#he did literally none of these things

[thatswhatsushesaid]

did alex jones pivot from spreading misinformation about US politics to spreading misinformation about danmei novels or something. is there an infowars: jianghu edition out there that has just eluded my notice until now. because i cannot understand how some of these clear misrepresentations of the novel are gaining such traction otherwise.

#'jin guangyao normalized bribery!! jin guangyao sexually harassed mo xuanyu!!! jin guangyao murdered qin su!!' #he did literally none of these things #and in fact created an environment within the lanling jin in which NO ONE easily accepted bribes #we know this because jin ling tells us so to draw a sharp contrast between the state of his sect post-canon #and what his sect was like when jin guangyao was sect leader #jin guangyao

[himejoshiangels]

obsessed w how bitter and upset duke is w Bruce in this arc. and he has every right to be! he knew Bruce almost personally at that point, and his parents were joker gassed in a recreation of the wayne murders in an effort to get to batman. they were collateral damage and duke had been suffering pretty much alone as a result. his whole ideology is that robin doesn't need batman but on a more personal scale, you can see why he thinks that! when he needed Bruce he wasn't there, when he needed batman he wasn't there either. And he'll fret like he didn't care like it didn't matter but it DID

Ik I talk abt this panel often but that's bcs KTZZZZ ITS SO CRUCIAL TO DUKES CHARACTER!! He becomes completely self reliant, isolates himself he can't wait on batman to save the city, can't wait on batman to find his parents or wait on batman to save him, he's all he could rely on, and that self-reliance later grew into an almost cynical worldview. it's why his whole "emphasis on the word 'we'" thing at the we of WAR meant so much. he had hope in not just his own beliefs but in others' as well.

ANDDD it's why his and bruce's dynamic drives me up a wall but that's another post for another time..

#the signal #duke thomas #bruce wayne #thought bubbles #signal interlude #batman #dc comics #the thing is that he was supposed to do something at least he promised he would #and not that bruces batmaning is healthy but the one time he chose himself over the mission is when duke needed him most #to find his parents to keep him out of the system to do anything..dukes lucky he made it out the way he did and didnt end up like his foil #character in WAR #like rationally none of it is bruces fault and he should be allowed to live a normal life and thats exactly why duke doesn't yank him back #immediately you can see him debating it everytime duke runs into a memoryless bruce #but he cant keep bruce from himself at this point not anymore not when the city was literally dying without him #it isnt just abt duke atp its about all of gotham

[queenerdloser]

i just finished dark heir

#me foaming at the mouth during the last chapters: HE IS! FUCKING! SAVING YOU! #i am huddled around will kempen hissing like a mama cat none of these fuckers are allowed to look at him #dark rise #okay but like. cyrian at literally every moment in the book you see will anticipating things and making connections #that you never make. doing things like a leader & being fucking smart and strategic. and your dumb ass really thought. #hm. must mean i shouldnt listen to him about the magic staff that can literally stop the end of the world. must be evil. #me: [screams into the abyss] #i know i cant expect characters to react like readers and they DID all react like i knew they would but god it was so infuriating!!!!! #and heart breaking! god!!!! god!!!!! will reliving his mother's initial betrayal over and over and OVER again #and thinking about all the little moments we get where the novel tells us: if these 'evil' characters had just been accepted #instead of tossed aside maybe they wouldnt have fallen. if they had been protected instead of killed maybe they would have #become protectors instead of killers. maybe if will's mom hadn't tried to butcher him for the sin of his own birth #he wouldn't have been so scared to tell people he lied to them. #anyway im not normal about will kempen and if book 3 doesnt give me his friends fucking accepting him i'll kill someone #me looking directly at visander: i dont care how charming you are i'll murder your ass about it #i read this book in like 5 hrs im being very normal about it

[mollysunder]

Time travel is pretty op in League, and doubly so in Arcane, the drawbacks might be devastating tho.

This exchange always comes to mind because it's so ironic, Ekko does that all the time with the Z-Drive he just doesn't have it right now. For the concept to then be straightforwardly called out as dangerous just screams dark foreshadowing to people (Ekko) who practice it.

Ekko even has a real voice line where he jokes about the after-effects of time travel.

#arcane #ekko arcane #ekko #ekko is such a well of angst #it's already a mindfuck to literally experience other timelines none of your companions remember or expeirenced #so you there's a lingering feeling that you can't be sure it happened #but you have this power and you KNOW it did but some timelines are SO horrible why bother believing it happened #now include the possibility of BRAIN DAMAGE #and even if he noticed Ekko would still keep going becuz if he had the opportunity to change things from going wrong he'd take it #look at what happened with cait and the crystal he wanted to use it and was steered away #Ekko's probably going to be more reluctant to listen to other's caution and follow his gut #arcane meta #ekko lol #league of legends

[allonzy]

el hopper is luke skywalker, will byers is leia organa and mike wheeler is han solo. i will take no criticisms because i know i am right.

#el's powers are literally comparable to a jedi's #and we all keep theorizing that will might have dormant powers just like how leia is force sensitive too but not exactly a jedi #and like han mike wants to prove himself by doing something useful because he thinks he'll finally mean something to people #AND LUKE LEIA BEING SIBLINGS LIKE EL AND WILL #luke's journey being all about growing from his father and being independent and comfortable with his own powers #just like el #will being the wise one and i mean have you seen LEIA? best girl ever! #ergo s5 mike is gonna be in danger just like how han was carbonfreezed and will is going to save him just like leia did #and then we get the i love you i know scene because #dont we all keep talking about how none of the endgame ships have felt the need to say i love you to each other?!?! #so one of them replying with i know sticks true to that parallel too #omfg our brains #byler #stranger things #star wars #st5 #st5 predictions #wonder siblings

[hecksupremechips]

The 999 cast is very important to me and there’s so much good about them but I think one big thing they have is that they’re all smart and contribute to the story

#zero escape #999 #this is where the other ze casts really lack I think #like all the 999 characters are there for a reason they were hand picked by zero #and all of them were really smart and they all worked together to solve the mystery #in vlr we got characters who just willingly participated in the game for shits and giggles #even more so with ztd like they didnt even try to make the q team important #plus just like so many of the characters are wasted and pointless #quark contributed nothing. alice was needed only for a math problem. tenmyouji was just screwed over #clover is the one who really makes me mad cuz they did the aini thing where they erased her whole arc #and reduced her to a ditzy joke of a character #shes not fucking ditzy shes smart and her bond with junpei is literally why everyone survived 999! #without her your ass would be dead #makes me so mad 😤 #they only added her to vlr just to get people interested in the first place since she was popular #ztd is the same like none of the new characters introduced mean anything #and all the stuff they do with the old characters is just awful none of it is good #honestly 999 is too good of a game to be attracted to the other ze games #in my mind 999 ended and everyone lived happily ever after and idk quark can magically be there somehow cuz hes a good boy

[squidcandy]

a saga

#squid speaks #no really where is he #im actually crazy souma and kuro have gotten so many gacha 3 stars but keito has gotten literally none ...??? since keito lecture last year #hes got the lowest fan count in the entire game. its getting a little stupid #excluding him from the lotus scout is blasphemous #whatvet...r... souma so pretty and beautiful and he brews excellent houchija there is not a disgraceful thing about him #i did accidentally end up swallowing the cardboard so theres that

[luvring]

just complained about my group to my irls and i'm pretty sure this has genuinely motivated me to speak in class because i Cannot let my prof think my critical thinking abilities are the same as theirs

#💬nia.rambles #rant fr// #guys im srsly sick thinking about it #LIKE THERE WERE SO MANY MOMENTS WHERE I WAS JUST ?? #'im not saying to beat your kid black and blue but discipline is different across cultures and #i just dont think this should be an area of exploration like its worked for hundreds of years' #? YOU AS A WOMAN OF COLOUR HAVE NEVER HEARD OF INTERGENERATIONAL TRAUMA? #like why are you implying you dont like gentle parenting why are you making a strawman DONT PISS ME OFF #then white guy speaking way too loud to my right is throwing in words he DOESNT understand and saying the same things over and over #'from a Sociological Contemporary perspective' be serious. 'it comes back to nature vs nurture again' Can you Stop Tlalkingplapewmj #and i bring up gender and he goes smth smth gender is just such a sensitive topic then the 2 other girls Agree #and they wouldnt let me talk and even if i did they obviously wouldnt know what i was talking about #because why are you asking what post structuralism is THAT WAS A MAIN TOPIC AND DEFINITION OF LAST CLASS??? 😭😭 #they wouldnt answer the question properly and repeat the same basic vaguely connected ideas the Entire time #like do i look like i gaf abt different body standards/expectations for football players MOVE ON ITS BEEN 10 MINUTES #like i want to talk about enforced binaries in queer spaces and Oh my god i just remembered #they were like. lgbt studies/discussion is just so recent and i was like. Its literally discussed In the reading. but None of u finished it #OHH IM PISSED OFF. IM SO PISSED OFF #and im so mad bc the discussion q's were Good and if i was w my irls wed have such a good convo but NO!!!! #whatever. Whatever im going to start raising my hand in class im so fr i got lightheaded complaining about this IMSOMADBSJF

[angorwhosebabyisthis]

there are a lot of reasons i think pericles is really slept on as one of the most tragic characters in sdmi, and they start with how easy it is to connect the dots that he took a mind-destroying curse full to the face as an infant. one that breaks adult humans and renders them unrecognizable, when pericles was not only a baby but is from a species that is explicitly much more vulnerable to it. right from the beginning of his life the entity obliterated his sense of self so thoroughly that there's not even a version of him who shows up in the Sitting Room.

fuck, man.

#sdmi #scooby doo mystery incorporated #professor pericles #sdmi is fundamentally a show about the cycle of trauma and abuse--about breaking a very literal generational curse #and i think it does a real disservice to both that theme #and pericles' narrative specifically #that he gets painted as That One Guy Who's Just Evil and Abusive for No Reason #when everyone else gets the benefit of 'even thoroughly horrible people are still people' #'and that doesn't mean they didn't hurt you; or that you have to let them keep hurting you' #'or that you're obliged to proceed in a way allowing for the possibility they'll decide to stop. that's on them to do. and they might not.' #even w/o the systemic oppression or decades of torture and psychiatric abuse #pericles was a victim of the entity in genuinely and quite possibly the most thorough way of them all. and yet he made a lifetime worth of #choices and many many many of them were to harm people in horrific ways; to his own ends and for his own satisfaction #and like. what do you do with that. #it is difficult and uncomfortable to sit with that and draw conclusions from it that are neither 'his trauma means none of that counts' #nor 'okay yeah well he's a victim BUT HE DID BAD THINGS SO THAT DOESN'T MATTER FUCK HIM' #if there's any show that invites you to do that it's sdmi; i love that about it. but you can't leave pericles out w/o defeating the purpose #especially when the nature of his being a link in the cycle of abuse is critical context for exploring the trauma of his victims #the vast majority of what he does to ricky is very clearly projecting and reenacting his own trauma onto a vulnerable target #and just. aaaaahhhhhh i have so many feelings about it god #abuse cw #grooming cw #SDMItag

[kyeterna]

I had rewatched durarara a couple of months ago after like never finishing the second season when it first came out (I have always had a really hard time keeping up with ongoing shows) and assigned memes to some characters, here's the result.

#durarara #sketchterna #i really liked durarara as a 14 year old but watching it in 2022 I liked it but had some issues with some of the characters #ESPECIALLY the orihara twins good god #the funny thing is that i liked izaya as an edgy 14 year old because oooo he is so cool and evil he controls everything he is a puppetmaste #but as a 22 year old I liked izaya because he is a pathetic as bitchless person who copes with his loneliness by pretending he is not huma #like sir I see right through you #i get it #you pretend you are included by acting as the puppetmaster- that you are in control of everything #sure you are intelligent but you dont fool anyone by acting as if you don't care about anyone #we all know how much you actually care about shinra's opinion on you #i can't put everything into words but like izaya is a very lonely person and he is not particularly a fan of his loneliness #and instead of actually doing something healthy about it he keeps lying to himself and doubling down #sure he doesnt care about most people and he does derive joy from tormenting teenagers but there are people he cares about #but he just pushes them away. Everyone point and laugh #also my mom instincts just made me crazy watching the main trio do what they do #like SIRS YOU ARE JUST 15 CHILL OUT #WHY DID NONE OF THE ADULTS JUST GRAB THEM LIKE KITTENS AND SAY #“YOU ARE LITERALLY A KID- CHILL OUT- GO DO YOUR HOMEWORK OR SOME SHIT-” #rambling over

[danielnelsen]

i forget it’s not canon that hawke’s just roaming around skyhold with his definitely-not-shapeshifted-husband cat, it’s just how things are

#or like. the western approach. just carrying him around in his coat like anders did with pounce #he’s an orange cat (of course) and hawke calls him blondie when people ask #dragon age inquisition #dragon age #hawke #anders #handers #da #dai #can’t imagine anders NOT being a shapeshifter #that’s kinda the thing with origins mage specs tho..they all feel like they need a good reason for someone to take them #spirit healer’s kinda the default ‘normal’ one (and i guess battlemage) but the others all need a backstory #like i’m my canon wynne doesn’t have a second spec because none of them really speak to me #also awakening is weird because unless you’re playing a mage warden……..how tf do they actually learn any of the specs???? #especially shapeshifter and arcane warrior. you’re not learning those from a manual or literally ANY awakening npc #like i personally feel like nobody other than the origins warden should even be able to learn arcane warrior #(lore-wise that is. i just feel like that knowledge can’t be imparted that effectively) #but yeah for shapeshifter: ASSUMING THE WARDEN LEARNS IT you can’t convince me that anders wouldn’t be ALL OVER THAT #personal

[freshlybakedfandoms]

anyways im an ej and ashlyn caswell defender first and foremost if you hate the caswell cousins...what are you even doing 🤨

#did we watch the same show like theyre icons #im only half joking btw cause ive seen some people have some WEIRD takes about ej #hes not a bad boyfriend hes not a piece of shit come on now thats an eighteen year old who is stressed out about so many things #and ashlyn is literally 16 im sorry were you not a bit insufferable at sixteen??? everybody is dont lie #also shes clearly figuring out who she is which is difficult!! anyways none of the characters in this show are pieces of shit #(except maybe cash caswell) #theyre complex like do you want 1 dimensional characters?? no #hsmtmts #ej caswell #ashlyn caswell

[thehealingsystem]

nate please please please please I am shaking you by the shoulders right now no one needs to do this please you can make a actual thought provoking interesting thumbnail for the song you don't need to appeal to clickbait algorithms anymore you're still letting yourself be bound to it people loved your early original songs for what they were without this. please stop doing this please stop changing thumbnails I am going to cry

#literally has done this to multiple thumbnails that were even perfectly okay before #I mean the original for this one wasn't all that good either but this is far worse #massive disappointment when I saw with you change it's so. boring and predictable I have seen it plenty of times before #literal opposite of what he was going for #not to mention SCRAP HEAP DOESN'T EVEN HAVE THE SONG TITLE ANYWHERE EXCEPT THE VIDEO ITSELF #nothing left to want became boring too though at least STILL INCLUDED THE TITLE IN IT #does he realize that. THIS is probably just damaging his content further? #I mean he can do whatever he wants and if he's happy with it then fine by me #but do you SEE the traction and views sandcastle kingdoms and paid in exposure got? besides his fnaf songs and parodies #he's ALSO known for phantom! an original song! and I hate that his rebranding of it as a hazbin hotel song actually worked! #because it's not going to continue to! #like dude we all know a lesson in grief has nothing to do with sonic. none of the lyrics tie into anything sonic related whatsoever #ik he's trying to get his stuff out there via the things he was once known for but maybe..... it's time to FULLY let go of that? #bc it's embarrassing to watch and it doesn't feel all that passionate. though he's dropped fandom music he's still very much bound to it #and ADMITS it #please you can make original and thought provoking art! without ties to fandom! idk what you did with your first two original albums #but it wasn't this and you should do it again #I swear nate people love your music for what it is and even though to let go was not my favorite #you still have potential far past what the algorithm is doing to you. none of this is genuine and it's very much present #in how you promote your music. I feel it when I see these thumbnails. I feel it when I watch these videos. it PUTS ME OFF so much #sorry for the rant in the tags and sorry if this is a hot take I hope y'all can see where I'm coming from 👍 #natewantstobattle #nwtb #nathan sharp #nate posting #natewantstobtl

[jessicas-pi]

look, I've decided that everything george lucas was involved in is canon star wars, and everything else is basically fanfiction that I can approve of or disregard at will.

This is going to be a very important part of my life philosophy come this August.

#like literally if the show does something i dont like i'm just going to act like it did not happen #i'm going to be so deep in denial y'all #no jacen? wdym??? he's right over here learning how to cheat at sabacc from chopper #wildly ooc characters? yikes. dave your earlier fics were a lot better. #ezra or sabine dies? sorry can't hear you over the sound of them adopting 5 kids and living happily ever after #i know it's a weird thing but literally just recently it occurred to me that this is ALL MADE UP. #NONE OF THIS HAPPENS FOR REAL. THIS IS ALL A CONSTRUCT OF A HUMAN PERSON'S IMAGINATION #THERE IS NO RULE OR LAW ANYWHERE THAT SAYS WE HAVE TO RESPECT WHAT SOMEONE SAYS HAPPENED NEXT #we can JUST IGNORE IT #and there will be fans like 'but it happened in the show it's canon' and cool! fine! i literally could not care less! #IT'S SO FREEING!!!! JUST STOP CARING BABEY!!!

[s0fter-sin]

“maybe if i, an 8yr old, managed to talk sense into my groomed and deeply traumatised 13yr old brother, maybe he wouldn’t have accidentally almost killed himself and become a villain” and no one in that room disagreed with him??

#none of them? #not one of them went hey maybe it wasnt on us literal children to try and help him? #this is where the endeavour redemption completely lost me #it was as well written as it could be up until this point #natsu still hating him fuyumis trauma response of lets just bury everything and be a normal family shoutos conditional forgiveness #especially when endeavour said ill buy you all a house and you never have to see me again #i could live with that. i hate it (make him face a lasting consequence for the love of god) but i could live with it #he doesnt deserve forgiveness and he deserves every ounce of emotional pain hes experiencing bc holy shit he irrevocably ruined five lives #but then they really turned around and said yeah us victims share the blame for how touya turned out #what the fuck #reis level of blame is debatable since even if she was mentally stable she was still always in the mindset of hey this guy Bought Me #and his continued Buying Me will fund my parents who Sold Me to him #even before any anbuse happened she was never going to be able to stand up to him #endeavour groomed touya just like afo did with shigaraki except even worse bc it happened from day dot #then he completely cut him off from the thing he groomed him to be and dumped him on rei until he got the child he wanted #dabi was never anything but endeavours fault and the fact that the narrative is trying to make them all share the blame #and frame it as a see endeavour when we all share fault and support you isnt it easier for you? cant you stand up and solve the problem now? #its the most classic victim blaming ive ever seen and were supposed to just take it and be like aw theyre facing dabi as a family #fuck off #and even then he still freezes and makes shouto fight dabi #you cant do it so i the 16yr old you also abused will fight my brother the kid you drove to accidental suicide for you #and when he finally gets over himself (after shouto is nearly killed dont forget that) and decides hes finally strong enough to fight him #were supposed to cheer that moment? #yay hes finally going to look at touya! were the fuck was he an hour ago cause he aint done shit against afo #the family needs to share blame and support him so he can face the blame and support himself fuck off #go beyond plus ultra #coming out of my cage and ive been doing just fine.txt #endeavour #dabi #todoroki shouto

[oatbugs]

"researcher" "scientist" im an undergrad student of an on-paper "unrelated" field i know nothing abt anything i feel so out of my depth doing this research project sometimes like its a great opportunity that has branched off into more and more opportunities and meeting very cool ppl but in conferences being introduced as a researcher by my research partner (phd) or his supervisor makes me want to LAUGH like..who ?? me ?

#hes like. none of us know anything experts also learn as they go etc etc but like im literally #just some guy w a bit of a dream im just in charge of the outfits how did we get here #i didnt think it would like. work #like i didnt think by wanting something u would start getting closer to actually getting thing for realsies