#isn't he like ten or something??

[yuseirra]

I JUST HAD TO PAUSE, AND COME POST THIS HERE

I WAS FEELING SO SORRY FOR THIS KID AND THEN LEARNED HIS PET HAMSTER'S NAME IS HAMBURGER

you can't do this to me game I was feeling sad and then I just burst out laughing

#persona 3 reload spoilers #I raised several hamsters in the past too so this really speaks to me you know?? #I don't know why I found this hilarious #I WASN'T EXPECTING THAT #persona 3 #persona 3 reload #no but really #I feel sorry for ken #this little kid doesn't have to go through all this #long post #I'm glad these lil stories are added..he's just a little kid still #isn't he like ten or something?? #YEAH i JUST CHECKED HE'S 10!!!! 10!!! #ohhh my god #spoilers #anyhow I'll return to the game now

[cassettemoon]

You are eight years old

You have to kill your dad

#ninjago #watched child's play again #fucking DIED #YOU EVER THINK ABOUT HOW LLOYD IS LIKE EIGHT??? TEN??? HE'S A C H I L D #fair isn't a word where i come from YOU'RE A KID #GOD YOU'RE A KID #im in physical pain #kai smith #kai jiang #kai ninjago #lloyd garmadon #lloyd ninjago #person who tagged something #lloyd jiang #you understand me #kai and lloyd do you mean #you never wanted to be the green ninja and your brother wants so badly to take it from you so you get the chance to be a child #the way he never did because he had to raise his sister as well as himself #and in you he sees the wrongs done to him but a thousand times worse #because you're not just losing your childhood #you have to kill your dad #GOD IM SO NORMAL #kai wanted to be the green ninja. he still wants to be the green ninja. but not for himself. so that Lloyd doesn't have to carry the weight #of a destiny he never wanted #lloyd wants to give kai the green ninja so that he doesn't have to be the savior or the chosen one or the guy who's going to kill his dad #and he can't #theyre so sad #my art #essays in the tags again

[caeslxys]

I’ve mentioned this elsewhere but it feels relevant again in light of the most recent episode. Something that’s really fascinating to me about Orym’s grief in comparison to the rest of the hells’ grief is that his is the youngest/most fresh and because of that tends to be the most volatile when it is triggered (aside from FCG, who was two and obviously The Most volatile when triggered.)

As in: prior to the attack on Zephrah, Orym was leading a normal, happy, casual life! with family who loved him and still do! Grief was something that was inflicted upon him via Ludinus’ machinations, whereas with characters like Imogen or Ashton, grief has been the background tapestry of their entire lives. And I think that shows in how the rest of them are largely able to, if not see past completely (Imogen/Laudna/Chetney) then at least temper/direct their vitriol or grief (Ashton/Fearne/Chetney again) to where it is most effective. (There is a glaring reason, for example, that Imogen scolded Orym for the way he reacted to Liliana and not Ashton. Because Ashton’s anger was directed in a way that was ultimately protective of Imogen—most effective—and Orym’s was founded solely in his personal grief.)

He wants Imogen to have her mom and he wants Lilliana to be salvageable for Imogen because he loves Imogen. But his love for the people in his present actively and consistently tend to conflict with the love he has for the people in his past. They are in a constant battle and Orym—he cannot fathom losing either of them.

(Or, to that point, recognize that allowing empathy to take root in him for the enemy isn't losing one of them.)

It is deeply poignant, then, that Orym’s grief is symbolized by both a sword and shield. It is something he wields as a blade when he feels his philosophy being threatened by certain conversational threads (as he believes it is one of the only things he has left of Will and Derrig, and is therefore desperately clinging onto with both bloody hands even if it makes him, occasionally, a hypocrite), but also something he can use in defense of the people he presently loves—if that provocative, blade-grief side of him does not push them—or himself—away first.

(it won’t—he is as loved by the hells as he loves them. he just needs to—as laudna so beautifully said—say and hear it more often.)

#critical role #cr spoilers #bells hells #orym of the air ashari #cr meta #imogen temult #ashton greymoore #liliana temult #this is genuinely completely written in good faith as someone who loves orym #but is also about orym and so will inevitably end up being completely misconstrued and made into discourse. alas #I could talk about how Orym’s unwillingness to allow the hells to actually finish/come to a solid conclusion on Philosophy Talk #is directly connected to one of the largest criticisms of c3 (that they are constantly having these conversations) #all day. alas. engaging with orym’s flaws tends to make people upset #it is ESP prevelant when he walks off after exclaiming ‘they (vangaurd) are NOT right’ #which was not only never said but wasn’t even what they were talking about #he even admits as much to imogen like ten minutes later! that he is incapable of viewing it objectively #which is 100% justifiable and understandable but simultaneously does not make his grief alone the most important perspective in the world #also bc i fear ppl will play semantics on my tags yes the line ‘i hope she’s right’ was said but it was from ASHTON #who does not believe they are at all and wasn’t saying they actively WERE right. orym just heard something to latch onto and ran with it #ultimately there is a reason orym only admitted that he was struggling when he had stepped away to talk to dorian #who has not been around and thusly has not changed once n orym's eyes #and it isn't that the hells never check in or care. they do. they have several times over #it is dishonest to say they haven't #the actual reason is that all of this is something He Is Aware Of. he doesn't mention it bc he KNOWS it's hypocritical and selfish #he says as much! #EXHALES. @ MY OWN BRAIN CAN WE THINK ABT MOG AGAIN. FYRA RAI EVEN. FOR ME. #posting this literally at 8 in the morning so I can get my thoughts out of my brain but also attempt to immediately make this post invisibl

[cluescorner]

I cannot imagine being a Damian stan right now. You've got both Zdarsky's bullshit (where he clearly doesn't give a shit about your boy) and The Boy Wonder (where Juni Ba clearly gives so many shits about your boy) coming out on the same day. The whiplash must be insane. I hope y'all get some nice warm soup for your efforts jfc

#damian wayne #damian al ghul #damian al ghul wayne #batman #batfamily #for all of the issues that come with having Steph as your fave having too much wild shit happening at once is never one of them #btw I quite like The Boy Wonder Issue 1. wow shocker an artist and writer who I have liked everything they've ever done #has once again written something that I am enjoying with art that makes me want to be part of its world. #it's almost like Juni Ba is really freaking talented or something #like I have some problems with it but it seems like many of those are part of the point. Damian is learning that his siblings are more #three-dimensional than he realized and that is part of this 'coming of age' story merged with fairytale #so I can't be mad at the oversimplistic defining of Dick and Jason and Tim until the conclusion of the series. that might be the point. #I hope that the series will address Steph as a Robin but if not then frankly it's not an issue unique to this series. #I'll be annoyed and disappointed but ultimately roll with it like I am with Babsgirl being here. There's too much good stuff here to get #hung up on shit that seems to be almost an editorial mandate at this point. at least that's where I'm at. #I am also very sorry that Chip Zdarsky is massacring your boy. he has 'X (Tim for him) is the best Robin so everyone else must suck' diseas #where a writer really likes one specific Robin and in trying to uplift them demeans all of the other Robins. instead of like...just writing #for that one character only or alternatively not demeaning the other characters in order to make his blorbo look good #it's wild because I actually think his writing for Tim is pretty solid. but he's not writing a Tim series. he's writing a Batman series. #and if you are going to write a Batman series and include other Batfamily members you need to actually write them well. #instead of assigning them like 2 personality traits while Tim gets to be a whole character #I accept that behavior in fanfic where I have lesser standards because it's fucking free. not a comic run that wants me to pay #tens of dollars in order to understand what the fuck is going on. he's been going for a while now it's gotta be a lot of money. #I can buy Steelworks with that money. I can see John Henry and Natasha Irons in a trade. Fuck you Chip. #it's why it takes such a special person to write a good ensemble story/a good Batfamily story. you have to be good at writing a LOT #of different characters. which I don't think most people are. I sure as hell am not. I can write maybe 3 at a time confidently well. #and you also have to give all of them at least SOME love or else people will be upset that you aren't focusing on their fave #and also the writing as a whole will suffer. Chip Zdarsky is a pretty good Tim writer. I'd maybe read a Tim solo written by him. #I would not read a story focusing on multiple characters that I like written by Chip Zdarsky. because every character who isn't Tim #is at least a bit weak/inconsistent/out of character INCLUDING FUCKING BATMAN. THE NO. 1 GUY MOST ARE HERE FOR

[coquelicoq]

what i love about the Famous Actor Natori Shuuichi of it all is that...it's not just that he's famous and therefore widely recognizable wherever he goes. like yes that is very funny because he was an exorcist before he became a famous actor, which means he CHOSE, on purpose, a day job that would make it harder to hide his double life/secret identity from the hordes of his adoring public, but it's more than that. it's not just that he's famous, it's that he's famous specifically for being an ACTOR, aka a person whose job it is to dissimulate, to make believe, to inhabit roles and emotions other than his own. like he decided he was going to become as visible as possible (which again was literally not necessary! he could have gone into any other career for his day job!!) but in such a way that everyone would see him but no one would see him - they would just see his various made-up personas, including the Famous Actor Natori Shuuichi persona. i can't decide if he's a genius or if he just made so many absurd decisions that they canceled each other out and circled back around to working out. he's either playing 9-dimensional chess or he's eating the pieces. too soon to say.

#the other thing i love about it is that in a very real sense it's his actor day job that is his alter ego #being an exorcist is his normie job. he's just a famous celebrity on the side #which isn't that uncommon in secret identity setups but it's still very funny #natsume's book of friends #natsume yuujinchou #natori shuuichi #natsuyuu meta #my posts #f #i think probably the actual answer is that acting was a very natural career choice because he already masks so extensively #both to hide that he can see things other people can't (and that youkai exist and that he exorcises them) #and to hide what he's really feeling so that no one can use it against him #so if it's already something he has to do & he's good at it...why not have someone tell him exactly how to do it & get paid for it? #and the other part of the answer is that most ppl don't go into acting assuming they'll get famous. the fame was a side effect #so each decision as it was being made probably made perfect sense. but put them all together #and you have this hilarious assortment of elements that seem to directly contradict each other #okay also i would be remiss if i didn't mention the other possible answer which is that the attention came first and was unavoidable #and the acting developed from the need to protect himself from the attention that he was going to be attracting no matter what he did #because he's so beautiful. and (in the exorcist world specifically) because he's the last of the natori #the more i talk about it the more i'm like no becoming a famous actor was the only path that made any sense for him lol #1) he's gonna be watched no matter what bc he's him -> gotta figure out how to hide his secrets -> learn to act as self-defense #or 2) he's got secrets -> he's gotten a lot of practice hiding them -> hey you could make a career out of this! #all roads lead to actor natori shuuichi. and since he's beautiful...all roads lead to FAMOUS actor natori shuuichi #i love it when i ramble so much in the tags that i end up contradicting my own post lol #he's neither thinking ten steps ahead nor is he irrational. he's simply making sensible individual decisions #that follow logically from what is available to him and what his priorities are

[aauroralightss]

i love reading peoples' opinions on trigun but sometimes i will see an opinion that is so like. bewilderingly wrong it actually makes me doubt my own interpretation of the source material

#rora rants #AND THIS IS ON ME. #because sometimes i assume something is obvious when maybe it requires a bit more textual analysis #but then sometimes people TEST me and it's like #i need to write my 200k vashwood character study ten times faster clearly #because what in the world are you people talking about #granted i'm not often fully devoted to the most popular ship in a fandom so the experience of people constantly #banging them over the head with pots and pans #isn't a familiar one to me. because usually in the rarepair fandoms people are OBSESSED with the characters in a #really textual analysis way #so you dont get that #unfortunately vashwood is more popular so... more margin of error #and frankly i'm not incredibly picky i can still enjoy things when i dont completely agree with them #some of my favourite vw fics are ones where i'm like he would not fucking say that but... this is so good #but then other times i'm just baffled! because how did you come to that conclusion #sorry HAHAHA i just had to get this off my chest

[bumblingbabooshka]

Workforce B7 Au

B'Elanna and Seven start living together out of concern for B'Elanna living by herself so far along in her pregnancy (B'Elanna initially takes this as an insult, that Seven doesn't think she's a good mother because Seven does not phrase her concerns well but she is genuinely concerned about B'Elanna and her child.) They both mutually agree that if they find a romantic partner they'll just live separately again but as the months wear on they realize they've become more and more attatched to each other, their feelings taking a romantic turn which frightens them both. B'Elanna still goes to that diner place Tom works at and considers them friends. He eventually asks her out and B'Elanna, thinking that she's probably being a burden to Seven and confused by her feelings towards the other woman, accepts though she doesn't have romantic feelings for Tom. Seven is upset by this though she knows she shouldn't be so she tries not to express it but eventually they have an argument which ends in them both admitting that they like each other romantically. They hesitantly kiss, hold hands, ask if they want to really commit to this...yes. The answer is yes. Then strange men in a ship tell them they're members of an organization called Starfleet or whatever?? Then they're taken to sickbay and their old memories return. This leads to both of them having private freak outs about the fact that they felt so strongly attracted to each other and so...happy, with one another when all of the more complicating aspects of their relationship weren't an issue. This is a double edged sword for B'Elanna specifically because without all the history between them she truly didn't feel any attraction towards Tom and if she's being honest with herself - when was the last time she did...? Dun dun dun! You know this episode ends with B'Elanna staring out a window or something, wondering about what she should do...what it all means....

#B'Elanna #Seven of Nine #B7 #B'Elanna Torres #Seven of Nine: (trying to be helpful) -something condescending- #B'Elanna: ?????? #<- It's that on loop for awhile until they learn to communicate better and Seven actually DOES try to understand B'Elanna #She doesn't know about being borg so she just thinks she has a lot of trouble with talking to people and B'Elanna's like 'hey it's not like #I'm a whiz at it' (That's very clear to me.) Hey! Oh - you're joking? (...Half joking.) Well it wasn't half bad then~ #<- the start of their good times era where they become much closer #B'Elanna post this memory regain able to remember how nice it was to be with Seven which directly contrasts her relationship with Tom which #mainly makes her anxious and self conscious...remembering the long talks with Seven whenthey were supposed to be sleeping...remembering #Seven coming home with like ten different baby things because she read that they were the best on the market #B'Elanna 'joking' that she's just being crazy...typical her! when she's upset and Seven telling her that she isn't crazy - she #trusts that there's a REASON B'Elanna. Tell her what it is. (pause) please tell her what it is. #a month later B'Elanna 'jokes' that she's just being crazy...typical her! to Tom and Tom smiles and says he kinda signed up for crazy when #they got married didn't he? <- B'Elanna's heart breaks a little bit but she smiles thinly and laughs without vigor #st voyager #st voyager art #bea art tag

[duhragonball]

I COULDNT thiNK Of how to properly thank you for the birthday gift, like, genuinely speechless, SO here’s a LUFFA!!! thank you so so much again!!! AND KEEP ON BEING YOU 💕💕💕😭💕💕🗣️🔥🔥

AAAAAA THANK YOU COZY!

And happy birthday again (give or take a few days)! I hope you're doing well!

#neon gene--OH NO SHE FOUND ME! #INTRUDER ALERT SECURE THE PERIMETER #i was just thinking about luffa actually #something about the last nge episode i watched was very familiar shall we say #and i had a dream about writing the fic which is a first i think #i was convinced that i had to go back and work in an important part of dragon ball lore #that being the most important super saiyan in the franchise: bart simpson #but how did he get to the planet he lives on as his base? #well q from star trek put him there #it sounds incredibly stupid and yet it made perfect sense in the dream #you ever wake up from a dream and slowly realize it made no sense at all 'q isn't in dragon ball so how did bart... oh he isn't in it eithe #anyway i'm all riled up now #i opened my inbox and started pacing around my apartment for like ten minutes #i always tell myself it doesn't get to me like it used to but it always does #thank you cozy you're awesome #luffastuff

[normalbrothers]

one function of bringing their father back, aside from giving some insights into arthur and his struggle when it comes to his identity and place in the family while also giving a certain pretext to his 'becoming' (rather than being inherently like his dad (whatever that would mean anyway), he makes choices that get him on that path regardless) in later seasons, is ... to show that tommy, specifically, isn't like him. polly's line about tommy possessing his father's devilment and his mother's common sense, and that he should let her win, is pretty rigorously followed through then. he's compared to her by charlie in s2, and what we find out about her (which is admittedly sparse) always aligns with whatever tommy's going through at the point (his increasing mental instability, his seeing 'ghosts', his suicidality). and what their father does by the end of the episode is having manipulated arthur into stealing their family savings (and it wasn't just five bucks out of the piggy bank, but rather a considerable amount) and then leaving them, once more, behind for america, never to be seen again. the following episode takes this up again, but inverse, when, finally, grace suggests they leave together (for america as well!) and tommy declines for reasons that remain generally true for the rest of the show. that he has people he loves and people he needs to protect.

#tommy calls him selfish and arthur counters that he is as well given what happened to freddie #when the audience knows he never set freddie up in the first place #'we needed you ten years ago but you walked out on is' is a fascinating line #it's remarkably honest and vulnerable despite the standoffishness but that's a discussion for another time ig #it's not that he doesn't have shortcomings or flaws or never acts selfishly but this is such a pet peeve #because peaky blinders is not subtle about this at all #and tommy being like his mother isn't necessarily a valorization of his character; she did very much beat him with a frying pan as #a child and while this is something tommy likely would not do to his own children #it's not about inherent goodness wrt the parental alignment #arthur isn't evil either #it's more or less used as a literary shorthand

[melit0n]

Sat with my dad and watching him explain some of the most horrific, grisly, life-threatening injuries a cyclist had gotten with the calmest look on his face

#'Oh hey! Where's ___? Isn't he meant to be in this one?' #proceeds to give me the most indetail description of every injury the guy got like he was there #is this a cyclist dad thing?? Along with him somehow remembering every cyclists name but not my friend's?? #'Yep...a punctured lung...three broken ribs…lost one of his eyes...brain damage. The usual.' #and I'm just sat there like 😟 #get's worse when he can't find a word in English and we're trying to figure out what it is so we're mumbling to eachother in French -> #about how he's either broken his leg or punctured his pancreas or something #they're always going through one of Hercules' ten labours I swear #doing anything BUT cycling #mel's thoughts

[claire-starsword]

i made fun of the toshihiro ono shining force manga and then started looking into it a bit more and translated a third of it in a daze while burned out from my other tasks, everybody point and laugh

#am i enjoying it? clearly enough to do this but it has very questionable decisions #like it engaged enough with the story premise so i don't understand why it couldn't engage with the characters as well #especially when there's 30 of them and every dynamic the writer is doing by making someone ooc is something they could do with someone else #you will understand when you see hans i am very pissed off at that one particularly #meanwhile ken survived. he's got a new haircut but he's still just ken and he's adorable #shining force #shining series #also i do always resent when people immediately give max a love interest #i've seen so many people pissed off or confused that there's no love interest in the actual game like piss oooooooooff #directly blame these people for whatever the fuck happend in sf2 #and shining force neo though thanks gods this manga isn't nearly as bad #at least it's short instead of dragging the world's most boring characters through ten billion line of dialog

[phoenixcatch7]

What I'd really love to see is a svsss au where shen yuan had the immense powers from saiki k.

Like, svsss is already a romcom of a guy shunted into a fantasy world with meta knowledge and immense power for no reason apart from 'make a happy ending' as a fairly thick veneer over an absolute hot mess of a tragedy with a happy ending, red flags galore, complete with a protagonist completely removed from the concept of romance and resigned to his fate of being abandoned by the people around him because of the circumstances he was 'born' into, but he's funny about it.

The disastrous life of saiki k is a fast paced crack comedy about a guy granted immense power for no reason with meta knowledge of the world as a thick veneer over something a little darker and traumatic with a happy ending, complete with a protagonist completely removed from the concept of romance and resigned to being ignored by the people around him because of the circumstances he was born into, but he's hilarious about it.

Now I don't think it should be a 1-1 transplant of saiki to the svsss world, but to imagine an sy with those powers who didn't manage to find loyal friends, who moved out to live alone as soon as possible to avoid issues with his powers, who gravitated to web novels because of their regular updates as opposed to being constantly spoiled for books with finished endings. An sy who despite his ridiculous levels of power died alone in a stupid way and woke up in a world filled with people who also had immense and varied powers, dealing with the prospect of immortality when his own powers are still constantly growing and interfering with his life, but be silly about it.

I want to see a sy with telepathy still failing to understand what lbhs deal is because of his own denial, a sy with the power to crush mountains with a finger trying not to blow down walls with a sneeze because someone put him on a mountain FILLED with plants in SPRING, an sy who deleted an entire country from the planet aged four trying to dodge overly enthusiastic maidens he keeps saving because he doesn't want to steal from the protagonist and also no, lady, please. Shen yuan sitting in the water prison absolutely deadpan as people try and scare him with 10 iq stories about the acid waterfalls. An sy who hares around the peak trying to avoid being spotted on valentines day as he redirects unwanted admirers and improves his disciples dates just so they can all have a good day.

An sqh who really, honestly truly doesn't know how pidw was made real, honest!! All he could do was see ghosts! It's not his fault the story he wrote to make rent turned into all of this!! But because you're here can you pretty please make some ice, I'm in desperate need of air con and my king hasn't showed up in weeks!

Sqq and sqh playing telepathic chess during boring meetings and sqq leaving him to suffer when sqh is asked a question even though he himself knows the answer.

Lbh trying everything to get shizuns attention and discovering his total weakness to his cooking. Like, will let you cheat in class levels of bribery.

Sqq stalking dourly through fields of aphrodisiac plant because he's raised his body temperature high enough to burn out any pollen before it gets too close and the system just despairing at getting this man to do something interesting.

Cat!sqq transforming back as fast as he can because he's got a meeting in half an hour and having to rush around trying to find something to cover the cat ears he didn't manage get rid of.

Shen qingqiu pulling out his limiters and dropping the mask to reveal a deity in the shape of a man, something crafted purely of psychic energy and burning fury, determined to hold maigu ridge together and keep the realms apart with his will alone, to save luo binghe if it killed him again. A shining aura stretching miles, glowing like a star, halting the earthquake with his bare hands.

Sqq seeing a bug and freaking out so hard he teleports to the northern demon realm and lands in a slushy pond, and sqh nearly giving him away because of how hard he's laughing.

#Like honestly the parallels are great #Long post #Sqq leaning hard into the aloof elegant scholar vibes because he still struggles to control his strength even with the limiters #He doesn't want to hurt anyone. #Sqh: please please tell me what my king is thinking right now he's been glaring at me all day! #Sqq (having been forced to hear an endless carnal monologue for hours from him): oh no not a chance. No way are you getting me involved. #Sqq: whatever insane thing you two have going on go ahead. Just don't involve anyone else in that EVER. #Sqh: bro 😭?! #Sqq: *makes a peace sign and goes invisible* #Sqh: BRO?!! Not even... Expensive northern import for the protagonist to cook with? #Sqq: *reappears with a pop* go on... #Sqh is salty he didn't get the godlike powers when he created the world they're in. Sqq tells him it isn't worth it #Being forced to see the past of an object with just a touch when you live in 5 million words of bad smut?? NO THANK YOU. #But both being espers AND from the same world they're still buddies (much to sqqs dismay). #Sqh is just barely outside sqqs telepathy range on an ding and lives in fear of him sensing him writing and catapulting himself #through the window at mach ten to beat him up. #Sqq every time he has to sit through a meeting with some corrupt official: thought crimes aren't real thought crimes don't count #Sqh: so how are you this bad at feelings. My guy you are an empath. #Sqq: shut up. #Lbh would definitely catch sqq doing something impossible or op and be so head over heels. He's like his father that way. #svsss #svsss au #shen qingqiu #shen yuan #scum villain's self saving system #scum villian self saving system #sqq #shang qinghua #sqh #svsss shen qingqiu

[shredsandpatches]

So I know I'm kind of a weirdo in that my favorite operatic (-adjacent) Faust adaptation is Berlioz, but that doesn't mean I won't admit that when the Gounod version slaps, it slaps HARD.

(I feel like the blocking here falls down a little at the end but still)

#while playing the ending of this sequence as marguerite going into labor is something you can and really should do #the insta-baby staging here does undermine the impact a bit #faust #gounod #hot faust summer #i also think mephistopheles should be even more up in her business than he is here #but the singing! #*chef's fucking kiss* #i had a whole thing ready to go about what resonates with me in berlioz over gounod #which boils down to 'berlioz is interested in faust the character and gounod isn't' #and what that says about my relationship to my own gender #but i start work in like ten minutes #also idk if i'm ever in the gounod version maybe i'll fall harder for it #(i do think i would be a great marthe 😉) #Youtube

[layzeal]

woke up to like. a huge post on my dash three times in a row purposely misunderstanding and twisting the book's words to say that something that's canon is not actually canon and not gonna lie friends that's a bit upsetting

#like i'm a wwx stan who constantly takes the stance that wex did bad fucked up shit. abd that's good. that's INTERESTING #enjoying a character who does messed up things is sexy and i love it #so what's the point of trying to remove them??? make them boring? #and i especially draw the line at taking separate sections of the book and purposely misunderstanding them #breaking like for line to draw a conclusion that just doesn't compute when taken within the whole context #i'm considering whether or not i respond to it. i don't touch jc discourse with a ten foot pole #because i like him a lot but i stg it seems that whether you love him or hate him everyone likes twisting the words #to either make him better or worse #and that's where it goes ''eh whatever idc'' to ''oh. oh no. oh nooooo'' #like. lmao the reason i don't go into the 'c@non j1ang cheng' tag is because it's literally people doing this over and over #to waste energy condemning a man that literally doesn't exist #so can we not do it to defend him either :( can't we just like a guy because of his fuckedupness and not defile a text's words for it #that's literally where i draw the line on this. ... #like. sorry guys but 敲打 literally just means ''to beat someone'' #it's something jc himself confirms to us. he's not ashamed of it!!! the novel's message isn't ''all hearsay is wrong'' #it is ''it has to be investigated with nuance and not believed until confirmed'' #which jc himself confirms to us 😭 let a man torture people in peace it's fineeee #modao #lace speaks

[coquelicoq]

post-canon every single member of kimcom likes to spoon kim dokja. nonsexually. it's just nice to know he's alive and there and feel his chest rise and fall within the circle of your arms. try to do something stupid now asshole. oh you can't? because of my octopus impression? that's right. take THAT. however i will make one exception for yoo joonghyuk. yoo joonghyuk may want to spoon kim dokja, but he never gets the opportunity because kim dokja wants to spoon him more. so the sleeping arrangement is yjh>kdj>all other kimcom members on rotation. actually i take it back there's one other household member who doesn't want to spoon kim dokja and it's yoo mia, but that's fine because she's one of the only people (besides kim dokja) who yoo joonghyuk would be comfortable spooning. so there's probably times when it's yma>yjh>kdj>today's lucky winner.

incidentally this is also the order for the doing-each-other's-hair train because while yoo mia WILL allow other people to do her hair, no one wants to because she always compares their skills unfavorably to her brother's. and she's really articulate about it. just utterly scathing. one time her criticism was so devastatingly, accurately incisive that she made lee hyunsung cry. yoo joonghyuk spooned him that night to cheer him up and yoo mia was so mad about it that lee hyunsung had to leave the country for a couple weeks. the household learned a valuable lesson that day. it's best not to disturb the delicate spooning/hair-train balance.

#i love how often the webtoon shows people giving their injured teammates piggyback rides #like yeah that is way easier than a bridal carry. good weight distribution #but also it means when they go into Spoon Mode they're like. hey this is familiar! #anyway kimcom totally has a schedule for who gets to spoon kim dokja because otherwise shin yoosung and lee gilyoung would #resort to murder #also han sooyoung was hogging him and pretending it didn't count because it was her clones doing it #(classic excuse. it wasn't me. it was my clone! my clone stole the cookie from the cookie jar! my clone ate my homework!!) #kim dokja figures out that there's a schedule but he thinks it's like. a chore for them instead of something they're fighting over #because he is an idiot 😎👍 #the other sleeping arrangement is kim dokja lying on his back and one person on each side cuddling up to him #that's the default when yjh isn't around for kdj to spoon. which doesn't happen very often #if anyone asks no i did NOT start crying the last time someone spooned me because i was incredibly touch-starved. utter lies #totally untrue and also completely irrelevant to the matter at hand #orv #omniscient reader's viewpoint #my posts #f #kdj #orv spoilers #i guess?? #kimcom in the situation room trying to strategize how to turn him back into a squid so they can all have a tentacle to cuddle #kim dokja only has two hands and like ten people who want to clutch him to their bosom...but what if he had MORE than two hands? #he has before and he can again. as god is their witness

[mythicalcoolkid]

Underrated "worst kind of thinkpiece article" contendor: articles about how we as a society need to examine [current trend] because naïvely buying into it ruined the author's life, only when you actually read the article it's clear that the author is in fact blaming a LOT of their personal issues on. Like. Marie Kondo

#m/cc #this isn't new either I remember this at least ten years ago in Reader's Digest #author got a Fitbit and loved it #got obsessed with tracking his steps. took long walks after dinner listening to podcasts. cared a lot about meeting his step count #felt really lost when it broke #like I do think there's something to be said about grind culture and diet culture and technology that exploits addictive tendencies #but this guy's problem was not the Fitbit and the Fitbit was not the thing making him miss out on other life experiences #he could have taken those walks WITH his wife #either liking the solitude of the walks or not communicating with his wife is not the fault of the Fitbit. the Fitbit counted his steps and #buzzed when he met his (self-chosen) goal #anyway. this is sponsored by remembering an article I read forever ago about how Konmari ruined the author's life #because she got into it (while grieving) and loved it and somehow missed the point and became obsessed with minimalism #Marie Kondo suggesting you keep what makes you happy or fills a need and consider getting rid of things you don't is not what's #causing you this anxiety about gifts. you are looking for something to blame that's manipulated you into this situation