#because oh boy are there problems!

[kabutoden]

if aradia's death was just in-character for a long roleplay, what's the deal with tavros and terezi's disabilities? did vriska have anything to do with them?

She Did Do Those Things. vriska no!!!!!!

#im insane that vriska is a roleplayer #its so funny to me i love roleplaying jokes #for those not in the know: 'i was just acting in character' is a common phrase used by people Behaving Badly #vriskas like OOOOOOHHH you want me to break the carefully crafted and lovingly acted personality of marquise spinneret mindfang? you monste #listen!!! im playing as my spidersona!!!!! its what she would do shes a spider you want me to not act like a spider??? #vriska. you threw the boy off a cliff screaming and cackling to yourself FLY PUPA FLY #thats not '''''''in character''''' marquise spinneret wouldnt have fucking done that you bitch!!! you just got bored and started #causing problems!!!! #her glasses details had to be shifted around because vriska saying to terezi 'its harder for me. i lost 7 eyes you only lost 2' is so fucki #oh my god vriska no. NO. VRISKA #but yeah she did still do those things. i wasnt sure how to handle this but i decided to go this way. a vriska is a vriska #vriska #homestuck #bugstuck #vriska serket #One time I got a death threat in the middle of an in-person roleplaying game. That underclassman just looked at me with hatred in their eye #a panic attack #then later after THAT they began openly weeping.

[dollypopup]

'colin needs to grovel' 'colin should suffer' 'pen can't let him off easy'

please, his mother in law is about to be PORTIA, doesn't the man have enough curses in his life?

#colin bridgerton #polin #portia featherington #colin at the beginning realizing he's marrying into the Featheringtons: oh god i have truly met some insufferable people in my life #colin hours later full of spite and w/ approx. 0 patience for Portia's shit deciding he's gonna become The Problem: but also they've met me #Colin decides he's going to be the permanent thorn in her side and it's wonderful #don't get me wrong #but damn. . .pour one out for our boy #you KNOW he loves Pen because who the fuck else would deal with Portia of all people as a mother in law???? #'woe portia as your MIL upon thee' is like. . .THE ultimate curse #but Colin went 'it's rotten work but not if it's for Pen' #we should all be so lucky

[oceanwithouthermoon]

im thinking about saikis messed up relationship with romance on this fine night🫶

imagine him developing a crush on someone FIRST but since he can hear their thoughts and knows they dont already like him back, he thinks that that means they never will

because since he hears things so to the point all the time, he doesnt understand the natural progression of relationships and he thinks itd be weird and manipulative if he tried to get someone to like him while he can literally read their mind (which makes sense because there WOULD be a very thin line to tread..)

so he just avoids them and tries to get over it even though there mightve been a good chance that they couldve started liking him soon or even did but hadnt realized it yet themself.......

#alexa play just by radiohead #this boy creates his own problems and is so sad #saiki k #tdlosk #the disastrous life of saiki k. #saiki kusuo #kubosai #saikai #saisai #idk if they ahve another ship name #is it metoku #im just naming ships that would work with this #not with teru because she liked him first #or miko #oh nensai even ? but that would be different because he would just never know how he feels #or maybe it would work because nendo just always says what he feels so if he didnt realize he liked saiki then saiki wouldnt either #satousai if they were actually closer #torisai #merasai ? do they have a ship name does anyone ship them #i know they have some ao3 fics (i have read them ALL) but i dont think they have a community #haisai #meows post

[crimeronan]

favorite thing from the latest rewatch is how genuinely furious hunter is at luz in eclipse lake. for an ep where they don't interact at all there's SO much mileage god he's SO MAD it's SO CHARMING. you all know i love grumpy bitch hunter the most. after eda's "bad but sad boy" comment he's like "ugh, if i EVER see that human again >:(((((" and amity's like "Watch It" i can't stop thinking about it. hunter like luz and i were friends for like two hours and then she TRICKED me with her WILES by being NICE TO ME in a way that NOBODY ELSE EVER HAS BEEN and i am so so so mad at her because i'm projecting my anger at myself onto her but will never admit it. i hate her so bad i'll never trust her Again she Ruined My Lifeeeee she's so annoying and i didn't like her at all the whole time!! i had a moment of weakness!! i'm gonna threaten her life a bunch to amity and actually mean it bc i'm that desperate. fuck luz noceda foreever for Real she's the Worst Thing That Ever Happened To Me >:(((((

and then when they meet again in hollow mind, his response to luz full-on tackling him is just. to yell at her.

and then stomp around grumpily kicking rocks about it.

harmlessly.

mad wet cat style.

#hunter you love her so much already you dumb dumb dumb boy. #i know you dont know it because youre busy being insane and having problems. but Oh My God. #you DUMB DUMB DUMB BOY. #i love life partnerships that start out antagonistic. they r forever my bread and butter. they give me life. #toh #horrible mindscape trauma pals #shitty idiot repression gang #hunter toh #luz noceda #eclipse lake

[tibli]

people really act like johndirk murdered their entire family or smth

#homestuck #john egbert #dirk strider #johndirk #dirkjohn #obvs its fine if you dont like it personally #but the amount of VITRIOL i've seen for a ship that is basically harmless is soooooo fucking funny #like oh you're mad? you're mad that the windy boy and the weeaboo boy are holding hands?? that they're kissing??? #that they're having the most homoerotically-charged prank wars known to man??? skill issue tbh #also meat!john needs to come back from the dead and make out sloppy style w ult!dirk. and then kick his ass for being a shithead #tbh tho i prefer like. mostly ignoring hs2 as a whole and choosing to think abt post canon just being like #everyone on earth c finally dealing with all their various emotional issues #and i think dirk and john could actually work rlly well together once their got past their own bullshit #john has a hard time like. understanding people's feelings on anything deeper than surface-level and tends to avoid uncomfortable situation #whereas dirk feels things so strongly and deeply but has problems expressing it in healthy/acceptable ways #john is 'free' to the point that he has unintentionally cut ties w his friends #while trying to deal with the trauma of losing his dad #whereas dirk is grounded but obsessed with keeping everything under control. because control makes things safe #and he had very little safety growing up under the condesce #ok im rambling on what was meant to be a funny post so i'll cut it off there

[isan0rt]

See, here's the thing about Dedue and the non-Dimitri members of the Faerghus Four. They're not his friends. Ashe and Mercedes are his friends, Annette is debatable, but Ingrid, Felix, and Sylvain he is not even looking to be friends with.

They're his in-laws. In-laws that, at least in the Academy phase, he doesn't even particularly like.

Like, if not for Dimitri, he would absolutely not talk to those people. He's making nice with them because they're the closest thing Dimitri has to family that's not actively trying to murder either of them, and they're important to Faerghus so Dimitri has to have a relationship with them no matter what, and it's important to Dimitri that they and Dedue at least kind of get along with each other as much as possible.

But Dedue isn't trying to be friends with them! Dedue is like, I'll go to the family holiday party because it's important to you but if Felix starts talking shit or Ingrid says something racist then I'm not going to be the one to deal with that. They're your relatives and I'll be nice but that's your problem. He's not looking to be close with them, he just wants to have a halfway decent relationship with them for Dimitri's sake and like no more than that.

And they improve a lot in their supports, especially after the time skip, especially in Three Hopes, but like. The relationship there is still fundamentally in-laws. It's just a graduation from "shitty in-laws I'm putting up with" to "in-laws I've come around on and can have a decent-to-good time with." Depending on what supports you get they can even graduate to "in-laws I actively like and admire." But like. He's still hanging out with them because they hang out with Dimitri. He's not hanging out with them for their own sakes.

Dimitri has one important familial relationship with them and another vitally, crucially important relationship with Dedue. Both are fascinating to explore and I love to explore them. But they're completely different relationships.

Like they're not all a big five-person friend group, Dimitri is in the position of having to like. Try and keep the peace between his extended family in all but name who he still loves, and the person who has been the most important person to him for his entire teens so far. Even if Dimitri were tired of his friends' shit personally he can't just stop talking to them, they're the future leaders of their houses, the only houses that are all in behind House Blaiddyd and not fomenting assassinations. He HAS to maintain a good relationship with them for Faerghus.

Dedue gets this. He'll play nice with them. He knows Dimitri also needs them on his side if he's ever going to restore Duscur, but he doesn't have to like them. He'll save their asses on the battlefield for Dimitri but he's going to go hang out with Mercedes and Ashe after.

#this is not a Faerghus Four hate post to be clear i love all the Lions and am insane about Dimitri's relationship with his childhood friends #and i individually love every Lion for their positive and admirable qualities which they do each have many of #but OH BOY are Dimitri's friends not winning any points with Dedue with their garbage when they're teenagers #Sylvain is fine but he's on thin ice with Dedue #yes they're still teenagers yes they're like that because of very real trauma and Dedue even gets the trauma like he misses his family too #but hoo boy is their shit Not His Fucking Problem #they can shape up on their own #you can interpret Dedue's relationship with Dimitri as platonic or romantic but they're still close enough that 'in-laws' applies #fe3h #Dedue Molinaro

[lollytea]

I do love the netflix avatar in my own way because it provides me with enrichment in the same way brain puzzles do for chimps. Like something is WRONG here and it's your very special job to figure out why! And then you will get juice reward!!

#its been making me think about the cartoon a lot lately for the sake of comparing and contrasting #so thats great #it was a very good cartoon #i do actually think that its stupid to complain about how its objectively bad when an adaption makes changes to the original #because that SHOULD be the point of an adaption. to try things in a new way and somehow improve on the story #but i think its funny how this show is constantly like ''we're gonna take a DIFFERENT route with this character'' #and then the DIFFERENT ROUTE leads to them driving the car off a cliff #we will not get to our destination this way bestie #out of all the changes theyve made to the original i think the most misguided and overall dogshit is how theyre portraying Azula #it annoying when people say ''theyre ACTUALLY writing her as a victim of her father's abuse this this'' #''shes ACTUALLY sympathetic this time'' #girl i hate it here #netflix show is a COWARD for showing Azula this way in season 1 #not that its not somewhat in character. if ozai started playing mindgames with her she probably would start spiraling like this #the problem is that we shouldnt be SEEING IT!! #avatar is regarded as Baby's First Media Analysis for a lot of people #and boy oh boy there was a lot of analytic meat to Azula's character #but the netflix version? this is a skeleton!! bones!!! #like obviously if you were watching the cartoon as an adult it would be immediately apparent #that this 14 yo girl acting not only like a grown woman but a calm calculated genocidal tyrant is very concerning #and it makes her sympathetic by defualt on the grounds of being a child #but a kid isnt going to realize that!! Azula is supposed to be polarizing!! #youre meant to buy into the narrative that everything is easy for her. that no effort troubles her mind #her unflappable nature is meant to unsettle you. intimidate you. she has no weaknesses shes unstoppable and shes pure evil #as a kid who is still learning how to think deeply about things thats how youre to perceive her #and then. AND THEN!! then the show pulls the rug out from under you and makes you question everything #Azula's gradually unraveling sanity in book 3 is jarring and unnatural and it forces you to challenge your own opinion of her #you become uncomfortably aware that shes a victim too. after all this time youve spent hating her #just like zuko. just like the fire family child that you had already come to realize was ''actually good'' #after that first watch its hard to decide how you feel about her. as a kid anyway. but its sad. its all so very sad

[analgravee]

i love danero man

#dmc #devil may cry #dmc4 #dmc headcanons #im really bad at explaining and writing things so #this is what i have so far #nero is just a typical punk/rebel and he pierced himself for shock value #his color is yellow because...i like yellow HAUDBFU #also he has brown eyes and freckles from his mom! his eyes glow a faintly yellow most of the time tho #I really got influenced by the concept art here #also nero has alot of religious trauma passed from kyries parents #they abused him kinda #the moment nero saw dante his daddy issues started to pop #dante is this 7 foot menace with really bad alcohol problems due to his past #very very overprotective over nero #id like to think he doesnt seem so bad at first but oh boy. theres alot of layers #dante gets drunk to the point he sees vergil in nero and gets super mad at himself and he just turns into an emotional wreck #he also gaslights nero alot because well. family right #ill write sumn better when i get the chance to but thats all i have

[howlerbat]

Billy’s breaking point

It’s been a while since I posted a meta about Flint and Billy but I was recently rewatching this scene from 3x05 and noticed something interesting:

At first it may seem like nothing more than simply Billy wanting Flint dead but I think it’s more complicated.

Billy wants Flint to redeem himself this way because he genuinely believes that nothing he did up until this point was selfless. So if after all the times that Billy supported his leadership, guilt-ridden as he is, Flint does this one sacrifice for the crew — it would have all been worth it. I think a part of him just wanted tangible proof that Flint cared, that he was capable of the same self-sacrifice he demanded of them all. It would be ‘fair’ as he later tells Ben Gunn.

So after Flint predictably doesn’t die and give him that catharsis, Billy tries one last ditch attempt at communicating which I’m convinced is his breaking point:

After Flint’s appeal to the maroon queen he is very upfront with his skepticism about the War and their chances of winning it. He is also skeptical about Flint’s mental state and his actual long term goals

Billy then says “You convinced them” and that implies “Convince me. Tell me how this isn’t just another storm we’ll end up being sucked into”. And instead of appealing to Billy’s idealism and hatred of the English, Flint does possibly the second worst dialogue choice in the entire show:

He’s malnourished and whatnot but… why? (Go captain, be ominously vague and dismissive!) It wouldn’t be so bad if not followed immediately by this:

Well if Billy wasn’t convinced before I’m sure he feels very reassured about this now!

The reason I bring it up is because it’s after this conversation that he manipulates Flint into sending Silver to deliver the warning to the tavern, actively propping him up as Flints replacement, and starting a scheme on a scale he never have before

#black sails #james flint #billy bones #john silver #black sails meta #james mcgraw #I want to possibly also cover their weird mirroring of each other in s4 in a separate post #because oh boy s4 billy wants to be flint so bad and he doesn’t even know it #these two have THE WORST communication problems #literally worst rhethoric check on every encounter

[aropride]

ok well we know that jesus can emit pure light as he did when he was in his tomb + i assume the light is holiness or joy or purity (considering his spirit was in heaven but his body had died in sin) (considering his body was holy but his spirit was drowning in unquenchable fire).. thinking about the version of jesus i made up in my head who's way cooler and more transgender and i think he would emit sparks and a glowing electric light if you fucked him and i think it would inspire an unfathomably intense lust

#text #this is NOT me taking a stance on whether jesus went to heaven or hell when he died #i didnt know there was discourse about this til i googled to double check i thought it was a given that he went to hell ?? #i was CERTAIN it was hell because what else would the damn point of the crucifixion be #gotquestions dot org is trying to say Ofc he didnt go to hell hes too special and ur just reading the verse wrong #which like. ok but THE POINT OF HIS DEATH WAS TO WASH EVERYONES SIN AWAY AND PAY THE ULTIMATE PRICE #WHICH IS *DEATH* WHICH LEADS TO *GOING TO HELL* IF YOU'RE NOT SAVED. WHICH HE WASNT! BECAUSE *HE WAS THE SACRIFICE* #THATS THE WHOLE POINT!!! HE WAS DOOMED BY THE NARRATIVE. HE WENT TO HELL. HE CAME BACK. #um. i rescind my previous statement about not taking a stance i think i have actually #But if u have like solid proof that isnt 1 peter 3:18-20 pls lmk i havent read the bible in years #OH YEAH DISCLAIMER: i am not xtian . just insane . i was raised as one so i know a lot of lore #but i have memory problems so i forgot a lot of lore #yay! #nsft #SORRY i have like brain problems that lead to me saying these things #likethere is genuinely something reallywrong with me i think But that's not really important read my funny posts boy #would you suck jesus's strap. it is glowing with holy light btw #sorry again #I would. #sorr y a third time #tboy jesus tag

[lightblueminecraftorchid]

plz pray for me this week and next week as I head into exam season.

St Joseph Cupertino, on behalf of myself and all college and university students taking exams in the coming days, please intercede for us, asking God for the miracle you were so graciously granted long ago. Ask that we might, after the trials of our studies, be asked only questions that we are able to answer. Amen.

#blue chatter #prayer request #exam season is hitting me like a truck if you can’t tell #st Joseph Cupertino st Anthony and st Dymphna are my main saints #because boy oh boy do I consistently have problems with taking exams losing items and poor mental health #not my will but God’s be done #but by golly am I praying I score passably well on this exam #I just need an 80% ok. plz just let me pass this class with a B and not a B- #students: AAAAAAAAA EXAMS #Catholics: have u tried asking a friend about it

[skritchskratch-art]

zemo zemo zemo

#helmut zemo #baron zemo #zemo #aleksaidraws #tfatws #marvel #mcu #fanart #i need him to get fucked up #because ya boi bucky heals from scars #so i need him to sate my scar cravings 🔪 #kinda salty i used different brush sizes when i sketched #this one vs the bucky one #oh whale artist problems

[fellhellion]

god i could gnaw on conchata's Issues forever. when miguel is like mom stop pretending to be terminally ill to get us to visit it really upsets gabriel and me, and conchata - who hates the thought of hurting gabriel and believes miguel is too self centered to care - utterly dodges thinking on the fact she's hurt gabriel, because she doesn't want to believe she's hurt him, and then accuses miguel of not being affected at all. the dysfunction is so fucking tasty.

not even touching the fact miguel genuinely has been ghosting conchata because he sucks at emotional vulnerability yeah, but because he thinks talking to his mother is futile, that he innately hurts her by virtue of being too much like his father.

#miguel ur ma is a milf. who said that #oh no im channeling dana hJKHJFKDHF OH NOOOOO #all jokes aside MAN that issue of the 90s run is my fave. the family dysfunction is so tasty. #also. as dysfunctional as it manifests i have sympathy for conchata feeling abandoned and WANTING to see her sons but expressing it in the #worst way fjksdfhjkds like tunes has mommy issues sure lmao but theres also the whole thing of gabriel and miguel just. leaving conchata #in the equivalent of the psych ward. to try help w the damage george's abuse left yeah. but also imo because there has never been a persona #problem the o'hara boys haven't run from in completely different ways. #conchata expresses the desire to see them in a borderline manipulative and very dysfunctional way yes. but i believe her desire to see them #IS sincere and that she does love her sons. but again. the actual way she behaves w those emotions isn't a healthy expression #anyways! im never not insane about this family #tunes talks 2099

[iguessitsjustme]

Listen. Do I know it's a bad idea to go into the MDL comments? Yes. Do I do it anyway? Of course I do. I'm nosy. I want to see what disasters are happening in there.

#also thanks to that i'm able to see what users are lowkey bullying people for daring to not like the show #not even saying anything bad about the show but just offering honest criticism #and i get to block them #and maybe one day if i block enough users #the mdl comments will be safe for me #but also i don't want that because it's the lowest stakes drama ever #i'm not involved i'm just watching #they don't know me they know nothing #i don't post on mdl except once maybe twice and that's only when i'm looking for information #like who is this random side character or does this have a dvd release #but boy oh boy it's like watching the world's most unhinged train wreck #i can't even say it's the gayest train wreck because i do not think the worst offenders are even queer #i mean they might be but most of them have in their bio and have mentioned in their comments things that make me go #mmmmmm you're the problem i have with fandom coolcoolcoolcoolcoolcool #say you're supporting the actors all you want but you're still on the internet bullying the actor's fans #i should really get ready for bed since i didn't sleep last night

[nocaffeineforlevi]

Vulture Culture Problems (2) (Haha there is indeed more):

Trying to find a mask that can at least somewhat block the smell of the maceration bucket.

Bonus: Opening the lid and immediately shutting it again because you didn't expect how bad it would be this time.

(yes I am making these because of my current project)

#Listen I have an awful sense of smell and the last time I did maceration I couldn't smell it at all #I should've expected that it would smell worse because it's a much bigger bucket and it's mostly skulls but oh BOY #vulture culture #vulture culture problems

[happyabsence]

I put this on Twitter, but I’m going to complain here too.

It frustrates me to no end how badly all the lowbloods (olive and down) got shafted in Hiveswap- especially in Act 2.

To say that a permeating theme of both Friendsim and Act 2 is the idea of rebellion and questioning the caste system, we sure are forced to spend a lot of time with the middle/upper classes. The fandom loves to fawn over Tyzias and Mallek for being ‘revolutionaries’, but almost completely ignores characters like Chixie and Xefros, who are actively involved in rebellion AND are part of the oppressed classes. Polypa and Diemen- Polypa especially- both have some of the most unnecessarily bleak backstories in the game, but I see little to no fanworks or in-canon acknowledgment.

I don’t know, I’m probably majorly biased, but like… surely the point of a revolution/rebellion storyline is to focus on the people being oppressed and calling for rebellion in the first place? I understand that a big detail touched upon in Friendsim was that the caste system effects EVERYONE badly, but like… come on. You cant tell me that Mallek has a more enlightened opinion on the true effects of the caste system than a lowblood.

I get that you have your blorbos, but like… don’t make your HS rebellion stories all about the ‘struggles’ of the upper classes. I feel like that goes without saying- or at the very least, acknowledgethe fact that your highblood faves ultimately have privilege when they put themselves in those situations.

#pit park posts #oh boy I’m ranting #hiveswap #hiveswap friendsim #hiveswap act 2 #and before you say anything #the whole ‘highbloods have to do it because lowbloods can’t’ thing is part of the problem #midblood and highblood trolls would have no incentive to fight for lowbloods