#not because baby murder is reprehensible

[crispycostumes]

explaining mór and niall's divorce to a friend like, yeah they got divorced because they had differing opinions on infanticide, no the differing opinion wasn't whether or not to commit infanticide

#the question wasn't 'should we kill a baby?' it was 'can we really do that to declan?' for AT LEAST the first months of ronan's life #yeah niall joins the 'let ronan live bc he's just a baby' camp later #but declan was the only sucker in that camp for a while #like they didn't go with the 'we should kill the eldritch abomination we created with our own hubris' plan #because they didn't want to upset declan who loved ronan #not because baby murder is reprehensible #this is why i feel greywaren doesn't act as a niall redemption thing #bc if your REDEMPTION includes planning baby murder and only treating your son as well as you did because you were afraid of what would #happen if you didn't #i do not think that is redemption #like the new fenian is niall and he fully says 'yeah no we were freaked out about what would happen if /something like that/ felt wronged- #-so we excessively treated him like a part of the family' #i think the book can act as a 'niall explaination' but christ alive not a redemption #niall lynch #mór ó corra #ronan lynch #declan lynch #tdt #greywaren

[drakaripykiros130ac]

TG stans: “It’s so unfair how Daemon is given a free pass by fans, while Alicent is constantly criticized. They are both gray characters. Fans only forgive Daemon because he is played by a hot actor.”

No. No. No. And no.

You can try to spin it however you want but Alicent will never be considered a gray character. Not even the shitty show version of her.

Book Alicent - there is nothing to debate here. She is a greedy, manipulative upstart b*tch who got hers in the end. Evil stepmother and her evil sons perished. Happy ending. Bye bye.

Show Alicent - oh boy. Here we go.

Being a gray character often implies doing some pretty terrible or at least immoral things for the greater good. And a lot of other characters around them have a hard time understanding that what this gray character did was for the best. This character’s actions are often misunderstood and perceived to be done with selfish intent (and most of the time, greater good and selfishness overlap).

In what way does Alicent fit this description? In the show, she was driven by jealousy and resentment and done some pretty unnecessary and cruel things simply because she could:

1. Demanding that Rhaenyra’s newborn be brought to her immediately after birth. A disgusting display of cruelty. As a mother herself of four children, she surely understands the difficulty of labor, the vulnerability of a newborn baby as well as the immediate motherly instinct to protect her young (which is why Rhaenyra took the child herself, refusing to part with him).

2. Turning her children against Rhaenyra. As the Queen, and stepmother of the heir to the throne, it was her responsibility to attempt to forge relationships between her children and her stepdaughter, because this stepdaughter would one day be the reigning Queen and the fate of Alicent’s children would rest with her. But no, she was bitter, jealous and shortsighted and somehow thought that turning her children against Rhaenyra would somehow…what…do her family good?

3. Cheating on her husband by offering sexual services to a deranged clubfooted freak, in exchange for information. Call it whatever you like, but sexual favors in exchange for something is called “whoring”. I am not even going to debate this. No one forced her. This was her choice.

4. Taking a known murderer as her sworn shield for the single reason that he turned against Rhaenyra and that reason would benefit her.

5. Badmouthing children to their grandfather. The vendetta Alicent pursued against Jaecaerys, Lucerys and Joffrey is reprehensible. It was unnecessary, cruel and it certainly hadn’t done any good to anyone.

6. Showing up at Rhaenyra’s wedding in a dramatic manner and wearing the Hightower color for “war” simply because her ex-friend lied to her. Ironic, considering that she herself didn’t tell her friend that she was sneaking into her father’s chambers late at night, seducing him and getting him to marry her (I don’t give a damn that Otto made her).

7. Replacing the Targaryen heraldry with symbols of the Seven. Naturally, she couldn’t put up the Hightower symbols without “Hey look at me! I am committing treason!” written all over her face. Subtle, but it got the point across. And no, she wasn’t trying to “find comfort” or “honor her mother” or whatever bullshit TG stans like to invent. It was a strategic move through which she showed very clearly that she was turning her back on the House who made her everything she is.

These are just a few examples. If you take into account Alicent’s actions, none of them were done for the greater good. They served only her, and her own ambitions.

She married into the most powerful family in Westeros. She was a lady in waiting, a daughter of a second son from a low-ranked House with few prospects who was helping the Crown Princess dress.

When she married into House Targaryen, she was expected to remain loyal to House Targaryen. It was a privilege. One she completely disregarded in order to further the ambitions of House Hightower. It was Otto’s plan at first, but she pretty much took over in the long run. Simply because she was jealous and bitter. Because she didn’t know how to suck it up and accept that her father screwed her over, and her husband figured out their “master plan”.

Nothing about Alicent Hightower spells out “gray”. As much as the showrunners attempt to whitewash her, she remains the antagonist in this story. The war that started was one she had been nourishing for years.

Say what you will about Daemon but he is the very definition of “gray”. Whether or not his actions also benefitted him is irrelevant. His actions, although immoral and sometimes cruel, were for the greater good of the royal family, a House he belonged to, one he never betrayed. And despite the constant attempts of the showrunners to make him out to be the “bad guy” by pilling on him things he never actually did in canon, it still makes him look a whole of a lot complex and gray than Alicent ever will be.

Daemon is forever loyal to his family, and the House who rightfully holds the power in Westeros. Despite his actions, that makes him the anti-hero of the story. Alicent betrayed the House she married into, betrayed her husband, and committed high treason when she attempted to change the line of succession, for the sole reason that it benefitted her side of the family. That makes her the anti-villain (and I am being generous here, acknowledging the very few good qualities she possesses in the show, but her deeds are ultimately done in the name of evil).

And P.S: Let’s not pretend like the main obsession certain fans have with Alicent Hightower isn’t because she is portrayed by Olivia Cooke. If she were portrayed by a perceived-ugly/average actress, no one would be so quick to defend the character.

#Is it really that hard to understand why people love Daemon and hate Alicent? #pro daemon targaryen #daemon targaryen #anti alicent hightower #anti alicent stans #anti team green #team black #pro team black #anti team green stans #rhaenyra targaryen #house of the dragon #hotd #fire and blood #asoiaf #asoiaf meta #queen rhaenyra #anti greens

[lena-in-a-red-dress]

Did you read the Adjudicator's backstory that the Director/people from the show talked about? And that apparently they decided not to have anyone mention it on the show because it would make the audience sympathise too much with her? It makes zero sense at all. Rats ate her mouth when she was a baby because of her mother's neglect? This probably around the 1930s and she survived? And learned to talk and everything like nothing happened? Those scars don't even look like rat bites to begging with

I haven't, but I mean. That's all well and good, but it's literally extracanonical and therefore doesn't count? And to further disparage the creators-- if they were worried about making her too sympathetic, they a) did a huge disservice to Katie McGrath's ability to act absolutely reprehensible, and b) did us meme-knowers a huge injustice by assuming we wouldn't gleefully ascribe to the "cool backstory, still murder" gif.

And also, why does she need to be non-sympathetic? She wasn't our villain. Or any villain, really. She didn't actually do anything except get under Mel Gibson's skin, so obviously we were going to eat her up anyway.

I also want to point out that if the creators had this backstory, and it's cool-slash-important enough for the creators to talk about it with fans-- they should have put it in the FUCKING show. Releasing it as twitter bonus content is a real dick move.

Sounds like a whole steaming pile of male-creator bullshit if you ask me.

#continental spoilers #seriously #they were not hurting for time #despite it being only 3 episodes #they could have easily carved out some existing content to make room for it #like the whole cellist thing #ultimately did not affect the plot at all #not one sorry ounce #so #theres that

[drifting-pieces-blog-blog]

Let’s Gooooooo. 

STEVEN! 

This bucket of sunshine isn’t so innocent as people keep proclaiming. Sure, comics Steven isn’t a fan of violence, but he knows how to throw a punch as much as the other two. Perhaps a bit more refined in his fighting than Marc and Jake, but he knows how to wear the cowl. 

Comic Steven aside, let’s have a look at everyone’s favorite MCU big eyed derpy smile heart and soul. I cannot stand the babyfiers. “Little sweet baby girl meow meow.” Sure. terms of endearment. Why not. Whatever gets your rocks off I guess. 

But he is so much more. He is wicked smart. He is observant. He picks things up that peak his interest or that he finds useful and he runs with them. 

He is Marc’s emotional and spiritual protector. Who knows how long he has been pulling Marc out of strange situations. Talking his way out of bad situations. 

There’s contention on who was driving the body when Marc was fighting the Arab gang. The first switch when Marc finds himself in the taxi cab, I believe that was Steven. Steven wanted to go home. He didn’t understand why they were there because Marc did not communicate. He thought Marc was a violent loving murderer and if he could get Marc away from all this, then no one would get violently murdered. 

But where did we leave Marc in that fight? Holding a knife to a man’s neck. When Steven took over, he had to backtrack. He would have had to assure three guys that wanted to kill him that “Nawh, it’s alright Mate. Just a misunderstanding.” 

When Marc meets back up with them, they are confused. A man that just ran them down and tried to kill them suddenly changed his mind. “You let us go.” What an interesting phrase. Steven “Let them go”. 

I like to imagine Steven smiled, helped them back up, straightened their ruffled collars, all while apologizing and muttering about how horrid all this was. I’d probably look confused and a little afraid too. What power play is this? 

The thing is, Steven casually walked away from that and got in a taxi with directions to go to the airport. He is in a foreign country and does not speak the language. I don’t know about you, but I’d be absolutely terrified. I have a hard enough time dealing with being lost in my own country. 

Steven screams and cries and is afraid of a lot of things. He’s easily stressed, but he knows how to handle himself. He gets them through those things with CONVICTION. Scary dead bird god chasing him down the hall demanding that he give back the bag? Steven clutches the bad tighter and RUNS. 

He’s just been kidnapped by a group that he has seen murder someone and that has tried to murder him more than once, and he is ready to talk his way out of it. He listens to their side patiently. He thinks it all over. 

He assesses how much immediate danger he is in and takes the needed approach to survive. If he listens to Harrow, Harrow won’t kill him right away. So he listens. Harrow acts friendly towards him so he can relax a little and look around. What information is supplied and what information can he pick up by just observing? Steven soaks it all in and picks out the pieces that he can use. 

When Harrow emotionally attacks Marc, Steven steps up. He pokes holes in Harrow’s arguments and takes his own stand. He isn’t afraid to question things. He isn’t afraid to voice where he finds them morally reprehensible. 

If given the chance, he would have argued with them for hours. If he thought it would change the mind of one person there, he would have sat down and talked to them for days. 

When it comes to fighting, Steven is hesitant at first. He isn’t used to it and probably has never needed to fight before, thanks to Marc. He’s seen people fight. He’s seen people box and probably even read a little about it at some point. He mimics what he thinks a fighter would look like and throws his first punch. 

The thing about Steven is that he is easy to build up. His punch lands and he gains faith in himself so easily because he is HOPE. He’s got this. On the boat he knows he can save Marc and he does. 

In the final battle, Marc opens conversation with Steven and when he fights, I believe Marc is in there acting as cheerleader and calling out moves to guide him. “Throw it! I’ll be there to catch it!” and he is. Steven learns so quickly and has his own ideas and you see how his fighting style not only blends with Marc’s, but turns into a graceful and calculated dance. He sees what Marc might miss and he acts. He knows he can’t fly but if someone is on his cape, he can take it off and Marc will be there to catch him again. 

Steven is about trust. Never once does he think Layla can’t do something because he has to protect her. He sees immediately that Layla knows what she is doing and can handle herself. He trusts that she can help him get out of a situation if it overwhelms him. 

When he understands Marc, he trusts that Marc will make the right call. In the final scene with Harrow, Steven stays out of the way. He doesn’t step in and plead with Marc not to kill him. This is Marc’s call. 

What gives Steven that innocent charm is that he is so filled with the desire to do good. To be noticed. To connect. He is starved for attention and love. He is a lonely man who wants love. His whole life has been about not seeing the bad. Not seeing when people are cruel to him. Marc designed their childhood so that Steven would never see the horrible moments. 

But where did that leave Steven? It made Steven look harder at everything else. It made him able to spot when things weren’t fair. It made him stand up against injustice and cruel people. He puts up with Donna’s treatment, but that is part of keeping his job. He is constantly talking back to her. He is voicing his opinion at every opportunity. 

“You weren’t meant to see that.” But Marc is short sighted. Steven sees everything else. Steven understands when people are overlooking him. When people write him off. He knows that sometimes he tries too hard and makes people uncomfortable, but he is going to keep trying. He wants to get things right and he wants people to understand him. 

He is Autistic and struggles with interaction, but that doesn’t stop him from seeking it out. He is excited to share what he knows. He wants other people to be excited with him. He wants to connect to someone and just talk about his special interests with them. 

The first time someone truly sees Steven is Layla when he is building the star map. It catches him off guard so much that he practically has to reboot and dives right into something he understands and can talk about. When she doesn’t reject him or push him away, his desire to connect focuses on her so much that she could be his special interest. Seeing her smile, making her happy, just staring at her. And she lets him (I’ll post about Layla and her love language later, don’t you worry). This is absolutely what Steven needs to further build his confidence and let him know that he is doing the right thing. 

The next time someone really sees Steven is on the boat when Steven rushes in and saves Marc. Marc originally told Steven to hide and Steven instead protected him. Steven has been given his place now. His ability to connect with Marc makes him that much stronger. Someone that can understand him. Someone that he can finally just exist with. 

Moon Knight is about being SEEN. But what does that mean for Steven? It means being seen for who you are. What you are capable of. Not just being put in the corner because you are a cute little precious that needs protection. But about being seen for your own strengths! Give Steven the acknowledgement he deserves. See Steven for the absolute unit that he is. 

#Moon Knight #Moon Knight Meta #Wow I really went off there #Didn't mean to just ramble but I have FEELINGS #Feelings about Steven #Steven Grant #This isn't even all of it #but I had to stop myself before I wrote a fucking novel #I just want to talk about Moon Knight #Let the man be seen

[ohnoitstbskyen]

Out of curiosity I must ask, what League of Legends champion do you absolutely loathe lore wise?

I don't mean that you hate them every time they're on screen and wish that Riot never made them, mind you. I mean they're good in design and execution, but if you were in their world, you'd punch them directly in the balls.

God, like... most of them? Yeah, most of them probably. Might be easier to count the ones I wouldn't get angry with.

Understand, most of these characters are people who wield tremendous power and who, out of the necessity of storytelling, makes really bad choices about how to wield it and wield it unilaterally over other people.

Like, Shen for example, good ol' mister Eye of Twilight, Keeper of the Balance and so on... also happy to just let people get Noxus Murdered because of spirit balances or whatever. Fuck that guy. Punch him in the dick. Nasus is too busy feeling sorry for himself in the desert to give a shit about helping the people he was once sworn to defend, Swain is a military dictator, Darius is the enforcer of military dictatorship, Garen and Fiora both aid and abet an ongoing genocide while Lux is a reprehensible centrist about it, Xayah and Rakan are terrorists targeting human civilians, Bard happily lets entire villages be slaughtered while he collects magic artifacts, Vex killed like hundreds of thousands of people during the Ruination... it goes on like this.

So yeah. Lillia is cute and good and deserves the world. Ekko and his crew have never done anything wrong, ever, and protect Zeri at all costs. Yuumi is baby. I'd try goat's milk to drink with Braum, and I'd love to share a campfire with Taliyah and her folks. Nami seems alright, Neeko would be fun to chat with, I wish to build a snowman with Nunu and Willump. Poppy is okay, but we don't know if she's on the mages' side yet, so, hm. Soraka is welcome at the party though!

And y'know what, Seraphine and Gwen can come too, they seem like they'd be baseline pleasant to have around.

EDIT: inb4 none of this means you're not allowed to like any of these characters or that enjoying them and fanjoying over them is problematic or w/e, please do not be weird about this

#tb answers #league of legends

[cyarskaren52]

you can always tell who thinks misogyny & abuse against women is a lesser issue. what does tory being Black, have to do with anything? (besides exposing who picks & chooses what types of violence they care about)

Remember when r Kelly was finally paying for his egregious crimes against young women and children? He was exposed to the world since 2019, but he’s been doing this sick crap for nearly 30 years (long as his career until the documentary came out) I bet my entire savings account that if r Kelly was a poor man, his victims were mostly white women and girls or better yet if his enablers stopped him when he harmed his first victim, he’ll be locked up immediately.

Apparently a black woman has to fight twice as hard to be believed and as much as I admire their courage and resilience and determination to get closure and some form of peace it pisses me off because why must any victim let alone a black victim suffer again and again to get to seeing the monster responsible for her trauma face the consequences?

Played every card in the book when in reality all he had to was keep his mouth shut. Hello , has he heard of Miranda rights? Did he know that every word said can and will be used against him in the court of law, he should have known that. What a Dumbass. Karma will always get her lick back. Love that for her.

Btw Jose Baez is the most reprehensible scum fuck whose lies are solely responsible for baby murdering Casey Anthony to walk free

#❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ #This whole case had me changing my opinions and views(at least for the moment) #celebrating the police and the system #being xenophobic towards Canadian people #posting stories with reader plus white celebrities with fluffy or smutty material #nearly being racist towards black men #saying that some of them nigcels deserved to be another hashtag #and backing the death penalty. #megan thee stallion #i’m not sad for her #i’m outraged #i’m just glad she’s in a better place now #those people can speak for themselves they know who they are #and they can go straight to hell #they will pay for their crimes #for sucking that abusers meat #Instagram #As always a loud and sincere fuck you to everyone who has doubted her and supported that Canadian cuntery who must not be named #She went through unnecessary trauma for two years #That’s unforgivable #Next level fuckery #That that type of ish that would lead to an episode of snapped or deadly women #once again #🖕🏿daystar Peterson #annnnn boom #just like that #may all who come against black women rot #Don’t fuck with black women #If you can’t love them then at least don’t harm them #can’t wait to see that sociopath locked up on August 7th.

[bohemian-nights]

Weaponizing Rhaenyra against Nettles? Did anon think that is was a head cannon that the fans made up about Rhaenyra wanting to execute Nettles after hearing that Nettles might be pregnant? Because that is straight from GRRM himself that 1. Rhaenyra used derogatory and dehumanizing language to describe Nettles and 2. Ordering the death of her and her possibly unborn baby....

"Rhaenyra would never be involved in B&C, she would never harm a child"

Yet she's so comfortable ordering the execution of a possible mother and her unborn baby? Riiiight

The anon that we are talking about.

Girl your guess is as good as mine, but it appears like Rhaenyra stans are in some deep psychosis where they actually believe their headcanons that she’s supposed to be considered the hero in this story.

None of the main players of the Dance are good people(most range from gray to downright reprehensible). They are all petty and commit some of the most heinous acts which end up hurting the innocent people that they love.

Rhaenyra is one such individual, but her fans take people pointing out that she’s a racist who hates other women and condones child murder as an attack against women. Nettles is one of her victims and yet they don’t want to see it and they hate you for pointing it out(hence the gaslighting).

No one is obligated to like a crazed racist who tries to commit a hate crime just because she’s a woman. You are asking too much, especially from Black women fans, to ignore her racism in the name of sisterhood to make you feel comfortable. Their behavior is beyond disturbing and hateful at this point.

#bnask #bnasks #I have no words for what they are doing #it’s foul #hotd fandom misogynoir #nettles #netty

[reel-fear]

Gotta say I can't stand people acting like Appledusk genuinely loved either of his mates. He didn't love Reedshine enough to be faithful, and he didn't love Mapleshade enough to not canonically stand her up for weeks, nor did he care about their kids enough not to actively (if indirectly) call them mistakes.

And no, apologists, MAPLESHADE was the side-chick. This stupid idea that Reedshine must've been the second mate because she was pregnant later is one of the stupidest things you could possibly say. Why are you implying you need to be pregnant and/or have kids to be fucking married??

And slightly off-topic, but "Mapleshade used her kits/Mapleshade babylocked Appledusk!" Is all around dumb.

THEY ARE FERAL. CATS. THEY DO NOT HAVE FUCKING BIRTH CONTROL. What do they WANT her to have done when she realised she was pregnant? Eat a deathberry?

And using the first "Appledusk is mine, these kits will make sure of that" line as "proof" is stupid too. Look at the actual context of the line in the book instead of watching one YouTube video.

Remember also: Appledusk has been standing her up on their nightly meetings for weeks to the point she had to tell him she's pregnant at a gathering. She did not just go to speak with him "because she thinks she's above the rules." Was she just meant to never tell her husband who she believes loves her she was pregnant?

Mapleshade sees from where she is hiding when Reedshine walks up to Appledusk and cuddles with him. She walked away and saw another woman move up to her husband (who she believes is monogamous and not a prick having an affair, Maple has no idea she is actively his side-chick) and flirt and snuggle him. She just told him she is pregnant, and this other woman is flirting with him. ANYONE would get momentarily jealous at that.

And even in some universe Mapleshade did genuinely think something was going on between the man she loves and Reedshine, IT TURNED OUT CORRECT. Appledusk IS having a fucking affair.

Obviously, it's not Reed's fault, it's entirely and 100% Appledusk's, but still.

And apologists need to stop using Maple thinking about Appledusk when the kits are born to back their "she used them to trap him" bullcrap. Is a new mother not allowed to think about her husband and wish the father of her children could meet them?

And bonus when they twist everything to say this but completely ignore Frecklewish and Oakstar literally stating that they want to raise the kids as weapons and nothing else.

YEA YEA... Like my biggest problem with the way ppl talk abt Mapleshade is all this shit being used as justification for why she deserves to have her life ruined and her babies die is HORRIFYING. Moth flight is shown to be incredibly easy to make jealous, Jayfeather and Lionblaze have blind faith in Starclan to tell them how to solve everything. ivypools motive for being in the df is kinda petty and she KILLS SOMEONE TWICE IN THERE. and Lionblaze only contunies to MURDER AND MURDER AND MURDER as the books go on. Hollyleaf murdered the person she saw as responsible for hurting her family only to take it back and hurt her family by unleashing the secret anyways.

Stop acting like Mapleshade deserved her tragedy at all. Compared to other warriors protagonists who also have blind faith in starclan make dumb and morally reprehensible choices she isnt any different than them. And on the babylock thing. it takes two to tango and if Appledusk didnt want kits or didnt want to stay with Mapleshade any more... Why did he "yknow" her??? Its entirely his own fault. She cant get an abortion or take a pill to not get pregnant unwanted pregnancies in warriors are so common they're becoming something the books themselves are addressing as wrong and bad. [this also works for the "she was seeing the guy who killed flowerpaw and freckles brother fucked up' excuse, I believe the time frame between that happening and maples kits being born was mentioned to be close enough that its likely Maple n Dusk had those kits BEFORE that incident. And like I said cat abortions dont exist so once again fuck Frecklewish fuck her grief she attacked and screamed at babies Im glad shes in hell <3]

When we start talking about mapleshade people suddenly switch to a mode where anything is okay unless Mapleshade did it and will do ANYTHING to twist the narrative to protect the horrible people around Mapleshade. Sure Mapleshade was dumb and naive and thats one of the biggest reasons her life falls apart. But making bad decisions and doing bad things shouldnt be punishable by kitten death in a world where Moth Flight or Clear Sky or Grey Wing get away free with the HORRIBLE actions they have taken. Bramblestar is stupid he takes actions only to boost his inflated ego and hurts his wife why did Starclan punish Maple for her wrong deeds but not him? She put blind faith in Starclan isnt an excuse BECAUSE BLIND FAITH IN STARCLAN IS BASICALLY REQUIRED IN WARRIORS!!! we only recently got arcs showing Starclan in a flawed light so no Mapleshade doesnt actually do a lot wrong by warriors standards people are just fucking dumb. Anyways if anyone reads this and feels the need to give me a nasty reply or get defensive bc Freckle, Apple, Oak and whatever the name of the riverclan leader was deserve to go to hell for their crimes. You better have passages from the book to back you up or I will eat you alive.

#warriors #warrior cats #mapleshade #frecklewish #oakstar #appledusk

[why-is-it-always-autumn]

Which is more annoying, "deconstructions" that say "It would be messed up if [thing the author just made up, that is never implied in canon] was the case, and therefore everyone who likes canon is stupid and/or evil" (ie "Superman is evil because in my setting he gets his powers from eating the souls of babies. This is meant to say something about canon Superman"), or "defenses" of a thing that say "Well [morally reprehensible canon act] would be okay if [extenuating circumstances that are never alluded to in canon], so you're the monster for saying that those characters did anything wrong, actually" (ie "slaughtering hundreds of random security guards every episode would be fine if they were all extremely lifelike remote-controlled robots, so the main characters obviously aren't mass murderers")?

#bonus challenger: picking a ruleset at random and judging characters based on the rules that have no reason to be in play #(ie assuming that the alien planet has the exact same legal system as the modern usa)

[whatyourusherthinks]

Cabrini Review

Ah fuck, it's my first Angel Studios movie. Never heard of them? Well, they are a Mormon faith-based movie company that uses crowd-funding to produce their movies. Naturally it's CEOs and film makers are all God-fearing, alt-right, dog whistle-spouting, propaganda-spreading Neo-Nazis. They're most famous for a movie that came out last year called Sound of Freedom, the "true" story about a guy who tried to end child trafficking by child trafficking. And then one of the film's funders got arrested for child trafficking. Can't fucking make that shit up. The only reason the theater I work at shows these movies is because the company and a distribution deal with Angel, the only people who come to see them are decrepit old bags who only watch to have their worst presuppositions confirmed and masochists who've lost their riding crops like myself.

TO BE FAIR, I was morbidly curious to see After Death, their documentary about proving the existence of the after life. (But it left the theaters before I had a chance to watch it.) And the premise of telling a story about a real life nun I've never heard of isn't a bad one. Glancing at Wikipedia it seems like the real life Cabrini wasn't caught grifting sick patients or stealing babies like certain other nuns. So maybe the movie is a decent retelling of the person's life. We shall see.

What's The Movie About?

This is a biopic of Francis Xavier Cabrini, an Italian nun who was the first Catholic saint from the US. The movie specifically follows a mission to New York City building an orphanage and then a hospital.

What I Like.

Cabrini was a good character in the movie. She was driven and stubborn, generally wise, kind to those less fortunate but didn't allow anyone to take advantage of her. Her plans to fund her various projects and protect her wards were pretty inspiring, not gonna lie. And I liked that they let her cry in a couple scenes and didn't give her shit for it (Even what she was crying over was kinda weird). I also like her friend Victoria, a prostitute who murdered her pimp is self defense then works with Cabrini. I was concerned that the movie makers were taking the piss releasing this on International Women's Day, but no the women characters are good. John Lithgow plays the corrupt mayor of New York who is cartoonishly evil and I kinda loved it. The set design and costuming was also pretty good. I liked all the top hats and cigars. There's some pretty neat scene transitions as well. Also the movie didn't try to pass off any reprehensible behavior as righteous, so it cleared the minimum requirement.

What I Didn't Like.

So Cabrini is a fine character in the movie, but she also has absolutely no flaws. I mean she's sickly, but that never really plays into anything in the plot or prevents her from doing anything. Actually I lied, the one part of the plot that is played into by the being chronically sick thing is she meets a doctor she becomes friends with, so her one flaw is a net positive. She's also followed around by 5 or 6 other nuns who get absolutely no characterization. I think they said one of their names once but I can't remember what it was. I also find it a bit funny that this Christian movie about a Catholic nun makes the Catholic Church a secondary antagonist. But they also try to present the story for being a bit morally grey, yet everything Cabrini does is entirely righteous and everyone trying to stop her is either racist, corrupt, or both. There was one scene where the editing made me entirely confused about where characters were, and the fact the shit started exploding didn't help. The message of the movie was "Start the Mission, God will provide the means." Not only is that just not how the world works, but the main conflict in the movie is Cabrini not having enough money to do any of the mission work she wants to do and has to convince other people to donate. "But Roan," Joe Buggknutz protests, "The means God provided were the donations from the people." But not only did Cabrini basically have to beg for all of the money, (which maybe you can argue is part of the mission but she's already taking care of orphans and supervising building places for sick and injured to go, which was her stated mission's purpose so it seems churlish to demand that she does more) but half the people she asks don't give her a cent! Thanks for coming through there God! "But- but the Lord works in mysterious ways!" Stop making excuses for your favorite imaginary friend you cuc-

Final Summation.

Cabrini is fine. If you can stomach the idea of making a glowing biopic of a missionary, you can watch this movie with no problems. I'm still not recommending it because fuck Angel Studios. But if your crazy relative sends you one of their free tickets that they try to unload on their audience, there are worse ways to spend two and a half hours.

#Cabrini #Rejected Movies

[retconned-royalty]

1, 5,6,7,20

canon questionnaire.

What made you pick up this character?

Damon is dark and complex, he's not a hero and he's not a villain. For the most part? He's just hurting. I think I was drawn to that, to exploring the man behind the tantrums, the murder, the couldn't care less attitude when it's so clear that he cares maybe more than anyone. Damon feels HARD and wears those feelings so obviously on his sleeve. He struggles with emotional regulation and with pushing others away by the intensity of everything he does.

5. What’s the best thing about the fandom?

My rp partners for sure! I've met some really awesome people and I find joy in creating stories with them. There's so much freedom to play around with canon and character ships. Shout out to @voros-kiralyno because I am absolutely obsessed with Damon's relationship to this OC. Another shout out to @baby-royalty for making Damon the dad I never knew he could be. And final shout out to @sarcasticsnackpack never thought one of my fav ships would be with Stiles of all people.

6. What’s the worst thing about the fandom?

The double standards when it comes to morality. I write both Damon and Klaus and 100% Klaus is canonically more of a reprehensible monster. Yet Damon gets a ton of hate for how he treated Caroline - which is deserved on one hand. But I don't understand how he ends up being an irredeemable character and Klaus gets all the love despite his history.

7. What’s the best thing about the canon you are writing?

The characters for sure... But that's about it. Show was trash in so many ways and I just don't acknowledge any canon past season like 5.

20. If you could sum up your character with one sentence, what would it be?

Damon loves and hates with every single fiber of his being.

#answered meme #malka lisitsa #queue

[grendelsmilf]

Personally I think the lowest point of the entire series was 'breezy' like I kind of got what they were going for but it implied lsp pressured Finn into sleeping with her and then his disability is magically cured like WHAT a mess. They did fix it later and everything, but no boring side episode came close to how mad that one made me. And AT never felt the same after with the new magic lore...I still liked the ending but there was def a change

ok well you’re wrong, but that episode does make me deeply uncomfortable to watch (which doesn’t mean it’s bad!) and I understand why it’s so controversial, so I was expecting someone to say this sooner or later. I will attempt to address all your concerns now:

first of all, I don’t see how lsp sexually assaulting finn is remotely a bad writing decision, since lsp’s entire character revolves around her being a horrible, entitled, selfish person who does what she wants at the expense of the people around her, and the idea that she wouldn’t rape (or murder) despite her established value system is weird because like. of course she would?? the one episode where she even seems to consider being a good person is in “princess day,” and it’s pretty clear she doesn’t actually care about being a good person, but whether she can be perceived as a good person. she is deeply shallow, and since it’s obvious that finn doesn’t even have the language to express his discomfort with what she did to him, she has no qualms about taking advantage of him for her own gain. I know this is probably the most fucked up thing she does in the whole series, so a lot of people take issue with it because yknow. sexually assaulting our protagonist without compunction is such a shockingly reprehensible thing for a character to do, but it’s actually very consistent with her character, and an important part of the episode and of finn’s arc that should not be ignored.

secondly, the implications, possibilities, and ramifications of magic has been a theme since the very beginning of the show, and expanding on that lore isn’t contradictory to anything previously established, especially considering finn as our pov character has a very limited scope into the nature of his world. the idea that his magical injury that he got from a magical curse is healed with magic is not remotely unreasonable. especially considering that it is, in fact, a metaphor.

when finn (first) loses an arm, it specifically represents his father’s abandonment. he feels like a piece of him is missing. it’s why he can’t just use a prosthetic, even though pb could obviously make him one in her sleep. after martin escapes from the citadel, finn goes through a grieving process, first in denial, then anger and bargaining (“baby’s building a tower into space”), and in this episode, he’s experiencing depression. he copes with his depression through self-harm, but it doesn’t actually seem like self-harm because asking girls for a quick peck on the lips seems pretty innocuous. it’s only because we know how intensely finn feels about romance up until this point (he later matures & grows out of this mentality) that we are concerned for his behavior in this episode. and it is only when this behavior leads to him being sexually assaulted that we are truly met with the gravity of the consequences.

as for finn’s arm growing back, this specifically represents finn beginning to accept that his dad’s own severe issues don’t reflect on finn as a person. finn must learn to detach his own self-worth from the harm people cause him, and obviously it’s not like this problem is immediately solved overnight, but that’s what he’s in the process of learning here. that’s why the harm lsp causes him is so important to this episode, because it shows that he’s both seeking that out because he wants more violence inflicted upon him, and because the fact that he continues to take her as she is (a fucking horrible person) and understand that what she did isn’t a reflection of him after the fact is so important to who finn is as a character, especially as his capacity for empathy and tolerance continue to develop.

the fact that pb is the one he sees giving him his arm back is interesting, because she’s probably the most complicated relationship he has with anyone in his life, and her image/voice comes to him in moments of great emotional clarity and breakthrough, such as in “hall of egress.” finn’s relationship to pb is inextricable from his arc as a whole, and the way he views her in every iteration is crucial to understanding his psyche and his emotional development.

now, as you say, finn’s disability arc doesn’t just end there. because, I agree, if it did, it would suck. but like, I once saw someone say that finn being so chill about having lost an arm in “james II” is good disability representation because they just treat it like a normal thing that doesn’t matter, and then a bunch of people got mad that he was shown to be severely traumatized from this in “breezy” and like. no??? in that episode, finn is still in denial. he’s just straight up pretending that nothing is wrong and that his body is fine. by the time we get to “breezy,” he has reached (and exceeded) his breaking point. but the idea that “good disability representation” is showing someone be fine with losing their literal arm is absolutely ridiculous. if the main character of your show, who has up until this point been a very active, healthy, able-bodied, energetic kid were to be totally chill with suddenly losing their arm, I would consider you a terrible writer, for obvious reasons. no human being is “chill” about suddenly becoming physically disabled, especially when the circumstances surrounding that newfound disability are extremely traumatic! ok, mini-rant over. ANYWAY.

I’ve written before on why finn’s disability is actually really well-handled (bite me losers), but i will also say that specifically with regards to breezy, it’s important to note that finn doesn’t actually resolve his trauma in this episode. you know why? because if he had, then fern wouldn’t exist. fern is a manifestation of finn at his lowest psychologically, finn during his ptsd depression maladaptive coping era. finn loses his arm, and then it grows back, and then he loses his arm again, but this time he’s less upset about it because he’s experienced this before, so now he’s able to wear a prosthetic, but then he loses his prosthetic in the stomach of golb and becomes the most authentic version of himself, and he lives with no arm and no prosthetic, finally, actually, fine with it, because he is truly mature now. fern is born, finn kills fern, fern comes back, fern dies holding finn’s hand. healing isn’t linear. finn’s growth does not follow a straight path, because he is a human being. sometimes what seems like a fix is just deciding to ignore a problem until it inevitably resurfaces. you really think they were just gonna let finn walk around with two whole arms for the rest of the series? after they established that every single version of finn throughout space, time, and multiverse is, ontologically, armless? no, for finn, losing an arm is part of growing up. but here, in this episode, he is growing up too soon, and he’s coping poorly, so his solution is to just repress all of it, shove it into the back of the Vault. but in a few years, he’ll open that door again. and then, he’ll be ready for it.

#put under a readmore bc it got LONG #at ramblings #anon #ask #ok I spent way too long writing this #I should have gone to sleep hours ago #but if I don’t defend breezy who will I ask you. who will #(I say this and yet I absolutely hate rewatching this episode it causes me physical pain) #(but still!!!!!!) #also like. a lot of characters are implied to have been sexually assaulted as kids in this show (marcy & pb specifically). finns not special #wait i just realized I didn’t even mention breezy herself #but like ya obv she represents another person who finn needs to realize isn’t a reflection of himself #and also a coping mechanism #but yeah I think I covered your points so

[butchdykekondraki]

its so fucking sucks that child murder is vaguely reprehensible in most video games but only because i really wanna kill that fucking lame ass baby faced cunt of a child who shouts about his pa's business in fallout new vegas. god i hate that toddler if there's ever a fallout game where he's included and old enough to die it's on sight

#im tired im not name tagginf this take a guess #hint hint its the only one of us whos into fnv

[short-circuit-the-great]

Incorrect Quotes With My Transformers OCs feat. Knock Out and Breakdown

I got these from a generator, which can be found here. I gathered a lot because I was entertained.

Quick intros:

Blender and Frostjam: Decepticon combiner duo

Suncatcher: wanderer + Knock Out's parent figure

Cloudrazor: Autobot warrior + Suncatcher's rival

Stormrunner: robot drug dealer + Knock Out's friend

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Blender, holding a gun: If the conspiracies about life being a simulation are true WHOEVER'S CONTROLLING MY SIM I JUST WANNA TALK.

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Blender: Aww, what's your dog's name? Suncatcher: Spartacus. Blender, yelling to Frostjam: TRY SPARTACUS! Frostjam, on the computer: DIDN'T WORK! Suncatcher: Blender: What's your favorite number?

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Blender, in a high voice, holding Barbie: Hey, Ken! I was thinking about going back to school and starting a career! Frostjam, in a deep voice, holding Ken: Nonsense, Barbie. You’re staying home and having my kids. Suncatcher: What the fuck are you guys doing? Blender: Playing systemic oppression.

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Suncatcher: Without ugly, there would be no beauty in this world. Blender: Thank you for your sacrifice, Frostjam.

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Suncatcher: So, Blender and Frostjam. Suncatcher: According to this, you two are being accused of: Armed Robbery, Vandalism, Drug Abuse, Grand Theft Auto… Blender: We had a bad day. Suncatcher: And… MURDER?! Frostjam: It was a pretty bad day…

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Suncatcher & Frostjam: Surprise! We're having a baby! Blender: What?! Suncatcher & Frostjam: *pull out adoption papers* It's you!

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Suncatcher: Can we talk about that mass email you sent? Blender: Why? It was important. Suncatcher: All it says is, "I'm back on my shit". Frostjam, shrugging: The people need to know.

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Cloudrazor: Even Suncatcher and I have been getting closer. The other day, they gave me half of their sandwich. Suncatcher: I mistook them for a garbage can.

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Cloudrazor: How was your day, Suncatcher? Suncatcher: Yeah, fine, it's anti-bullying week at school. Cloudrazor: Oh? And what does that mean? Suncatcher: It means I can't bully anyone for a whole week.

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Suncatcher: I intend to stay pissed at you forever. Suncatcher: Even if I seem helpful. Cloudrazor: Then you're in luck. Cloudrazor: Because you don't.

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Suncatcher: Get your hand off my shield! Cloudrazor: There's like a million other shields. Suncatcher: Take that one, it has a flower on it. Girls like flowers. Cloudrazor: *hits Suncatcher with the shield* Oops! Now this one has blood on it.

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Cloudrazor: Hey Suncatcher, have you seen the photographer? Suncatcher: Nope. Have you seen the meat tenderizer? Cloudrazor, confused: What? Suncatcher, grabbing the meat tenderizer out of the drawer: No reason, cute girl things!

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Stormrunner: Knock Out, this morning, I called you abhorrent and reprehensible, and I’d like to withdraw that statement- Knock Out: Aww, thanks- Stormrunner: But I can't. Those are the 2 words that best describe you.

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Stormrunner: You look like a corpse that was just pulled out of the river. Knock Out: Wrong. I look like a cool rock star who just OD'd in their own pool. Big difference.

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Stormrunner: Some people are like slinkies. Breakdown: What? Stormrunner: Not really good for much but bring a smile to your face when you push them down the stairs. Breakdown: Breakdown: Please don't push Knock Out down the stairs. Stormrunner, pushing Knock Out down the stairs: Too late.

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Knock Out: Self care is stuff like taking a bubble bath or putting on a lot of make up if you like that, or taking a nice warm nap and stuff like that, basically. Breakdown: Self care is the burning heat when rage washes over you. Self care is when you feel the bones crack under your powerful fists. Self care is the fear in your enemy's eyes. Stormrunner: Self care is stealing someone's birthday cake just to eat the frosting. Breakdown: If you touch my birthday cake, I’ll make you eat your hands.

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Breakdown: Knock Out is a perfect cinnamon scone who’s never done anything wrong in his entire life! Stormrunner: Never done anything wrong?! He set a city block on FIRE!

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Breakdown: Where are you going? Knock Out: To get MYSELF a gift 'cause somebody didn't get me one! Breakdown: I told you I did! It's coming here on Friday! Stormrunner, knowing full well Breakdown got Knock Out an engagement ring: *eating popcorn*

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Stormrunner: Breakdown, that’s disgusting. You’re only giving free stuff to beautiful people. Knock Out: Yeah, you should be ashamed of yourself. Breakdown: Oh yeah? *gets really close to Knock Out* How about a muffin on the house, baby? Knock Out, giggling: I’m pretty.

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Knock Out: I asked Breakdown out. Stormrunner: Oh, I’m sorry. Knock Out: Why? Stormrunner: Well, I assume they said no. Knock Out: No, they said yes. Stormrunner: Really? Then I’m sorry for them.

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Suncatcher, to Knock Out: I'm leaving for the weekend, so I hid 100 dollars in your room for food. Clean your room, and you will find it.

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Knock Out: That's greatly offensive to my people. Suncatcher: College dropouts?

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Suncatcher: If you see me talking to myself, go away. I’m self-employed and we’re having a staff meeting.

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Suncatcher: *cocks gun* Go to bed. This is no longer a request. This is now a threat.

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Breakdown, digging their grave: Long story short, this is my grave. Want me to make you one too?

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Breakdown: If I make you breakfast in bed, a simple "thank you" is all I need. Breakdown: Not all this "how did you get into my house" business.

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Breakdown, working at McDonald's: Sorry sir, we don't serve a McFuck here, so either you throw that one slice of pickle out or we're gonna have a McProblem.

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Breakdown: BEHOLD, the field in which I grow my fucks! Lay thine eyes upon it, and thou shalt see that it is barren!

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Suncatcher, writing in their diary with a glitter gel pen: I'm losing my sense of humanity. Nothing matters. God is dead. There's blood on my hands.

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Breakdown: Seriously, I have no idea what to do. Breakdown: Oh, wait! Yahoo! Answers.

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Suncatcher: It's not like I try to blow things up, exactly. It just sort of happens. You've got to admit though, fire is fascinating.

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Knock Out: You can de-escalate literally any situation by asking ‘are we about to kiss?’ Knock Out: Doesn't work with getting out of speeding tickets, though.

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*Breakdown is substitute teaching* Student: What did you say? Breakdown: I said, whoever threw that paper, your mom’s a hoe!

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Knock Out: If I see a bug, I simply leave the room elegantly and require someone else do something about it. Knock Out: If no one fulfills my wish, I simply never go back in there.

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Stormrunner: Knock Out, what do you value about Breakdown? Knock Out: They’re thoughtful. They pick flowers and bring them to me. Often they’re ones I’ve just planted, but... Breakdown: That’s how I know they’re fresh!

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Breakdown: Knock Out has no survival skills. His need to win has replaced them. Stormrunner: That can't be true. Breakdown: Watch this. Breakdown: Hey Knock Out, race you to the bottom of the stairs! Knock Out: *Throws himself out the window*

#maccadam #transformers #tf fan continuity #Transformers Dying Sun #incorrect quotes #transformers oc #tf oc #kobd #knock out #knockout #breakdown

[tiredbitchposts]

Do you mind if I ask your top 10 favorite characters (can be male or female) from all of the media that you loved (can be anime/manga, books, movies or tv series)? And why do you love them? Sorry if you've answered this question before.....Thanks...

Sure i'll try my best to answer this for you

10-) Gaara from Naruto

Reason: He's the first antagonist i've ever rooted for, not for his plans but for his mental health. When i first saw his backstory i just wanted to riot bc damn, people really treated this boy like a monster since day one and then got surprised when he started acting like it, i just wanted him happy and at the least i got that at the end of the anime (No, i refuse to watch Boruto on principle)

9-) Tsukiyomi Ikuto from Shugo Chara

Reason: We all have our problematic shoujo male leads that we love. In my defense i watched Shugo Chara when i was 12 years old and it wasn't until later when i realized the age difference but even then i still have a soft spot for him in my heart. He and his sister suffered so much and i just want them happy, healthy and taken care of (he's also the reason why i'm into catboys now that i think abt it)

8-)Naruto Uzumaki from Naruto

Reason: He's my baby boy (not in a carnal way), i watched this boy grow up rooting for him to achieve his dreams, he's the first male protagonist i was emotionally invested in and ngl to this day i still read fix-it fics for his childhood because in my heart of hearts he deserves it (Still refusing to watch Boruto tho)

7-) Haruka Nanase from free! Iwatobi swim club

Reason: The reason is not as deep as the others i'm afraid, i genuinely loved Free! When it first came out, i was obsessed with Haru's character and the way he was as a person, he's extremely attractive and i want to crack him open like an egg and study his insides (he's also very shipable and i like that in a fictional man)

6-) Kageyama Tobio from Haikyuu

Reason: He's my awkward lil guy. I loved the way he developed as a character, from a temperamental, lonely volleyball genius to the type of guy that still uses the signature his upperclassman came up for him in high school as a pro player. I also really liked how we only got the reason why he was acting like he did in middle school only at the end of the end of the manga and how it made everything make sense in retrospect

5-) Hinamori Amu from Shugo Chara

Reason: Shugo Chara was my first magical girls anime and i still have a really soft spot for Amu in my heart. I know she's not the most well written deep characters around but i really like how she was an escape for me when i was younger. She was a pretty, popular, preteen girl who was an awkward mess and while i could only relate to the awkward mess, the fact that she got publicaly rejected by her crush and her taste in fashion i still watched her go because it felt good to see her do so

4-) Jason Todd from the Batman franchise

Reason: He's my babygirl (not always in a carnal way), this boy suffered so much in life, was happy for a few years, got brutally murdered, then brought back to suffer more. He's one of Dc's favorite punching bags and my dream is to see him happy, healthy and in therapy. Really hate how his own father won't avenge his death or let him do it himself, just fuck that clown already since you like him so much

3-) Wei Wuxian from Mdzs

Reason: I really do have a thing for red wearing, died but got better, on his second life but sluttier than ever characters. This boy deserves the world, he did do many morally reprehensible things in his time but it's all justified because i said so, he deserved his happy ending and my only complaint is that it didn't come sooner

2-) Shen Qingqiu from Scum Villain's self-saving system

Reason: This man is a whole ass clown, a walking contradiction, he's the reason why some people describe Scum Villain as a greek tragedy with clown music playing in the background. I've never seen someone so in-tune but detached from reality, bro doesn't even know his own emotions, on the inside he's a chronically online millenial on the outside he's the milfiest shizun in the Cang Qiong mountain sect and everyone knows it

1-) Kagome Higurashi from Inuyasha

Reason: This is my girl and i'll not take any criticism for it. She's a 15 years old middle schooler having to go back in time to fix a magical jewel to save japan and she's being so brave about it. She's an extremely kind person, does her best to see the good in everyone, even in people that attempted om her life before, she's a bit immature at times and has a temper but again, she's 15. She deserved better in general and because of that, and many more other reasons, that i fucking refuse to ever watch Yashahime, i just think it sucks she didn't even get to raise her daughter

#answered asks

[ratcatcher0325]

Hey Alexander it your partner in crime again. The one who told you to rickroll Natalie. You have made it clear that you wake up before Natalie. 😏

When Natalie is asleep connect the phone to the Bluetooth speaker and play the song 'baby shark' ON FULL BLAST.

Trust me it's worth it

Your partner I'm crime ,

Anon

My god, you devilish trickster of an Anon, you!

I think we are becoming thick as thieves! I would delight in nothing more than to startle my human counterpart awake. Do you have any idea how many times I've been awoken during a peaceful midday slumber by her clumsy fingers knocking something over or simply stomping around the room like some irritated elephant?? Humans have no idea just how unbearably LOUD they are. If you could all just speak at about half your normal volume, it would do much to cure the almost constant ringing in my ears.

Okay, Baby... Shark, you say? I'm not sure what sounds infantile sharks even make, but perhaps that's not relevant here? Why a shark? Why not a traditionally cute animal? Don't you dare even THINK I'm cute, I WILL KILL YOU. Ahem, sorry, now that we've got that important message out of the way... Okay, this dumb looking video with children in pajamas dancing in front of a green screen? What is this? Why do you suggest the strangest human music? Oh well, if it will annoy Natalie to no end, then I'm on board. I hope it's not to catchy though, I'd hate to have it stuck in my head all day long as some sort of karmic payback for what I'm about to do.

You see, I waited to respond to this ask until she was asleep and I was nearby the desk where I had access to the devices I needed, and, here we are. She's been getting very little sleep between classes and exams, so she just flopped on the bed about twenty minutes ago and immediately passed out. She didn't even bother taking her shoes off... which, I find rather reprehensible. Do you humans just think you're too big to be susceptible to germs?? Don't you know it's bad hygiene to rub your dirty soles all over your bedsheets? Disgusting. Anyway.... I'm going to hit play now, let's see just what happens...

My god, Anon! She hated that more than the Rick... (Riding?? Roving? Some sort of R gerund, I know!) thing! She immediately bolted upright and just started grimacing, "FUCK! NO! NOOOO! WHO KEEPS TELLING YOU THESE INTERNET SECRETS? NO! WE ARE NOT GETTING EAR MURDERED BY BABY SHARK TODAY. GODDAMMIT, ALEXANDER!" Oh, oh she's crawled over the bed and is headed straight for the desk, I have a feeling I'm about to be plucked up and given a stern talking to....

Hi, hello, it's been several hours since the previous events transpired. I'm still chuckling to myself at the image of her absolutely wild mane of bed-tangled hair as she woke up shouting obscenities at me. That was delightful. It's evening here, now, and I'm supposed to be asleep but I've unlocked her phone just sitting there on her nightstand beside my bed. If she didn't want me to use it why would she put it so nearby, hm? Hopefully the light from the device won't wake her. In any case, yes, she snatched my up in a fist and tapped the pause button perhaps a bit too aggressively. But I think her utter exhaustion made her more loopy than truly upset, because she just held me and started to laugh and shake her head muttering under her breath "Why, little nightmare, why do you love torturing me? I am so tired, my dude. Stop taking advice from the internet. I love you, but you're gonna be the death of me, especially with people egging you on. You're too powerful now...." Why did she call me dude? I am not, nor will I ever be a dude. How grossly informal.

Well, anyway, that was delightfully fun, even though I absolutely have that egregiously repetitive tune now bouncing around inside my skull, so thanks for that. I think, in spite of herself, Natalie got a good laugh out of it too. Here's to arming me with wonderful human insider knowledge to baffle this poor woman beside me.

Yours truly,

Alexander