#like that’s not just normal behaviour

[worstloki]

Loki sits in Thor’s lap because that’s normal brotherly behaviour and all the avengers are averting their eyes thinking that the bros are just really bad at keeping an illicit relationship a ‘secret’ and they don’t want to address it out of respect for their privacy

#the Avengers trying to be supportive: it’s okay for you two to share a room we don’t mind you don’t have to pretend you’re using both #Thor and Loki: we need two showers and closets :)? #the avengers see the bros being physically affectionate and try not to be weirded out #the bros are just chilling they’re literally just being bros and the avengers are being weird about it #Loki sits in Thor’s lap like he doesn’t weigh a ridiculous Asgardian amount too #Tony trying not to run off his alien couple teammates doing his best not to think about what happens in the bedroom #Bruce watching Thor take Loki’s half-finished plate and eating off it since Loki was done and laughing awkwardly #like that’s not just normal behaviour #Steve sees them holding hands and gets all professional on the lookout to make sure no random shield agents ‘catch’ them

[atmothart]

Jon he's really trying here cut him a break

(tumblr crunched the resolution of this comic a lot rip)

#dracula daily #hello im back from the void with shitty dracula doodles #i actually drew this last year but never posted it #here it is now though #count dracula #jonathan harker #Drac reading the english bradshaw guide is still one of the funniest moments in Dracula to me #i know it is supposed to show how he's planning to infiltrate england and appear local #but it really does just come across like he picked it up in a panic and pretended to be reading it when Jonathan came back into the room #and being the weird guy he is thought reading train schedules was really normal behaviour #bram stoker's dracula is a romcom #re: dracula

[lucabyte]

i feel like people are sleeping on the occam's razor situation of how buckwild it is to outright accuse a guy of being a clone of your friend even if you DO have a lot of circumstantial evidence. there's other options is what im saying. they could just be like. a guy. that's a sensible deduction. you should explore that deduction. ignore my shirt that reads I <3 RED HERRINGS.

i still think odile has the correct theory on lock but she's smart enough to know it needs like... a real smoking gun to be able to bring it up without sounding insane.

anyway. (mirabelle voice) i know its rude to speculate but has anyone else noticed the grieving? they seem to be grieving. does anyone have any thoughts on the grieving? i have some thoughts on the grieving.

#[isabeau voice] am i insane or does sometimes loop talk like they might have killed their whole family. is that just me? just checking. #nille design highly inspired by @kiwibrain's since its the one that imprinted in my mind. liberties taken since i didnt look @ reference #anyway i have a lot more thoughts on this? i guess ill hide them in the tags...? scroll down i suppose. #isat #in stars and time #isat spoilers #in stars and time spoilers #isat act 6 spoilers #isat loop #isat siffrin #isat bonnie #isat nille #isat fanart #in stars and time fanart #doodlebyte #---------------------------------------------------------------------- #anyway the extra thoughts. are literally just my general thoughts on postcanon. (and thus are the context for all of my postcanon doodles!) #which is i think nille joins the party before loop reappears for a start (either from a period of nonexistence or just wandering around) #and that like. i think the party should be able to integrate loop as a completely new person. because they are! the secrecy isn't great but #They and Siffrin shuffle into different ecological niches in the party (eg. i think sif is more squeamish after it all but loop isnt) #and while it's not *exactly* what Loop wanted they get that beggars can't be choosers. and its pretty good #(i am glossing over how i think loop's reappearence drags both them and siffrin into a massive behavioural backslide and is likely a bit #distressing to watch go down. cycle of argument -> lovebombing -> normalcy -> repeat. etc etc. but since they are no longer literally #stewing in the worst pressure cooker of all time they do resolve it via productive conversation on their own time. its fine) #the party well-meaningly tries to deduce things from loop's vagueries and are able to pin down the DEAD FAMILY vibe pretty quickly. #but eventually the question of their prior identity falls by the wayside because well! they're just their friend loop! (also change belief) #as for how The Truth Come Out... this is what i mean by The Isabeau Torment Nexus(tm). which is that i think... isiloop should almost occur #BEFORE isabeau knows who loop is. he's just genuinely charmed by them eventually and tries to close the open end of the polycule #which FREAKS LOOP THE FUCK OUT because thats just too genuinely sick and wrong. and obviously w emotions high its not a great confrontation #ANYWAY told u i had more thoughts. if i were normal itd be a text post but.

[gunstellations]

its shadow's turn now

(the thrilling conclusion to this post, he never really hated it)

#sonic the hedgehog #shadow the hedgehog #sonic #sonadow #my art #sonic constantly up in shadows business and the moment shadow expresses 1 (one) sign of affection he shortcircuits #thinking abt that one part where he was essentially speechless when shadow shows like...normal interaction behaviour ONCE #shadow isnt necessarily only shy either hes just. bad at showing it but i think sonic simply doesnt think much when hes pushing it #till he does one normal thing in response and sonics like ?????

[haunted-xander]

It's Riku! Riku's here!

#thinking about that scene where sora gets on his knees and cries while clutching rikus hand bc he missed him SO much #and its not like its an 'omg youre alive!' thing bc sora had been assured REPEATEDLY that riku was fine #he just REALLY missed him #most normal boy best friend behaviour (lying) #also can we just appreciate kairi for making this scene happen #sora couldnt see riku as riku until he touched him and he was (understandably) pretty reluctant to get close to #who he thought was his former enemy (ansem SoD) #but kairi COULD see and she sure as hell would make sora see too. so she grabs then both and makes them hold hands and then this happens #everyone say thank you kairi #sora #riku #soriku #kingdom hearts #kingdom hearts 2 #kh #kh2 #art #my art #xanders art #digital art #fan art

[petitesmafia]

can you imagine anyone else listening in on skk planning their Meursault mission. just like

Dazai: i'm gonna try to drown you Chuuya: ok third person: ?? Chuuya: and then i'll shoot you in the forehead? Dazai: exactly third person: ????

#bungou stray dogs #bsd s5 #bsd s5 spoilers #Dazai and Chuuya just casually talking like it's a regular Tuesday for them #and everyone around them is like ummm is this Normal Behaviour? #ena.hc #enarchive: skk

[tezzbot]

Was thinking abt the fact that IF Vector and Espio found Charmy when he was a baby, taking their "canon" ages into account, Vector would have been like mid-teens and Espio like. a preteen at the time and I love a good 'You're the age I was when we met/I did [X]/etc.' Soooo woe! That upon you Espio, it's always fucked up and evil the passage of time LOL

#team chaotix #charmy bee #espio the chameleon #vector the crocodile #mydoodles #Funny haha post but don't think about it too hard bc then you member theyre SO YOUNG :boom: #might make a seperate post about that I think it's so funny that A Lot of these kids just took in some other littler kids to care for #and a few that didn't aren't really socialised outside of that circle of friends so just would think it's normal mobian behaviour #or were likely that young themselves when they started doing dangerous stuff all the time lol #There are some characters that know its Not regular that either would be like UM? or just wouldn't bother saying anything at all lol #Okay I'm gonna stop rambling and actually post this before I have second thoughts</3

[sunandmoonster]

A marimo and his captain

a pic on pinterest i liked, so i made it zolu :3

#yes i still use :3 #and no im no furry #i just like catboys lol #alao im a sucker for possessive behaviour #and eventhough luffy is normally a pretty generous guy #there are some things he would never share #his hat #meat #and his first mate <3 #hoho #zolu #zoro #luffy #my babies #also hands are so much easier when u have a good ref omfg #my art

[leadendeath]

using squared, angular faces like ¬_¬ and :] to deliberately yet subtly allude to my computerness

this post is always popular so instead of turning off rbs for like the third time *posts my links* also i have a plan for my assessment which i need to add to my gfm page when i can find my phone to login- ask me about it! :]

you’ll reblog this version if you’re not a coward >:]

#this is always popular so instead of turning off rbs for like the third time *posts my links* #i have a plan for my assessment which i need to add to my gfm page- ask me about it! :] #you think my robot liking is a recent development? jokes on you ive kinned ash from alien and bender (more of a synpath) for Years #we're bringing back kin terminology in 2024! WHO'S WITH ME! #if you do need a definition- that's okay! :]- a synpath is a character who you go: #''that's just like me!'' #rather than: #''that IS me.'' #or you identify WITH rather than identify AS. #i checked the definition on the kin words which i have been using for many years just to make sure i was right and i was :] #(i knew i was right just. Checking Behaviours yknow) #i checked my spelling on ''allude''- i was about to use ''elude'' which is a synonym for escape that wouldve been the wrong word #i got a normal thing wrong and a weird thing right! that's so me LOL

[hauntedpearl]

anyway i think when cas comes back from the empty, dean and cas have to work through a lot of things and it's just. rocky and sad and stupid. and when they're going to bed every night, cas grabs dean's arms and holds them around himself and says "don't let go." and dean says "I won't. I'm not going to let go." and cas says, "when I close my eyes, you can't let go. you can't let go. I will forget if you let go." and dean just closes his eyes because he's scared and sad and he's cRYING and he presses his forehead to the back of cas' neck and breathes and he can't say anything because of he tries to he'll break and cas will not want to sleep and he'll get worse in the morning and that's not good at all so he just sort of tightens his arms around cas and presses close, waits counting breaths until cas is sleeping and his fingers have stopped digging into his forearms and then he sighs. and nudges his body as close as it'll get to cas because he doesn't wanna dislodge himself in his sleep. and then he drifts off, slow and somehow easy, to the rhythm of Cas' breathing. and yeah. he doesn't let go.

#there's a fic in my brain #that's very sad #this is part of it #but yeah anyway. cas is not scares cas just doesn't want to forget that he's real. normal nornal nornal behaviour #he needs dean to not let go. because if dean lets go then theres nothing grounding him to this world in his sleep. and he's not real #yk what im saying!!! #whatever like whateverrrrrrr #spn headcanons #destiel #cas is sad and we need to let him be that. and also make dean suffer by making him bear witness #doe is talking again #fic stuff

[beeftendergroin]

sardines royal tomb

#one of the stickers in my ffxv sticker pack and i like it enough to post #it was supposed to be the bros just squeezing themselves inside the sardines tin can just like their usual normal behaviour but yeah tomb i #also a companion piece for my fish fillet noctis #def not a cute chibi one #final fantasy xv #noctis lucis caelum #gladiolus amicitia #ignis scientia #prompto argentum #chocobros fanart #ffxv fanart #church indulgences for sale #noctis lucis caelum fanart

[shorthaltsjester]

i do not want to dig a hole but i am too much of a laura bailey pc enjoyer to not make this post so:

selfishness ≠ a lack of kindness 

selfishness is a theme that has come up with all of laura's main campaign pcs. that doesn't mean that her characters are always making selfish choices or that they don't care about the rest of the people they're with or that they're not good. it's just that, for the most part, the first thing they're thinking of when they take action or make choices is themselves. 

in jester and vex both it is more typical and obvious selfishness. vex's developed because she needed it to keep herself and vax alive and as safe as possible and it grew into a behaviour that she had to actively work to avoid. it's evident in her greed, her theft of the broom, her reaction to her own death which relied heavily on i'm okay/i survived to which keyleth reminded her that she wasn't the only one who had to witness and reckon with her death. in jester's case, she grew up in an environment that literally trained her to make every decision based on two things - her mother's opinion and her own. so, when she's out in the world without marion for the first time, her choices are those that will benefit her and her actions are those that consider her own thoughts and not really many others' (aside from the traveler's). 

it isn't a criticism of either vex or jester to say that they are characters who act selfishly. in fact, i'd argue that to claim otherwise does a great disservice to exactly how immense both of their character arcs are. because the nuance of both jester and vex is that they are selfish, and they also hold extreme room for self-sacrifice and empathy. vex is much more brash than jester is, and jester is much more trusting than vex, but both of them are characters who begin with selfish impulses who grow with them. neither ever truly shed those impulses, but they use them in new ways, typically transforming them into impulses towards things that are in the best interest of the party. 

you may have noticed the lack of imogen in this post about laura bailey pcs and that's because of two reasons. one, we are an unknown amount of time into her story, i can't analyse her development the same way i can vex and jester's. two, imogen's selfishness isn't the blatant quasi-self-aware selfishness that we see in things like jester complaining about her lack of money to caleb or vex stealing a broom. instead, imogen's is very internal, like a lot of laura's character work with imogen. it is a bit similar to jester’s in the sense that it comes from a lack of awareness moreso than vex’s practiced behaviour, but imogen’s is a lot more tied to inherent beliefs she has about the world and the people in it.

as a consequence of her powers, imogen sees people's thoughts as their entirety, she holds it above their actions to be the truth of who they are - to act against what they think or to say something that doesn’t cohere with what they’ve thought is akin to lying, so for her to act empathetically is to act in tandem with what someone else’s thoughts are, not how they act, which is typically not all that wanted. the same as vex’s greed and jester’s naivety, this is a trait that makes narrative sense and it’s one i find quite compelling, especially when read in the vein of someone struggling through trauma that has made them assume that the world is against them. imogen’s cynicism is coherent cynicism, i can’t say that in a similar situation i wouldn’t have the same predisposition towards the world.

the part that is particularly self-interested comes in if you look at how imogen has actually been treated in the campaign (quite well) in comparison to the cynicism that she’s developed from her past (something that speaks to a world out to get her). certainly, a bunch of shitty things have happened to imogen in the time we’ve known her, but the same can be said for everyone in bell’s hells and pretty much everyone in exandria at this point in time. but, in a fight to save the aforementioned world, imogen’s focus was getting her mother back on her side. which, while very consistent with her character and a choice that i enjoy, is a very selfish one. the fun thing (to me, obviously) about imogen is that she has, more than most, an insight into the opinions of others and she also tends to seek others’ opinions out and genuinely engages with them and supports their choices. but she still very much acts towards what she thinks is best. it’s one reason i enjoy looking at the dynamic between her and orym as one between foils, as orym tends to be stalwart in his beliefs and doesn’t care too much for other’s opinions if he’s already sure of his own, but his actions tend to favour collaboration and protecting others.

as i mentioned earlier, imogen is a harder case to look at because she is still in the process of her story. however, the circlet is clearly influencing how she interacts with the world and in the wake of the solstice, the hostile reaction towards ruidusborn people has started to become more and more apparent and i’m interested to see what route that ends up leading imogen down and how it will influence her relationship with the rest of bell’s hells. (for better, i think, based on recent conversations, but if it's for worse i will be just as seated and excited).

all of this is just to say, please stop assuming that claiming a character has a trait you think is a bad one is criticism or a hate post. in light of the fact that i know that people who don’t believe this will continue to not believe this, i’ll encourage anyone confused about the ability of a character to be good and kind and selfish all at once to look to what the text itself says, specifically scanlan’s words to pelor when asked what vex means to him:

“Her name is Vex, and she is greedy and mean sometimes, and she can steal a lot. She’s a little bit not the greatest person, but her flaws highlight everything that is right about her, which is she does all these things to protect her friends and her family. She would give her life for any of us and for anyone who was truly in need. And she’s not perfect but she’s the most perfect of all of us.”

would you look at that... an ability to be a multitude of things, some in conflict with one another. i know that's hard for fandoms to believe, especially about female characters with agency, but i promise its true!

#deeply unfair of laura to make three characters with some type of people skills and morality shaped by their loneliness #and what. i’m just supposed act like i’m normal about that? #this is me blog and i have slightly more time than usual to write nothing essays about fictional characters that haunt me #but dear god . lookin at cr characters and denying their flaws is like looking at a house and only seeing it’s doors . #if ppl demand perfection of fictional characters im genuinely curious in what media they’ve ever found that . #a single imogen post of mine broke containment and it skyrocketed my annoying phil student levels so. alas #but . if you agree that imogen had an incredibly isolating life . i will emphasize that isolation causes traits and behaviours #that aren’t just Quirky or fun or hot anger or whatever #imogen contains so much i love her so much i am bursting at the seams about it #but for some ppl. she is ur ‘girlfailure’ until someone suggests a way she might be girl failing by being selfinterested #what is the truth. do u want her to be an actual girlfailure it do u just want her to suit a . frankly tired. trope about lesbians #anyway . both text and tag rant over . goodnight #cr meta #imogen temult #vex’ahlia #vex’ahlia de rolo #jester lavorre #critical role #my posts

[d1sheclectic]

omg fem jally⁉️⁉️

#thats it ive lost it #they dont even look like jally i just cant be normal for 2 seconfs #this isn’t normal behaviour😭 #lmao #sorry this is so bad omg #bitches see a black hair and blonde duo and say omggg its jally #its me im bitches #jally #dallas winston #johnny cade #the outsiders

[evilmacdennisevil]

i’m sorry but how does dennis justify the whole ‘dying your hair and massaging your pecs’ thing? like how does that work in his head? he rlly thinks ‘haha yeah my gay roommate who is very clearly in love with me is routinely running his hands through my hair and giving me massages on my chest because i’m manipulating him, not because either of us enjoy the physical closeness and intimacy. I CERTAINLY don’t! i am straight’ LIKE HUH? WHAT??? he’s so capable of dying his own hair and massaging his own pecs but he gets mac to do it because…… power play? sorry buddy ur not fooling anyone!

#HOW DO THEY EVEN DO THE PEC MASSAGES TOO LIKE #does mac stand behind him and reach round and just. rub his tits? #or does he face him head on and look into his eyes as he’s doing it? #idk which ones less gay #same with the dying of the hair #does dennis sit and mac stands behind him while carding his hands through his hair in an entirely professional manner? #idk how dennis is so disillusioned with his own sexuality that he thinks wanting ur gay bestie to massage ur fucking pecs is normal #just regular dude behaviour! #iasip #mac mcdonald #dennis reynolds #it’s always sunny in philadelphia #macdennis

[communistkenobi]

does anyone have reading recommendations that clarify the difference between liberalism and fascism? I’m having trouble distinguishing what is just like normal levels of imperial/colonial violence conducted by a liberal state and what pushes it over the edge into a fascist state. Is fascism simply mature liberalism? Is it liberalism in crisis? Can we only make historical, reactive judgements about what is fascist, which is to say, can we only know if fascism occurred after it has come and gone? I take the general point that calling all liberal states fascist can let them off the hook for types of violence considered normal or “just doing business,” invisibilising the daily violences they conduct as part of the regular maintenance of a liberal capitalist state. People are calling the US fascist for its direct participation in and funding of the genocide in Palestine - a diagnosis I don't disagree with, but if that’s the case, where do you draw the distinction between the US being merely a liberal state with aggressive global imperial ambitions and the US being a fully fascist state? Perhaps more bluntly, what’s the difference between a liberal drone strike and a fascist one? I’m struggling to understand the value of the fascist label, because everything it describes (ultranationalism, a theory of racial and cultural degeneracy/decline, paranoia about an imminent external threat expressed as violence against internal populations deemed to have insufficient loyalty to the country, a turn towards a mythologised tradition of the past, imperial expansion, genocidal projects against minority populations, etc etc) just seems to me like a description of United States in general lol

#if we call all liberal states fascist we risk exceptionalising liberalism <- point I am sympathetic to #but if that’s the case then like what does the fascist label get us? What does it ‘do’ as analytical tool? How does it help us understand #the world today and the history of the world? #was the iraq war fascist? If so are we meant to understand that the US stopped being fascist for a couple years #and is now fascist again? Despite the continued occupation & violence & sanctions in Iraq Libya Yemen Afghanistan etc during that time ? #are all the coups it did in Latin America fascist or just normal liberal behaviour? Was the Korean War fascist? The Vietnam war? #what about the Cold War? What about the genocide of indigenous people in North America? What about chattel slavery? #I guess I’m just at like a point in my knowledge of history that none of the governments or movements or actuons called fascist #seem even remotely different from just like regular imperial and colonial violence #and so like my current inclination is that either all of this is liberal or all of this is fascist #and that doesn’t feel satisfactory lol

[princemick]

I cant believe people have to make posts abt not making fun of a driver who's clearly and rightfully terrified, yall r fucking weird.

#kyle.txt #like...ud say thats just like normal empathetic human behaviour