was trying to excuse their words or pretending they weren't being sexist or like they weren't treating Keeley as a weapon in their own games or a prize to be won. I think there's a difference between excusing someone's actions versus trying to understand where they were coming from for the characters and where they are at now.
"while we're on the topic of violence, roy and jamie were never this violent with each other, even when they hated each other's guts" Roy & Jamie were literally beating each other up in the locker room and brawling right out there on the pitch in season 1, anon.
"Keeley and Roy were obviously trying to get back together, and Jamie wasn't one bit bothered by it." this is just not true. Roy was trying to get back together with Keeley. Keeley wasn't shown to be reciprocal (beyond sleeping with him, which is a repeated pattern of behavior for her on the show, and something she in fact did with Jamie in season one), and Roy misinterprets it, as Jamie misinterpreted it. In fact, I'd argue Roy deciding it was a good idea to try and make him and Keeley happen right there in Jamie's bedroom with Jamie crying to his mum one room over, shows he wasn't thinking about Jamie, not when it comes to Keeley. Roy wants what Roy wants and he assumed he was going to get it. And Jamie went through a whole journey of expressions when he opened that bedroom door, so I don't think it's fair to say he "wasn't one bit bothered." I think we've established at this point Roy and Jamie both love Keeley and have always been weird and jealous about it with the other.
"this scene normalizes the idea that it's perfectly forgivable to revert back to sexism whenever emotionally distressed" this scene didn't normalize anything, because the show immediately acknowledged that Jamie and Roy were both in the wrong and had Keeley rightfully kick them to the curb for it. The narrative was not that this is okay or acceptable behavior. I definitely didn't see the scene as light-hearted
"nobody in real life will be sexist in some areas of their life and feminist in others." i am a woman who considers herself very much a feminist. That doesn't mean I've never had moments of internalized misogyny or made harmful comments that buy into a patriarchal narrative, despite myself. Well-intentioned people make mistakes. We are all works in prog-mess trying to get through life as the best people we can be. Jamie and Roy, in my opinion, are fictional iterations of the same principle. I don't think this comes even close to destroying their entire characters in the way you are implying.
All the best x
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wip questions tag
jumping on the excuse to do this from @ceph-the-ghost-writer (post here). it’s been a minute, but I really want to do this for claws honestly, as a little treat~
What was the first part of your WIP that you created?
The characters - Vivien and Rainier are based on the modern AU versions of Vizaeth and Pharaun from my Obsession fic series, so they were the entry point for the story. I guess also wet was kind of a first foray into the story; it’s Viz/Pharaun modern AU fic, but it sort of has the Vibes that later became claws.
If your story was a TV show, what would the intro song be?
I’d want it to be a dark cover of a love song, like the Happy Together cover by Filter I have on my wip-playlist. Something that originally is very sweet and loving, turned sinister.
Who are your favourite character(s) and why?
Vivien my beloved <3 <3 <3
He’s the main character, and I just love everything about him. He’s got the most specific worldview I’ve written (aside from Vizaeth) and he’s got very particular ways of seeing and interpreting the world that are so fascinating to me. His dichotomy of victim/villain is so juicy, and his high emotions make his reactions to everything 10x more interesting.
Plus he’s a transmasc nightmare murderboy, which is my favourite, AND he’s a scrubby little punk/goth kid. All around delicious.
What other pieces of media could share a fanbase with your WIP?
NBC Hannibal would have a fun amount of fan crossover, I think. Maybe Interview with the Vampire. claws has a lot of messy queers in it, i think those fandoms would have fun with them.
What has been your biggest struggle while writing your WIP?
Getting it drafted without worry too much about realism - resisting the urge to go research instead of write. It’s drafted now, and I have a lot of problems to solve with it now, so that’s the new struggled - fixing all the issues discovery drafting for the first time in over a decade has cause me :p
Are there any animals in your story?
Spiders! Lots and lots of spiders! Which is going to be so much fun to research for accuracy, because I don’t actually enjoy spiders very much in real life. I’m better with them than I used to be, but yeah. This is a very arachnophilic book and I…am not that.
How do your characters get around?
claws is in a modern setting, so they use contemporary transport - cars mostly feature. Rainier has a too-expensive BMW with a vanity plate because he’s That Kind of Asshole.
What parts of your WIP are you working on right now?
Currently it’s marinating, so next steps are: reading/devouring lots of Relevant Media to help with vibes, doing research for areas of the book I just kind hand-waved (some science things, aforementioned spiders, various medical bits and pieces…there’s a lot), and later re-outlining it for a neater first draft out of the messy zero draft I have right now.
What aspects of your WIP do you think will draw people in?
the fact that it’s messy queer horror about toxic love. judging by the comments on my wip intro, that’s the thing people seem to like! i do also hope that the characters will captivate readers as much as they’ve captivated me. i’d love for people to be as obsessed with Vivien and Rainier’s fucked-up deal as I am.
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I kinda want you to go all out in a rant re: dc's writing of dick in recent times... if you feel up for it just know I'm over here like 👀🍿😈
ah, yes. i could summarize with the sentence: they were overcorrecting after Ric Grayson and then spun out.
but I'll continue below:
this man was batman. do you know how up in arms every batstan would be if they did this with Bruce???
this man was batman. (this man was also a cop, which like acab- but also he knows how a fucking interrogation works)
dick has never been more sensible than Bruce in his life when it comes to putting himself in danger. ever. he's only more sensible when telling his teammates (or family) to rest..... and what's even more frustrating is that they show this in the same run???
the writing Tom Taylor has done is just so inconsistent and he uses the below as an excuse
now if they had actually leaned into the complexities of repeated concussions, it would be an interesting arc for me (i'm a healthcare provider) but the writers simply don't have the range, and this is a superhero story. suspence of disbelief in body limits is VITAL.
and it's only for them to overcorrect and spinout again by giving Dick superpowers. just another way of ruining so much of what I love the batfamily for. they're just human! (minus duke, and jason who i like to make zombie jokes about). Almost boring, if they weren't them.
and not all of the writing is horrible which almost makes it worse. i love alfred honoring Dick in death (but he shouldn't have been the only batkid). i love dick being an asshole to bruce before they change up and start making him reference him as "Dad" to his face and othef batfam members. like this moment is fun:
and then of course there's them having every batfam and titan member being overly concerned and becoming helicopter friends and it was nice at first because it was novel and he deserves the kindness...... until it starts happening so often and in ways where they're taking his agency away from him. his legacy of *leadership* away.
i multiship so I'm not going to get into the whole dickkory/dickbabs debacle because that's it's own can of worms anyway... but yeah. it's a mess.
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I hope this doesn’t sound like I’m excusing them because that’s the last thing I want, but I genuinely don’t think that anon had any ill will or bad intentions by sending the ask in that y’all have been talking about 😭 Don’t get me wrong, I sure as hell don’t agree with what they said. I just think they are truly convinced that they aren’t supposed to read those two stories as a white person and that you wouldn’t want them to (which simply isn’t true). I don’t understand it at all, but I also don’t think that makes them an asshole. It just makes them naive because you’re not that kind of author. However, there is always the chance that they were just looking for a pat on the back or trying to come off as woke. But yeah, like you said, if POC did the same thing with content that was written with a white person in mind because the author themselves is, they/you wouldn’t have any reading material, so why can’t they do the same?
I understand that and I also said I don't want to accuse anyone of being anything in this conversation but as you said, my blog has never been that kind of blog. I've always been adamant since the beginning that while I'll always imagine these readers to look like me, they are written in a way in which anyone can imagine themselves as the reader so I just kind of feel like if you feel uncomfortable reading a reader coded as black by the author then why are you here? I just think it's weird to follow a black writer, hold that sentiment and pick and choose which stories you want to apply that sentiment to. It's not consistent
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I feel weird about Nandor's behaviour, like it's such a regression? I know being thoughtlessly cruel is his whole brand but I feel like since the beginning of s4 he's been shown to be more attentive to Guillermo (I even told myself he's growing from being a dumb asshole into just a dumbass). But yeah ep 9 reverted all that, which is very disappointing. And tbh I don't think this Nandor deserves Guillermo at all, which Idk how to feel about ;(
It's funny. I've seen a lot of people saying this about Nandor, but he actually felt fairly on-brand for me. He did something horrific, but didn't realize that it was. Like I think he genuinely wasn't trying to hurt Guillermo, didn't realize he was, and when he figured it out, he tried (ineffectively) to fix it. If anything, I think he was just written as too dumb in this episode. That might be the real issue here.
I think the disconnect here is that this feels uniquely awful to the audience and to Guillermo. It just doesn't feel that way to Nandor. And I think that's the only reason why it doesn't totally ruin his character for me. It feels more like when he gave that glitter portrait to Guillermo, you know? We as the audience know that Guillermo was devastated and we were kind of devastated for him, but Nandor thought he was being a nice guy the whole time. He didn't understand how forgetting how long Guillermo had been there or making him think he'd get turned was cruelty.
I think the thing is that Freddie, like Marwa, was just a shiny to Nandor. I think Guillermo realized that, which is why he was so clear that this was his first and only boyfriend. This isn't like Marwa to him. Freddie was important. But I'm not sure that's something that Nandor could fully understand, even after Guillermo explained it to him. I think Guillermo might be the only person he's ever loved like that, so Guillermo putting it into terms of dating (so he thinks "like Marwa", so he thinks "collect them all, like wives") instead of truly losing someone you care about still just didn't get through Nandor's thick skull.
So him manipulating Freddie didn't feel any different than repeatedly changing Marwa to him. He never conceptualized it as taking anything from Guillermo because he didn't understand that the physical person wasn't the issue, it was the relationship they had built up together. (Fully hammered home by him then trying to give his own Freddie to Guillermo like a replacement goldfish.)
When Guillermo was sad, suddenly having this new shiny wasn't fun anymore and he sent him on his way -- with lots of crocodile tears of course. He still didn't even get why he did it.
To me, Nandor's actions didn't feel that odd to me. What felt much weirder was the way the writers approached this. It wasn't Nandor's cruelty that I found off-putting; it was the writers'. It was the meanest thing they've ever done in the show by far, and I can see why it crossed a personal line for so many viewers. Like that last scene! Guillermo going all the way to London to try and win his boyfriend back, only to see him cheating on him with his fucking clone. That was the writers' decision, not Nandor's. And an episode ending with Guillermo's genuine and shattering heartbreak was just a bridge too far for a lot of viewers. I get that.
(Side note: Harvey has been given some shit scripts this season but boy is he acting the hell out of them.)
Moreover, the way that the writers also didn't seem to realize that what was happening to Marwa was fucked up alarmed me a lot more than Nandor not realizing it.
Nandor is dumb and selfish and his dumbness makes him cruel. Okay. I get that. But what's the writers' excuse for all this? Why did they think we'd want to see this or find it funny? Why didn't they realize the implications of what they were doing? That's what I find more troubling in the long run...
As for Nandor "deserving" Guillermo... I mean, he's always been a dick who didn't deserve good things. Guillermo is also a terrible person who doesn't deserve good things. I think Guillermo might actually be the cruelest person on the show, and I stand by that. Like say what you will about Nandor, he never purposefully infiltrated "loser" spaces and made lonely people think they'd finally found a friend just so he could murder them and make fun of how nerdy they were to camera right after. Guillermo is so fucking mean! I wouldn't be surprised if he even made some people think they might be losing that virginity of theirs when he brought them home. Like why else would he be asking about it!
Guillermo is outwardly sweet, but he can be very selfish and cruel, just like Nandor. I think we forget that sometimes because he's so kind to the vampires. Really, though, I actually think they deserve each other. lmao. Nandor is Guillermo's karma for how awful he is to other people. (And really, I think Freddie would have picked up on that eventually... and I still think that would've been a much more interesting direction to take things...)
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Did I?
warnings/notes: ayyy inspo came up after hours of spotify lmfao i hate writer's block 😂 reader has a sweet li'l tot, inspired by a song, this is a few years after divorce, reader is a BAMF, reader may or may not have a new s/o, C/N = child's name, angst with a soft ending of the start of reconciliation? or not! up to ya'll 🥺
Underage characters are Aged Up!
~Masterlist~
did i? did i?
Only a few years old, but damn, your kid was protective, and you were proud of them. The ever observant tot noticed an unfamiliar hulk approach you, and waddled up to cling onto your leg protectively, craning their head up and bravely giving the man the cutest glare.
The man-your ex-husband, stared back down at them, and the contest continued before your fellow side-kick approaches. He was a sweet young man, helping you out with your kid, sometimes. "Hey, can I--ohh." he speaks up, immediately recognizing the harsh pro-hero, shrinking somewhat under his glare. "Nah, I'm fine." you give him a sweet smile, and he smiles back. "Alrighty, I'll take Totter, then. Upsy-daisy, baby!" he says to your kid, bending and hooking his hands under their arms, hauling them up and moving them to settle on his hip as he closes in to whisper to you. The moment they are picked up, they start throwing an angry tantrum; somewhere along the lines of they were so close to chasing off the scary man! "Call if you need me, yeah?" he whispers, and you giggle. "I know, hun." you reply, the nickname heating up his cheeks. But it's long forgotten by a sudden punch from the toddler who was now near-tears, and he's off bouncing your kid in his arms, attempting to soothe them.
You wave your hand in front of a livid Katsuki's face, noticing his glare at the younger man. "Don't glare at him." you say once you gain his attention. "Who is he?" Katsuki growls. "I don't need to answer that. Touch him, and you're dead to us." you snap back calmly, despite the anger bubbling up in you. Who did this asshole think he was, getting jealous after everything he put you through?
He narrows his eyes down at you, clenching his jaw. You take a deep breath and sigh. He approached you on his own, so he probably wanted to speak to you. Some of this anger simmers, and you open your mouth to start.
"I'm sure, you've got a lot of things to say." you speak up, knowing that look in his eyes. "I know...you had a lot of things on your plate." you grind out. "But..." you trail off, stopping yourself from calling him familiarly. "But that doesn't excuse what happened." you tell him firmly, and he averts his gaze. "Remember when you promised you'd always be there...for me? By my side, and all that?" you say, your heart thudding-and not in a pleasant way-at the memory, noticing he was looking towards your child who was now happily preoccupied. "I told them the truth." you tell him, and your words make his gaze lift to yours. "Daddy got so busy, he couldn't keep his promises." you say, striking a chord in him. You could tell by they way he'd winced, wearing a pained expression.
Why did he look so hurt, when he hurt you most?
You snort, feeling a few tears begin to gather at your eyes. "Did I hurt your feelings when I went through that door?" you ask. "What I said, I meant it." you tell him. "Did I hurt your feelings movin' to the Aizawa's for a year? Not letting you see me, not answering your calls?" you ask.
His pitiful look only made you angrier.
"Did I hurt your feelings when I moved out, not leaving a fucking trace?" you ask. "I hope you fucking suffered." you tell him. "Did I waste my fucking time...trying to keep what we had afloat?" you ask him, "Y/N, I--" "Yeah. Yeah, I think you were right." you interrupt him, "I wasted all those years, and that's on me." hitting the nail in the head.
'You are annoying!'
"You can try to say you didn't mean it." you interrupt him again, not letting one excuse in.
'We might as well have nothing because of you!'
"Try to say there was nothing behind it." you say.
'Fuckin’ crybaby,'
"Every fucking word. I know you meant every fucking word, Katsuki." you pin him with your words, leaving him defeated.
'Don’t know why I even married you!'
"I know you." your voice wavers. "Even if you don't mean it now..." you trail off, a few tears falling. "You meant it when you said it." you say. You fish a pocket mirror and some wipes from your bag, thankful you didn't go too heavy on the makeup today, and there were only a few things to fix.
There's a short few moments of silence, even after you've finished touching up, his eyes guiltily lingering on your child. "One chance." you say, and his crimson gaze lifts to you once more, the hopefulness in his eyes making your stomach lurch. You sigh softly. "One chance. You'll get one chance with C/N. Fuck up, you'll never see them again." you warn him, "Wait here." turning on your heel to make a detour. You had to calm yourself down-you had to be your usual self, after all. You didn't want to scare the apple of your eye.
"I'm sorry." you hear his gruff voice uncharacteristically waver as you walk away.
You couldn't forgive him, yet. But if your baby was willing, you'd give him one chance.
One chance, and just maybe, the scars will heal over.
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Antis: The Circus ruined Helluva Boss! They turned Stella into a villain because they wanted to take the easy way out, they madeStolas a baby boi who can't do anything wrong, Blitzo was always an asshole even as a kid for stealing and doesn't care about Stolas at all and Octavia is dumb as shit for not noticing her dad was unhappy with her abusive mother
The Circus: It showed us why Stolas is the way he is and confirmed that he was stuck in an arranged loveless marriage but he's no free of guilt for cheating as he said in his own words:
Stolas: I know what I did! I would feel bad if I hurt you, but we both know I didn't do that.
Plus it showed us that Stolas never saw Blitz as a plaything but as his friend, confirming that the owl doesn't have a imp fetish or sees imps as less.
And no, the writers didn't take the "easy way out", Stella ever since her first apparence was not a good person, even if she has every reason to be mad for getting cheated on, that doesn't excuse throwing stuff (like pots with plants he loves) and people (servants who have nothing to do with your husband's affair) at your husband with the intention of harming him and hiring a hit man to kill him. While she may be stuck too in a marriage she didn't want to and probably has grown in an abusive household, none of that is reason enough to treat Stolas in the shitty way she does. And this was already decided when writing the show before it aired not because the writers didn't like the headcanons of her being misunderstood or because people's dislike towards Stolitz (in some cases being downright homophobic). Don't accuse the writers of character assasination as if you know how a fictional character,who you have seen very little of and being a bitch, is.
Yeah, stealing is wrong, but Blitzo was forced by his father to steal stuff from the Goetias and it's not like he could back off from that by saying no to his father as it's implied he's abusive with his son (he constantly grabs him and defenitly doesn't care if his son could get executed for stealing) and when he does steal as an adult, it's because IMP needs the book to work, he did it for I.M.P (Moxxie, Millie and Loona). And he does care for Stolas, otherwise he wouldn't have spent the evening with him as kids talking under the tree and having consensual sex with him as an adult instead of leaving. And the Blitzo we see in flashbacks is just the not developed version of his character that we see in Episodes 6 and 7. (Flashbacks are supposed to take place in the past not the present, people)
And Octavia shouldn't be held responsable of the shit her mom does to her dad, it's not like she's aware of what truly happens between her parents as Stolas hid it from her and didn't divorce her mother in order to give her a normal life and Stella could have isolating her daughter from what she did to Stolas in order to continue abusing him(which is something abusers do in real life), for example, she wasn't invited to the party of Not Divorced where Stella talked shit about Stolas to her clique loud enough so he could hear. (Only adult married couples could assist, we don't see the kids from the other goetias in the party)
SAY IT LOUDER FOR THE PEASANTS IN THE BACK!!!!
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