#sorry long

[teddybasmanov]

!! valid

you have the best takes out of everyone here 😤

Thank you, dear. /gen

I mean, I meant to write something about it for a while but, in short - he's simple in the best possible sense of the word.

He literally is "just the dude" - his main problems - you know the big revelation in the "Hiking" video - were that he has problems making friends at the Academy and that people don't see the real him and he's not good at keeping connections.

Firstly, same.

Secondly, all of that is just so normal. No running away from home and having no one, no starting a revolution and pushing yourself to reach unreal goals all the time, no being goddamn rejected by your own kind. Just normal stuff. Fixable.

Thirdly, because of that when I put myself in the freelancer's shoes I'm second-guessing myself so much less. No, "What if say something so wrong that would trigger him?", no "I don't have any Great Goals, or even strong opinions sometimes, will he even tolerate me?" and for hell's sake no constant worm of a question chewing my brains at the back of my head "When will he get bored of me?"

Spoilers for the Bonus Audio but nothing NSFW mentioned (even though, I could have spilt some thoughts in that direction too).

Goodness Gracious - he said "I love you" like it's the most natural thing in the world! Because, I don't know, for him it probably is.

[reebasauerbrunn]

Allie Long, Alex Morgan, Kelley O'Hara

uhhhh

fuck alex

marry kelley

kill allie

[katsupurity-blog]

Tokyo Ghoul AU || Closed

@scleraking

He had been walking home from practice when it happened, dragged down a back alley he’d been attacked by a ghoul. Yuuri hadn’t even had time to react as they bit into him, then debris fell on top of them crushing the named ghoul. When he woke in the hospital he had thought it all a dream, they’d told him they’d found him with another dead body. That they’d transferred organs from that body into his to save his life, because the other man had been brain dead already.

Nearly two weeks later he was finally released, he’d been unable to really eat since then, and was banned from the ice until further notice. He thought about going home instead of back to his apartment in Tokyo where he was training. He was sure he just missed home cooking, and that was why everything tasted horrible, making him throw up. Yuuri knew he was starving though, he felt it every time he went outside.

One night he wandered the streets hands shaking, horrible thoughts entering his head about attacking people, biting into them. Something was wrong, he had to get away from people. He stumbled down a dark alley, and into the quieter, darker parts of town. A sudden squelching sound made him jump as he rounded a corner.

[spideyhexx]

I was trying to figure out why I was so upset about Jesse’s death, and it’s not only because it’s sad, but because It seems unfair in a way that isn’t good storytelling if that makes since.

If Billy died too, maybe I wouldn’t see it that way, but all of these people died for him and for what? For us to not even really get a moment of that anguish that Billy might feel? I understand he releases his pain through Justice, but was killing Catron really the justice that made since for that? Or even Garrett?

Don’t get me wrong, I love Billy, and I don’t even necessarily hate the ending he got, and I understand that not everyone can have a happy ending, but It would’ve been nice to see a positive outcome from everything he did reflect on one of his friends lives. Like maybe Jesse lived and that would’ve been a good way to counter his resistance to kill Catron in the last ep and explain why he came back. With him dying, it gives off Billy just being able to use anyone to get what he wants, even if it’s for good intent.

Realistically, most endings in a show or movie could work, it all comes down to how we get there and the writing. And this season definitely saw a decline in both, overall making for a unsatisfying and sad conclusion.

I don’t know if this made sense, but I was really trying to see why I had such a problem with it, other than just being sad that Jesse is dead.

you’re making sense and I agree with you!

I don’t really see how him succeeding in both Killing Pat and Catron really does much, i feel like something the show forgot is that a lot of times when Billy shoulders this duty like he needs to do something for the people, he’s actually doing it a bit more selfishly than he realizes, and I think the show going the way it did, doesn’t even acknowledge this. Sure, Catron was a bad guy who affected a lot of people, but an article about the ring isn’t going to change everything for good, and there’s always gonna be another. Always another Murphy, always another Pat. It solves nothing except his personal vendetta but did it NEED to be? I don’t think so. Making Pat live a miserable life is better than giving him death imo.

It honestly would’ve been more interesting to start seeing Billy second guess himself about if he should be killing Pat or Catron and decide to take the higher ground instead of feeding the system he didn’t even want to get into

I always thought that Jesse ‘redeeming’ himself and becoming a better person BECAUSE of what Billy’s done and meant to him and what he’s learned from him, would’ve been a much more satisfying arc for him alongside Billy’s death. Like in Billy’s death, Jesse chooses not to necessarily enact revenge but to change his ways a bit in memory of Billy and what he stood for, and take care of those who Billy’s left behind. I get the idea he sacrificed himself for Billy and his family here but it does make it feel like Billy can’t be harmed in any similar way. Emotionally? Yeah, but we barely even see that.

We don’t even get to see Billy mourn Jesse all that much. You could argue he’s just so desensitized to his friends dying now but like…their relationship has always been one of the cruxes of the show, and it felt so rushed.

I do agree with your second to last thing, and I think that some of the ideas they had this season like with Billy’s recklessness with the revenge plan could have worked, but how we got there and how that plot progressed was just not executed well enough to feel earned or satisfying.

[joyous-spice]

i just want to say i love your fics and i was wondering what made you interested in the maldini/nesta ship in the first place?

Ah thanks you are very kind. First ask I’ve gotten in my internet hermitage lol.

Idk I’m the opposite of a real sports fan. But I saw an interview Nesta did for a Maldini doc and thought he seemed very sweet. Also very hot. It’s the one where he refuses to name a fault in the guy. They’re both less prone to athlete self-help platitudes which is nice. And then I got into it bc I love a good older younger dynamic and the way they relate to each other seems bittersweet to me. Like nesta is Paolo’s favourite reindeer but getting him to Milan seems to have really ruptured something in nestas relationship with the sport and his self view. That’s what I think anyway

[anxiouslyextroverted]

not mean but how is omniman reminding you of c!dream if anything he reminds me of c!schlatt I'd say im new to invincible though

ommg an invincible fan hello

(spoilers for Invincible and hella long cuz hf)

someone else said in my ask a while back that Omni-man and mark were like c!prime so it made me realize that Omni-man is kinda similar to c!dream in some ways but they are also pretty opposite with motivations.

Omni-man is a manipulative, strategic, charismatic immortal and because he's immortal and was born on a planet that trained him to be apathetic and immoral (killing those that are weak, even your own kind), these things combine to cause him to neglect the moment, and connections and only look at the future and goals. Hes main goal is to fix the world and conquer it to join with his home planet, but hes way of doing it is through violence. He wipes out the first hero team because they were preventing him from his goal of assimilating earth with the viltrum empire. (the empire that he percieves as a good thing because its so strong and powerful. The planet that murders those that are weak.) and viltrumites live a lot longer than regular humans, meaning that a human lifespan meant absolutely nothing to Omni-Man.

This mission Omni-man was on has become a crucial aspect of Omni-Man's psychology. He is willing to do whatever it takes to achieve his goal, he believes that the Viltrumite way of life is superior to any other and that he must spread this way of life throughout the universe. For Omni-Man, the end justifies the means, and he is willing to commit unspeakable acts to achieve his goal.

(SPOILERS FOR THE WHOLE SHOW)

By the end of the series, when Mark doesn't align with his beliefs, he tries to kill him However, Omni-man then does show empathy and care for his son even though he initially just wanted to use his son as an ally and weapon, someone to fight along side him to conquer Earth. He realises that humans lives do matter. that his planets protocol was bs.

This is similar to c!dream who goes more down a villainous path after he retrieves the revival book, he is obsessed with this idea of being immortal and starts to neglect things like death, human empathy and the present. He wants control and angecy and wants to conquer the server to make everyone forever immortal. His way of doing this is by manipulation and violence. He does whatever because he sees that the ends justify the means. Doing whatever to accomplish his goal. He doesn't exactly want to kill everyone thats weak, but he would do the kind of shit omni-man did to get his 'happy family'

So whilst the twos motivations are very different like c!dream definitely has more heart here. They are still similar characters at least imo.

[catmanbowser]

As someone who lives in a place where it regularly gets to -25°C in the winter or lower (i think the worst it’s gotten before was -54°C during a Really bad winter). Damn I cannot imagine being boiled alive since the day I was born. 50°C?! I’d simply melt.

On a similar note, what would you say is your highest & lowest temp you can comfortably be in because I’d bet it’s wildly different between us.

For me, as it’s on the ass end of winter currently I’d be sweating my add off at anything more than 20°C. But I could probably withstand 0°C no windchill with a light jacket & light gloves.

-54°c...goddamn thats gonna freeze my balls off....

For me i've been around the world i'd say the lowest for me was around -17°c i was in Yokohama, Japan. It was storming and i was only wearing a hoodie with a thin shirt inside. Me and my brother quickly went back into the station lol.

The highest was 45-50°c in Medinah, Saudi Arabia. I was doing umroh hehe, its burning hot, but i wasnt sweating at all. Also, the fan in the masjid helped a lot, and the hotel has air conditioning, of course. I think i fainted once ^^. Im not very good with heat. I prefer the cold hehe.

Where i am right now is around 18-24°c which is YIPPEE HOODIE WEATHER ^^ and i think thats my ideal temperature bcs im neither too cold nor too hot, just comfy <3

While my hometown is around 27-34°c and its SO humid i used to just lay flat on the floor to keep myself cool or just turn my air conditioning on during the afternoon til the next day (its hot at night too :/)

I hate going to my hometown bcs if i dont move, i'd melt, and if i move, i'd just be walking sluggishly around the house like a guy in a microwave..

[lollipopclub]

i’m feeling pretty bummed out because i feel like i’ve lost a huge chunk of my creaitvity. i used to LOVE writing, be it fanfiction or poems or shorts stories, i used to draw a lot as well, also used to be very into fashion, and for the past two years or so i haven’t been doing much of any of that, just focused on school and worried about the future. i try to produce at least something once and a while but i really feel like i’ve lost that spark. it’s so frustrating because i feel like i could have had a promising future with my creativity.