#he does stupid shit sometimes!

[moth-time]

thinking about dungeon meshi (as you do) and something that has been increasingly bothering me is how many people call Laios 'stupid' or similar. Often even as they are trying to pitch the manga to people.

And it's been bugging me because it's just. Absolutely not true? Laios is socially inept to a fault, that's like half the driving reason for the plot. But beside the obvious 'he knows a shit-ton about monsters and this is very helpful to their dungeon adventuring', he's also shown to be a good strategist, and pretty decent at magic once he actually puts his mind to it. He's a competent team leader who knows his teams strengths and weaknesses well despite being fairly bad at people. He can be silly, but to be fair so can most of his team. And he does make poor/stupid decisions (like eating raw parasite) mainly because of his hyperfixation sometimes. But he's far from stupid.

Idk man I am obviously annoyed because I think calling the heavily autistic coded guy 'stupid' is a bad look, but it annoys me doubly because the story makes it pretty obvious that he is not. That's a pretty essential part of the story actually!

#dungeon meshi #laios #meta #moth talks #i realize posting this on the day the parasite episode airs #may be counter productive #but in my defense #it was the thought “well that was stupid” that prompted this #he does stupid shit sometimes! #so does marcille #so does senshi as a matter of fact #but there's a difference between occasional poor decisions and being stupid as like a defining characteristic #the later doesnt really apply to anyone in DM #and certainly not to laios

[rotisseries]

my favorite thing about mha has got to be how you can't tell if the writers are aware or not that the setting is in fact a corrupt police state

#like. it almost says something sometimes and then they back out of ittttt😭😭😭😭 #I'm not keeping up with mha canon presently so I'm just thinking back on things #like. they have plenty of villain characters where it's like oh they're sympathetic and were clearly pushed into this life #by the narrow views of what is acceptable in society and the corrupt police state #AND THEY HAVE CORRUPT HEROES AND A CORRUPT ORGANIZATION SO LIKE. YOU KNOW IT'S A CORRUPT POLICE STATE THE WRITERS MUST KNOW #but then mha pulls fun shit with like. redeeming endeavor!! A CORRUPT HERO WHO GETS AWAY WITH THE SHIT HE DOES BECAUSE OF A BROKEN SYSTEM #while the ENTIRE rest of the todoroki family is like #“well obviously dabi sucks and is a monster and needs to be put away and can never be rehabilitated ever” 😐 #AND LIKE. FINE. FUCKING REDEEM HIS ASS IF YOU WANT (BOOO HATE THAT BITCHHHHH) but don't then act like dabi is unsalvageable!! #both or neither babe!! nerf or nothing!! #like. do you guys get me. sometimes it feels like wow look at how much this corrupt society sucks #and sometimes it feels like yes we are going to not examine this at all #it's just. mha is so bad. it's so bad guys and it could've been good but it's bad #it could be so good if it was good but it's not it's just bad #it sucks its a stupid anime stupid manga fuck off

[craycraybluejay]

yeah yeah you hate me I'm an evil disgusting perverted manwhore we have each other blocked everywhere blah blah but I know you still jerk off to me and I know it makes you hate yourself a bit because you don't have the strength to accept the darker parts of your desire. but you can't help yourself and I take pleasure in the knowledge.

#this pussy makes homosexual men hate themselves !! #this tdick makes you want to kill yourself !! #this wretched and desirous personality has captivated you so !! #pussy change your life like im god~ they always fall in love not my fault~ #im never pickin up when they call~ #<- song lyrics #you want to fuck me so bad it makes you act stupid !! #im genuinely not mad people are generally going to end up hating themselves too much to be chill #but i am having a wild laugh bc this mf who told me i'm a gross freak also told me that he has sex dreams about me regularly #like yeah ok faggot #watch this loser text me in like a year apologizing for being a judgy little bitch begging me to respond LMFAO #thank u next hoe !! #idk its extra liberating to not only decide to be more choosy but also to know they obsessed #how's the vanilla boyfriend taste? can he get you off 7 times in a row? does he make you feel free and hedonistic? #anyway yeah im just being mean here bc its a mood boost i would not say this shit to anyone lmao #trust me bro i am literally the last person to cross the line when i get emotional (usually excited sometimes angry or horny) #ok no im a little prone to excitedly infodumping for 8 hrs but i try not to offend people #making enemies for no reason is a terrible idea

[karokawwo]

i think my favorite ais/mc/vere dynamic is ais and mc acting so stupid vere is forced to be the voice of reason

#ais is ais #kai is mostly the voice of reason actually #but the bars are so low for him sometimes he does some big stupid shit #vere is the only one who cares about his dignity smh #touchstarved #touchstarved game

[mostlymaudlin]

was starting to hijack in the tags of that post i just reblogged but ohhhhh it is so juicy to me that the end of TKM is just part of the rising action of andrew's character arcs. and yet the way the novel leaves off, you can have so much hope in the ways its going to continue -- especially because neil proves to us on the last page that he's going to fight like hell to hold onto him whatever comes next.

it's just !!!! all andrew's deals are done. neil's big happy moment of relationship security comes from the fact that andrew didn't deny its existence lol. BUT neils correct to be happy about this, because he knows andrew is a black & white thinker, and he's entering unchartered territory! all his lil lies he uses to duct tape his sanity together are coming apart, and that break is going to be FASCINATING. i doubt it'll be explosive or anything -- andrew's more the "quietly self-destruct climax" type than the "defeat the mafia thru the power of sports climax" type -- but it'll sure be something interesting. and then once it all breaks, we know he'll have neil and kevin and his family and the foxes to help him heal -- and he'll have to believe it when they show they care about him, because he literally doesn't owe anyone anything

#i think thats why all my aus put andrew in his Self Destruct Era #because im just so positive that he well on his way to that at the end of tkm #actually im amending the tags a bit bc i think what i sometimes end up doing w him in aus is a product of the fact that my stories rarely #have extreme external plot elements #like andrew never thinks neil DIES lol #baltimore is so fucking integral to andrews development #he did not have time to do the full self destruct 'oh no can i live without him' era because #he literally got tested on that and he FAILED HAHAHA #so he def knows that he needs neil #the crux of the conflict still is -- can he accept this without hating himself? #because if THATS not addressed then eventually his logic is going to warp #and hes going to do stupid shit #and yeah :) i love when he does stupid shit and then ppl are like #NOPE. unfortuantely you have fucked up severely #and in order to get back what you cant live without #you must board the Self Love Express !!!! #its a journey lil man!!!!! #youre gonna hate it!!!!!!!! youre gonna go on it anyway!!!! #SCRMEEEEAMMMM i love andrew minyard

[withasideofshakespeare]

Poins! Come get your boyfriend! I know you disappeared from the narrative, but he’s been traumatized by the death of his father and is now executing conspirators in the most terrifying way possible.

#shakespeare #Henry v #ned Poins #I said ‘holy fucking shit???’ out loud at the scene where Hal asks the traitors’ opinions on mercy #and then hands them letters that I can only assume just say ‘I KNOW.’ #and then when they ask for mercy he tells them he’ll take their advice on punishing criminals #apparently having your father die immediately after accusing you of being a fuckup one last time does things to your brain #as if Ned is a good influence lmao #maybe he’d come up with something more funny and less terrifying #either way #please come pick up Hal #he’s scaring us #also I just think hal deserves to have fun sometimes #and Poins would go NUTS for walking around a military camp in disguise and challenging people to stupid duels

[hella1975]

tams azula is sooo fascinating bc while canon azula doesn't really show her age at all like she's completely desensitised to so much shit 'she is fourteen' is not a justification for ANYTHING both in her own mind and in other people's, in tams she has zuko. and yes the world has been abundantly cruel to her but zuko hasn't. he's basically raised azula and he's done so in a way that she's allowed to show her age, but she still only shows her age in very azula-esque ways. there's no reluctance to see violence like you'd expect from a fourteen-year-old, and like ive said before, that means zuko can't play on that reluctance in order to shield her, but he still wants to shield her from that violence because regardless of what SHE feels about it, as the eldest he knows fundamentally that she shouldn't be seeing certain things no matter how well she can handle them. and seeing zuko effectively PLAY azula in order to protect her is so interesting and complicated and fun

#and also a little heartbreaking bc it's the 'you protect azula but who protects you?' #like in order to shield azula from these things zuko is metaphorically standing in front of her and seeing them himself #as if he's not only sixteen and a child too #but yeah taking azula's canon traits and manipulating into the tamsverse is soooo fun #like the example that inspired this post is how canon azula is logical NOT cruel #like time and time again she follows only the logical route and even actively avoids the cruel route #e.g calling off torture in the boiling rock bc she knew that he was telling the truth and therefore continuing to torture him was illogical #im not saying azula is averse to/incapable of cruelty i just hc that she genuinely just thinks it's stupid #just like any other unnecessary act would be considered stupid. if it's not logical or being used for a greater plan then what's the point? #and tams azula STILL HOLDS THIS TRAIT except because i lean more into her age in tams bc she's been given the freedom with zuko #to liberally be a CHILD without any consequences as a result of that simple thing #her intense logic actually becomes a certain naivety on azula #like she cannot comprehend other people NOT coming to the conclusions she comes to #and that expands to needless cruelty. like she wont factor a person's cruelty into her calculations #because in her head all she needs to dismiss that calculation is 'excessive cruelty here would waste time which is illogical' #she assumes everyone is as smart and to-the-point as she is so when they ARENT and will actively waste time just to do dumb shit #it catches her off guard and she DOESNT PLAN FOR IT so it can really fuck them over sometimes #so this is one instance where zuko has azula beat despite it being STRATEGY aka azula's strong point #bc zuko's immense cynicism and assumption that Everyone Is Awful doesn't hold up against logic 9 times out of 10 #but the one time it does is the time azula gets caught out #i just think tams zuko and azula's dynamic is so fucking interesting im so clever for that tbh #twice as many stars

[lord-squiggletits]

"Rodimus is a better Prime because it didn't hurt for him to bond with the Matrix while for Optimus it did" headcanon/theory my beloathed.

One day I'm literally gonna snap and make a whole post addressing why what's wrong bc I'm tired of the inaccuracy and tired of ppl not understanding the Point TM of IDW and its version of the Matrix/Primacy and even more tired of people putting down Optimus in favor of Rodimus by essentially arguing that being unworthy means you deserve to be punished/put in pain bc you just weren't good enough to hold the Symbol of Ultimate Authority

#it's wrong on so many levels both in terms of lore and as well as like what the general themes of idw1 are #it's just a validation contest using the matrix as some magical symbol to decide who's the most special #which is ironically something that was a plot point in exrid/OP. specifically how stupid of an idea that is ldskjflksd #ppl revealing that they havent read anything besides mtmte/ll as usual #like half the reason ppl think optimus is a bad prime and rodimus is a good prime is literally bc like #optimus was written by an author who was specifically trying to deconstruct him (sometimes to the point of absurdity) #and rodimus was written by an author who takes a more optimistic/idealistic approach. and is also better at writing #but also like am i seriously the only person who thinks that that argument is fucked up????? #like 'OP felt pain which means he's unworthy/not a real prime/not a true leader' #ok so you think that there's a hierarchy of moral goodness in which anyone who falls short of that Moral Ideal should suffer #as a sign of their unworthiness?? like does that not sound dystopian as hell to any of you?? why would you WANT the matrix to work like tha #even if the theory were true (which it isn't) why would you view the matrix as a good authoritative moral judge of character #if its idea of 'moral judgement' is to inflict pain on anyone who's supposedly not truly good/worthy #wasn't the entire point of the ending of LL (including rodimus being a good leader) that everyone is worth it? #like rodimus literally said 'you ARE damn well good enough' or something like that #so what? everyone else in the universe tries their best and that's enough but somehow when OP suffers it's like #a sign that he's not actually a good prime/leader?? we're really going with the punitive perspective purely for One Guy?? #swear to god ppl are projecting their authority issues onto Optimus the way they shit on him for things they would excuse #if any other character did it #Optimus is uniquely deserving of pain/being marked as unworthy bc idk he was a cop once and that offends my delicate sensibilities #what's even funnier is how much harm was inflicted by rodimus as a captain sheerly due to his stupidity or ego but everyone forgives him #i guess bc as long as the matrix likes him that means he's valid no matter what he actually does as a person #WHICH IS SOMETHING IDW ITSELF ARGUED AGAINST BC A LOT OF THE PRIMES THAT WERE CHOSEN BY THE MATRIX #WERE DICKS AND THE FACT THEY COULD WIELD THE MATRIX DIDN'T MAKE THEM GOOD PEOPLE #like oh my god stop using the matrix as an arbiter of moral authority in idw1 it literally goes against the themes of the story #including the themes that are embodied in rodimus himself #idw op love

[quietwingsinthesky]

just going to keep this au tucked into the back of my mind for the rest of the show btw. doctor who if his companions literally would not leave him alone. he keeps getting new companions and they’re just. integrated into the tardis family. bonding over how much they all love this weird pathetic spaceman who has enriched and/or ruined their lives.

#even funnier if the doctor regenerates and tentoo does not so theyre just perpetually stuck with angsty david tennant alongside whatever #doctor is flying the ship at the time #they’ll like. leave and do normal life stuff every once in a while. #the doctor internally going both ‘oh good theyre returning to their lives 🙂’ and ‘THEYRE ABANDONING ME 😭’ because he has issues #and then another companion will hijack the tardis to pick them up again because the doctor is trying to avoid it ‘for their own good’ #the doctor tries to leave them all behind when they all go to donna’s wedding and is thwarted by luke smith (also invited to wedding because #donna and sarah jane are friends now and luke eventually starts living parttime on the tardis like sarah jane does (sarah jane i can see #going back home the most. but still never leaving the doctor alone lmao.) and anyway luke got overstimulated at the wedding and hid in the #tardis to calm down (sarah jane told him that was okay 🥺) and then the doctor tries to??? fucking leave everyone??? (<- having a crisis) #and twenty minutes later luke has commandeered the tardis back to the wedding and the doctor is getting an earful from both donna (‘YOU RAN #AWAY FROM MY WEDDING???? MY WEDDING????’) and sarah jane (‘YOU KIDNAPPED MY SON???’) #i got off track here talking about donnas wedding my point was that i think it would be funny if this stupid alien man’s family just keeps #growing and growing and he cant do shit about it. #sometimes the master is also there when she’s on good behavior and she makes fun of him for it soooo much. loser cant keep his humans off #his tardis. #tardis family au

[ahalliance]

“the doctor disliking guns and the military in new who is out of character” girl did you somehow miss the fucking time war the story keeps bringing up?

#i keep seeing this criticism pop up from time to time and it’s ????? #i wonder why someone who participated in an eons long war may have taken a ‘sudden’ dislike to guns and armies…. what a mystery….. #use ur ?? fucking brain ?? #like if u dislike the writing choice then sure that’s whatever but please at least put two and two together #same vibes as people being pissy about the doctor being a hypocrite sometimes when it literally gets addressed and called out by the #narrative #like taking 10 as an example: dude does stupid or hypocritical shit and gets bit in the ass for it later down the line #him shunting harriet out of office for example . like it’s a bad move on his part . and it comes back later to bite them in the ass in the #form of the fucking master taking the pm spot . oh my god how more ‘i am criticising this character’s diegetic choices’ can you get #10’s a great example of a flawed character who faces repercussions over and over again whenever he steps out of line #jay rants

[dandyshucks]

even online i cannot escape middle-aged adults trying to tell me their life story and hit on me,,,,,,,,, help,,,,,

#why was a 52 yr old texan trying to hit on me on THIS BLOG OF ALL PLACES....... BRO.......... #and telling me about his divorce and everything 😭😭 #also im sorry USamericans but uhm. some of yall are a little funny sometimes with the way you live in such a vacuum fdsjkl #(it is not ur fault and i understand that and i do not blame u for it. nor am i saying you are stupid or anything like that fdjkl) #(but also why tf do u not put your country in ur address for shipping.... literally every other country in the world does that JFDSJKL) #but anyways he asked me where i live and i said turtle island bc thats a safe vague answer and he... assumed it was michigan?? #for some reason ???? #but what could i expect from a 52 yr old texan trying to ... hit on a 22 year old. on tumblr. goddamn. sobbing on the ground. #WHY DO I ATTRACT THESE PEOPLE EVERYWHERE I GOOOO #i've heard so many woes and life stories of middle-aged adults and been hit on so many times and im so tired 😭😭😭 #sometimes its interesting to hear about ppls lives but not when im like. busy with shit. like at school or at my workplace or on my blog😭 #WHY WAS HE MESSAGING ME ON /THIS/ BLOG OF ALL PLACES. BRO. FJDSFJKL #this is my blog where i get silly over FICTIONAL CHARACTERS HDSGJKL CMONNNN MAN #vent // #ask to tag #dandy.cmd

[hauntedpearl]

alright so. final thoughts on the winchesters s1:

it's a decent enough cw show, I'd say. nothing to write home about, but still something to watch every week for fun. I've said this to my friends before, but I'd really just have liked it so much better if it wasn't associated with the original canon in any way (and ig it technically isn't, now that we've seen the finale). like because I've always loved a good monster hunting show and spn lore is familiar to me. i just would've liked not thinking about the future or whatever with it. it just existing in its own bubble w new characters. which again. i know that's what it ended up being the finale but more on that later.

Also they really lucked out with Jojo and nida who have amazing chemistry as actors and their characters really bring the group together and add the much needed touch of, like, a found family dynamic to an environment that's been portrayed as super isolated for years.

i thought the finale was anticlimactic, and not fun just like. as a watching experience tbvh with you. the story wasn't bad but the execution was just not up to par for me. especially because there were other episodes on the show so far which were soooo much better? like basically the writing was too exposition heavy and the emotional beats were not paced well enough for it to be compelling enough to me. and them beating the queen was literally a blink-and-miss-it moment. which. girl.

also the explanation for dean's presence was just. convoluted. too convoluted for me!!! i mean I'll take it tbh it was nice to see dean again so I'll take anything lol but!!! idk!!! I've got this feeling like we walked past something that could've been so much better but we didn't stop to buy it. i don't know how I would've done it personally like obviously. but i wish it was sth different is all. which. like. kind of hilarious how it is like that w some of my favourite plots on the main show too agdgdkdkd

still I'm glad no one actually died and nothing too drastic happened and it was a happy ending for the most part!:

anyway. over-all. it's definitely a chill show to watch if you just want some more content in the spn lore verse ykwim? but i think managing your expectations is super important. it's not going to fix anything in og canon and it's not going to be cathartic or whatever, but it's not depressing or anything so atleast!!! there's that!

#also. like. i don't really like. care about jensen ackles. or trust him so i didn't watch it for a while. i don't really think he's gonna #do a destiel reunion ever tbh sith you. #I'd be happy if it happened because DOY but i am not holding my breath. i get why people are hopeful so I'll cross my fingers w you but #yeah #anyway here's one (1) post where im totally 100% earnest about this and i will go back to joking after that #also everyone needs to like..chill. #i mean it's okay if you want to take this shit seriously and have fun because that is good #but it's also okay if many ofhers don't want to do that yk like this series is notorious for being borderline stupid sometimes so #on brand for people to be joking about it like it's fine it's not an insult to anyone!!! ISSOKAY!! I PROMISEEE #anyway #doe is talking again #spnwin

[noonvoid]

ai art is art. i don’t like ai. but it’s still art. lots of things are art. the real issue is how ai is being used maliciously by people.

#and people who draw aren’t wrong for feeling upset if someone who uses ai copy’s their artwork and repurposes it. it feels like shit! #this example is primarily for drawing of course but. you spend more time working on a piece than someone does inputting commands to get #the same result. it’s disheartening to know a piece you worked 12+ hours on was completed by someone else in 5 minutes. #like damn i wasted all my time. (you didn’t! but it can feel that way sometimes because we get discouraged) #it doesn’t mean that it’s correct. #people are allowed to be pissed off that it steals from human artists. #that ai art is being used over human created art in the industry. saying human art sounds dumb as fuck but that’s what it is lol #i don’t convey exactly what i mean properly i think— but it’s not black and white #it sort of reminds me of the musician turns out to be an asshole -> his music was never that good anyway. when it is!! #but he’s still an ass!! #in reference to people hating ai art and therefore it is not art etc etc #also holy shit that post has the whole tumblr experience huh. instead of discussing civilly it’s condescending and assholish from both sides #tumblr users (i am not immune) are insane and stupid sometimes. anyway #when the go touch grass meme is embarrassingly real. #would not put any of this into that post because i would probably get my tags ss’d then a whole essay on how i’m stupid and wrong ☝️

[eebie]

we are deconstructing gender on Google docs tonight boys

#this is stupid LMAO im annotating stuff from a guy from liek the 1400s who prolly didnt even give a shit #when he wrote that In the spirit realm the concept of gender is nebulous at BEST #if not just totally absent #he was like.. ya spirit beings change their genders all the time They switch tey can be combinations they can be nothing #reading that like Hemm…. well 1 big belief Thats held in christianity is that people are spirit beings underneath all the flesh #so what does that mean for the people who are dead set on Sex Organs determining peoples personalities ? idk. makes you think #gender means jack shit basically. #a lot of people raised male tend to behave in certain ways Not because of their sex but because of expectations And norms #and same with people raised female #and that shit goes alll the way back 2 the stone age #obligatory Nothing wrong w falling into gender stereotypes if its stuff u genuinely like!!^_^ #anyways i rambled #i would have rambled more if tumblr wasnt trying to kill itself as i was typing #my rambles #my little peewee brain is sometimes capable of coherent thought But calling this coherent migjt be a stretch #bc im hardly in any mind 2 decide if im making sense . its like a fuckin echo chamber up in my brain N every echo becomes more n more warpd #until it eventually sounds normal 2 me ^_^ but when i voice it. the. suddenly i realize Wow thats fucked! #which is why. i usually keep my mouth shut !!! #but thats also bad .real bad If ur opinions always go unchallenged you may as well not even have them #should alwayd know Why you think what u do

[borderlinegerard]

i hope i die, you broke my heart

#personal #my posts #so fucking tired oh my god #just yelled at my sister so loud that my throat is sore over a piece of fuciing plastic #sometimes ecerytbinf feels so bad and its like. what do i even do #like ok i relapse and i need a break from someone and they loose their fucking shit on me #taljing about how you always deal with my shit and youre tired of how i see you as the worst in the group #as if i didnt literally repeat to you over and over again that i love you and that i always will even when you kept denying it #all of the times youve left all the servers and the gc and all that and i was there to comfort you #theres a reason im always the person you go to #byt yeah . im neverrrr there for you #like is it just that im not there for you in the Same Way that youre there forme ?? #does it need to be completely equal to be fair #and idk. i know hes struggling too but its so fucking stupid because ive been struggling for months and i dont treat u like tjat #im tired of feeling like i have to do two times more than everyone else ro be worthy of their love #like sorry man but im fucking sick and tired #i know ill be fine without you but like youre so sick right now that i dont know what youll do without all of us #idk im just like. you used to be so kind but now youre writing your name in mu blood #and sometimes i feel bad because i didnt mean evedytbinf i said to you but lets be honest #you didnt mean everyrbinf you said either #and i dont know if you were ever the right person because a lot of the time i think we are just two chemicals that werent meant to mix #but ill always remember you when i hear that one song and im making it sound like this is some kind if goodbye but it Really isnt #but like there was a time when i would tear myself apart for you. mot even because i liked you that much #i guess i just wanted someone that liked me as much as you did??? #and when j say that it isnt even about one soecific oerson. its an amalgamation of ecery person tgat has ever loved me #a little more than they were supposed to #i think i hate ahen people love me Too Much because i dont want to be adored like that it scares me #iknow what thats like and i dont want to be someone fp Its so scary #okay if im being honest i dont know whbat the fuck im saying right mow #byt like. idk. im tired and i think im done. tbh

[mydemonsdrivealimo]

obsessed w jensen and bryce racing on literal public roads (not like fr but also whoever loses usually has to do some unwanted chore) bc bryce KNOWS jensen is willing to push the limit way more than he is. but also sometimes jensen is either 1 stupid or 2 lets him win so,, it works

#jensen is completely whipped yes #if bryce says he really doesnt want to do something jensen will make a stupid decision on purpose #sometimes he does it just to see if ge can recover #sometimes he does it just bc he is in love #depends on the day fr #anyway jensen on his motorcycle taking of my brain once again #the first time bryce sees him take off the helmet and gloves he is a mess #i always imagine he was talking w raf when it happened and fully stops mid sentence #(remember this is bryce lahela who would chat his way through an apocalypse) #and is basically fucking drooling #face red as fuck too #like looking over rafs shoulder in the parking lot just losing his shit #raf is like uh you okay? amd goes to turn and bryce is like STFU DONT DRAW ATTENTION TO YOURSELF #GOD DO YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT SUBTLY #literally using raf to shield himself while he stares #raf is like bitch pull your shit together #bryce lahela × jensen valentine