#because it hurt so bad lol

[bonefall]

.. opinions on wind runner? i feel like im one of the only ones that genuinely hates her sometimes

If you feel like the only one who genuinely hates her, I think you need to look around more. Wind Runner is a very widely disliked character, because she's often used within the story as a small antagonist who "threatens" the authority of Tall Shadow. Gray Wing dislikes her. Thunder is openly cat-racist to her. She spends several books trying to break through the moor cats' xenophobia to join a group that came to HER LAND.

Then, when Moth Flight is old enough to be a relevant character in Forest Divided, Wind Runner is turned into Yet Another mean mom the very moment Moth displays ADHD. She's contrasted to her mate Gorse Fur, who is a Soft And Good Dad, and ultimately MASSIVELY punished with the harrowing events of Moth Flight's Vision (even though, for most of that book, she's completely right.)

Ask yourself why they're especially harsh on WIND RUNNER for being mean to her child, in the arc with Tom the Fucking Wifebeater and his redemption death, plus Thunder being forced to stop being mad at his abuser Clear Sky, please.

To me, Wind Runner is an intense, ambitious woman who's demonized for it in a way that men just aren't. She's subject to several misogynistic trends within WC, plus a huge helping of xenophobia that goes absolutely unexamined. If DOTC cared at all about women, it would have treated her with the nuance she deserves.

Wind Runner is treated with nearly endless suspicion by Gray Wing through books 1 - 3, while he's bending over backwards to suck Clear Sky's toes.

Her wanting to join the group that came TO HER HOME and being a bit pushy about it earns a stronger reaction from Gray Wing than Clear Sky murdering people.

She's pressured into changing her name "to fit in," and it's still not enough. She wanted to join the group so bad she changed her name, at the request of the Mountain Cats, for a chance of being better accepted

This came after she'd already saved Jagged Peak's life when a burrow collapsed on him. She's plenty trustworthy.

She keeps doing shit to try and prove herself to this group of assholes. Remember Bumble being dragged back to her domestic abuser? Gray Wing interprets this as a power struggle, when WIND RUNNER WAS NOT EVEN PART OF THE GROUP AT THE TIME.

From Wind Runner's POV, she did something that the Moor cats wanted done. It was fucking evil. It was committing violence against another member of the out-group the cats see her as.

But who actually has the power here? Tall Shadow does.

Gray Wing said it himself that she could have come up with some excuse for Bumble to stay, and she didn't. In fact, any cat could have spoken up. No one did.

and still. STILL. Wind Runner gets nothing. Her reward is Gray Wing surmising that actually, her doing their sick dirtywork was a political move.

It's more consistent as a motivation with how Wind Runner wants to join their group. The thing she's been doing.

She only actually gets to join the group after Thunder starts publicly hurling slurs at her for suggesting they need to be ready for Clear Sky to attack them. "What do you know about peace? Last time I was here you were NOTHING BUT A ROGUE WITH A ROGUE'S NAME"

Gray Wing even starts purring when she gives birth, because her ambition goes away briefly and she "stops bossing everyone around." this is treated like a sweet thing. god forbid women retain their personalities when they have kids

She loses her first premature child to a seizure and Gray Wing starts proselytizing his religion to her. "Maybe it's a good thing your weakest child died because Jesus has them now" I want to beat him with a hammer

When her second child gets sick, Clear Sky has a bright idea that involves killing it. I refer to this as his "reverse leper colony" suggestion. He only develops a sense of humanity towards the sick when his brother's pregnant wife is in danger. Wind Runner and her kitten barely seem to clock as people to him.

It's only after her SECOND baby succumbs to a horrible, painful death that she decides the moor cats are assholes, and she goes to start her own group. It's LONG overdue. I was extremely excited to see it.

Now. Listen.

I've been treated just like Moth Flight before. I've practically heard the scolding in Book 6 Chapter 3 verbatim. I'm not downplaying anything about Wind Runner being harsh to her; being yelled at like that never fixed the problem.

What I'm saying is that this is the SAME arc that summons the hollowed-out ghost of Storm to coo that Clear Sky "never drove anyone away" with his abusive behavior and gives Tom the Wifebeater a heroic redemption death.

So why is the scolding from Wind Runner treated as unambiguously harsh? What's the difference between her and them?

Why is it that outside of this little bubble of the community, you can get buried in a flood of people crying about how "Clear Sky made Summisteaks Butt he thought it was the right thing :((( He feels bad about shoving Thunder's face in a weeping, pus-filled wound and trying to kill him :((((" but Wind Runner is mean about Moth Flight not catching a rabbit and she should be skinned alive

Why is WIND RUNNER held responsible for the death of Clear Sky's child in Moth Flight's Vision, WHEN IT WAS COMPLETELY HIS OWN FAULT??

So, why should I hate her? Because she's mean to the idiot protagonists? Because she's Yet Another Bad Mom whose actions ARE treated as Bad in the story, in the arc famous for openly weeping whenever someone's mad at their abusive dad?? When she has this whole horrific, unexamined story about how incredibly bigoted The Settlers are towards her and the extremes she goes to in order to please them?

I'm glad she's mean, actually. She should have been even meaner. I think she should have a gun

#so anon I am very sorry #Uou are going to the Shadow Realm #I am the patron saint of every woman in wc #but especially the ones in dotc #because that arc does them so fucking dirty #Wind Runner can be as mean as she wants I support her #The Settlers deserve it actually #Wind Runner #Windstar #Warrior Cats Analysis #also again everything wind runner has ever done that was mean was done worse by clear sky #but clear gets off with a slap on the wrist. IF that. #while Wind Runner gets her leg sickeningly snapped on screen as several paragraphs detail her growing fever and horrible agony #before the magic of JesusClan heals her and bestows her lives upon her #Guys getting hurt in WC: ''owie'' #Girls getting hurt in WC: (you can hear the writer breathing heavily through the 6 paragraphs of prose they use to describe her injury) #..........also. to put into perspective just how fucking bad the misogyny in this arc is; #there are only 4 female characters in Book 1 who survive to the end of Book 6. Besides some cameo cats who exist in the tribe #Wind Runner is one of them. The other three are Settlers. #I won't even say their names lol. Can you even remember who all three of the other ones are #warrior cats analysis

[iamnmbr3]

harry definitely not heterosexual potter is the funniest thing to me because i literally cannot remember a single time in the book where he thinks “i should probably be nervous about draco trying to kill me because i am literally convinced that he is willingly working with voldemort.” no. he was like “oh draco? yeah he is definitely working for voldemort and he is so evil because did you see the way he is combing his hair now? probably switched shampoo. he would never change conditioner, that thing works wonders. what do you mean, this is common knowledge. anyway, he is so evil and definitely working for voldy. but of course he won’t kill me, are you crazy? who would he talk to across the great hall? like literally you don’t even understand.” and everyone just WENT WITH IT.

Hahahahaha I KNOW! Would he feel this safe around literally any other person who he suspected of being in league with Voldemort? I think tf not!

Even once Draco has Harry incapacitated and totally at his mercy on the train Harry at no point thinks that he's in danger. Even after Draco breaks his nose he doesn't think it. After that incident Harry still is all 'can't wait to break into the Room of Requirement BY MYSELF while Draco is in there so I can see what secret evil mission he's working on for Voldemort' and at no point does he worry that going in without backup could end badly. And HE'S RIGHT. When Draco has Harry at his mercy he never seriously harms him and risks everything multiple times in book 7 to protect him. This is NOT Harry seeing Draco with rose tinted glasses. This is Harry deeply and intimately understanding that Draco will not hurt him and feeling comfortable around him on an instinctual level despite every reason he has not to.

And let's not forget why Harry finally stops investigating Draco in 6th year. It's not because he decides he's wrong about his whole "Draco is a Death Eater on a mission from Voldemort" theory nor is it because he gets worried that since Draco is a Death Eater on a mission from Voldemort looking into this could get Harry or his friends hurt. No. He stops because his investigation leads to Draco getting hurt. And Harry is so horrified by this that he completely backs off and gives up trying to stop the super secret evil mission from Voldemort that Harry is sure Draco is on. Harry is like 'foiling an evil plot masterminded by Voldemort himself isn't worth it if it could lead to me hurting Draco.' He really said 'I can excuse putting myself in mortal danger on a regular basis to stop Voldemort's plots but I draw the line at Draco being upset.' In canon.

And yeah Harry cares about people in general but not to this extent. When Umbridge gets carried off by centaurs Harry doesn't even think of going after her. He's just like 'lmao bye bitch.' He straight up KILLS Quirrell in first year and when he finds out he's like 'well that sucks for him.' Tons of Death Eaters get hurt and maimed at the Department of Mysteries and Harry never even stops to check if they're ok. In second year he forces Lockhart to enter the Chamber of Secrets first in case there's a Basilisk waiting at the bottom of the chute.

But anytime he sees Draco in danger he does whatever he can to help without even thinking about it. From the time in first year in the Forbidden Forest when he immediately throws his arm out to stop Draco walking towards Voldemort to 7th year when he risks his own life and that of his friends to pull him out of the fiendfyre and reveals his presence while running through the battle so he can stun a Death Eater threatening Draco. And he does it automatically, without a second thought because Harry can't fathom a world where he wouldn't protect Draco.

#this ask made me lol so much. it's so. SO true. #(I'm now imagining Harry being like Doug from Up going “Squirrel!” but about Draco every time he sees him. Oh wait. That's canon.) #Shoutout to the time Harry sees Draco forced to torture Rowle and is horrified because of how upset and scared Draco is #and doesn't even think about Rowle at all. #Can you imagine him telling Rona and Hermione about it like 'it was horrible'. #'Yeah I guess even though Rowle is a Death Eater he didn't deserve-' #Rowle? Who cares about him? He was just getting tortured. The point is Draco felt bad about it.' #Also. Nose breaking is pretty minor given that 1) in the magical world mundane injuries can be easily fixed and #2) Draco is a literal Death Eater. #And later Draco risks everything to save Harry's life at the Manor. #He also alerts Harry to his presence in the Room of Requirement #tries to stop Crabbe & Goyle from killing or hurting him #and doesn't call Voldemort or tell anyone he's seen Harry. #asks #Draco Malfoy #Harry Potter #drarry #drarry in canon #hpdm #h/d #harco #harry x draco #harry/draco #drarry meta #drarry g

[sickficideas]

I read a fic yesterday that briefly mentioned Dazai not ever allowing Akutagawa to take pain medication and they wrote "there is not a hurt in his body that Akutagawa will risk angering Dazai for" and I kind of love that as a concept because of the multitude of reasons Dazai would have more denying him that, and reasons for Akutagawa to obey him, and the effect it would have on him after Dazai leaves...Akutagawa always refusing medication no matter how much pain he's in and no one understanding why...but the adverse too, maybe he gives in one day and realizes they do help, even if it's just a little, he's always in some sort of pain 😭 and becomes dependent/addicted

#op was seriously cooking #i need to read it again because i read it half asleep and that line at the end was all i remembered lol #but its very well written and i love the complicated Akutagawa and Dazai angst #it hurts so bad #akutagawa #bsd headcanons #bungo stray dogs #bungou stray dogs #bsd #whump #angst #injury #medication #tw drug addiction #dazai #fanfic

[monocaelia]

a spoonful of sugar.

even when you feel like your body is caving in on itself, they're always there to lift you from the darkness. aka; they take care of you when you're sick.

feat. childe. diluc. scaramouche.

genre : fluff and comfort .

note : guess who covid finally caught up to. :) i've been feeling awful about the whole ordeal so this is a little comfort fic to me from me, teehee.

❀ CHILDE

today was the day childe finally came home from work and boy was he excited about it. not only would he be home with his family for a while and get to spend time with those that he loves and maybe go fishing with his father and help his mother with meals while the kids get ready for dinner and bed, but he would also get to see you again.

granted, he got to see you more often than his family members as you travel around teyvat as often as he does, but nothing beats getting to your house and being enveloped by one of your warm and loving embraces as you both take in each other's presence as if it would be your last.

what he wasn't prepared to see when he walked through your door was your huddled body shaking underneath a blanket, sniffling and coughing while you curled in on yourself to maintain whatever heat your body let out.

your name slips from childe's lips as he drops his bags off at your bedroom door. his heart warms at your noise of surprise, but it crumbles again when you peek your head out from the blanket.

of course, you looked sickly; nose and cheeks red from irritation and your eyes barely even open. you were a mess, with your pajamas still draping your body and your hair messier than when you just wake up, almost as if you didn't even brush your hair for the day.

"oh... childe, i wasn't expecting you home so soon. if i had known, i would have-"

"you're not doing anything right now," childe scolds, marching over to your bedridden body and pushing you back underneath the blankets. despite your protests, childe presses a finger to your lips and a kiss to the top of your head. "don't you dare move a finger on this bed or i'm going to be very upset, sweetheart."

and with that your lover leaves the room. you hear a number of clutters from the kitchen and soon a warm, comforting smell surrounds your room and nearly lulls you to sleep. if it weren't for the gentle knock and the familiar head of messy, curly ginger hair peeking from the door, you sure would have.

in his hands was a delicious soup, one that he remembered you loved and you could nearly cry at the mere thought that he recalled something so trivial about you.

"oh... 'jax you didn't need to do all of this. i'm not that sick," you gently try to persuade him, but your lover shushes you.

"i didn't need to, but i wanted to," he replies simply, a loving smile growing on his lips and his dimples poking through. "i wanted to and i love you."

oh, that did it.

you tried pushing back the tears that welled up in the corner of your eyes as to not embarrass yourself in front of childe, but to no avail. one, two, three tears drip from your face and you try to wipe at every one.

"love? are you okay? should i have not made you soup? did you want anything else?" your lover panics, setting aside the soup to comfort your shaking body. his thumbs, calloused from years of fighting and training in the fatui and moreso, gently wipe away the tears that push through your eyes and its at this moment that you feel his love for you again and again.

"no... i just..." you begin, taking a deep breath to collect your thoughts, "you're too good for me. i'm sorry for making you worry about me, 'jax."

he doesn't respond immediately, instead only silently wiping away your tears and pushing away the hair that got in between him and your face. as much as you loved his deep, ocean eyes, you couldn't bring yourself to stare into them at the moment in fear of humiliating yourself even more in front of him.

childe calls your name, gently like the waves that lap calmly against the shores of morepesok, and that's when you finally meet his gaze.

"don't apologize for something like that. i love you, and you're someone important to me; of course i'm going to worry for you and care for you," he presses a kiss to your head once more. "you're someone i want in my life forever. so please, let me love you."

❀ DILUC

you're pitiful; shivering underneath the blanket of your bed and pulling the sheets far above your head. every now and then he could hear your soft sniffles and dry coughing disrupt the otherwise silence in the room.

if he could, diluc would take the illness that chose to curse you at this very moment and suffer in your place. but what he could he do against the common cold.

his knuckle gently raps against the door, signaling his arrival to your room and his heart aches when your body freezes underneath your thick blanket. slow, heavy steps make their way towards the pile on your bed and he carefully places the tray of food on your nightstand.

diluc calls your name; you don't reply.

he calls your name again, fingers lightly tugging against the blanket that hides you from the outside world and your fingers quickly tighten their grip and a shout of protest leaves your lips.

"dearest," diluc whispers, his words enveloping you in the warmest way possible, "you have to eat your dinner."

your body curls away from his touch and his brows furrow. he hates to see you like this.

"i-i'll eat it in a bit..." your hoarse voice answers from underneath the blanket. as sickly as you sound, diluc could feel his shoulders drop in relief at hearing you speak again.

"why not eat it now when it's warm, love?" his fingers caress what he thinks is your head from underneath the blanket. "i've missed seeing you. don't you miss me, too?"

there's a pause of silence as you ponder what to do next before your head slowly peeks out from underneath the blanket.

your eyes are swollen, tinted a light shade of pink along with your nose from excessive wiping. your hair is a mess, sticking out in places where it shouldn't be, and the bags underneath your eyes are darker than they normally are. you must have lost a fair amount of sleep because of your illness.

"i'm sorry i look so scary right now," your words are congested and hoarse, but your voice is still your voice.

diluc's heart melts at your apology and his rough fingers brush a strand of hair away from your face. even if you had the burden of carrying the world on your shoulders and had the physical repercussions to show it, he would still think you were the most ethereal being he had ever laid eyes on.

"nonsense, you're beautiful. how could i ever think of you as any less?"

his lips gently press against your forehead, a silent 'i love you' shared between the two of you before helping you up to eat your dinner.

❀ SCARAMOUCHE

"you look awful."

scaramouche is sitting a few feet away from your bedside, staring at you in disgust at your messy hair and runny nose. you had suggested he leave you alone for today as you've gotten severely ill, but what scaramouche wants, scaramouche does so here he is, calling you ugly in your own home.

"thanks," you retort in your congested voice, "you sure make me feel extra loved."

the wanderer rolls his eyes at you before moving to finally sit at your bedside. he made sure not to sit too close though, probably so that he wouldn't catch your germs.

not that he could ever get sick, but whatever.

"you know, i thought you promised to be nicer," you comment, attempting to sit up to be a little bit polite towards your unwanted guest, even if he didn't deserve it, but your head spins as soon as you move.

surprisingly, you feel sharp fingers push you back down on your bed and you're staring at the ceiling again.

"i am. i'm visiting you while you're sick, isn't that being nice?" scaramouche states it as if it was obvious. "when no one wants to see you and risk getting sick, isn't this me being nice so you're not alone."

in his own... weird and convoluted way, scaramouche was right. although it's not what you would deem as nice, this was nice even for someone like him.

"oh right, they told me to make sure you take this," scaramouche says, pulling out a green vial from archons knows where. you feel your throat close up at the sight of the medicine and the familiar, bitter taste of it nearly makes you gag at the mere sight. he brings it towards you and you instinctively pull away from him.

"oh?" the wander watches in amusement as you make every attempt to move away from the vial. "what is this? the fearsome warrior who has slain their enemies with no remorse is scared of a little bit of medicine?"

your hand shoves the arm holding the vial away, although weak from your current illness. "as if. just... leave it here and i'll eat it later. i promise."

your heart drops to your stomach when the grin grows on scaramouche's face. "no, i was ordered to make sure you ate it all. i need to bring this bottle back empty, you see."

he was having too much fun with this. your eyes widen in both fear and surprise when he leans towards your bedridden body, arms barricading you and trapping you on top of the mattress. if you weren't stuck with an illness, overpowering him and switching the sides wouldn't be an issue.

but your body was frail from your fever.

"you're such a liar."

"me? a liar? nonsense. that was the old me, not the new me, promise."

and yet the devious glint in his eye and the way too toothy grin that continued to grow on his face revealed the truth to you. he was messing with you, and you would be damned if you let him win this round while you were recovering.

"now you can do this the easy way or the hard way. which will it be?"

oh boy... this was going to be a long night.

#tartaglia x reader #tartaglia fluff #diluc x reader #diluc fluff #scaramouche x reader #scaramouche fluff #tartaglia scenarios #diluc scenarios #scaramouche scenarios #genshin x reader #didi writes #i come crawling out of my cave LOL #anyways... enjoy my silly sickfic while i go and recover now <3 #my throat hurts so bad TT #not proofread because i am sick and delusional

[atissi]

this is a joke. i hated business school.

(conversation with @thesweetestclementine)

#CONTEXT: we were talking about the james somerton bullshit #anytime someone at a party asks me what i majored in i say 'marketing and finance but i hated it the entire time i promise im normal' #can confirm though that 80% of business majors suck ass at writing let alone coming up with original ideas #in first year we had a mandatory business writing class because it had gotten so bad among previous cohorts #and everyone i talked to hated it because we had to read actual books and the professors were lit. phds with actual standards #'they mark way too hard i got 60% on everything' have you considered that this is a. skill issue. #also 60% is just. expected for certain humanities courses lolll at least in business our grades get curved #so you're only hurting your GPA if you write worse than everyone else lol. but good luck with that #anyways that's just a fraction of why my classes were terrible. but the writing thing annoyed me the most when I was doing group essays. #beepbeep.txt

[martyrbat]

detective comics #509

[ID: Bruce Wayne sleeping in his penthouse, his eyes squeezed shut as the narration reads, ‘Gordon's strained laugh sounds hollow, but it echos in the Batman's mind... and haunts his dreams...” Bruce awakens to a hand on his shoulder and before he can think, he's twisting it and holding it down. The panel expands, revealing the hand belongs to Alfred as he's almost toppling over! He cries out, “M-master Bruce—my arm!” as Bruce groggily realizes who it is. He lets go at once as Alfred moves to the end of the bed and holds his arm while stammering an apology, “S-sorry, s-sir... Sorry if I startled you.” Bruce looks at him with aghast as he cries out, “My god, Alfred—I almost broke your arm!” Alfred reasons, “You must have been having a nightmare, sir.” as Bruce sits up and puts his face in his hands. He weepily dismisses, “A nightmare—what kind of an excuse is that? Old friend... forgive me...” Alfred reassures, “Nothing to forgive, sir. Just bad nerves, sir.” END ID]

#THIS ONE !!!! #bruce and his neverending guilt complex #just immediately regretful and so apologetic as alfred is quick to reassure and dismiss it #holding his arm because of fucking course it still hurts but when bruce lifts his head he stops .... #always thinking of how he was a caretaker for bruce since he was a small child/infant and how many little things bruce does now will remind #alfred of those days #he likes his grilled cheese q certain way. he cries if he thinks he hurt someone. he blames himself for a lot. he gets bad nightmares #like so much has stayed the same as so much continues to change but the love and care thry have for each other is always there #(<- guy who is always number one in bruce is disabled and needs a caretaker but also in how the people around him know bruce loves and cares #about them. its not about not being loved its about how heavy his love is and how bruce will subconsciously use his love to harm himself #(from blaming himself to his parents murders and jason's future death to something as simple as this and how he'll beat himself up #for hurting alfred and not able to protect him as well from himself) #(like his mental illness is forever using his stupid bleeding heart against himself as a reason for why hes awful) #this is all fully sidetracked im just fucking wired today sorry lol #but while im talking and something more related to the panel itself:: #after this line bruce looks up and says ‘the batman suffering from bad nerves? lets hope not. gordon can worry about the election but i #cannot afford to. still its not just the campaign. lately so many other things are pressuring me—mostly as bruce wayne’ #and like !!!! #it wasn't about batman! it wasnt about his burdens and responsibilities!! alfred was telling HIM. BRUCE. that its okay #and bruce automatically ‘its not because batman cant behave like this’ like !!!! #batman is the priority in the sense of he thinks he needs it to protect people. even his family even alfred and every single stranger #he won't ever allow himself any grace even while sleeping because batman cannot afford those ‘slips’ #just GOD 70s/80s batman makes me insane for forever and ever amen #c: detective comics | i: 509 #crypt's panels #bruce wayne #alfred pennyworth #alfred & bruce #‘awake or asleep—it scarcely matters anymore. the nightmare never seems to end.’ #<- nightmare bruce tag <333

[iwasbored777]

The most beautiful thing in the entire Trolls franchise will always be Branch's character in the first movie when he wanted Poppy to understand that life isn't as perfect as she thinks but when she got betrayed and hurt and lost all hope he did everything to make her happy again because he wanted her to understand the pain but not experience it because she didn't deserve that and he didn't think that others have to suffer because he did.

#i know so many people who would look at her crying and say your problems are not that bad mine were worse she literally thought her kingdom #will be cooked alive #she got betrayed by a person she trusted and for whom she risked her life #she learned that some people never change #and no one knew what to do #but branch knew he had to heal her emotional damage first and let her know that he's there for her #so many people would tell her i told you so lol i was right you were wrong at least now you understand but he knew that she deserves better #because she didn't mean any harm #and because it's not her fault that he suffered #this is so important to show #because so many people want others to suffer too just because they did #so many people want to see optimists with broken spirits because life is bad #yes it is but don't hurt innocent person for something that has happened to you years ago #the writers understood the assignment #the writers fucking understood the assignment #and she loves him so much for it #trolls movie #trolls 2016 #trolls branch #branch #Poppy #trolls poppy #trolls band together #trolls world tour #trolls holiday in harmony #trolls holiday #Broppy

[cherrymoonvol6]

maybe it’s a me problem but for the life of me i cannot figure out why people believe willow is supposed to be the evelyn to hunter’s caleb (besides just being his LI), when there’s a point to hunter’s first act of defiance to belos being show in HP, the episode that establishes his dynamic with luz.

and besides, the plot contrivances in both HP and ASIAS make it clear that there are so many more things at play into hunter choosing to help willow and co, whereas in HP the laser focus in hunter and luz make it abundantly clear that he’s choosing this for luz’s sake and her sake alone.

a big difference between hunter’s behavior towards the respective female leads in HP and ASIAS is that in the later hunter is deceiving willow, while in the former hunter and luz are very aware of each other’s real identities. so i guess it’s a little unfair to consider this a failing in the willow/hunter dynamic... is what i would say if HP didn’t make a real point about hunter opening out to luz about his upbringing out of his own volition.

this is way different in ASIAS because willow reaches out to hunter because he seems like a good candidate for her flyer derby team, a sport she’s been passionate about ever since S1:

...but hunter has no interest in flyer derby at all, and instead chooses to play along because he thinks there’s great potential in willow and the rest of the flyer derby members for his own motives.

compare this to HP, where luz and hunter have formed a truce to serve their personal interests at the moment, which leads to the moment where luz’s enthusiasm for learning and conjuring magic overlaps with hunter’s deep interest and knowledge about the subject.

hunter is so excited to share his knowledge about magic that he interrupts luz, finishes her sentence and causes her to look at him in shock. and even when hunter realizes what he’s done and retracts a little, he can’t help but continue to talk about magic with luz and she then shares his excitement, leaning into him and smiling too. this marks the first time they talk to each other in friendly terms: out of their shared passion of magic.

...to the point that he has to stop himself because at that point, the only thing that overtakes his interest in magic is what he perceives as the history of his ancestors.

none of this is found in ASIAS because hunter is decisive about faking his enthusiasm in the beginning.

moreover, this moment leads to luz asking him about what made him join the emperor’s coven. and upon this tiny opening of friendliness between the two of them, hunter chooses to be honest and share about his family’s history and his motives to luz. again, HUGE change from ASIAS in which at no point hunter trusts willow enough to be that vulnerable with her before his talk with steve.

i believe this later encounter with luz rings much more true to caleb and evelyn’s dynamic. we know from belos’ account of the story that evelyn “enticed” caleb with magic to abandon his side, but since we’re meant to question belos’ skewed view, i’d say it’s much more likely that caleb grew to be interested in this magic and that eventually this changed his perception of witches and took evelyn’s side. and this is not what happens with willow in ASIAS: hunter considers her a pawn for his desire to prove himself to belos (he wants to bring her to his side), while HP makes it so hunter and luz have genuine bonding moments before he makes the decision to let her go.

so, second point: every episode that centers around hunter’s dynamic with each one of the hexsquad members features something that i call the Hunter Projection Scene™, which is basically the one point in the episode where hunter makes assumptions or attempts to understand the character in question by comparing them to an aspect he finds on himself. [if you’re interested here’s how i rank them by how effective they are: luz (HP) > amity (EL) > gus (LR) > willow (ASIAS)]

in ASIAS, the Hunter Projection Scene™ happens after hunter leaves the hexside courtyard after his first impression of the flyer derby team.

enough people have talked about how meaningless the half-a-witch comment is so i’ll just say that it’s mega-weird that hunter calls her that to her face after seeing absolutely 0 people refer to her that way, and his only impressions of willow being that she’s really fucking good in her magic track. moreover, i dislike this moment because hunter doesn’t make the decision to come back: he’s just pulled back to the courtyard by willow’s doing. granted that he immediately changes his mind, but still. this moment could’ve been so much better if he had made the choice, just like in HP he makes the conscious choice to let luz go - a natural outcome of him opening up to luz and her returning the favor just a moment later by giving hunter his staff back:

the fact that willow’s action strips hunter from of his agency, while luz gives hunter what she knows is his only source of his magic, also works in favor of HP and their relationship. going back to caleb and evelyn, at this point is abundantly clear that flapjack used to be caleb’s palisman and evelyn either carved it for him or instructed him/gave him the necessary tools to do so. therefore, the moment where luz returns the staff to hunter works as a small scale parallel to evelyn and caleb’s relationship, while luz introducing flapjack to hunter works on the larger scale.

and hey, speaking of the half-a-witch thing, luz gets two Hunter Projection Scenes™! isn’t that neat? the first one deals with the knowledge that both of them can’t cast magic conventionally as other witches in the demon realm can, as well as hunter’s acknowledgment that belos thrusts a magic staff into his apprentice and tells him he’s destined to Great Things - which is the exact opposite situation that eda and luz had going on in early S1. however, i think the second one is more subtle and way more impactful in the development of the episode:

which has its payoff at the end of the episode, when hunter is the one who didn’t think this through. his reluctant truce with the human has lead him to change his perception of luz, to the point that he’s too nice to just “blast her to bits”.

this is also something that i believe rings true for evelyn and caleb. i think it’s safe to say that caleb never pictured doing anything other than witch-hunting: it’s clear from how attached belos is to the idea of his brother “betraying” him upon meeting evelyn - and it’s her influence that caused him to rethink his life choices. luz’s behavior in this episode is the sole catalyst of hunter deciding to disobey the emperor’s orders just to let luz go.

in ASIAS, since willow shares the spotlight with a bunch of other characters that help to steer hunter’s mind, the result is a bit more diluted. so we have gus who says this at the beginning:

then, hunter’s surprise when he realizes the members of the flyer derby team are actually pretty competent at what they do and the camaraderie they form during the game.

(this is what i think the episode mostly succeeds at: giving hunter a chance to experience real teamwork between people at his level, and realizing that he really likes it.)

then we have darius’ disappointment in hunter. as the catalyst of hunter’s actions during the episode, he’s also the one who kickstarts hunter’s doubts.

and finally, steve works as a talking conscience for hunter to realize the mistake he’s made.

it’s only after realizing what belos will do to the palismen that hunter decides to liberate them.

this is an aspect that is so deliberately absent in HP: luz brings up the harm belos will cause to the palismen and hunter’s determination is unchanged.

and it’s understandable why hunter doesn’t really mind that: at that point, he only saw the palismen as something his uncle and mentor needed to feast on to mitigate his pain. after all, it’s only after this confrontation that flapjack decides to become hunter’s palisman. this is correctly accounted for in ASIAS. but you see what the problem is, right? hunter’s guilt about what he did to the derby team (essentially taking away their right to make a choice about their lives - exactly what he tells luz he wanted to have [”at least you can choose your future”]) is not enough to spring him into action. it’s only when the emotional appeal of hunter’s connection to his palisman is brought up that he changes his mind. it’s not for the team’s sake, let alone willow’s.

since HP does not count with this situation, though, hunter’s reason to avoid fighting with luz is...

...her appeal to the connection that forms between them.

it’s luz’s sheer disappointment in him betraying her after she grows to respect his agency that hunter turns visibly afflicted by her words (literally luz implying that he’s not her friend!!!) that causes him to hold off from his intentions of stopping her.

there’s also the fact that the resolution in ASIAS is just so... blegh. like starting from the fact that darius didn’t even have the intentions of delivering the kids to the emperor’s coven to begin with. this smashes any sort of gravity from the initial situation, and while i do like darius’ presence and actions in this episode for the most part, i wish there would’ve been another way to maintain the stakes of the conflict while showing the first signs of darius’ rebellion against the emperor. i also dislike that hunter attempts to free them from darius by telling him, in front of the team, that they’re unfit for the emperor’s coven - even if he also is self-deprecating by saying he’s unfit to be the GG. like wasn’t there another way to make it so it doesn’t sound like he’s insulting the flyer derby team? lol

going back to HP, it’s clear by that point that hunter holds more than some semblance of respect for luz, because not only he refuses to fight her: he chooses to be vulnerable with her once again, sharing his name to luz.

also, he does this as a response to her reducing his persona to the title of “golden guard”. this is the first time hunter goes against the notion that he’s destined to one path only.

and not only that, but as soon as kikimora begins fighting the both of them, he completely takes the heat off luz by going aggro on her.

he makes use of the agency luz lend him (which, i should remind you, makes her significantly more vulnerable to hunter if he decides to attack her) and decides to fight on her side. he could’ve just walked away and let luz deal with her, since their truce is now over, but he chooses to stay by distracting kikimora and even defending luz from her - to the point that luz doesn’t even have to use her magic to make it out of there.

this is something that looses its impact in ASIAS because willow and her flyer derby team are the first ones to fight - and even after hunter arrives to the scuffle, he only steps in after darius defeats the kids and has them cornered. i think it would’ve been way more impactful if, just like it happens in HP, hunter deliberately fought a coven head.

this is something that i love in HP because as luz is flying away, kikimora says this:

if at that point hunter somehow forgot about his official duties and the impact of his choice in that moment, kikimora reminds him of the real stakes: by letting luz go, hunter is purposefully disobeying the orders from the emperor. yet after kikimora yells these words, hunter continues to fight her until she passes out.

(also i love this little smile, after the emperor expresses his full disappointment on what hunter did. like this kid is just so proud of having taken the decision to protect luz and disobey his uncle. what the FUCK)

and this moment is night and day compared to how hunter approaches the conflict during ASIAS: he appeals to the rules of the emperor by implying that he’ll step out of the GG role if necessary. not only this, but he begs willow to go along with his plan. willow and co leave the scene on hunter’s terms. and i think it’s such an interesting parallel that luz leaves hunter having been gifted the knowledge of his real name, while willow’s last remark is sad and out of spite, referring to hunter with his fake name.

again, going back to evelyn and caleb: caleb betrayed phillip in order to be with evelyn. he took her side. this is not what happens in ASIAS: this is what happens in HP. hunter’s just lucky that darius isn’t an uptight asshole.

look. i’ve made it clear in my posts that i’m biased towards lunter, but i’m not even asking you to see the HP scenes in a romantic light. i’m just suggesting that HP pulls off hunter’s first act of defiance against belos in a way that frames luz as the reason why he does it, whereas in ASIAS hunter’s connection with willow is meddled by 1) the presence of three other people that hunter grows to respect in the EE, 2) the effect of darius’ disappointment on him and 3) his newfound connection with flapjack re-framing how he sees belos’ actions towards palismen. and in that case, the parallels to evelyn fit luz way, waaaay better than with willow.

#toh critical #anti huntlow #lunter #maaaan it hurts that the h/ntlow development is so bad because their first meeting is genuinely so cute lol #it makes me smile every time #anyways it's 5 am :) i'm going to bed

[quinn-pop]

happy cringe day wednesday guys here’s another thing i have no idea where to put <3

…i was trying to figure out their dynamic lol

#kirbyposting #swearing #i have been so sleepy ever since the time change it’s making it impossible to get anything done ugh #i just want to see kirby snap at him #just once #but im not a big Marx guy (yet?) so my bias is probably showing #kirby can say fuck just this once it’s the only way marx would listen #probably because he’d be so shocked and then go ‘LMAO what did you just say huh???’ #and then idk kirby could say something dramatic and Marx would realize he actually does need to shut the fuck up #but it would be very short lived because *sighs* it always is #marx is such a strange character to me i want to understand him so bad but i guess probably no one can??? #it just hurts my head #not that I hate or even dislike him im just having a hard time actually liking him lol #but whatever #happy cringe day wednesday #my art or something #kirby #marx kirby #kind of a weird cringe day Wednesday post but i think it fits

[forgettingcrowbin]

Ah! And now ink is blushing, too!~

so basically I made this really great piece of Error half crashing while Ink has his arm around him that took me a while. AND MY LAPTOP SHUT DOWN AND DELETED IT. I am so angry I'm not even going to try to recreate it, so I'm sorry you'll have to get my silly sketch :(

Ink would say "who wouldn't be blushing when I'm with my best friend in the whole entire universe?"

So uh... Yeah....

#I don't usually get angry over things but this one hurt me #I LOVED what I drew #crowbin art #crowbin ramble #ink sans #error sans #btw these asks of these two can continue if you'd like #Id live to make another drawing of them in this style #Its only because the style hurts so bad for me to recreate it takes forever lol

[solradguy]

Whenever I see someone being transphobic on twt in a bridget thread i reply with three pictures of my mains: ky kiske from ac+r, ky kiske from rev 2, and ky kiske from strive.

it self selects for people who actually play the game. it’s canon that he’ll fight off transphobes with the blade. and if they actually played guilty gear they’d get the underlining messages

While it can be really funny to bully these guys back, please keep in mind that nothing you can say or do to these people will hurt them or waste as much of their time as what they say will stick with you or waste your time. It might be funny to send them a bunch of Ky pictures, but what they're doing is laughing that the only response the people they hate can give them is sending a bunch of pictures of anime boys.

The only thing that works is blocking them. They've turned being an asshole into a recreational sport and getting any sort of response in return is a victory for them.

#asks #Unfortunately I was an asshole on the internet once (not a vicious transphobe just a basic internet asshole) #I know exactly how these people function because I was there once... #When you don't take the person you're arguing with seriously it's very easy to laugh at every single thing they do #Which is what these guys are doing. It doesn't matter how well thought out the counter argument is. They don't care and they won't care #All you can hope for is that they're young and they grow out of it (I did) #I feel bad for them because I think about what led to me being like that decades ago. Are they going through the same thing? #I was like that because I was in a hopeless situation and hated myself and hated everyone else #People arguing back just proved my point that everything sucked and my hate was justified #It's an awful feedback loop. People being kind to me felt disingenuous. Why should they be kind? I hated them. They had no reason to be nic #I had to get to a point where I was willing to help myself crawl out of that pit before I let anyone else even get near me emotionally #I still remember the day when I realized I was being a fucked up little shit to everyone lol #Early June 2011. It was sunny with no clouds and there was a cool breeze. I was listening to In This Moment and I realized #'What the hell am I doing? Do I want to be like this forever? Get your shit together man' #It was a slow process from there but I did get out of it. Slowly. Very slowly. #There's a lot I did that I regret and can't ever apologize for because it was so long ago and the names and faces are gone now #Apologizing at this point would be selfish and only for my benefit anyway. I can only hope that what I did didn't hurt people permanently #Anyway. I've never talked about this on here before because it's the kinda shit that gets put on callout posts out of context #So. I am laying my naked soul bare and raw for the sake of underlining my original point: Internet trolls don't care

[ttaibhse]

now it is couch to 5k. completed it mate. for real this time

#they should call the app couch to 30 minutes #misleading. quite frankly #sorry for hozier image i didnt want to post the one with calories burned lol because you know #this hurted so bad btw and i am so slow but i still feel like im working quite hard 😵‍💫

[themanwhowouldbefruit]

my doctor was sooooo fucking worthless and unhelpful im going to masturbate and i hope it fucking kills me

#“no need for follow up” #“yeah you did have several cysts we scrapped off your remaining ovary but. dw about it. idk why they were there. dw about it. oh also your #ovary on that side was freakishly huge but. dw about it. it might go away. dw about it #*doctor shrug emoji* “ #“go see a gyno next year maybe. but not me im too important for that. go find and onboard a gyno to your situation. next year maybe idk lol” #he barely even looked at my incision like #this fucking appointment could have been an email. or a phone call. or they just could have let me start driving again. also i forgot to ask #if i can stop drinking ensure now or after the 6 weeks? cause that shit cost $$$$. but he probably would have been super unhelpful if i had #fr fr this guy only wanted to give me the time of day when he thought i might have fun cancer inside and now he's like gtfo!!!! get your #fugly cancerless ass out of here!!!! recover from a major surgery on your own you swagless cancerless loser 🤣 we arent helping your #swagless ass!!! #anyway it seems weird and fucked up that im was never offered to see a physical therapist and i guess am going to have to blindly trust my #abs they sliced thru are healing or whatever and to rawdog my own physical recovery of my muscles? even just dumb shit like. my center of #gravity has drastically changed since the mass removal and my back hurts like shit all the time because all my posture muscles were built up #for when i had an extra 30 pounds of cyst hanging in the front and my posture and walking reflected that. and i lowkey don't know how #hard i am able to be with my healing incision because its really tight and makes me hunch forwards still. like i would really like to know #how much i can safely or maybe should be forcing my skin and incision to stretch. without damage? is that crazy #am i crazy??? #this shit is why i didnt see a doctor for 2 years until my problems had snowballed into a 30 pounds ovarian cyst that was crushing my other #organs and had one of my kidneys all backed up with piss. and even getting emergency treatment for it everyone was like. how did you like it #get this bad?? how could you not know you needed to seek medical treatment???? like. bro. seeking medical treatment isnt even a guarantee to #get medical treatment. #anyway he said my “remaining ovary seemed low key polycystic but dw about it. don't quote me on that im not dealing with it.” #bro i dont want to doctor google it i wanted an actual doctor to deal with it. fuck you. #like. maybe even a doctor who knows my situation so i dont have to struggle with getting someone to believe me and take me seriously. #but whatever. back to trying to figure out the daily protein and extra calories my body needs for recovery via doctor google i guess. #its fine 🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬

[bylertruther]

some of you never grew up in a small conservative town as a (gay) nerd that was bullied, harassed, and excluded for years on end for not fitting in and for visibly and enthusiastically liking geek things—geek things that then branded you a satanist in everyone's eyes and as something Other, Lesser, and Undoubtedly Unworthy of Basic Human Decency even though you were literally just an actual child with harmless interests and not a satanist or an evil disgusting subhuman thing, and it shows.

you cannot apply modern views and beliefs to a show that is set in the eighties, especially not when it's set in conservative midwest eighties which is a whole other beast. being a socially awkward and nonconforming geek is something that people STILL get bullied for if you don't do it in a way that the majority deems "acceptable", especially if you live in a conservative, religious area.

your experiences are not universal and your inability to relate to a certain motif or story does not make it "lesser" or "bad writing."

#stranger things #mike wheeler #<- tagging and then disappearing into the mist again bc i don't like it here lol. #girls when they love stranger things because they finally see characters just like them with the same exact experiences written with such #care and respect for those that have been Deemed Other but people who have not had those experiences refuse to believe that they're #realistic and STILL happen to people bc if they're fortunate to have not gone through that then clearly that means that it doesn't exist #and if it does then it's not Traumatic Enough or a good enough plot to cause such inner turmoil in the characters who experience that #💥🛼 #i got bullied for being a nerd in the 2000s and 2010s. you can absolutely get bullied for being a nerd and being a nerd is enough reason #for social exile in some places. when dustin said that no one was nice to him or mike? when lucas said that girls laughed at them? and it's #all because they're deemed freaks and satanists for liking fantasy things? that's Real and it doesn't hurt any less just because you think #it's not a good enough reason to bully someone. #i was called a satanist to my face by adults. people acted like i was some Creature or whatever just because i liked fiction and wasn't #interested in what the majority was interested in and wore dark clothing sometimes. like.. hello. school shooter jokes? the way #that neurodivergent people get treated when they're visibly ''different'' and enjoy things passionately? the way that liking star wars was #a thing to ridicule until it suddenly became Acceptable and Popular to like? i feel like i'm living in a different reality than so many #people here with the way that they talk about certain things in this show. and don't even get me started on the way people approached #the angela and el situation.... #maybe just be glad that these things did not happen to you and stop acting like it's lesser or a bad story bc of that? just a thought.

[lifeof-pink]

yandere yoo joonghyuk for kim dokja plsplsplspls

real and true. i think they’d both be crazy for each other…. a match made in hell heaven 😌 absolute menaces to everyone around them

i mean like. post canon, would either of them let the other out of their sight???? hell no lol if they could fuse into one person to prevent the other from leaving for any reason they would

[obligatory “this is an unhealthy relationship (probably) and should not be looked to for real relationship advice” dislaimer here]

now, i think dokja would be a bit possessive of all his group (kimcom) in a kind of “mama cat” kinda way. they’re his PEOPLE, and they’re only his. if someone hurts them, any of them at all, that someone will disappear real fuckin fast. he’s the leader of the group and he’ll be damned if he can’t protect his children and his friends.

this kind of goes the other way too, the rest of the group will kick in his shins (metaphorically) and force him to stay in bed using any means necessary (remember in canon when they literally sedated him to force him to take a break?) if they believe he’s ever in danger of fucking up his own health to pursue an outside goal. (which he’s absolutely allowed to do, but NOT at the cost of his sleep or his nutrition or his mental health.)

but christ, yjh and kdj to each other?? now, they have no worries about cheating or anything god no. but god fucking forbid you hold one up for too long while the other’s waiting for them. ESPECIALLY, good lord, if you flirt with one of them? you’ll be lucky if a sword held up to your face is the only thing you get lol.

these guys are a fucking menace to their local neighborhood, it’s basically agreed upon fact that you just shouldn’t talk to one if the other isnt in the room. especially dokja, his companion is downright terrifying if he learns you talked to HIS partner without him in the room good lord. nice guy with a scary boyfriend.

not that they’d ever really be apart anyways—christ they’re like bonded cats, “do not separate”. attached at the hip isnt a strong enough word they’re fused at the damn heart

this is more er. soft yandere i suppose. i explain my thinking more in the tags but basically i think they arent as murderous as your typical sorta “crazy in love” story because they’ve stabilized each other enough that they dont feel the need to do it so much. because if the one you love is Right There next to you why would you separate from them to chase after Another Person?

perhaps this isnt really yandere at all haha, i could be totally wrong with my understanding of how the trope works

#is this yandere??? i dont know how yandere works??? is there other parts to the trope besides ‘willing to kill for love and crazy’ #i think if their relationship was less stable they’d be more murderous #but because they’re SO SURE in the pillars they’ve built for each other they dont feel the need #its like end goal yandere where the two actually fall in love with each other lol #now han sooyoung did not make an appearance here my apologies #i would say ‘i cant imagine her with the same obsessive tendencies as yjh’ but thats literally bullshit LOL #i mean look at the end of the book she literally gave away her life to write his story #and spent 4 years writing to get him back across wordlines #i think she’d also be crazy. maybe its like #dokja never leaves without one or the other #orv #omniscient reader's viewpoint #orv spoilers #kim dokja #yoo joonghyuk #joongdok #yandere #i think. #sorry id feel bad if i made them hurt each other #theyre unhealthily dependent and possessive of one another but i dont want them to be in pain while being so #its my soft heart #and again i think its more like they have the capacity to kill for each other but because they’ve stabilized each other out they just dont #not OFTEN that is #because they stabilize each other if one is sick and the other has to leave for any reason they are much more murderously inclined #anything that will let them get back to the other as quickly as possible #answering asks