#I love your flaws series

[1000night]

Chubby Couple

A/N:Actually it's from an ad for Zombie mobile game. But I truly adore that idea. 🥺🥺🥺

Warnings: 18+ for incase, don't like don't read.

Having a crush on the sweet man, James Bucky Barnes is not hard.

Just look at his face, you bet the gods would love him and reserved a place for him if he came to Olympus.

His brunette long hair would tied to a loose bun when he's out or working, and look at at those hairs shining under the sunshine, always taking your breath away.

And his beefy and tall body, those muscles and his tummy...

You're kind of drooling and you always wonder how the softness it would be if he give you the permission to bite it...or nip it or simply lay on it.

Even though you're the one prefer packs more than tummy—or you were preferred that.

Not mentioned you definitely craving for his thick thighs and his peach ass. The pair of long legs attempted you to worship them EVERY•SINGLE•TIME!!

“...Earth to Bunny—HELLO???” You are dragged out of your daydream, again.

“Huh?” you look at Dolphin, your friend and your neighbour since you moved into this town.

“I thought we supposed to go to the gym? Not standing here stupidly and imagine the prince of your dream.” Dolphin crosses her arms and teases you with a smirk.

“You know you can dream with me, do you? This street is not far from Steve's apartment...umph!?”

Dolphin hopps on you and covers your mouth with her hand.

Bucky has a childhood friend, Steve Rogers, he's a skinny man and they're unseparated. Dolphin loves Steve's sketches and she has a thing about Steve's blonde hair, his blue eyes and his hands.

“Shut it or I will tell Barnes your crush! We better go soon, I've waited for you 15 minutes so no excuse, just enter the gym, work out, and you have to treat me.” She throws you a death glare and you nodded before she releases you.

If you know today would change your life.

You two enter the gym, put down your bags and start your own training.

Playing on your song list, you start stretching yourself before the excercise.

You heard some steps approach you but not pay attention.

So when you arch your back and lift your head up, the face would make Aphrodite crazy about peer into your views and you startled.

His warm and large right hand around your waist to catch yoyur falling. One of your hands grab his bulging arm and the other one touches the floor.

“Oh wow, easy Bunny. Don't need to be so scared.” Your prince chuckles and guides you sit on the floor. He kneels in front of you and his hand didn't leave your waist.

“I am sorry, I should call you first, but... you are so focus and beautiful so I don't want to bother you.” He smile sheepishly and his thumb strokes your waist tenderly, which send electriced feeling through your body.

“No no, it's not a bother and I ...ugh...I am glad to see you, Bucky.”

His blue eyes lighten up, and you forget what you're supposed to do, where you are, or what around you...

“Do you...do you want to workout together?”

His nervous voice is only you can hear, you slower your breath, his scents make you feel like you're walking on the cloud, lighting head and comfort.

Nodding eagerly, his right hand cups your waist, his other hand holding yours and pull you up.

You leaned forward to his embrace, if your hands didn't press against his broad chests, then you might would hit him.

“Come on, let's working out together, Bunny.”

Bucky sounds excited and he escorts you to the machine.

You blink your eyes several times and focus on your running routine again, you turn off your song playing and listening his heavy breathing with biting your lips, try not to make any weird sound and embarrassed yourself.

You're drowned in your own little world and fear so that you didn't find that Buckt would give you randomly glance SO FREQUENTLY.

His adam's apple bubbling up and down when he noticed your red lips and your eyes glistening.

Oh god he wish he could've more closer than you if that means he would bear more his friends' and siblings' teases.

He'd love to take it a try.

#I love your flaws series #1000drabble series #1000night masterlist #bucky barnes x reader

[thesinglesock]

movies Astrid: you better stop being a meanie or my boyfriend is going to kick your ass >:(

series Astrid:

#httyd #how to train your dragon #i know in the second movie she's kinda bluffing when she's hyping up Hiccup but. that is kinda the general vibe they gave her #her series portrayal is just *chefs kiss* #i love a righteously Angry woman. I also like how the series treats it both as a flaw and strength. it's good. rtte is good. #race to the edge #rtte

[purpleshadow-star]

Percy Jackson is a FLAWED CHARACTER. He has done BAD THINGS. He has MADE MISTAKES. Please stop acting like Percy is perfect and justified in every choice he makes. He makes mistakes. He can be unreasonable. He is not perfect, and why should he be? If he was perfect, he would be boring! Percy Jackson is a flawed person, and that makes him all the more interesting.

#this applies to all pjo characters btw #they all have flaws #it's literally a plot point #theyd be boring if they were all perfect #let your favs be flawed! let your favs make mistakes! #i love percy and i can admit hes a flawed person #percy is an amazing character and he has made mistakes. that's okay! #riordanverse #rick riordan #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson series #pjo series #pjo hoo toa #pjo fandom #pjo

[tomlivingspace]

misogyny was still rampant in the first series but its interesting how much it was also a part of the plot. bluestar had to give up her kits in order to be deputy because a nursing mother wouldn't have been fit to be leader. yellowfang is blamed by starclan for being brokenstar's mother despite him never even knowing she was. it's just interesting how much the tragedy of how misogyny manifests within the clans in the first series is present and just kind of goes away. there's still misogyny but most of it isn't an intentional flaw of clan culture. the flaws of clan culture are focused more on forbidden romance romance crap

#which is sad! because both bluestar and yellowfang are so tragic and well written BECAUSE of the in universe acknowledgement #of a flawed system that disproportionately punishes women #especially with tnp having female protagonists one of which being leafpool #this could have been explored in a very touching way.... but instead....... #i do think youre supposed to be like 'leafpool doesnt deserve that! it's not fair!' but no one in universe thinks that #its not the same as the jaded acceptance and resignation of the female characters in the first series #bc it isnt framed specifically as misogyny and rather that it's unfair medicine cats cant be in love or whatever

[obessivedork]

Was.... that supposed to be the end of FO4? 😐 Like once you've blown up the Institute you get this random nostalgic slideshow that has nothing to do with ANYTHING and that's it? You beat the game! Good for you! But we'll place you back into the world to keep playing I fucking guess? What's going to happen to your friends and The Commonwealth with all the decisions you made?😐 Don't ask us! Not like we're going to make an RPG with the infamous RPG IP, that would be silly!

#DOES ANYTHING I DID FUCKING MATTER BESIDES THE FACTION I WENT WITH TO MAKE THE INSTITUTE GO BOOM???? #What in the HELL????? #I have literally NEVER been more underwhelmed with an ending in my LIFE. #At least 3 showed slides for A COUPLE things I did!!!!!!!! #Hell! When fucking Dragon Age Inquisition managed to make their vanilla pre-dlc'ed ending feel better than yours that is a PROBLEM #because that is the SECOND worst ending to a game I've ever played #& I know I said Mike took the parts to the Minutemen but I couldn't convince myself doing that made sense #the railroad and brotherhood both make sense. they have people who can figure those parts out! The minutemen... do not #I'm so MAD I put HOURS into this game 😭😭😭 I love the Fallout series SO MUCH why is ANY level of compotent storytelling #ASKING TOO MUCH???? 😭 #almost 10 years late to the party but. MAN. Like the rest of the game is DECENT!!! it has flaws of course every thing ever made does #but I had SOME fun!! But like.... Bethany.... Miss Bethany Esda an ending that feels GOOD is a VERY important part of games PERIOD #YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT #kat plays FO4 #fallout #FO4 #with all this said yes I AM immediately starting again to play a F SS and make her more chaotic and mean. Mikey was my standard #agressively paragon good wholesome cinnamonbun run. Next character? Oh man she will cause problems ON PURPOSE

[raayllum]

in honour of this post, tags on another of mine i cannot remember that talked briefly about Rayla's issues, and that I've talked about Claudia and Callum's moments of being hypocritical, now I want to actually talk about Rayla's hypocritical tendencies cause it's something S4 and S5 made a fun little consistency - let's dive in

Rayla can sometimes ignore (or react indignantly to) other people possibly having their own reasons/justifications because she's tunnel visioned into only thinking about her own justifications as uniquely warranted

Let me explain

The first time I noticed this was in 2x03, mostly because it was one of those moments that made me laugh even though it's not trying to be funny because

Cause Rayla, honey, you know you lied to them too ("lying and hiding the truth aren't that different") - and Callum forgave you for that and is still your friend. Why would Claudia and Soren be any different to him? (And they are, but not the point of this point).

Now, unlike Soren (who is the person they're primarily discussing), Rayla didn't lie outright, but she did lie by omission - much the same way Claudia did. And Rayla has known her own motivations all along - probably worried they might give up on their mission if they knew (especially at the start), and she doesn't want them to hate her, and most of all by this point in the show, she didn't want to hurt them ("I'm afraid of hurting him" / "when you care about someone, it's hard to hurt them").

This made sense to me in terms of Rayla being good at being initially (often times rightfully, sometimes not so) indignant on her own behalf. She is able to justify herself and does so often, both angrily - as the next examples will show - and more neutrally ("How could I take his life?"). She defends herself both physically and personally to Corvus ("I didn't kill anyone"), she smarts at Callum when he (rightfully) tries to push at her ("I don't have to explain anything to you"), and is mad at Ethari when they initially talk ("Yeah, it's me. Surprised to see my face?"). This initial defense of herself doesn't usually persist and typically gives way to self loathing ("I can fix this" / "I don't deserve your trust, not yet" / "They're right to reject me") but it is there at first and is usually her first reaction, which is very fun.

However, this coupled together with the other two instances arc 2 brings up in terms of her being kind of a hypocrite makes it a pattern, beginning in early season four. (Callum also isn't at his best in early season four, saying he doesn't want to talk about stuff and then bringing it up the next episode to take a jab at her - but he's still dealing with the fallout of the problems she caused, so he absolutely gets more of a pass. As always, see my In Defense of Callum's Narrative Lens from way back in the day if you're interested in more of how his perspectives are portrayed.)

Because gee, Rayla, I wonder whose fault that is? And again, it does make sense that she's angry - she's spent two years just wanting to be with him with none of the messy complex heartbreak he had to go through because she was the one who made the choice to leave. She expected him to at least shout at her, not ice her out completely. And again, we see that initial indignant streak fade when he reiterates he wants to go, and she looks down disappointed, but accepting of it (and puts whether she'll stay or not in his hands, too).

Since she had a good reason for leaving, and it's what her parents did, while she expected anger, she also wants affection and love. Isn't her justification enough, in some ways? Shouldn't it be? And while Rayla wrestled back and forth with this, it's clear she does think that it should be (even if both seasons show she's starting to realize just why she was wrong).

But we do see this hypocritical tendency of hers perhaps pop up most prominently in S5 with Nyx

Again, in Rayla's head, lying and stealing the key wasn't perhaps the right thing to do, but the better thing to do than burden Callum with what she was going through / to be open and vulnerable. It makes sense why she'd do so - and her shot at Nyx gets a tiny pass cause she's technically sticking up for Ezran - but it still falls back on Rayla leaning too heavily on her logic / independent streak to justify actions that are actually counterproductive to having healthy, wilfully open relationships.

And this is something I love about TDP. Even when the characters are genuinely making the worst possible fucking decisions they ever could (hi arc 1 Viren, Claudia and Karim constantly in particular) you completely understand how and why they're justifying those decisions, and Rayla is no different. Doesn't mean they're right, doesn't mean it's not logically stupid or fair or whatever, but it's emotionally consistent, and that's what matters most in the end. And now we have a fun little consistency to add to the pile

#in that vein of 'ezran can steamroll others bc the emotional solution is so obvious to him / #he suppresses the hell out of shit' spirit #tdp rayla #characterization #mini meta #analysis series #tdp #the dragon prince #like i love rayla but she's so full of shit sometimes lmao #analysis #like rayla really is a character where one of her core flaws is both #a lack of grounded self awareness amid too much self awareness #bc sometimes she's on the right path about her actual flaws (lying & leaving) #and other times she's so off base it's like girl what planet are you on this is Not one of your problems #steering her into the pile of actual flaws lmao #also why callum is good for her #'nah you're good. but that other dumb shit you did? jc"

[flufflecat]

Can someone explain what the narrative stakes are even supposed to be anymore in jjk. All the characters are essentially guaranteed to die, the current cast is comprised almost entirely of characters who showed up 2/3rds into the story and we're supposed to care about them for some reason, and I do not even know what the threat is supposed to be anymore. The apocalypse? Destruction of an amorphous innocent society? Like has ANYTHING been shown of "here's the regular world that apparently needs to be saved" or are we just supposed to assume "this society is just Real Life+, so you're REQUIRED to care if some guy threatens to kill all humanity, because one of those humanities may be... a child" or something. Can you spare two seconds to show anything other than some magic randos fighting, or is it just a superhero story all the time now, minus the fun. Remember when yuuji had friends.

#jujutsu kaisen #jjk crit #sorry for like being salty in what will prob be the main tag #I simply do not vibe at ALL with the direction this series has gone in and would love someone to complain about it with ahfkaj #I'd write an entire meta on the narrative flaws but I do not feel like it #seriously though it's chill if people like the story and I'm not trying to cause shit by tagging it #well I'm sort of trying to cause shit #but that shit is 'blease will someone complain with me because I love complaining' #I just don't get it #like oh wow you killed characters off and established stakes! that sets a tone and shows that this is a serious conflict! #oh nvm you've killed everyone just to be gratuitous about it and prove how tooootally realistic your story is #and now there's no reason to care bc why get invested when there's an 80% chance the characters will all die #like. you're just alienating people from caring about the story you're trying to make them care about #idek what kenjaku is supposed to be up to anymore #for all I care he could explode the world and I'd be like whatever there was probably no one interesting left anyway #everything that happens anymore in jjk feels like someone said 'but what if all the nonsense in DBZ... was edgy' #and then thought they did something interesting #wooooahhhh someone did a fight for 70 chapters! so innovative and unique! #someone transformed! what a twist!! #woooahhh you did a nonsense rug-pull and are now lying to us acting like it was intended the whole time! sacre bleu!!! #anyway see my previous complainy post to see why gojos plot specifically is harmful bullshit #but it's a shoooooneeennnnnn #it doesn't neeeeeeeed to be written well or responsibly amiright?! #it just needs to make straight guys on twitter think they're unique for saying 'the real issue with jjk is that some women like it ' #ok I'm done complaining. FOR NOW. #I'm sure I'll think of something else to complain about in two seconds. #fluffle talks

[iguessitsjustme]

I'm gonna rate the couples in Playboyy by how enjoyable they are.

Disclaimer: I haven't seen episode 11 yet (I have a headache and I'm not trying to make it worse) so this is my feelings on the couples through episode 10:

Teena and Zouey: 100/10 Best couple on the show. They actually have development and their story line makes sense.

First and Soong: 10/10 Horrendously toxic. I love it so much. Again, I can follow their story line even if I hate what's happening to First with the therapy. I want them to be happy and away from First's dad.

Jump and Porsche: -1654681316546846131/10 They suck. They make no sense and honestly the show would be better if they weren't in it.

Aob and Puen: 0/10 I feel nothing for them. I honestly forget they're there half the time. I can never remember either of their names. When someone mentions them I go "who?"

Captain and Keen: 3/10 Captain stop filming people without their consent challenge. But at least I can follow their story and I can weirdly see how they would fall for each other. But I'm mostly neutral here.

Phop and Nuth: 5/10 Stop using these two as nothing more than vehicles to impart the Message of the Week. They could be so cute and actually show us the message instead of having some weird poorly written screenplay moment of them just talking and being so on-the-nose it hurts. Also the message never corresponds to the actual message the rest of the show is giving us that week. They deserve better and so does the audience. (It super kills me because I always agree with the message it's just so poorly timed and poorly told that it entirely ruins this couple and takes away from each character's agency)

Nont and Prom: 3/10 Sure? They have some plot with Nant which should have played a larger role in the overarching story but I guess not. I wish we saw more of Prom being conflicted about his feelings for the two twins. One dream about it and then him casually mentioning it isn't gonna do it.

So basically Playboyy stretched itself so thin with having too many characters, too many couples, and not enough time and now the entire show suffers for it. Imagine if the show actually cared about the message it was trying to impart instead of caring about being The Show to impart the message.

#playboyy #playboyy the series #playboyy series #playboyy bl #i know some people love this show but i also know this show is deeply deeply flawed #the show cares more about how the audience perceives it than it does about actually telling a story #i can handle poorly written shows. in fact some of my favorite shows are just incredibly bad #what i cant handle is condescending shows especially when that show is poorly written #perhaps learn to tell the story and weave the messages in there before you condescend to your audience #just an idea just a thought #as always feel free to disagree with me i love seeing differing perspectives #but if you disagree you gotta be respectful #and also even if you disagree i will likely not change my opinion of anything

[lucienarcheron]

“A gift. All of it.” 🥹😭♥️

#feyre archeron #rhysand #feysand #as flawed as this series is — it will forever have my heart. #feysand’s love is so beautiful and I love them so much #thanks for tagging along yall #sorry (not 😌) that I flooded your dash and the tags lmaooo #gigi reads acowar #idk if I’ll read acofas or skip it tbh #we’ll see

[velvetbunniie-archive]

“they don’t want people to know that their daughter is a monster” 1) look who’s talking, and 2) literally what did she DOOOO that was so unforgivable, except be a teenage girl that was kinda insane over her comphet crush and have access to spells. i jst think, in this fantasy world, aurora rlly didn’t even… do… that much…. like, out of all the actions she did, she mostly jst kinda handed ppl tools and then it was out of her hands. jacks fucking traded his heart to her willingly (for a protection cuff that didn’t seem to do that much for the end of the story, anyway). i’m an aurora defender, because you guys see one (1) female character that’s not perfectly feminine and submissive and you start screaming

#memorie.txt #.bookthoughts #i’m sorry i’m not over this. ship evangeline and jacks all you want but you guys only hate aurora bc she also had a crush on jacks #& was funny and insane over it. you hate female characters the moment they aren’t perfect. #but JACKS gets a pass for being a creep a lot of the time and also being. like. an actual villain #now i personally love him at his worst and hate him in the spin-off #but anyway. proud aurora valor defender… #i hate that i read caraval when my brain was developing and now i have feelings over a shitty ya series #that i would otherwise not care abt #but god cursed me in this way and i’ll take to it with a religious fervor i GUESS #the lack of other female characters even having purpose in this series also makes me sad. say SORRY WOMEN!!!!! #author: stephanie garber #book: a curse for true love #what’s also frustrating is that i know most of the fans will age a bit in the next few years and realize all the flaws #like i did w the original trilogy #but it makes me sad. aurora i’m sorry you never got to be reunited with your twin. i’m sorry your ex fiancé killed ppl over you. #i’m sorry you were put in a coma. i’m sorry ppl hate you indiscriminately. #same thing w apollo. he’s jst a self-absorbed guy who was cursed 4 times #we never saw his personality and stephanie jst needed a quick villain for the third book she didn’t plan for

[strrwbrrryjam]

for all my grievances with tangled the series, one thing i cannot criticize them for is their songs, i mean, sure, not all of them make sense in context (let me make you proud comes to mind), the songs are spectacular, from the vocals to the instrumental, all of them are a joy to listen to, whether they are just incredibly goofy, like the buddy song, to heartbreaking, like waiting in the wings, whether its a solo, a duet or a group, they are wonderful to listen to

#i like the show. dont get me wrong. #though i cant deny there are a lot of flaws to the series n character n story decisions that dont make sense n infuriate me #and i will say imo season 1 is where its at its best. although yes flaws are present they dont. idk. ruin the season for me #but i cant say the same for the later two seasons. i mean. i had fun with s2 n liked the new characters but. a lot of it again imo is fille #but s3 is the worst imo cause the stakes are so high but they spend like 2-4 episodes actually on the main plot #n the rest is just. pointless filler. i mean. did we really need to learn more about fucking nigel of all characters #n i will say i am not a fan of cass' arch at all. i liked her in the first season n most of the second season but s3 just. ruins her for me #i also dont like how they treated euguene most of the time. he deserved to be treated better. he was the other main character in the movie #he deserved to be treated better not put in the back so as not to outshine cass n rapunzel's relationship #cassunzel this it not a critique of you. i liked the ship in the beginning to n i love the poly of cass rapunzel n euguene #n you can ship them to your hearts content. im just annoyed at the disrespect of euguene lol #can you tell that im passionate about the show. i mean. the potential was there but. they didn't do nothing with it. #im upset it couldnt be better lol #anyway what was i talking about #right the songs. the songs are spectacular (despite almost all of them not making sense in the context of the shows) #n are a joy to listen to. i love them all so much that i dont think there's any i dislike really. the songs are so so good #n are really fun to listen to. its one of the things that i can never fault the show for. they're wonderful n everyone should listen to the #even if you havent watched the show lol they're great #tangled the series #tts #strawberry speaks

[rawliverandgoronspice]

Or the reason you’re overthinking it is because you’re just trying to find a reason to be mad at the game when you could use that energy at something else to make you happy instead of nitpicking at it.

I suggest you block my account and go have fun with the game unfettered by my takes, you have my Blanket Permission! I'm just a rando with a tumblr blog. Worry about your own happiness first.

#asks #don't be mean in the asks please :(( #people have been mostly good with that up until now where I started to get a couple #you can voice disagreement without attacking people's character (especially anonymously) #or just block/scroll past/rant to your friends or on your own blog even! #it's legal + free + less rude #and everyone has a better time on the internet which is ultimately the objective I think #also... exercizing critical thought can be very fulfilling? you think videoessayists on youtube survive off rage and bitterness alone? #media analysis can be very stimulating to some people! critique and love are hardly mutually exclusive! #I wouldn't care nearly as much if I didn't love the series or believe in its potential #(I don't even hate totk there's tons I respect about it technically and artistically) #(but... Problems) #(and this kind of attitude that is just... pretty hostile to these conversations doesn't help me look past the flaws at all I must admit) #btw this is my blanket reply to asks of that vein I will delete the others

[s0fter-sin]

finally figured out the reason it’s been difficult to get back into reading books after reading fic for so long is so many fantasy books are just self inserts and the mc has no personality beyond the bare minimum

#i dont want to imagine myself in the characters place #i didnt just spend 30 bucks for you to give me a long form imagine #i can do that by myself #i dont want a blank shell i want a character #like you read fics and they feel completely different depending on whos pov youre reading from #i think its why sp is still my favourite series despite it being ya #val is arrogant and selfish and she fucks up and doesnt get the boy she wants #her relationships constantly fail and theyre not the main point the plot always is #she has so many flaws and that helps serve the narrative #shes a character and im reading her experiencing things #not me vicariously experiencing things with the blandest possible reactions so i can pretend theyre my reactions #damn near every fantasy goes the same way #im new to this world/my powers and i need help/cant control them and the mysterious boy everyone tells me to stay away from and is super #mean to me has begrudgingly decided/is forced to help me and i discover hes only mean bc of tragic thing and he opens up to me #and the powers/world are never the point except that im secretly royalty and/or the chosen one that will end this war/battle without #really doing much #and i learn to master my powers by believing in myself and my emotions bc its 2023 and fem characters still have to fall into this trope #i want an interesting mc that drives the plot and is equal to the love interest #or better yet the love interest is so far in the background its only brought up in book 4 #lay some ground work for fucks sake theres no time limit this isnt a movie #heres hoping the bunch i bought the other day do that and get me back into it #or ill just re read the same four series ive been reading since i was 12 #and stick to fic as my main source of entertainment #it hasnt let me down so far #coming out of my cage and ive been doing just fine.txt

[milfjessepinkman]

Ok guys let’s not get crazy pls. Jesse Pinkman is definitely homophobic lol. For like at least the entire 1st season. It’s my personal hc that meeting Jane and falling in love w her actually chilled him out like she seems ok w the gays lol. But Jesse is not this perfect guy w perfect opinions I feel like he’s actually sort of the opposite? Especially at the start he’s often painted as kind of unreasonable to contrast w Walter being the reasonable one, as per our expectations? (Which then get subverted later in the show as Jesse is shown more and more to be reasonable and Walter to be a crazy manipulative dick.) Anyways yeah it’s clear he has a shitty relationship w his parents that he is at least partially at fault for and he literally cooks meth for a living before Walter even came along which is totally awesome for him but I mean let’s not pretend it’s good. Let’s not pretend he’s a good guy from the start. That’s what makes him compelling!! His character development!!! He‘a a complex character and I feel like it honestly does kind of a disservice to him to like. Woobify him?

#i love the trans hcs and stuff and I actually think they would work p well in the show don’t get me wrong #i just don’t like it when people pretend like he’s a perfect guy. he’s not at all!!! that’s what makes him a great character #having this extremely flawed dude be the emotional backbone for your series? genius! #like one of my most popular posts is talking ab how great it was to see him being strong on tv while also being a vc #victim to like endless tortures loll #and that was only rewarding because he was kind of a shitty dude to begin with? like good at heart obv but yea #if he was good at the start i think his arc would have felt preachy #breaking bad #jesse pinkman

[kneworder]

i also think there are few things funnier than the way allen and kanda's relationship changes throughout the manga. like i do not ship them at all but for over a hundred issues it's yuu edgelord supreme kanda being like 'FUCK you for being nice and polite all the time. the world is a TERRIBLE place and it is STUPID AND NAIVE for you to pretend otherwise' and allen grin and bear it walker being like 'Actually I Believe In The Inherent Value Of Human Life You Piece Of Shit :) Be Nice To People :) Appreciate Your Friends :) Find Hope Or Go To Hell :) ' and then searching for AW hits with all the force of neah and the fourteenth and suddenly allen is like "maybe it is all meaningless actually haha i ruin everything i touch and my life was never truly mine <3 i think i might go catatonic for a little while about it wouldn't that be fun <3 go on the run and isolate myself <3" while kanda tracks him down to shake him by the shoulders like "wait wait wait fuck you oh my god stop that you need to believe in people again what about your fucking friends jesus christ don't you remember them oh my fucking god where did your stupid hope go and why do i have to be the one to force you to find it UGH." kanda fucked around and found out. literally be careful what you wish for.

#it's also a really beautiful character arc!! #like the way allen was such a beacon of hope he literally forced hope into kanda's life after YEARS #and then allen lost everything he ever knew about himself and his life and suddenly it's kanda's job to remind him of that very hope?? #that's so good like AWAUGHH?? #i wish i did ship them bc it seems like the perfect kind of thing to be mentally ill about #unfortunately i hate hate hate the idea of allen in a relationship love and light <3 #im just mentally ill about them in a platonic way #main character syndrome except it's just that i care about their plot and friendship dynamics too much to ship them with anyone #also he is Literally Son Boy to me. that is a baby. he's my LITTLE GUY. #allen is literally kanda's first friend too tho like i think that's part of it #it's so much more valuable for me to think of kanda finding respect for allen despite and even bc of everything he thought of as a flaw #so kanda coming through for him in searching for AW is just so!!! it is everything to me!!! #kanda starts out the series by outright saying i will leave you behind if you slow me down #and now he's grown so much as a character that he absolutely refuses to give up on allen even when allen's given up on himself #and to me personally this is a much more meaningful friendship dynamic than relationship dynamic #bc it feels more novel platonically #try too hard to beat the hope out of your silly little coworker and you might have to be the bitch who forces it back into him. #it makes me very emotional to think about it ok. i am cringe but i am free etc etc

[stannussy]

But how Gillian Flynn writes her villains it's especially NASTY but also her protagonists they're flawed, I'm not talking abt Nick I'm talking about Camille, she is a deeply flawed person but you can see it also came for the influence of years long trauma her mother put her through, how she is nasty herself in ways that she doesn't even realize but you can see in a way it's Camilles but also her mother's nastiness it's just

#im going INSANE with Sharp objects anytime I think abt it #the series its AMAZING but also PLEASE I BEG OF YOU READ THE BOOK!!!!!! #the thoughts of Camille's mind so nasty so raw so human #i love how deeply flawed she is but also how hard she tries to do good but how her trauma makes her act towards goodness because its always #double edged sword thats gonna cut you as soon as your at stabbing reach #she is so complex and I LOVE she is there just existing as weird as that sounds