#they really think the world revolves around them...................

[ulteri0rm0tives]

It's actually so heartbreaking that in the temperance ending Johnny just.. leaves. Gets all these calls, maybe even texts, from people who don't know the extent of what happened. Who are accusing him, that are mad at him. Especially in the frame of reference that this was V's last wish. That it was V who gave the body up. That it was V who wanted this, wanted to save Johnny, Johnny essentially powerless to stop them ('just scared for ya').

And the thing is.. Johnny just lets everyone. Lets them make their own conclusions, lets them be mad at him. Lets them blame him. Lets them think, that after the love of his life the person who's ever wholly understood or cared about him the most like no other ever could had 'died', that it's his fault, that he could do that to them... Or just lets them think the worst of V as their final lasting impression or mark on this world. Doesn't try to defend himself nor V. He just leaves. Just takes it.

And you would think. You would think the one he would at least tell is Kerry. That the one to actually understand the most would be Kerry. I don't think any of the other love interests could get the whole engram situation like him, they don't have that personal history or connection to the code on the relic like he did after all. Kerry knew Johnny. Enough at least. But Johnny doesn't tell him, and Kerry just thinks V ghosted off on him and Johnny just lets him think that. And it just makes you wonder.. why would Johnny do that? Why would he do any of this?

[ruvviks]

The world ended 13 years ago. Negligence, recklessness and cross-contamination led to the spread of wasting diseases to parasites, which adapted quickly to spread it by burrowing into a mammal's brain— any mammal's brain. Initial onset was fast, and came with mild flu-like symptoms. Parasite dormant in the frontal lobe, waiting. Enter stage 1. Affected began deteriorating. Some fast, some slow. Symptoms varied, but shared the same growth; what would start as memory problems would turn into poor coordination, would lead to dementia and behavioral changes, would lead to unusual disordered eating, aggression, and death. Four stages, two months to a year. They said it spreads through bodily fluids. Over half of the world population affected, on estimate. But how can anyone know for sure? What remains is scattered, fragmented. The wastes and the deep wastes are left abandoned, sugarcoated by those with power, made to not exist. The cities are bubbles where life goes on as before, and people think it's over— no more pandemic, no more disease. Billions of people alive still, and it does not need to be specified how many exactly. What remains is a graveyard. Automated processes dating back over a decade running as before, imitating an empty semblance of life. People long dead kept alive by their digital legacy, dead weight dragged along by a people stuck in declivity. Enter stage 5.

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[friendlyfreakazoid]

crazy how the people who claim being ‘misgendered’ is violence and acknowledging their biological sex is a violation of their human rights are the same people who expect women/lesbians to just shrug it off when they make violent rape and murder threats against us and create entire fetish communities centered around wanting to ‘cure’ lesbianism through corrective rape and nail dead rats to the doors of women’s shelters and sexually harass/assault vulnerable women in those women’s shelters etc etc

[books-space-things]

Despite hating nearly everything about the mastermind job, I have no trouble believing what the accountant said about Nate at IYS. I doubt Nate was ever a genuinely pleasant guy to be around and I seriously doubt that he was the warm life of the party this guy describes but it is consistent with his character to spend time with the forensic accountants, remember details about them, and appreciate their work. He has always been a workaholic and obsessive about being the best at his job and he's smart enough to understand that he can't do any of it without these guys. He clearly understood that they were widely ignored and ridiculed by his colleagues and it was in his best interest to develop a good working relationship with these people. So he drops in once every few weeks to tell them about the impact of their work to motivate them and picks up on their process and subject matter expertise while creating a positive image of himself among these people. It's a small time investment which gives him great returns as he understands more about the mechanics of how insurance fraud investigations work and he gets an edge over other investigators since these guys are way happier to work on his cases than anyone else's.

[necropolistheatre]

i think maybe what frustrates me about my body hair is that when i look at like, my legs and my arms, and my stomach, it doesn't look masculine to me. It looks more like when I was a teenager. It looks more like how my body looked when I was undiagnosed with PMOS and struggling between liking being hairy and hoping for more, and being constantly told by my father to shave and be more feminine.

[hyenabeanz]

Unpopular (I bet not here though) hot take:

No, not every pro sporting event or bonus fan event should prioritize kids above everyone else. Kids are people, and are people who often need more patience and grace and kindness because they are new to the world and still working on learning a lot of basic human stuff, but not everything has to be for them at the expense of everyone else. Sometimes they have to learn to take turns, and sometimes they may not get everything they want and get to practice being a little disappointed. (Or maybe a lot disappointed. That happens.)

Grown ass adults also like saying hi to athletes and getting pucks and a chance to have stuff signed, etc.

It's wild to me how some parents think the whole world has gotta put themselves on pause or second because their kiddo wants something. (Bonus side eye when they think that but couldn't be assed to get to things early like others did to get a spot in line or whatever.)

[whatudottu]

Honestly I’d love to see the Ben 10 fandom go more in-depth as to what the galactic audience’s thoughts regarding interspecies relationships and what dynamics formed between different species are like. Is dating To'kustars or Galvans when you’re not a To’kustar or Galvan frowned upon due to the severe height difference involved? Are there debates on whether it’s ethical to date a Vulpimancer or not? Is a Galvan dating a Galvanic Mechamorphs seen as a power imbalance? What would a romantic relationship between a Petrosapien and a Tetramand be like, or a queerplatonic one between an Ectonurite and a Lepidopterran be like, or even a platonic/familial one between a Kineceleran and a Pyronite?

Heheh, I really like thinking about the interplanetary community and it’s dynamics throughout the cosmos in the Ben 10 series, because I dunno it’s like rife with potential for worldbuilding and I guess political drama? Because apparently I like fictional political drama? I guess when it’s fictional it doesn’t affect anyone so it can be played around with in interesting ways.

Got some talking points down below hehe-

I have like SO MANY headcanons about how the interplanetary community treats vulpimancers, though to be fair I have like an unrefined list of notes about the chronology of Vulpin politics and ideologies that I haven’t neatened up yet, and one of those headcanons is the difficulties they face trying to prove themselves just as sapient as the other species; amongst all the bullshit that does bring, interspecies relationships are also affected by that bias. And the fact that you bring up the implied dynamic between creator (the galvan) and creation (galvanic mechamorphs) is interesting too because also, you can kinda also have debates about ‘is it ethical to date the first generation of a species’ especially in comparison to galvans who seem to have quite long lives, ‘is it ethical for a long living species to date a species by all means younger in their entirety than they are’ type questions-

It also isn’t just like the general interplanetary community though it’s also just the differing planetary communities (with their differing nations etc etc until we get to the individual) that also butt heads with each other- an ectonurite’s family really REALLY pushing for them to ‘get together’ with their queerplatonic lepidopterran partner before they have to host a funeral one day vs the lepidopterran having to explain to their hive that they’re happy with their ectonurite partner especially without the pressure of it being romantic there’s so many others that can and do *coughs into hand* ‘contribute’ to the hive population! Or or! The kineceleran not giving two shits about their pyronite sibling from another… pibling? Ah whatever- being so frickin’ slow because they can both bond over sports vs the pyronite wanting to share one of their thrill seeking traditions from back home with a race in their stunt car against their kineceleran cuz’ own personal wheels!

Lowkey I kinda made at least a concept for a tetramand/petrosapien couple which I based on a pseudo sumo wrestling match I saw at school once where one of the participants was slammed into the ground but they quickly switched their positions to roll the person on top so fast the crowd thought THEY were the one to win and not the person they flipped who won first- I mean! In my sphere of headcanons about petrosapiens and Petropia is that they barely got much chance to interact with the universe at large (being cracked open by the fulmini before Plumber intervention set them off plus doing something similar but… a little MORE to what they did on Revonnah) and so modern interplanetary discussions about any petrosapien relationship is ‘i thought they were extinct?’ and especially with tetramands intense courtship it may even skip straight to ‘oh they might as well be extinct’. Not exactly pleasant to hear, compounded by the rare potential someone happens to know - to put it in gross terms - a ‘suitable mate’ with the opposite sex of the petrosapien they’re pestering. At that point you’d better hope it wasn’t the tetramand/petrosapien pair because if the petrosapien doesn’t stab you over the offence, the tetramand would put you in your place, as legally able to as they’d can just to piss them off :P

Do you think if a galvan and a to’kustar were dating it’d be considered a ‘long distance relationship’ :P?

[an-epicalis-attempt]

(haunted) i don't think i have an f/o right now