#He destroyed the competition

[moonilit]

They are not leaving my brainn

#Voted best three character designs #By me i voted #Listen their color palette is just *chef kiss* #Dear god kaeya give others a chance #He destroyed the competition #The hue the colors #It work off of his darker complexion #Kaeya #hu tao #candace #gensin impact #i have a lot to say but i can’t Englisch right now

[shiokaiton]

LET HIM IN LC, COWARDS

#competitive pokemon #smogon #he'll be perfectly balanced and fair I promise!!! #trust me!!! #he won't destroy the tier even a little bit!!!

[outofthehaze]

my friend also has anorexia and apparently her ABUSIVE FUCKING BOYFRIEND randomly started also counting calories and trying to compete with her.

literally putting an already sick woman in more distress, fear and self loathing while she tries to match the intake he’s DEFINITELY LYING ABOUT!!! HE IS ENCOURAGING HER DISORDER!!! KILL ALL MEN KILL ALL MEN KILL ALL MEN

#like anorexia is so competitive and he’s clearly lying about restricting bc he’s a big dude who’s lost no weight #and she’s too brain fogged to be as mad as she should be. #i offered her my couch and all my time if she needs it. #i hate watching men destroy the worthy amazing intelligent special women they come in contact with #it’s the curse of being a lesbian. and just crying crying crying for them #diary entry

[fellhellion]

hobie and miguel dynamic is just leftist infighting to me.

#hobie simultaneously webs 'kick me' signs onto miguels back when hes not paying attension AND has a running competition over who #can destroy the most leftover public eye tech around nueva york between them #miguel simultaneously thinks hobie the most annoying person on earth because he thinks discourse over whether group structures having a #a leader is counterintuitive to anarchist beliefs is dumb and not worth arguing about when theres work to be done #(also he hates losing arguments) BUT hobie also reminds him of himself when he was younger. the most pure crystalisation of his own #idealogical roots as a spiderman #miguel is the easiest target on earth for hobie because he takes the bait every time vs hobie's easygoing prodding being something of a #welcome distraction from all the other shit miguel constantly stresses about #tunes talks spiderverse #hobie vc: ur fucking grassroots org mate

[akkivee]

I am so sorry about spamming you with all these asks that aren't exactly asks 😭 that bit about saburo and kuko bonding via him info dumping on kuko is so cute! 😭 love the idea of kuko fitting right in w/ the yamada bros as if he belonged there?? like them playing games together, kuko making delicious food for them + packing jiro his bento in the morning when ichiro has some urgent request to attend to?? ft. ichiro being very much endeared but also confused w/ how domestic this all feels lmao

DOMESTIC ICHIKUU IS MY JAM

kuukou randomly dropping by to hang out with the yamadas????? assisting with their odd jobs???? and then dragging them all out for a break after more laborious jobs???? he habitually rises really early, like at around 3 in the morning, so when kuukou sleeps over, he always gets up to cook the yamadas breakfast??????

ichiro probably hc he has a cute boyfriend puttering around his home lol

#vee got an ask #don’t mind it lol i enjoy having excuses to talk about ichikuu lol #kuukou has his turf and ichiro has his but who says they can’t visit each other’s homes lol????? #kuukou can continue to jam with jiro lol!!!!!!!! saburo would probably appreciate having new blood to destroy at board games lol!!!!!! #ichiro might try and get an early morning workout going and kuukou ‘helps’ by doing any of the following: #sitting on ichiro’s back as he does push ups!!!!!!!! exercising with him and making a competition out of it!!!!!!! #simultaneous catcalling and gassing up finished sets!!!!!!! pda as a form of reward for finished sets!!!!!!!! #pick your poison LOL

[myrmica]

my reading of lifesteal season 4 is so personal and involved at this point that even if i was going to post more character analysis i would not know where to start. it would require footnotes to documents that don't exist. listen to luddites and lambs by everything everything and you'll get half of it though

#m #lifesteal #there is just such a compelling and clear thematic line between like. okay #first you need to just accept for me the idea that zam as a character is defined by being trapped running both towards and away from #the same object (mapicc) #and then you have to take mapicc as interchangeable with pain in general but specifically an inescapable normalcy of pain #which is caught up in something zam wants and knows he wants which is the “pure/natural” idyllic version of lifesteal #where every fight is fair competition #and what mapicc has done to hurt him more than the actual stalking and murder and all of that is that mapicc refused to fight him on even #ground (by literally invading and destroying his home so that everything becomes battlefield) in a way that offends his most deeply #held values. AND THEN he reads vitalasy's use of the exploits as trying to take that same thing he fundamentally values about lifesteal #away and he gets incredibly angry with vitalasy for hurting the server itself (pvp becomes functionally obsolete for a while there) #so he plays out the eclipse betrayal framing it in his own mind as another situation where he is the victim and vitalasy is the #manipulator/aggressor and falls back into the kind of jumpy paranoid behavior we as the viewer haven't actually seen from him in a very #long time now (late into eclipse when mapicc isn't an active threat anymore he really does stop jumping at shadows the way he used to) #and seems comforted by the familiarity of it if anything. because what vitalasy was asking of him that made him panic and reject it so #badly was to create a new pattern and step out onto unknown ground but he can't do it #and he retreats back to what he knows. so vitalasy isn't WRONG to read what zam does as victimizing himself #and forcing vitalasy into a villain role that is literally what he is doing #but vitalasy on the other end still has his own entire set of things he is not dealing with #and so the relationship created by these two people is doomed by their inability to look themselves in the eye more than any of the actual #facts of the relationship itself #and the thing zam wants lifesteal to be is not and has never been real. the thing vitalasy wants lifesteal to be is also antithetical to #its nature they are both wrong #but zam is wrong in that he wants to return to an idealized imagined past that does not actually exist #(see also vague historical allusions in his castle and his name and him trying after vi's death to cast off violence completely and return #to the land somehow. and the association created incidentally between stone tools and rudimentary technology) #and vitalasy is wrong in that he's trying to create something entirely new that nobody but him actually wants via the exploit #(see the way that once the exploit is 'out of the box' it can't be put back in and the course of the season is set in motion and any attemp #s to fight it and change that course are futile as allegorical to sudden technological advancement being met with violent opposition)

[themyscirah]

Star Wars (2020) #6... top 10 comics that make me want to eat rocks

#ITS SO GOOD #“I THINK IM BEGINNING TO UNDERSTAND IT TOO” LIKE BROOOOOOOOO 😭😱💖😭😱💖!!!!!!!!!! #the fact that i left my trade with it at home is unforgivable #luckily im going home this weekend but like its not enough... i need to eat it #im suuuuuper behind on that run too #like 25 issues or smth #need to catch up but GOD the fight scene in that issue... unreal #been in an unusually sw mood today actually #!!!!!!! i just remembered i have star wars club later actually so that may be it #theyre doing trivia too which is my BITCH #fucking love trivia. full on bragging here but i went to nationals with my team 2yrs ago like we slay #and im def feeling it today #my bff here wont be there though bc shes at home (like home home) sick but still. i will destroy. and also likely be the only woman there. #YOOO AND TRIVIA BRO WILL PROBS BE THERE #one of the club members also did competitive trivia in hs so were bros #i think hes on the other team though 😬 but whatevs #gosh im getting distracted yay sw comics! #blah #star wars

[racke7]

Villain Izuku

Reading through the “Villain Izuku”-tag is so weird.

Like, you have a bunch of different approaches:

“The League were the good guys actually” (UwU they’re just misunderstood)

“Society was mean to me, so that means it’s fine if I murder thousands of innocents”

“Izuku is a Super Mastermind and all the crazies among the Villains are totally fine with following his orders, since he gives them Results and would never betray them because he’s so smart and cool”

��The useless quirkless kid with no value was kidnapped by the Villains and forced to do Villain-things (instead of them just... you know, recruiting an obviously-useful Villain), but he secretly wants to be a Hero“

“Morally grey means that I can tell everyone that they suck, and they still have to be nice to me, because I’m so cool”

And having a bunch of different types is great, but like... I’m sorry, what?

Izuku is a molotov-cocktail of suppressed rage, and I can easily see him getting in trouble with the law simply because he used lethal force against someone he shouldn’t have (because he considered them a threat, and other people disagreed).

I could see him growing heavily disillusioned with the Hero Industry, and the way that they’re “enforcing the status-quo”, up until he finally snaps and tries to force a revolution.

I can even see him becoming a Vigilante pre-UA, and using enough violence that he falls into the category of “Villain who attacks Villains” rather than being referred to as a “Vigilante”.

Or have him try to reach out to help people through internet-forums until he accidentally creates an organization that’s technically-illegal, and he defends it to the death on behalf of how it lets him help people.

But like... those two sets of “Villain Izuku” don’t have a lot of overlap, do they?

The League is an organization led by an egocentric man-child, and funded by a sadistic monster who thinks that human experimentation is actually totally okay (since he’s the one doing it).

Izuku buckling to the pressure of society and deciding to murder innocents (for the lolz), rather than drag society kicking and screaming through a revolution (with some unfortunate innocent casualties)? Lame.

Setting up Izuku to be BBC’s Moriarty? That kind of character-story was doomed from the start (because it doesn’t make any fucking sense), and trying to follow in BBC’s deranged footsteps isn’t really a good look.

Kidnapping a quirkless kid because they won’t be missed? Sure. Forcing them to do “Villainy”? Nah. Quirkless kids are worthless (everyone knows that) just recruit someone with a properly Villainous-quirk instead. If you just want to write whump, have them rescue him from some kind of sadistic cage-match set-up instead, at least that would give the Villains a good motive to traumatize him (nobody would bet on the quirkless kid, but holy shit look at the violent little bastard go).

And “morally grey means that I’m just better than you people”? Ugh. I get that trying to write an “and our hero swoops in and saves the day”-fic is difficult to do when the problem is a societal one instead of someone trying to punch people in the face, but geez.

It’s just... I really don’t understand this fandom sometimes.

#also - the Hero vs Villains school-tournament? fun as a concept but also suspiciously divisive between students #like... what possible reason could Nedzu have for pitting classmates against each other? with psychological stakes? #if it's a ''the heroes defend X / the villains destroy X'' kind of exercise? sure. it's a competitive environment #and both scenarios are hero-plausible. as in both sides have ''hero objectives'' regardless of how their teams are referred to #but the kind of psychological minefield that is the setting for this trope? holy shit dude. i can't imagine Nedzu doing that to his students #they're HIS students - i can totally imagine him doing it to people he really doesn't like - but his own students? #it's a fun setting and i don't hate it - but it's REALLY weird as an idea for a school-activity #boku no hero academia #anime #rants #musings #then again - i might be somewhat tainted from the worm-fandom - bcs there we have a LOT of ''believable villain-arcs'' #and it's really easy to see how someone could just go ''fuck everyone'' when stuck in always-miserable Brockton Bay #so i look at ''izuku is a villain'' and i go ''and you do interesting things with it right?'' and then they don't #bcs they've seen so few ''villain protagonist''-fics that they feel like that on its own is all the ''interesting'' the story needs

[zappedbyzabka]

Kreese would stomp multiple glasses at his and Johnny’s wedding and no he wouldn’t wrap them in napkins first

#He’s not even a believer but he shoots a quick prayer to god like ‘May he never speak to another man again’ kskskskskskks #*absolutely destroys two glasses while looking at the few guys Johnny invited who are actually competition like ‘these could be your necks’ #‘Mazel Tov!’ #Not very many people there yet he still acts like everyone’s trying to take his bride #kreerence #Daniel who hasn’t seen Johnny in years hearing that he married the man who choked him: Excuse me? I must be a knight in shining armor #Silver is actually paying for ALL of it and will be on the honeymoon

[seasurfacefullofclouds1]

Hi again! thanks for answering! I didn't mean that Harry wasn't damaged, they all were. but I feel like (and I could be wrong) while they were all in the same conditions, they got damaged in varying degrees. and it's not just about mental damage, I don't know how much they got fucked in the head for certain, but they all sure did. I think career damage and image damage are what we can assess as fans, you know? for me Harry benefited the most/suffered the least when it comes to his career and image. Zayn had a promising career, too, and the GP was extremely interested. but then it all went to waste and he decided to stay lowkey which is fine, to each their own. Next is Niall who put on the work after the band to get to where he is today. E.g. got a good team, is promoting himself very strongly, trying his best to be established as a solo artist. And Liam... well. He needs to figure out who he is first. Lastly Louis, and we all know how the band affected him/where he is today. He walked away with a tarnished image as this aggressive party boy who knocked up a one night stand and is always smoking or drinking. His career wasn't handed to him like Harry or Zayn, he didn't suck the dicks of all the powerful men to get his songs out there like Niall, he wasn't easy to mold or manipulate like Liam. He's actually fighting against a system that actively fights against him that's why I think he walked away with the most damage/least benefits.

Hello!

Forgive me for being a little sensitive since I’m the official “That Rad Bitch Sea,” but I’ve written about this a lot on my blog and none of the professional damage to Louis exists in a vacuum.

Remember that Louis’ “party boy, got-a-rando-pregnant, dumb, low-class, smoking drinking internalized homophobia chav” image started when Louis was still in 1D, from 1D publicists like Simon Jones (and Ben Winston) who is still doing the worst publicity for him. From a financial standpoint, isn’t this very strange? Why would 1D want to create a negative image of one of the guys before their last album was released? Wouldn’t it impact their sales?

Isn’t the damage to Louis awfully coincident when 1D’s parent corporation— Sony— had already chosen Harry as their breakout star, but they shared huge group of fans (Larries) believing him to be linked to Louis?

What’s one way to separate “Larry” without hurting Harry? By turning Larries against Louis.

And they did. And Larries gladly helped.

I’d love for you guys to read the links, because it’s all there.

More here.

Still more here.

It’s all ancient history. It’s incredibly sad that fans don’t know the details because Larries and OT5 fans have done a terrific job of washing Harry’s hands clean.

#I guess it doesn’t matter because history is always written by the victors and in this case #hatred harries and larries won #and Harry Styles won big #so… what else is there to debate really #but still #there’s something so resilient and purely human about Louis #that draws his fans to him #something so life-giving and hopeful and joyful #even if it is a very small comfort #it is a genuine and resilient piece of goodness #that has survived through the 1D machinery of violence and madness #of greed and insane competition and the crassest cruelty toward your former friends and bandmates #and it gives me so much joy #to know that it was real — the goodness and fun and love was all real #and it survived thanks to Louis #this is not how it usually goes #usually the loser becomes bitter and broken and destroyed #and it’s because Louis is an EXTRAORDINARY person - there’s no other way to describe him #he is really a superman

[depressedhatakekakashi]

Minato: *watching Kakashi and Gai have a competition* ah, it’s good to see Kakashi bonding with someone :)

Choza: *watching the exact same scene* i sense something terrible is about to happen

#Between the two of them Choza is the level headed one #he’s pulling Kakashi and Gai out of the rubble of a destroyed building #or sitting them down to talk about how they keep going overboard with their competitions

[vanishingmoments]

ive reached the point in battlebots where riptide debuts lord fucking help me

#fyi riptide is a bot whose team is captained by a bratty rich kid whose dad sells snake oil he claims ''cures autism'' and funds the team #among other things this kid has: destroyed someone else's bot well after it was disabled which caused at least $10k in damages #and which he never even apologized for let alone helped cover #has been caught modifying his bot after it passed the weight checks which is against the fucking rules #run up and put his hands over the mouth of someone who was trying to give an interview #tried to cover up people's signs in the shared workspace #generally does not stop screaming and swearing and talking shit to everybody #and they're welcoming this kid back for the third year in a row this year #because he is basically a real life wrestling heel and the producers care more about creating drama than fostering good natured competition

[jeongjinman]

min woo is so obsessed with young woo it makes him look stupid

#but also if he does anything to her its on sight #im going to beat his pathetic ass #extraordinary attorney woo #annie rambles #'what should i do with this' BITCH how about you mind your business #like i seriously dont get what he thinks he would gain from getting her fired or whatever #if he was a good attorney (which tbh im not saying he isnt) he wouldnt have a reason to be so intimidated by her..... #and like even so who cares if shes better than him. he just has to get a good rep to get clients. #i really hate competitive people lmao #'i have to be the best' bitch what for this isnt school #calm the fuck down #(let me rephrase that: i hate competitive people like HIM who are ready to destroy others for their own gain) #update: im going to kill him along with tae sumi <3

[zushimart]

scara sore loser 💔 he cannot take it when he loses imessage 8-ball or mario kart or uno…he pouts and mopes until you kiss a smile out of him. he’s silly cause he loses a lot but he’s always the one to ask to play them 🤭

me when i project

#the mario kart one i would fucking destroy him in double dash #r u kidding me #holy shit #he’d beg to play on the same team #he is so insanely competitive #like to tears of frustration competitive #pulls out the credit card to measure the angles of his 8ball hits competitive #and hes STILL BAD !!! #thought

[baiboop]

once midam figures out how to work their new tech, they are absolutely playing imessage games.

adams playing on their phone and michael’s playing him back on their ipad.

michael sends battle ships and the word games over and over, as well as checkers, chess and mancala.

adam on the other hand, sends cup pong, basketball, 8 ball, and filler.

they have spirited matches and absolutely slaughter each other in their respective games.

especially michael in battle ships, he wins every game relatively quickly and adam loses bad. adam is convinced he’s cheating but michael is adamant that he isn’t and it’s just basic strategy. (which is true he would never cheat.)

but on the other hand if adam wins for too long michael definitely gets pouty and annoyed at him.

and to add on, they definitely have a group chat with sam where the incessantly send crazy 8’s and take turns winning.

scoreboard is:

sam: 4

adam: 52

michael: 126

and sam hates playing with them because he knows he’ll lose every time, but if he says no adam is like: “come on sam, don’t you want to bond? with me? your brother? that just got out of hell?” and sam cant say no, so he plays like thirty exhausting rounds a day with them.

#and this is the story of how midam becomes the reigning champs of imessage games #sam asks eileen to join crazy 8s and she signs that he’s on his own #she knows.. #adam and michael just love the friendly competition with eachother #and they love destroying sam #this is their reparations for the cage #spn #supernatural #midam #adam milligan #michael spn #sam winchester #eileen leahy #adam and michael #michael and adam are in love real #this is so real

[rcsebane]

HITTING MY TABLE

#// she even gets her own page despite being a guest muse #// AND SHE'S GIVING ME ANGSTY VIBES?? #// like- uh- how she may or may not have been a victim of sex trafficking #// and cain just kinda destroyed the business #// not bc he's a hero and wanted to stop it #// he just wanted to get rid of competition #// BUT YEAH ANGST #✟ — out of roses.