#he's not gonna stay dead

[gallusrostromegalus]

Me: Look, you know you're wildly sympathetic and like exploring the complexity of "villainous" characters in particular, but this fic is already enormous and you hate this guy, do you really want to expend the mental energy on making him into something else?

Also me: Hey, Disney was wrong about a lot of shit but he was fucking right when he said that a story is only as interesting as it's villain, and no matter what kind of monster they are, they also have to be appealing and interesting to watch. Tweaking this asshole to have some actual depth and sympathetic reasoning is solid storytelling.

Also Also Me: If I Doofenschmirtzinate the shitty little ICP wannabe war crimes "scientist" Mayuri it'll hurt more when I kill him :)

#AEIWAM #An Elephant Is Warm And Mushy #sorry Mayuri fans #your clown prince of mad science war crimes is gonna have a bad time #he dies #but he gets better! #and then really wishes he'd managed to stay dead #:)

[airanke]

THEY'RE PRAYING FOR THE DEATH OF A ROCKSTAR--

I am about to become THE most ANNOYING person--

Anyway I'm ✨obsessed✨ with PARANOIA and HEARTSTEEL, and I want more songs yesterday.

#dabi #dabi art #bnha #mha #boku no hero academia #my hero academia #smart cuties know where i got that green from <3 #i have a few screenshots of the MV already!!! #I'm gonna draw more!! IN NOVEMBER! #I LOVE IT ALL SO MUCH #I just need to figure out which chars from the LOV will be subbed for the members of HEARTSTEEL #Maybe I can give Geten some love!! (He's not LOV tho so 🤔🤔 will think about it) #I'M IN LOOOOOVE WITH ***POINTS UP*** HIIIIIIIIM #Obviously Dabi is Kayn HAHAHAAH #I love Kayn's outfit but I'm Dabi-fying it (to my tastes ofcooourse) #BUT THE CROPPED JACKET IS STAYING #AND YOU WILL PRY THAT OUT OF MY COLD DEAD HANDS

[iheartbookbran]

I’m obsessed with GRRM’s new not a blog post because he’s basically like “I need to hurry up and finish that pesky Winds of Winter thingie so that I can move on and concentrate on what’s really important… the Dunk and Egg novellas!”

#i’m not even judging him or anything #like HE’S SO RIGHT #you get to do your passion project king #what are the dumb tall teenager and his little shit of a squire gonna do next? #honestly jon snow can stay dead for another 20 years or whatever i wanna see bloodraven be horrible on purpose #duncan the tall #aegon v targaryen #dunk and egg #asoiaf #akotsk #twoiaf #a knight of the seven kingdoms #a song of ice and fire #tales of dunk and egg #grrm

[strawmaguchi]

People are allowed to have their feelings about how Wwdits S5 ended but some are acting like we aren’t about to continue one of the most delicious Vampire x Vampire Slayer and Immortal x Human ship you’ve ever seen since idk Buffy

#I have not watched Buffy I just know that’s maybe a thing #like nandermo is far from dead I say it’s very much alive #nandermo #wwdits #what we do in the shadows #wwdits s5 #wwdits spoilers #wwdits season 5 spoilers #wwdits s5 spoilers #guillermo de la cruz #nandor the relentless #also I bet Guillermo is still gonna kinda be Nandor’s familiar and has no choice but to face the fact he adores him and that’s why he stays #nandermo has always been messy messy

[forgettable-au]

Here’s a question, if Papyrus where to be refused to all of Wing Ding’s fragments and retain his memories (despite how impossible it would be), would he be Wing Ding with all of Papyrus’s memories, or Papyrus with all of Wing Ding’s

Aka if Steven Universe/Dragon Ball fused would it be Pap or WG?

He would remain more Papyrus :] !!

Papyrus with Wingdings memories

Papyrus is someone who we could say is a natural progression towards something better

With a desire to better himself and also one of helping others better themselves

Of course he struggles and has a long way to go in lots of areas, but he's not giving up on himself or anyone else

It would be weird to make a character like that reverse to an old identity, someone who just ended up destroying himself (both metaphorically and physically)

So he would definitely stay Papyrus

#also #Wingdings is like very dead metaphorically #he... uh... metaphorically died when he became an omnipresent being #so #yeah he's like yeah that part of him is not I mean I don't think anyone can stay true to themselves as an omnipresent being #i think you would lose your idea of self #papyrus is very self in a confused way but at least he is self and not not self #yeahhhhhhhh #that's why I always talk about pre-accident Wingdings “Wingdings” and post-accident “Gaster” I feel like Gaster is that other part #Wingdings is practically gone it's all Gaster now #man this is such a good ask because it's gonna be fundamental to some ideas I want to explore in this au and aahhh #answered ask #forgettable-au #undertale au

[luck-of-the-drawings]

EPISODE 2 AND 3 HAVE BEEN SOOOO FUN im already so emotionally attached to each of these characters.. if anything bad ever happens to any of them im killing everyone and then everyone.

#cw blood #cw vomiting #jrwi fanart #jrwi show #jrwi suckening #ARTHUR BENNETS DRY HUMOR IS SOOO FUCKIN FUNNY OH MY GOOODDD the sleepin upside down bit omg.. #i love drawing him with just the same stoic expression. he is a stone cold pillar of ice to me. one that loves his little kitty kittyyyyy #i loved watching him work with emizel aswell the dynamic is SOO FUN #I LOVE THAT EMIZEL IS SO FOND OF CATS TOO LIKE RAAAHH THATS SO SWEET.. pepper is his favorite cat.... #the part with him defending pepper was SO CUTE UGHH i love emizel he is so small and sharp and pointy AND YET #there is LOVE IN THAT BOYS MOSTLY DEAD HEART I TEEELLL YOU HWAT!!! and in other news: #i love love love the concept of 'royal shut-in gets lost in the big city' MY BABY BOY SHILOOO I ADORE HIMMMM #AND DEACON WAS SOOOO NICE TO HIM givin him a place to stay n helpin him dress up for the party and taking him around town to see the sights #im in love with deacon i love him soooo much. AND ALSO. ABOUT SHILO. #HE CAN EAT FOOOOOD LIKE SURE THE GARLIC GOT HIM BUT WE GGOOOTTA GIVE HIM A MILKSHAKE OR SMTH #LIKE I THOUGHT IN THE FIRST EPISODE WHEN HE SIPPED SODY N NOTHING HAPPENED. I THOUGHT THAT WAS JUSTA FLUKE #BUT NO ITS A PATTERN ITSA PATTERN HE CAN EAT FOOD!!! BABY BOY CAN EAT FOOOD!!!!!!! FEED HIM MORE FOOD!!! food is the best human creation #I HOPE MORE GOOD THINGS HAPPEN TO THESE BOYS. especially since. well. okay so ive seen the 4th episode. sigh. #like holy fuck. hey ep4? what the fuck? hey you just let that happen? what the fuck. what the FUCK. EPISODE 4. HEY WHAT THE FUCK #THAT DIDNT NEED TO HAPPEN. OH MY GOD. THIS BETTER END WELL. IN TWO WEEKS I KNOW YALLRE GONNA BE SCREAMIN TOO BC OHHH MY GLOD. WHAT THE FUCK #EPSIDOE FOUR STILL HAS ME FUCKED UP SO BAD OH MY GOD. I WILL NEVER BE OVER IT. HOLY SHIT. WHAT THE FUCK. WHAT THE FUCK. WHYYYYYY. NOOOOOOO!

[oifaaa]

Maybe Jason should just die again like if it's the only way to actually get people to start including Cass and Duke in their batfamily stuff then fuck him let my boy die he'd understand its for a good cause

#Sorry #I saw another person say #They didn't include cass #(no mention of Duke) #Bc they felt like 4 bat kids was enough #And it's like #If your gonna take out a batkid #Take out Jason!!! #He doesn't even want to be there!!! #He'd be happy #Let him stay dead even #Let him stay a villain #anything please #Tho I know it won't matter #But still #Dc #I needed to vent about this again #It's just so sad

[suffersinfandom]

So. Magic.

[Text of an AO3 comment, cropped to leave out the writer: "I finally got a chance to finish S2 (unspoiled!) and came directly to this document after to devour its contents. But by the very first chapter I was taken aback by the concept that anyone in the world thinks Izzy's death is permanent. Did we even watch the same show? You can ignore literally every excellent piece of analysis here if you want - the fact remains that Buttons turned into a bird, through magic, in the third(?) episode, it never got mentioned again beyond maybe one throwaway line, and then that bird returns to Izzy's grave marker in the very last scene (other than the end stinger). There is zero reason for that to happen other than foreshadowing for Izzy/Buttons/magic/resurrection stuff to occur in S3 (if it hasn't already). What, do they think that Buttons was just super sad and paying his respects? I have like less than zero media analysis skills, I noticed basically nothing of what you pointed out in this entire document on my own, and yet I STILL picked up that there's more going on here."]

The thing is.

The thing is.

IS magic real in the world of OFMD?

I believe in my heart of hearts that Buttons is a seawitch who transmogrified himself into a seagull and I believe that cunty suit was cursed as heck, but I don't think that magic is strictly, technically, literally meant to be understood as real in OFMD.

(I know there are a few posts about the show's magic, so apologies if I rehash a half-remembered idea. Feel free to leave a link if you have any of those posts handy!)

OFMD's world is full of little magic. The Caribbean is easily traversed; people can find each other with no real issues (or avoid detection when that suits the story better); time and space are all hand-wavey. The world operates on vibes and convenience. If something needs to happen for the story's sake, it just does. Don't worry about it.

The show's big magic works the same way: we can analyze and try to parse out how stuff happens, but we're not asked to. Is the suit cursed or is Frenchie just allergic to peanuts? Did Stede bring Ed back to life or was Ed in a head injury-induced coma? Did Buttons turn into a bird or did an addled Ed lose track of Buttons in the woods? It doesn't matter, don't worry about it! What matters is that Stede (kind of) learned a lesson about listening to his crew and respecting their beliefs. What matters is that Stede's presence gave Ed the push he needed to save himself. What matters is the message behind Buttons' transformation: people can change.

The show's magic has some rules. When it comes to the big magic, there's always a logical out -- a way to explain it away and keep the story more-or-less grounded in reality. OFMD isn't going to give us some big, literal, onscreen magic act. It's not going to tell us that the Gravy Basket is an actual metaphysical location that souls swing by and anyone can be called back from. It's not going to show Izzy mystically resurrected after we saw him die a bloody death right in front of us.

Let's look at Buttons' transmogrification.

It's important that Ed is the only witness to his change because Ed is explicitly set up as an unreliable POV character in S2E4. We are told, in three different ways, that we can't trust what he sees (and what we see through him).

First: Roach, the closest thing we have to a medical professional, says that Ed is half-dead and brain-scrambled. His mind isn't right.

Second: Buttons says that Ed has one foot in the Gravy Basket and isn't entirely present. (Side note, but I don't think that Buttons using the term "gravy basket" is meant to establish it as an actual place. I believe this line is just meant to set up Ed as witness to the transformation; we don't need to read too much into Buttons, the character who Knows Things when convenient, saying it. Or, if you want to ground this in reality, you can assume that Buttons has talked about the Gravy Basket before and Ed subconsciously picked up on it.)

Third: Ed refers to a rabbit as a wolf, confirming that, yeah, he's having some issues with reality. Like, we don't really think that Ed can't identify a rabbit, right? I know the guy spends his time primarily on the ocean, but he's a genius who does, sometimes, set foot on land.

So Ed's out of it, and not even he has eyes on Buttons when the transformation is meant to occur. One minute we have a chanting Buttons, the next we have a seagull flapping around his transmogrification vessel. We all know that seagull is Buttons and he's off to make sweet love to the sea, but also... do we?

What matters is that Ed believes he saw a man turn into a bird so he could better love the sea. That's it! Ed, someone who desperately needed proof that people can change -- that he and Stede can change -- has that proof and can truly start healing. It's beautiful and I love it, ten out of ten, five stars, no notes.

If we're lucky enough to get a season three with Ewen Bremner in it, I fully expect a butt-naked Buttons to show up with absolutely no explanation. Maybe we get a few little wink-wink nudge-nudge moments hinting to his time as a seagull, but straight confirmation that magic is real would break the rules the show has established.

Anyway. All of this is really just my way of saying that Izzy's dead and it'd be extremely fucking weird and world-breaking if he crawled out of his grave thanks to bird magic.

#ofmd #ofmd meta #ish #me typing things #buttons #edward teach #magic #i hope this makes a lick of sense #or barring that someone states my idea better than i did in the notes #alt title: IZZY IS DEAD AND HE'S GONNA STAY THAT WAY #featuring tangents about #the narrative purpose of ed's gravy basket moment #and how lucius' “death” is different

[sijopolang]

Dear Gojo,

Despite it all, I think the kids are going to be okay. In time. After all, you made it so that they at least have each other.

Hopefully I won’t see you and the others anytime soon.

- Shoko

P.S. The cats you left behind, they’ve been a good distraction…though they cause quite a bit of trouble on campus. Seems familiar, no?

#im not gonna lie I’d be okay even if just the three of them make it #from a writers perspective Gojo dying and staying dead is more impactful than him coming back no longer the strongest #you could technically argue both but for what Gojo represents as wanting to be a protector of youth (despite questionable means) #him sacrificing himself for them to get stronger and continue having a somewhat cheerful youth together #he would do that #he did that in sacrificing himself so his students could have a chance at Sukuna #I genuinely don’t know of Gojo will come back or not but I’m at the point where I will be okay with either ways #so long as Gege doesn’t leave Gojo’s thread where he left it (at the airport) #I need more closure than just that #and for Geto’s body as well #anyway #anime #anime fanart #anime art #fanart #jjk #jjk fanart #jujutsu kaisen #jujutsu kaisen fanart #gojo satoru #anime illustration #itadori yuuji #megumi fushiguro #nobara kugisaki #itafushi #itafushikugi #goge #satosugu #gege akutami #my art

[travalerray]

finished episode 34 and what I am getting is that Shan Gudao is basically going "You be better than shixiong? You be better than shixiong at martial arts and be the favourite of our shifu? SUFFERING FOR SHIDI FOR TEN YEARS, SUFFERING FOR SHIDI FOR TEN YEARS!!!!!"

#hilarious. All the characters are so annoying God bless #(I mean it in a /pos way for the record.) #shan gudao #li xiangyi #mysterious lotus casebook #mlc #kk's liveblog tag #at the very least I appreciate the fact that this show made it impossibly easy to guess the final boss #me: oh you are looking for the dead body of your loved one? Yeah he's gonna turn out alive and evil. The fact that you found his ''corpse'' #doesn't change a thing! #good to see that I was correct. Half the corpses don't stay dead in mystery shows after all

[dashflashy-arts]

Hear me out... what if... Jacob goes to the U.S. for Assassin's mission then they meet... I've searched their games' settings and they fit storyline-wise...

idk if it make sense okay this has been stuck in my brain for months

*Edit: I fixed the Alt. we can't have nice things in the internet >:'((

#dash doodle #dash doodles #my art #jacob frye #assassin's creed #assassin's creed syndicate #crossover #assassins creed #ac syndicate #Jacob Frye #Arthur Morgan #rdr2 #red dead redemption #older! jacob frye #this'll most likely occur pre-rdr2 around 1893 #like Jacob stays there at first for mission-reasons but then leaves at that time bc his granddaughter is born! so he had to go back #Arthur might be the younger one here but he's gonna get pulled by Jacob's antics slkafnkdgds #Jacob's mature here btw he just - as always- accidentally put himself in rly bad situations #and coincidently gangs are involved #is this me exposing myself to a certain tumblr person? maybe

[misplacedgamer]

So this is going to be a very reactionary, emotional post, and I hope I’m proven wrong, but I need to talk about it.

I do not fucking understand what the point was of killing Bakugo if Deku is not the one that saves him.

And before anyone jumps down my throat, no it’s not because I’m a BKDK shopper or because I think Deku is the only person ALLOWED to save Bakugo. It’s because, unless Hori pulls some crazy ass bullshit, nothing narratively can top a pro hero literally sacrificing himself by folding into a heart to keep Bakugo alive.

The narrative has been set up from chapter 1 that Deku wants to save Bakugo with his own hands. Time and time again, Deku is either unsuccessful in rescuing Bakugo or has to have assistance (and yes I count chapter 1 as well, All Might saved them both from the sludge villain). This is the final arc, so logic would dictate that to fulfill this character arc, Deku would finally save Bakugo just like he tried to do all those years ago at the river. It sates Deku’s need to be a hero and also means Bakugo has grown enough as a person to let himself be rescued.

But now? What the fuck is gonna top this?

And why even do this now? There has to be something else going on, cause otherwise this is so frustrating. Bakugo would be miserable to find out another person essentially gave their life for him, and it would be super weird if he just walked around with Edgeshot as a heart from now on. Also, Bakugo just decided in 362 that he HAD to fight AFO even though he was injured. He basically died because the plot said so, and none of his friends were around to eve REACT to it

If THIS is all we get out of it then I’m gonna be majorly disappointed.

#bnha 364 #bnha spoilers #mha spoilers #katsuki bakugo #katsuki bakugou #bakugo katsuki #bkdk #bakudeku #cause it’s kind of relevant #like I’m happy he’s gonna be alive #but I never believed he was actually gonna die #and I’d much rather he stay dead than this being how he comes back

[allgremlinart]

the guy at the end of Brother Bear (2003) handled that shit WAY better than I would have to be quite honest.

#like ok so one of your brothers is dead. ok. you think your other brother is dead too but its ok !! he's just a bear !! he gets transformed #back !! but then he's like actually sorry.. yeah no.. gonna stay a bear... yeah like I'll be. alive but you will still be alone. goodbye. #WELL I guess he hangs out with his bear brother but still. handled it pretty well CONSIDERING #how niche is this...

[dirtytransmasc]

modern got au in which asha is a "teen parent"

or more accurately, asha and theon have a much larger age gap, 10/15-ish years, type of age gap (she's at least 18/19 and theon's only like 4/5), and in a series of freak events, their lives are turned on its head.

their brothers were dead. their mother and father were ruled incompetent, the former left a shell of herself after the loss of her sons, no longer able to care for her remaining children, the latter was never a father to begin with and he didn't seem to have any wish to become one now.

she was an adult by law, meaning she was free from the hell that was the system. her kid brother - the one who smiled at her for seemingly no reason, the one who crawled into her bed when thunder rattled the house, the brother who held her hand on their rare family outings - was not.

she couldn't leave him there, even if she wanted to, even if it would make her life so much easier. she wouldn't abandon him like the rest of their shitty family. he was blood for fucks sake, she'd die before she let's him get taken away from her and given away to strangers to be used and exploited or treated like a shelter puppy to be pitied and fawned over.

cue asha fighting for custody of her baby brother, doing whatever it takes to be deemed a suitable guardian, and the two of them taking on the world together.

more thoughts:

they have to find an apartment cause they can't afford to keep their family home. moving into the cheapest place they can find with only the stuff they can fit in asha's truck, sharing an air matress and eating off of a coffee table while watching movies they rented from the library.

asha cleaning her brother up before his first day at his new school, trying to get him to look suitable, but not really knowing what suitable means for a kid going into kindergarten/first grade

theon comforting his sister when she gets overwhelmed with it all, doing his best to ease her tears. the night ending with them both curled around each other, just two scared little kids trying their best.

asha fighting anyone she has to to keep custody of theon, whether it be the social worker, the judge, people who called cps to report her. she doesn't care, no one will take away her baby brother.

asha taking theon to work with her (she works in a boat shop cause she already knows what she's doing) and having to keep him entertained while she works so they don't get sent home.

their first christmas/birthdays by themselves. theon putting together gifts at school (finger paintings or paper mache or something of the like) and asha cherishing it forever. asha spending all the money left to her name each time to get him something nice so eh can feel like a normal kid.

theon doing sports in school (little league or something) and asha making sure she goes to every damn game, being the loudest in the stands.

asha getting more and more used to being physically affectionate with her brother at time goes on. before everything she'd tense up when he'd hug her legs or hold her hand, but now she scoops him up like a rag doll, ruffles his hair, kisses his forehead, without a second thought.

{I'm so normal about them I swear}

#I just think the spin on their dynamic. with him being so much younger than her. the only bit of family she has left. completely dependent- #on her. all of that. would be so interesting #it puts her in this position where she needs to learn to be softer and gentler for his sake instead of just all tough and mean to survive #and just imagine them together #she has to be a parent. she's gotta bathe him. feed him. clothe him. put him to bed. put him through school. deal with bullies. talk to- #his teachers and his friends parents. she's gotta be the 'teen mom' who everyone's always judging and staring at. #all while she's working and finding them a place to stay and learning to be an adult and coping with the loss of her family #and theon's just a kid. he's gonna have bad days. he's gonna throw tantrums. he's gonna need to be held. he's gonna get sick #and he's coping too. his big brother's are dead. his mother essentially died with them. his father gave them up. he's too young to really- #understand any of it. he just knows they're gone. #they're gonna struggle. but they're gonna make it #and maybe they run into some familiar faces along the way #maybe theon is take from her briefly and we meet the starks (maybe they offer to lend her a hand while she gets herself together) #maybe the shop she works in is run by our man davos who is always willing to help out someone. especially kids. in need (he lets theon come #to the shop and lets her take time off to attend to his events. etc.) #idk. I got a lot of thoughts and no time nor brain power to right this #asha greyjoy #theon greyjoy #yara greyjoy #got #game of thrones #asoiaf #a song of ice and fire #my beloved squid babies #asha being a good big sister has my heart #she's trying her best ok. she's struggling but thats ok. she's giving it her all and that's all that matters. #theon is our baby

[slyandthefamilybook]

Disney really heard the line "no one's ever really gone" in The Last Jedi and instead of taking away "people live on in our memories and it's our duty to keep their legacy alive" they thought "so you mean deaths never have to matter because we can always just bring back any character whenever"

#atlas entry #sorry I'm still salty about the sequels #Chewie died oh nooooooooookay never mind he's fine #C-3PO died oh nooooooooookay never mind he's fine #Palpatine came back #apparently Ventress is coming back now too #Boba Fett came back #who else is gonna refuse to stay dead

[lonewolf638]

think lots of my edits mainly focus on later szn bc its just sooooo. sam being possessed for months without consent sam being beaten into submission until he understood and bared his throat out for fratricide sams prayers being heard and used by the one person who he dreams about torturing everyday sam with a child he willingly chooses to love despite all the things said child represents sam telling that child to kill him because he'd rather die then hurt the kid sam sam sam

#early szn fucks me up soooo good too but literally cant get my head out of szn 9-11 its all i can think abt #sam winchester #spn #that scene where lucifer revives him. that “how did you think this was gonna end?” #sam saying he dreams abt hurting lucifer the way lucifer hurt him #lucifer in cas' body staying in sams room #"since you asked so nicely.” #sam saving magda and not even knowing shes dead #sam cleaning up the blood off the bunker floor sam fixing the piles of books in order so they match the og system #sam sam samashgfa