#and how they function as a team

[simplyender]

spiderpeople that could defeat spot first try:

1. spider-ham (cartoon logic dictates that he can just pick up the holes)

2. sun-spider (disabled solidarity. would probably get spot to come to the realization that hes 100% disabled and be empathetic about it)

3. spider-punk (would explain that a majority of spots problems originate from the shitty system hes in and that capitalism is the problem, not miles)

#atsv #sun spider #spider punk #spider ham #spiderman across the spiderverse #across the spiderverse #the spot #spot #johnathon ohnn #once again spot 👏 is 👏 disabled 👏👏👏 #spider punk and sun spider teaming up against spot would end him instantly #youre disabled + capitalism is evil + ratio #(i dont mean that as in 'disability is bad'i mean that as in a lot of his troubles and the mistreatment he experiences is because #people are shitty to disabled people #especially visibly ones #and i mean. johns body got fucked up by the explosion+dark matter and people are cruel to him because of his unsettling/''funny'' appearanc #also we can discuss all day the possibilities of how he mustve had to adapt to all the ways his body changed and how #hes missing organs and very likely had to relearn a lot of how his body functions #but looking purely at canon spot outright calls his holes a curse and has been shown to be inconvenienced by them several times over #hes also brought up how nobody is willing to hire him #so....idk yeah the system and how it treats disabled people (especially those that look different) is fucked up. sunspider and spiderpunk #get his ass) #charlotte webber #I FORGOT HER NAME SORRY #hobie brown

[beaulesbian]

maybe it's how luffy's love for zoro is more subtle in the animanga (even if it's everpresent), and people usually more point out zoro's devotion to luffy than how luffy cares for him., that the live action show really went and made luffy say to zoro: I need you. It's so simple, I need you. to instantly get across just how important zoro is to luffy

#bc its so simple to both versions of luffy!! #just thinking about soft zolu and their love for each other ;-; #zolu #one piece #the opla “i need you” is just rlly nice to hear #and zoro takes it so much to his heart. makes it his whole personality afterwards #(not rlly but you know. from like devotion lvl 50 to lvl 1000 in the span of those words) #animanga zoro immediately saw luffy as his captain in the chapter they won their first fight together #already accepting this would be their future and all his insane amount of loyalty and trust were there almost immediately #and the live action took it slower with showing luffy how he needs his first mate to be by his side #otherwise he can't properly function! they weren't a complete team when zoro was healing #why are they so much of all this?? ;-; #mine #gif:zolu #gif:writing #gif:opla

[tvckerwash]

you know, an interpretation of ct that I don't see that I personally really love is that she's a fuck up. like yes she's cool and she has some good fight scenes, but a huge part of her character is that she makes mistakes. the mistakes that she makes are ones that on their own aren't the end of the world, but she keeps making these little mistakes, and they eventually add up until she's out of room to make any more.

a really good example of this phenomenon in action is the actions she took leading up to her final confrontation with carolina and tex.

strike one, she thought she saw something in the water, but when asked by the leader what it was, she brushed it off as nothing when even if it had been nothing, it would've been smart to tell him what she thought she saw.

strike two, she didn't sense or notice florida's presence when the leader did, and she looks at the leader twice, once as she pulled out her magnums, and again after she did a scan of the room, almost like she was looking at him for guidance before he finds florida and takes him out with one good axe throw.

strike three, she couldn't convince the leader to leave when they had the chance to get away, and her cheap tricks were not enough to hold off either tex or carolina in a fight. they were only good for incapacitating her opponents enough for her to get away, which doesn't work when she has no escape.

ct is not tex, or carolina, or south. she is not a one woman army who can get herself out of trouble when she's stuck in tough situations. she needs people who can watch her back, she need a team who can cover her when she does mess up, and the leader and his team were not those people. she couldn't bring herself to trust them, and they couldn't bring themselves to trust her, and that cost all of them their lives.

#i say i never see this interpretation of ct as if I'm not the only person having ct thoughts in 2024 lmao #red vs blue #rvb #agent connecticut #this is why wash and ct work so good together they function best in teams but theyre put in situations where theyre on their own #and they suffer because of it #but where wash had no choice in ending up w/o a team ct did #the ability to choose is a powerful tool. but being able to choose means that sometime somewhere someone will choose wrong #oh to further clarify the interpretation of ct I'm used to seeing is stereotypical hyper competent badass bitch type character #I've never really seen ct that way though tbh. she's a rebellious smart-ass who loves stating the obvious #it's honestly a pretty childish trait which i think goes well with her complex about being seen as a kid who needs excuses made for #her subpar performance in the field #basically in her head ct is james bond but in reality she's cringefail loser girl who wants to be a hero #you know what analyzing and discussing how heroism is viewed in rvb might be a pretty good essay #these colorful guys and gals aint heroes theyre all losers trying their best #anyway I'm off to attempt drawing a meta! tucker piece that may or may not turn out

[daily-hanamura]

#persona 4 #p4 #persona 4 arena ultimax #p4au #hanamura yosuke #yosuke hanamura #satonaka chie #amagi yukiko #hello i have spoken recently about how yosuke functions as the team's morale backbone #even when hes not around chie and yukiko think of him when they're frustrated or worried #consciously or otherwise they know they can turn to yosuke to cheer them up or at least alleviate some of their anxieties #chie calls yosuke because she needs to rant - even though she complains about how unserious he is she knows he can be relied on to listen #yukiko calls yosuke because she thinks he'll know whats going on with their friend - she sees HIM as the connected person in the group #i think its part yukiko seeing yosuke as yu's substitute and also part just... a general recognition that he's the most on the ball #and even when he doesnt know the answer #yukiko still finds comfort in hearing him talk #however yosuke sees himself i think its nonetheless true that his friends love him and depend on him!!! #and i love that so much guys #yosuke team wrangler but also team emotional support and just all around good friend confirmed!!!! #he's good with his queue

[im-still-watching-anime]

akutagawa: we’ve got this under control

atsushi: in what POSSIBLE way is this under control??

akutagawa: shut up it’s under control because i decided it is

atsushi: THERE IS A MAN ON FIRE

akutagawa: EVERYTHING IS FINE

#bungou stray dogs #bungo stray dogs #bsd #bsd incorrect quotes #shin soukoku #sskk #bsd sskk #bsd akutagawa #bsd atsushi #if you believe hard enough you can make anything happen😌 #i love their dynamic every day #i love how they’re barely functional as teammates #they team up and its like 90% arguing 8% messing things up and 2% actually doing the thing #and they’re valid for that😌

[weenieliker]

i finished my tf2stuck designs!

#homestuck #hs #tf2 #team fortress 2 #scout tf2 #soldier tf2 #pyro tf2 #demoman tf2 #heavy tf2 #engineer tf2 #medic tf2 #sniper tf2 #spy tf2 #miss pauling tf2 #art #tf2stuck #scout is thief of time soldier is prince of breath pyro is bard of hope demo is knight of doom heavy is mage of blood #engie is sylph of mind medic is witch of life sniper is seer of space spy is heir of void and miss pauling is maid of light #i worked w my cousin and a lot of thought was put into these and how they would function as a session and work together and stuff #im very proud :3

[heyclickadee]

Regarding Tech and one reason I think we’re all reeling:

So, we’re all pretty hurt right now. Even if you’re firmly in the “Tech lived” camp, which I am, it still hurts—it still feels like a death, and something that needs to be mourned, even if or when he makes it back. I’ve seen a lot of people say it feels like they’re grieving a friend, not a fictional character. And one reason for that, beyond Tech being a well-developed, beloved character, beyond him being a fantastic piece of representation, even beyond the way that our brains can react to fictional characters the same way they do to real people, is that Tech’s story is so unfinished.

He’s developing this amazing relationship with Omega. He has the chance of staying on Pabu in peace and being something other than a soldier. He maybe discovered a passion for racing. He’s branching out and appreciating the galaxy beyond the war, the republic, the separatists, the Jedi, and being allowed to appreciate how broad it is in ways he hadn’t before. He’s falling in love with someone who’s falling for him. He’s pushing to get his brother back and reunite his family. And then—

His story gets derailed. The batch’s story gets derailed—by something none of them could have accounted for. No one expected there to be someone else infiltrating Eriadu. But there was, and it sends the whole trajectory of his life, all of their lives, figuratively and literally—they’re on a train when this happens, guys—off the tracks. Suddenly Tech has to let himself fall to give his family a chance. It’s fast, it’s brutal, and it’s almost nonsensical. It shouldn’t need to happen—but it does. And that’s how loss happens in real life, a lot of the time.

Sometimes there’s closure, and sometimes the people we lose get to live out their whole full lives, but not always. A lot of the time, they had plans. They were just going about and being themselves. The walk out the door and you think nothing of it and then—they’re gone. And now there’s so much left to do, so much unsaid, so many things that will never happen because they’re gone. You come home after hearing the news and their room is empty. There’s a half eaten bowl of cereal they left on the table. Their favorite chair is empty. There’s no satisfying conclusion or narrative closure—it’s just life, interrupted, suddenly and brutally, in a way that’s impossible to understand. That’s often how it is. And right now, for the batch characters, and for us, that’s Tech. He has everything to live for—and then he’s ripped away.

Now, this is something that rarely happens in fiction, because it’s incredibly unsatisfying. Maybe because loss is so sudden and cruel in the real world, we want our fictional deaths to come with purpose and feel like a natural conclusion. And while the unsatisfactory nature of Tech’s “death” is one of the many (many) (seriously there are so many) reasons why I don’t think this is permanent, it does (for now) put us on the same emotional footing as the characters in a way it wouldn’t if it had happened in a narratively satisfying way. We’re not just sad, we’re grieving him right alongside them. It feels unfair and wrong because it is. It wasn’t supposed to be like this! This wasn’t supposed to happen! And no, it wasn’t. But things got derailed on Eriadu.

#the bad batch #tbb spoilers #tbbspoilers #the bad batch spoilers #the bad batch season two #tech bad batch #listen I have a lot of thoughts about how #taking Tech off the board is going to force the other characters #to develop in ways they wouldn’t if he was there #imagine Wrecker next season #imagine them trying to function without his skillset #man was carrying the whole damn team on his back #imagine Omega and Crosshair having to deal with this together #it’s going to push them #but I also don’t think he’s off the board #just…moved #and ready to come back into play when needed #but I wanted to get this written out

[petrichorful]

random tf2 thought but I am once again wishing we got that expiration date show even if just so that we could see more of the merc’s real personalities. Like that video of Spy’s Rally that ended up being cut from meet the spy - that shit is FIRE. And it really is in line with the comics and expiration date in portraying Spy as a sort of charismatic speaker/team leader who can in fact comprehend working in a group.

In the games we mainly see a very adrenaline-fueled, hostile side of the mercs where they’re just screaming at the enemy team in the middle of battle But like. Spy’s speeches are fire, y’know? I wanna see more team leader Spy. I wanna see more artist Scout. I wanna see more family-oriented Heavy. I wanna see more daddy issues Engineer. Gimme.

#also spy is a team player even in the game #like you actively need your teams help to distract the enemy in order to function as spy #people treat him as more of a loner than I think he actually is #you can be mysterious and still be extremely adept at socializing lmao #just because he thinks he’s better than everyone doesn’t mean he doesn’t know how to pretend he doesn’t #tf2 thoughts #tf2 #go watch spy’s rally it’s awesome #sorry people that have no idea why this is on their dash

[akkivee]

#vee queued to fill the void #i don’t choose the memes the memes choose me lol #i doubt i need to explain lol but i mean ichiro may be the poster boy of teen entrepreneurship #but that means he’s a poster boy for TEEN entrepreneurship lol the man was doing hard labour at 14 capitalism kills #matenrou aka the team name with the kanji for weed 4/20 high functioning and barely functioning blaze it #acab said mtc in bayside suicde and all members meant that lol #lmao remember how the rest of tdd was like‘yeah we gotta take down chuuoku’ and ramuda went ‘ramuda!!!! 🤗’ #i’m sure sasara had the time of his life bailing samatoki out or whenever samatoki got released lol #but he’ll def be singing that tune when rei gets arrested— #ANARCHY said kuukou in his first solo lmao #so like i mean lmao!!!!! i didn’t choose this meme frfr it was literally written in the stars lol!!!!! #c: rapping boys

[applesandbannas747]

What I love about this scene is the way it actually taps into Eugene's potential--as a fencer and as a character. One of the biggest things we learn about Eugene very early on is that he fails, but more importantly, he gets back up and keeps at it. And that was such a cool aspect of him and how he fits on the team that hasn't been tapped until now.

The thing with a character like Eugene is that everyone forgets about him. Scott doesn't even mention Eugene in his breakdown of the Kings Row fencing team:

And Kyle forgets about his existence as he tells Nick that his whole team lost their last round:

But, obviously, Kyle was wrong--Eugene won his last match.

Eugene isn't an x-factor or an underdog. He's not an up-and-comer that's going to spring at you out of nowhere. He's steady, and while everyone else is going through their drama, he continues to trundle along. And it's so forgettable and unremarkable that people forget him. They overlook him. But, slowly, he'll continue to weather the losses and improve because of them. And when Kings Row needs him, he'll be there. And when that's the downfall of an opposing team, it won't be because they didn't see him coming. It will be because they ignored him.

Eugene's stamina--his hardiness--is what he brings to the team, and it's not glamorous or impressive, not in the way that gets the spotlight. But he'll be there, continuing on even when no one's watching, ready to step up when he's needed.

Because it's all about the stamina, my bros.

#fence comic #eugene labao #fencessay #i guess? #anyway rivals and a little bit rise killed me for how his character was used and depicted #and this analysis is basically #just #ignorinG rivals completely lmfao #because yeah when the team needed him there he fell apart #but i genuinely always believed the function of his character was to be the unbreakable rock who can take the losses #and still stand tall enough to take more #and show up when he's needed with his steady progress--just enough to help collect a win #and listen #this scene? #it supports what rivals tore down #fence redemption #fence redemption spoilers

[leclercskiesahead]

the fact that ferrari went and got a marina bay sands partnership just so charles and carlos could have their anniversary fuck at the place they had their first date for free is some next level matchmaking

#like maybe they are not a functional car racing team but they sure as hell know how to sail a ship #charlos gonna /come/ full circle #charlos #c2 #c square #scuderia ferrari

[thebluestbluewords]

Teeth are overrated anyway

+

"Congrats." Mal says quietly. She does, in fact, know how to have some tact, sometimes. "Heard you made the team." 

Carlos rolls his head to the side so he can talk to something that's not the tightly curled space between his own knees. "I punched a kid so hard he threw up." he says softly. Like it's a confession. 

"And? I bet that fucker deserved it." 

"Not really."

In Mal’s expert opinion, they all deserve it. Every kid who shoulder checks them in the hall just because they're there, every girl who won't look at Evie while she crushes their test scores, everyone who comes to Mal when they want something and ices her out when they don't, they all deserve it. Every kid who's ever taken a sharpie to their doors to tell them how worthless they are, they deserve it tenfold, and if one of them took a punch to the gut while wearing practice armor, it's nothing compared to what Mal would do to them given half the chance. 

"I promise you, they really did," Mal says. "You punched one kid. I've punched how many now?" 

Carlos laughs. It's not funny.  "Fourteen." 

Right. Out of all the ways their families fucked them up, he got the obsessive kind of guilt tracking. Preventative evidence, because the adults who want them gone will totally listen to a timestamped, cross-referenced spreadsheet of all the times they've actually fucked up, instead of whatever imagined crimes they're actually going to get sent back over. The spreadsheet's very existence is incriminating, and it could be bad if it gets into the wrong hands, but anybody who's able to get into three layers of password-protected sub-folders deserves the hex they'll get for snooping, and will probably feel too guilty (hopefully) to use it properly against them anyway. It won’t matter. The adults who care about them won't be able to override the ones who fabricate crimes they didn't even do, and one spreadsheet, even with locked timestamps for every edit, won't do much against a royal word. 

Whatever. Everyone has their own coping mechanisms. 

"Fourteen," Mal echoes back. "That's a lot fucking more than one, and I'm still here." 

His head makes a solid noise against the wood. "You're different. People like you." 

Mal can't stop the scornful noise she makes at that one, but she can pick her next words wisely. 

Tread carefully, fearless leader. There's no coming back from this one. 

"I think," she says slowly, inching her way closer. "That you are severely overestimating how much people like me, fleabrain." 

Carlos makes a soft noise. He's listening, which is score one for Mal. 

"I'm not some perfect princess who never does anything wrong. Obviously." Fourteen classmates with black eyes and bloody noses. Fourteen people who won't speak ill of her crew again.  "I just keep trying, and I guess the Auradonians here are too stupid to realize that we're a bunch of lost causes. Their mistake, right?" 

"Right," Carlos whispers. "They're the ones who keep making mistakes." 

Hm. It's the right energy, but maybe not quite the right words.

"We deserve better than their scraps," Mal says, low and serious and warming to her cause now. "We deserve at least as much as they give their own stupid children, and if their noble-born brats can keep fucking up over and over, then we deserve at least as many chances as they get. We deserve our place here, and if they haven't kicked me out after punching fourteen people. they're sure as shit not going to kick you out over punching one." 

"Right." 

Mal can feel the heat of Carlos's body next to hers now, so close they could be touching. "Of course I'm right. And besides, why would they let you on the team if they're going to kick you off right after? It'd be a drain on their time and resources, and they're not gonna waste energy on us if they don't need to. You're stuck on that team whether you like it or not, dumbass." 

Carlos laughs. It's not exactly a happy sound, but it's closer than before. "I didn't want to join. I fuckin' hate organized sports." 

"Ah, like how I didn't want to join the equestrian club, and Evie dragged me to the meeting under false premises and wouldn't let me leave without petting a horse?" 

"Like that," he agrees, and finally tips his head onto Mal's shoulder. "I didn't want to do the second round of tryouts, but they're down a man since Aza broke his ankle, so Coach called everyone on the backup rotation in for a test scrimmage." 

"Let me guess, some shithead tried to pull shit because you're tiny, and you rage slammed him into the fuckin' dust?" 

Mal can feel the warm gust of his sigh on her neck this time, and it feels like what home must be for other people. "Yup. Pretty much." 

Weird. 

“I thought coach was all about controlling your power," Mal says, thinking out loud from a half-remembered conversation she’d had with Jay a few nights ago. “Guess he's some sort of filthy hypocrite who only means that for the big guys, huh." 

Carlos shakes his head. His hair is a soft, static-y mess that sticks to her cheek from the friction. She's going to be pulling handfuls out of her mouth later, but it's fine for now.  "Nah. He wants people who aren't afraid of full contact. Apparently he's playing some sort of psych-out game with one of the other teams, and he's pretty sure I'm unassuming enough that they'll never see it coming." 

"So he wants you to punch more people?" Mal asks incredulously. She may be bad at teams, and organized sports, and anything that involves running for more than a few minutes at a time, but a school-sanctioned chance to punch people might be worth making a stink about starting a girl's team over. "Sounds like a fuckin' sweet deal to me." 

“I—“ Carlos starts. 

Somebody pounds on the closet door, and his mouth snaps shut so fast Mal can hear the click. 

"Hey, if you two are done having a heart-to-heart in there, some of us wanna get to dinner on time!" Jay calls through the door. "Toss me out some shoes if you're skipping and I'll tell Verne you're both sick." 

Mal shoves open the door without waiting, and is rewarded with a satisfying 'oof' as the handle hits Jay in the stomach. "We were almost done, dumbass. You can't wait five minutes for us to strategize the best way for me to get in on this school-sanctioned hitting people shit?" 

Jay grins down at her, looking entirely too pleased with himself. "Nope." he says brightly, popping the 'p'. "Dinner waits for no man, and I'm not missing out on bread just cause you two decided it was the right time to have a gossip sesh in my closet."

"Ow," Mal grumbles, unfolding herself from the floor. "Fuck you, who told you that gossip sesh was a word people actually use?" 

Jay steps back to let her out, still grinning infuriatingly. "Lonnie." 

Mal's going to sneak into that girl's room and dye all her clothes pink. 

No, she'd probably like that. Purple, then. An unflattering purple. One of those periwinkles that's so blue it doesn't deserve to share a name with the perfect purples that Mal herself wears. Perfect. 

"I'm going to make you both suffer," Mal informs him. "I'll dye all your clothes black." 

"Ooh, you think I'd look hot goth?" Jay shoots back, reaching past Mal to give Carlos a hand up. "Do your worst, killer. I already bribed your girlfriend. She said I'm her favorite model now." 

"You did not." 

"Did so." 

"Nobody bribed me with anything!" Evie calls from the boy's bathroom. "Jay's a better model than you because he knows how to hold still, M." 

"Nobody ever asks me to model," Carlos grumbles. Unlike Mal, he looks like he's comfortable standing upright, which is deeply unfair. "I'd be great at it." 

Evie sticks her head out of the bathroom. She's holding a hot curling wand to her hair, but her makeup is already on and impeccable for their teacher-student dinner tonight. "That's because you're already my favorite, baby. No matter how many people you've punched." 

Carlos flashes her a tiny, blink-and-you've-missed-it smile. It’s worth it. All the time in the world would be worth it to see that smile again. “Thanks, E." 

"Yeah, for nothing," Mal grumbles, twisting back and forth until her back pops. "What am I, moldy fish heads? I just spent half an hour twisted up in a closet, I want good girlfriend credit too." 

Evie laughs. "The fact that you call it girlfriend credit means you could never really stay in that closet, babe. You get all the girlfriend points." 

#my fic #descendants #descendants fic #this is probably ot4 #but it’s mostly #gen fic #mal bertha #carlos de vil #i have some thoughts about how this school actually functions and an unfortunate number of those thoughts are about sports teams #like how did we go from ‘have you thought about band’ to ‘he’s like my brain’??? #what happened in between to get this sportsball team functioning as a team #so this is loosely my take on that #and also about the enduring need to sit in a dark room and not interact with people after stressful situations #like when u accidentally rage blackout and punch a kid and think you’re going to be sent back into exile because he started puking #just normal stuff y’know

[daisywords]

EVERYONE HOLD UP I think I just discovered the missing piece that connects the worldbuilding and the plot and the characters and everything and surprise surprise it's an element I was considering near the wip's genesis but discarded and now it's back in full force babey

#second chance wip #as much as I think I am making these things up from scratch it really feels like they are already exist somewhere and I am discovering them #like someone digging up dinosaur bones #anyway I FOUND IT including WHAT TYPE OF WEAPONS THEY USE which has plagued me for literal years at this point #including the technology that they do and don't have #including aspects of why the apocalyptic event™ was so devastating #including the crux of the entire issue (what's behind the locked door in the temple) #including the central mythos of the religion's founder #including part of what ultimately resolves the plot #and including part of how/why they function (or don't) as a team in the present timeline #and how to freaking word the apocalyptic prophecies #asdfghjkl and I never would have come up with this on purpose #truly a result of me only having fun and being completely self indulgent with this wip and focusing on fixing the plot of another one #anyway not me walking to work and suddenly being filled with manic energy lol

[omercifulheaves]

Robocop 2 (1989)

Art by Devon Whitehead

#movies #robocop 2 #devon whitehead #peter weller #irvin kershner #frank miller #what is murphy shooting at? #how does robo-cain function with out his brain? #why does this look like they're teaming up? #shout factory

[lokisasylum]

If the new contract doesn't offer FAIR treatment for all 7 and its just the same ol same ol. Then I really don't have a lot of high expectations for the group as a whole when they come back. If there are NO changes and only ONE of them will benefit from it then I'm afraid we'll never escape from "Butter" and "Yet to come" eras.

And I think NO one, solo or OT7, wants to go back to that...

#bts #jimin #bts jimin #park jimin #bangtan #Some member's egos grew a little too much during solo era. Can't imagine how they'll function again as a group. #As a “team”

[parvuls]

woke up today and immediately thought that all I want is an enemies to lovers + single dad fic, where bitty and jack get along about as well as they did in canon year 1 (so not at all), but unfortunately have to grin and bear it because they're jack's kid first and second most favorite person, and their love for the kid overshadows their distaste for each other

#omgcp #omgcheckplease #zimbits #it's something about being faux coparents and learning to function as a team even BEFORE falling in love #something about being able to slot together when there's a good enough incentive only then realize how good the fit is #something about falling in love with a kid first and a dad second that truly negates that 'using a child for a ready made family' trope #anyway I'll be here all day thinking of this #prompts #text