#boy needs therapy

[verfalne]

hi all i haven't really been able to draw properly for a while and it's recently gotten to where i can't really draw at all, it's just my depression i think. i'm not feeling inspiration or motivation to create at all. and it goes so deep, the emptiness? i question if Anything i do has a point to it. if i do draw something it's like i'm forcing it. the brain fog is everywhere and i don't feel like i can emotionally engage with a lot of things. these days i'm just distracting myself and self-medicating to get by. and my life feels like a tense peace that's already so difficult but literally anything could happen to make it way worse. and as always it's like, being inside my head is unbearable (my self-hatred is endless), but it's also terrible outside of my head, and then it's like where do you go? so anyway yeah

[foundfamilyhq]

Should Rollo Flamme from Twisted Wonderland join the tumblr found family?

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Voting ended onJan 29, 2024

Below is propaganda submitted in support of why this character should join the tumblr found family:

Like other characters in the game, he takes inspiration (both visual and thematic) from a disney villain. As such, while he is heavily Judge Frollo coded, he himself is not just bishiefied Frollo. Instead of being a racist prick, his beef with the other characters is their use of magic (which he has as well). This is because before he unlocked his magic, he had a brother that had unlocked fire magic (similar to Rollo here) but had less control so the fire consumed him without any of the adult mages stopping and saving his brother. As such, he wants to eliminate all magic (including his own) to spare others a fate like that which befell his brother. So the boy needs a hug and some damn therapy, both of which we can give him should he become part of the tumblr found family. (Also he's got a great work ethic and various skills such as event planning, cleaning, and dress making. So we can get help with that from him too if he joins.)

[silvertown]

So, the episode 24 of Malevolent was a lot. I’m still trying to process how I feel about it. Is John – the eldritch being from beyond, a wayward piece of a god - becoming one of Arthur’s tethers to humanity, just like Arthur is one for him? Arthur definitely can’t find strength within himself right now.

Arthur seems unmoored. He lost sight of what he thought was right before. He’s ready to abandon people who ask for his help, this is the same man who – what, just a couple of days before? – was willing to risk his (and John’s) life and freedom just to bring some unknown prisoner water.

He’s all over the place, it’s painful to watch. He wants to keep himself and John safe, and he wants (to quote from TMA) “to get their murder on” and kill Larson. He wants to hold hands with John (it’s not a handshake, alright, man’s just repressed and probably didn't want to come off too clingy), and he is scared of the intensity of what he feels for John. It’s a lot. John killed his best friend and John IS his best friend, he doesn’t have anyone else. God, the way Arthur’s voice sounds at the end of part 23 when John returns, he was repeating John’s name like he was reaching for a lifeline, and here once again with the madness/love parallel from Arthur himself – I want to howl at the moon. (i keep thinking about Kayne’s choice of words “fall in like” regarding Arthur’s marriage and this love/madness thing that in-universe everyone and the king commented upon, Arthur, is this why it’s scares you so much, be honest)

He wants to compliment John, but he’s SO BAD at it he ends up throwing the word “monster” left and right, while desperately reassuring John that he, John, is not like that, he’s grown, he is a good person, he’s worth all the sacrifices Arthur made.

I don’t think its John’s “absence”, although Arthur probably wants to think so. The trauma is catching up to him – mainly the prison pit, but all the horrible things that keep piling up are catching up to him and he didn’t have time to process any of that.

[changelingirl]

i think they should just like. let him hold onto the tesseract as like a companion cube ok

[okaywa]

When the only content you see of Oikawa is ppl writing him as a fuckboy when you know it’s just a cocky facade bc he is a vulnerable baby

[criminalsmarts]

Reid: Not dealing with things is my preferred way of dealing with things.

[fendaira]

[boltwrites]

I really don’t understand why people hate on Mako so much. I know he has flaws but that is with every character. You can tell that he cares about Bolin and his friends. In episode 3 when he comes home he has Bolin’s favorite dumplings. So he used the money he made to make his brother happy. Plus he sounds so soft when he talks to Bolin. Calling him “Bo” and “Bro” and thinking his brother is calling Korra. I find it so adorable cause it shows his soft side.

he really does try his best, and i feel like people love to hate on him because the way he experiences and processes trauma isn’t as obvious or understandable. like - Korra has trauma but her trauma is very obvious and intense and we see it occur, so we have sympathy for her situation - same with Asami, who also is visibly distressed about what happened to her father and speaks about it often. even Bolin as works through his trauma in a way that the viewer doesn’t demonize because Bolin is the haha funny man as he represses his issues

but Mako? Mako’s stone cold. he’s had to repress everything for YEARS because he had to be strong for his brothers - it probably takes him forever to understand what he’s feeling because he has taught himself that his emotions don’t matter and that he needs to put others first. this is part of why he has such problems with Korra and Asami - he has strong feelings for both of them, but this is (in theory) his first time in a serious relationship, and he’s dealing with that? with no adult figures to help him understand what’s happening and how to work through it with grace? like the only adult mentors Mako has ever had were fucking gangsters. i’m sure they were very helpful.

like no, Mako isn’t perfect - he makes a lot of mistakes, over and over again, and it’s not obvious how he processes and works through these problems as well as his deeper trauma. that makes him easier to hate, and while i do love to pick on him, i don’t understand people who legitimately hate him and think he’s a bad character. he was in a shitty situation with no mentor figures and no understanding of his own emotions. it was bound to end in disaster.