#thought bubbles

[paincest]

telemachus being so happy that his dad is back for so many reasons and one of them being that he thinks he can finally have someone on his side whenever he and his mom disagree but odysseus turns out to be a “listen to your mom” type of husband

telemachus: hey i’m going out for a swim at the river tonight

odysseus: okay sure :) 

penelope: absolutely not 

odysseus: exactly absolutely not you are staying home right where we can see you young man

telemachus:

telemachus: dad can you ask mom if i can bring an extra ship with me

odysseus: of course, my son [goes to penelope] 

odysseus: my lovely wife, goddess divine

penelope: what

odysseus: your beauty brings me to my knees [walks away] 

penelope: ?

odysseus: [returns] she said no

telemachus: you. you didnt even try

telemachus: dad-

odysseus: what did your mom say 

telemachus: no

odysseus: yeah

telemachus: damn it

[evilmiku]

Don't demoralize your fellows, do not doom post. Spend your time helping others. Boost your communities, participate in protests, donate to campaigns to help palestinians, Anything, just do SOMETHING to help! Small actions are actions. Dont give up, dont doompost, dont doomscroll. HELP people! Please! Just help people!

[himejoshiangels]

btw important clarification: Duke chose the morning shift himself. the sentiment that bruce needed someone to patrol in the morning is straight up untrue, duke's early training was right beside batman solving crimes and chasing criminals at night but as he was figuring out his place in the Gotham vigilante scene working at night just did not work for him. Eventually he chose to work during the daytime specifically because of his mother's ideology, that it's easier to recognize truth in the light, and because it allows him better direct access to the people of Gotham.

Duke is a very community centered character. He is big on his beliefs about it and redemption. Saying Bruce chose the day for him removes Duke's agency as a character and is a fundamental misunderstanding of him. He was Gothams robin (not batman's) for a reason. he was going to do his "protect and uplift the community by any means" thing no matter what, he was doing it before he even met bruce and it was the reason they met in the first place. he works in the morning because it's where the people are and it's the best way to see them in all their truths and complexities and for them to see him and know that everything is going to be okay

[barbie-bliss]

Being susceptible to hypnosis is so good. Talking casually about trance or even thinking about it slightly too much can make me start to drop.

I need a tist to use it against me. I'd do all the work in my own subjugation and he can sit back and be amused by how easy I am. How compliant I am to His Will with the slightest nudge or suggestion.

[dankferrrik]

Darry singing the end of Soda’s Letter means so much to me you don’t understand

[doughnutwolf]

Internal dialogue

[webdiggerxxx]

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[webbvidd]

I think a lot about the theme of bodily autonomy in worm.

I think of Alexandria, and how for all that she was a willing participant in the actions of Cauldron, she was still indoctrinated into it as a terminally ill child, and not even when she dies for it was she left to rest in piece, because she was a tool and not a person. I feel the horror of her brain dead body being piloted by this man as a weapon of war isn’t highlighted a lot, but it’s something that made me deeply uncomfortable as an insidious evil. Because yeah. Of course they’d do that. (I don’t say this to excuse or flatten her very deliberate crimes, just to highlight that not even President Wonder Woman escapes her social destiny)

I think of Sophia, completely victimized by Alec, stripped of every shred of agency that allowed her to navigate the worldview she had of predator and prey, turned into the most thorough personification of a value-less toy for a few terrifying moments. Of the concept of powers like Alec's at all, actually, and Cherie and Bonesaw and Amy, capable of so thoroughly rewriting your existence. ( I think of all these aforementioned characters, who while their powers are the ultimate will breakers, were subject to thorough manipulation by the adults around them to where their will was completely inconsequential if not deliberately suppressed)

I think of the victims of those powers, Blasto, Murder Rat, Victoria Dallon, and more that I'm forgetting, whose bodies are stolen from them while they remain to witness it.

I think of Sveta, of Noelle, monsters in the same way but from the very origin of their powers, their shards completely inescapable and hungry for more, their bodies malformed and having turned on them.

I think of the not-insignificant influence the shards have on every single parahuman. The effect Parahumans have on one another, with their various mind-influencing powers. The effects your family and upbringing has on the type of person you grow to be, then multiplied by a billion for the entire world to see in intimate detail all your weird traumatic hangups.

To be a bystander in your own body, I thought. - Venom 29.8

I’m not particularly good at dissecting themes, I just like noticing them. I feel like a lot more can and probably has been said about this. It’s just so fucking tragic.