Too many OTPs to count

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I kind of accidentally wrote lyrics for a possible Adora song, but I can't sing nor use an instrument, so I'll simply post them like this:

All my life I've been told

Of the greatness I'd achieve

What a sight to behold

Only a shackle to tie me

And even though now I realise

I should have put more of a fight

As poisoned words were sinking in

An unseen darkness gripping me

My heart so slowly was closed off

No fear, no want, distractions both

I basked in praise, then smiled on

But when I turned you were no more

Everyday was much the same

You and me, the Horde, the plan

At the top us two would be

Had the sword held no meaning

And so I sturdied it to hide

The whirlwind that my heart was like

Into the light I stepped by pledge

Yet shadows still pulled at my edge

A destiny had tore me from

A place that could have been my home

Unfair and cruel, I can now see

Light Hope, why did you lie to me?

My new life was shining bright

Because of friends right by my side

But a glaring hole stood to remind

Your absence dims the sky's starlight

And suddenly, a shift of balance

Sword in bits, Prime chipping towns

As fear, want coursed through my veins

I rushed to death, calling it my fate

But I am worth more than I give

Mara, oh thank you, rest in peace

Shera triumphed, Etheria's safe

My loved ones and I celebrate

At last there's only rays

Glim and Bow, this is the day

I feel so free now when I say

Catra, I love you, I wish to stay

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No, but when will we start talking about how awful the Eurovision jury is to songs in languages outside English and other popular Western ones. And God forbid for those to have blatant cultural influences, because they sure will try their hardest to bury it even more.

After the way Ukraine's entry was done dirty last year, I'm sure this year they would have been dealt the same hand by the jury if it weren't for the ongoing tragedy. Which is a shame, because entries like Ukraine's deserve recognition, but the only one they seem to get is from the audience when they shoot up in rankings thanks to them. And sometimes not even the televote will help these songs (looking at you France) :(

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Waiting for the day the world wakes up and I get my gay Dracula adaptation featuring a gothic horror romance between him and Jonathan instead of slapping yet another heteronormative love story put there just for us to ignore that Dracula says that he has the capacity to love while looking at Jonathan

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So where can I sign up to joing the Huntlow Protection Club? I've liked the ship for a while but after seeing how annoying people are on tiktok about it, I'm even more ready to defend these two with my life

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Given how much I can't stand horror, the way Hannibal has me in a chokehold is genuinely amazing and, personally, has everything to do with Hannigram and Will's arc in particular.

I first watched the show in February 2020. My love for it has only grown since then, but from the start I tended to read Will's struggle between his becoming with Hannibal and life as an agent of the good as the story of queer acceptance.

I like my dose of queer stories that give us a world with problems for us like every cishet individual instead of bigotry, but, coming from an extremely homophobic country, I find the well done dark and sad stories more cathartic. Bottom of the line is, no matter where you go, being queer is viewed as something ugly and other, unacceptable and against morality. This is why I appreciate stories whose message isn't "it's beautiful, soft and light", but is instead "so what if it's ugly to you?"

I think there's power in taking something at the edge of society, acknowledging its place in said society and appreciating it with the pain it brings and all. Other people may discuss the gay serial killer aspect and its implications, however, personally, I won't lie and say that in Hannibal's case it isn't moving.

I've struggled for so long to come to grips with my queerness in a world urging me away from it. Acceptance, much like Will's fall with Hannibal, feels inevitable now, even though it would have seemed impossible to me back in the day, and even though it continues to be a daily challenge.

There are other pieces of media about murderers and investigators romantically involved, corruption arcs and how horrifying the road towards coming out to yourself may be. None compare to Hannibal to me.

Shortcomings and all, I will at least always appreciate this part of Hannibal, the combination of what I've listed above in one of my favorite analogies in media.

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"But Shigarakis has more screen time right now-"

And Bakugou's the only other major character besides Deku and All Might to be introduced since Chapter 1

Has had some role in every arc, even in the Overhaul one by being a determening factor to Kirishima's power up

Is the character most consistently tangled with Deku development and screen time wise

You know, like a deuteragonist

By dudebros logic, does it mean Sasuke wasn't the deuteragonist in Naruto and it was Tobi/Obito or Madara all long instead? Since, you know, they sure gained a ton of screen time towards the end while Sasuke didn't show up all the time, you know?

Definitely nothing to do with antagonists generally gaining more plot relevance the closer a story reachest to its ending conflict. Definitely not.

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No, but dudebros always complaining about shippers not taking the story seriously and twisting it and then they go act like Bakugou is not the deuteragonist and is just a secondary character to Shiggy or even ALL MIGHT'S deuteragonist role.

I knew they were reading with their eyes closed, but holy sh*t

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Does anyone want to ramble with me about how much "Are you satisfied?" by Marina makes me think of Light or...?

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But now I'm thinking of a "Marriage of Convenience turned into love" AU for Lawlight in the Regency era!

Light agrees to the marriage so he can gain access to cases Soichiro refuses to let him in on, L proposes it to ease suspicions around his identity by having a spouse who can perform socially where he can't and doesn't need protection from his work

Neither is gonna find a better deal really so why not? Not like anyone else needs to know the marriage is a sham ( not for long tho )

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I love how Season 1 is just Hannibal hogging the single braincell of the cast...

...Season 2 us Will taking ownership of the singular braincell...

...And Season 3 is everyone EXCEPT Will and Hannibal having the braincell

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A weird notion in fandom spaces I've seen is: tropes that go from point "X" to "lovers" must automatically mean a healthy, well adjusted and beneficial bond between the characters involved, which I think fuels a lot of the "problematique" discourse going on in fandom.

People see the "to lovers" label and make assumption, when these tropes are not storytelling objectives in and of itself. They are tools, mechanisms aiding the story's message. This means that an author doesn't owe you a certain way of using a trope, in this case being a healthy relationship.

Strangers to lovers: characters do not initially know each other, eventually fall in love

Friends to lovers: characters that start off as friends falling in love

Enemies to lovers: characters that initially aim directly or indirectly to harm each other in a significant way fall in love

And so on. In all of these cases characters being their journey in point "A" and stumble as the story moves into point "B", a.k.a the lovers territory. But there's no rule dictating how they have to arrive in point "B" or how they have to be once arrived.

It can be a smooth course with no major problems that'd point to the relationship being bad or unstable. Think of Sukki and Sokka.

It can start by going down before going up. Think of Catra and Adora.

Or it can be a case where they both crash and burn. Think of Hannibal and Will.

What I'm saying is, by limiting once's perception to what a trope should be, instead of accepting them as the tool it is, endless possibilities and stories can be missed for not fitting a standard.

How often is the idea of a friends to lovers situation where the characters ARE good friends, they care and respect each other but are ultimately NOT good for each other while diving unapologetically into all the toxic sides we shrug off in favour of saying friend to lovers is the fluffy trope?

How many routes could a situation as volatile as enemies to lovers go given tje thin line between love and hate? Better or ruin each other? Build each other up or break each other down?

Is that meet cute in the coffee shop with the love of your life, a person who is simply a middle point to the best version of yourself or something more insidious?

Think about it.

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I am once again returning to the Death Note fandom to promote my asshole L agenda? You want to pretend he's your little meow meow? Grow up! The atrocities are part of him. And I decided that they are funny!

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The reason B×L and B×Light work so well intertwined, in my opinion, is that I imagine Beyond developing a very similar short of obsession for Light that he did for L.

L was the standard and the goal of the successors at Wammy's, the one Beyond didn't achieve in the end, resorting at the life of crime to get L's attention instead. Which didn't work since he sent Naomi as his intermediate, he never showed up personally.

If L is the "perfect detective" version unattainable for Beyond, Light is the "perfect criminal" version.

Light did what Beyond wished he could have done. Lure L out, be his most difficult case, the one he never put a definitive end for himself. Not to mention the Shinigami connection between them? Meaning Light used supernatural methods to win, but he did it successfully, unlike beyond?

So you have beyond, with all of these similarities, physicial or not, with L and Light, but falling just short of them right into the pits of obsession for these two is interesting. And it can be intriguing either way, with L and Light returning the attention in the end or not, focusing solely on each other and further driving Beyond to seethe

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No offence to y'all, I love Pride&Prejudice to death too, but every time I see someone describe it as an enemies to lovers story my soul dies a little

[concepts]

Isabela Madrigal – voiced by Diane Guerrero

Encanto (2021) dir. Jared Bush, Byron Howard & Charise Castro Smith

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Anyone kinda underwhelmed by the Killing Eve trailer? :(

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If I see one more woke Westerner lick Russia's boots in regards to the Ukraine situation just to once again complain about the US, I'm punching a wall.

Denying Russia's aggressiveness towards Ukraine and the Eastern European region to focus on US's bads instead ( which are real, I'm not denying it ), is not helping anybody.

Russia's position in this goes beyond "wanting to protect its borders" and if y'all took the littles time you are using to defend an expansionist state to instead research about the historical and political context of the region, maybe I wouldn't be so inclined to smash my head repeatedly.

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@therestlesspantser You are tags are so on point, ugh.

I already knew the West couldn't give less of a sh*t about Eastern Europe, but I was not expecting the level of cruelty and indifference I've seen towards Ukraine online.

And as you said, we KNOW the US is bad, we are NOT denying it, but can we please not use this one global power's atrocities to excuse another's when the only big loss will be suffered by Ukraine here? Russia is not a poor state afraid to be attacked by the US' evil NATO army, it is one of the biggest military powers in the world whose history with the neighbours leaves a lot to be desired.

But of course Westerners discussing politics online can't be bothered to learn about all of this since ALL of it is USA propaganda and Ukraine is actually supposed to be Russia's ( I've seen this idea too, Jesus... ). And as I've said with the border safety thing, when you answer to such "a threat" by sending this many soldiers ready to start sh*t up at command to the other country and when you demand the retreat of those troops you fear from former Eastern Block countries that do not even border you, then it is clearly just a pretext for something else.