we are childhood friends. we are each other’s most trusted person. i know your habits, your breath, your sword as well as my own. you have never gone a day without thinking of me. you left me and i let you. you have friends, comrades, i have no one. you are a cog in the machine i will destroy. you are starved for me, for anyone, but i didn’t wait for you. you have lost everyone but me, i have gained everything away from you. you look nowhere but the past, i look towards the future. you make me the villain to your hero. you are my blind spot. i am your weakness. you will destroy me. you can predict the future but i can predict you. i am a cog in the machine you will destroy. you place the world in my hands because i’m the only one you can entrust it to. you make me the hero to your villain. you call out for me in your final moments and i am there. you leave me with a curse and go where i cannot follow.
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Gojo smiles that smile. The one that curls his lips ever so slightly at the corners, and barely wrinkles his brow as it drags itself upward. The one that taunts with endless questions with no clear answers… with his chin in his palm, his bangs dripping down the tilt of his face, and his dark glasses slipping, too.
“Am I not a nuisance?” he asks, he tests, he trials, waiting for you to stumble, to fall, to berate him for being the spiteful person that he knows very well everyone secretly loves.
Instead, you raise your own brows in question. Inhale, almost in a deep sigh. Then you tilt your chin in and laugh.
“Our lives nearly end every day and you think I find you a nuisance? The people I love have been murdered only for you to ask if you’re the nuisance?” You roll your eyes. “Don’t kid yourself, Satoru. You could never be the problem.”
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I’ve seen some OFMD Takes that equate Stede and Ed’s softness and boil it down to an anti-toxic masculinity thing and an uncomplicated moral good, but I feel like doing that misses a lot of nuance by ignoring the role that class plays in their stories.
Stede does face negative repercussions for being ‘soft,’ for failing to measure up to the ideal of masculinity enforced by civilization, but only social consequences. And that’s not to say those consequences don’t matter; it’s terrible that his father was emotionally abusive, that he was bullied by his peers, that he felt alienated from his family. However, nobody was going to repossess his house because he wasn’t performing masculinity up to their standards. He was never going to have to worry about where his next meal would come from because of it.
Further, Stede has the privilege to walk away whenever he feels like it. He can “upend his entire comfortable life to become a pirate” and then “un-abandon [it] on a whim” and STILL face no economic consequences for any of it.
Ed, meanwhile, cannot just walk away from being Blackbeard because his legend is his only source of income. He can’t simply choose to stop being a pirate and be soft instead because, for him, the consequence of failing to perform the ideal of masculinity is death. In a fair and equal world, Ed would be able to wear all the silk robes and throw all the talent shows he wanted to, but that is not the world he lives in.
Piracy was supposed to be his escape from poverty, but all it’s managed to do is allow him to stave it off, and become a prison unto itself in the process. Ed is trapped, not by toxic masculinity, but by economic desperation. No matter how hard he tries, he’s still not one of “those kind of people” and he never will be. That’s the symbolism of him throwing the red silk away at the end of ep 10: the acceptance that “you wear fine things well” was only ever a dream for him and that dream is now dead.
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I appreciate that wakanda forever keeps up the age old tradition of namor Having A Really Good Point and Trying To Do Shit Diplomatically only for someone else to do something that forces him to go Sicko Mode and do something insane and hyper violent
Like it’s such a classic comic thing glad to see we’re keeping to the tried and true namor plots
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Did you have an otp when you were first into TF2 and has it stayed the same?
My OTP when I was first into tf2 was Science Party (Engie/Medic) and it’s definitely still the same!! It’s still unfortunately one of the more obscure ships; if I had more time I’d definitely be drawing them more, but alas, my editor already has a gun pointed at me for how long BnR is taking to come back LMFAO
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faking your own death (ruining your life) to spend the last months of your “friend”s life with him is truly the most romantic thing I’ve ever heard
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