#to each his own obv

[add1ctedt0you]

Underappreciated how much worse is for jc that he couldn't kill wwx

#He couldn't kill him or save him. He can't hate him or forgive him #IT'S WORSE #'jiejie jiejie sorry. I couldn't kill your husband' s murder. a-ling sorry. I couldn't kill your father's murder' #THE REGRET #'if I took action before maybe jiejie and her husband would be still alive and jl would have an happy family...' #DO YOU UNDERSTAND IT??? #mar!nonsense #It's about what you think you should do/what others think you should do/what you want to do/not knowing what's right and what's wrong #Most black/white takes I see downplay mdzs's characters grief and tragedy imo #jiang cheng #mdzs #Also. I've seen people liking the takes that jc killed wwx because they want wwx bitter and resentful. Girl. HE'S bitter and resentful #He's just repressing everything. He's such an unreliable narrator #to each his own obv

[dollopheadsandclotpoles]

BBC Merlin is a tragedy in that Merlin's choices that were all to save Arthur's life led to Arthur's death, but that doesn't mean it was all for nothing!! The events across their 10 years together led to a new world order which eventually brought about everything they had worked towards!! PLUS THEIR RELATIONSHIP BROUGHT JOY AND MEANING TO BOTH OF THEIR LIVES!! That means something!! GUYS!! listen guys that MEANS SOMETHING!!

#it's not like game of thrones which left us with the feeling that everything is pointless #bbc merlin #merlin #it was their love for each other that brought about the new world order!! #also I feel like people haven't watched the show in a while i keep seeing people say that Merlin betrayed his own kind #HE TRIED TO HELP THEM WHENEVER HE COULD #he introduced morgana to the druids!! He protected Gilli and told him about his magic even tho he couldve betrayed him!! #it's just that he HAD to also protect himself!! it was self preservation ok! #and sure eventually protecting arthur became more important to him than anything else #but how can ya'll play/watch TLOU and be like OBV Joel would doom the world for Ellie and then turn around and be like #merlin is a traitor to his people!! he did all he could for the promise of their future!!! and he's YOUNG and he DID HIS BEST #and how many people would let their loved ones die for a vague idea of a better society #yeah I'm a merlin apologist what of it #it's just such a nuanced issue you know i'm not saying he was right but i'm not saying he was wrong either

[hislittleraincloud]

This was so beautifully done 😭👔JAIRO🎀💖✨

#the ending of this puts a new twist on the ending #and the meaning of 'i came' #bc then it would mean that he ultimately DID leave his wife for her #whoa #and that's part of why she's shocked to see him at first #sheds a tear but then smiles BEFORE he tells he that he came (to be there for/with her) there's zero other explanation why the accused would #even dare talk to his accuser unless he was caving to her wants #plus in that essay she is asking directly “is this what it is to be an adult? the same exquisite longing of adolescence but with the burden #of constant accountability...No excuses for your choices for they are yours and yours alone?“ she's asking that cuz she got caught #i always thought it was weird that he would tell her that he came to his OWN hearing bc i mean that's kinda obvs to go to ur own hearing #miller's girl #cairo sweet #jonathan miller #jenna ortega #martin freeman #jairo #they do belong to each other #you belong to me #teacher student #teacher crush #under virgin circumstances #miller's girl fan works #miller's girl fan fiction #benson is my happy place #at least benson can only be spoiled by us

[sendmyresignation]

truly nothing on this earth is more foul than supernatural familial abuse discourse but specifically the discourse people have about if sam or dean "had it worse" like ok cool you have already missed the point of this show very hard.

#the things ive seen in those trenches..... #its like actually their circumstances were based on their positionality in the family and the expectations each had #but on another level the discourse never truly explores what sams life was like as a child. hes either a spoiled brat or a martyr #in ways that make him one dimensional in ways fanon child dean just. isnt. #sam isnt just isolated. hes also controlled and surveilled. any wrong move (unbeknownst to him) proves to john hes irredeemable #like the center of john telling dean he might have to kill sam. is always dean like i feel crazy with how little consideration there is #toward the mental headspace of a guy whose whole childhood is suddenly warped by the realization his father suspected he was evil #and might need to be put down like a dog. and then. sam accepts this!!!! he truly believes is he Crosses A Line dictated by deans judgement #then oops oh well! because fundamentally sam has been conditioned to believe in his own inability to make decisions about himself #so the 'dean protects sam! dean keeps sam innocent and gave him a childhood' becomes much more insidious when u realize #that is one side of the coin wherein sam is under the complete authority of another person #and obv dean is not evil for that. its learned behavior!! #but instead of teasing out this reality when we learn what john told dean... it becomes aww poor dean :(( instead of a horrific glimpse int #the hierarchy of information and control fundamental to their relationship. guys its a cult. #my posts #spn

[iphigeniacomplex]

disco elysium and personal apocalypses.

disco elysium (2019) | working for the knife - mitski | disco elysium (2019) | a song on the end of the world - czeslaw milosz, trans. anthony milosz

#it speaks! #disco elysium #web weaving #took so many screenshots of like everything dros/the deserter said like theres sooo something there re: harrys own persona but idk WHAT yet #but like the idea of something horrible happening to you and wanting the world to end because of it. obvs a breakup is different than war #but like each trauma is apocalyptic for the person. you know. like regardless of what it is. #i was thinking abt that bit in percy jackson after his mom dies where hes like nothing should have color. but it felt a bit silly.

[magicalgirlsasuke]

shawn’s colour being green, gus’s being purple and henry’s being pink but since shawn wears plaid shirts, gus wears striped shirts and henry wears hawaiian shirts, they’re usually wearing something that incorporates each other’s colours <3333 i love families i love costume design i love psych

#psych #and the type of t shirt obv fits them so perfectly too #i don’t think it’s always utilised as a story telling technique but even when it’s just subliminal it works really well imo #it’s brill when it is used tho #i just watched s2 ep6 where gus is pretending to be the psychic to his uncle and at the beginning gus wears plaid and green #and shawn wears purple but for the conclusion when they find a way to riff off each other they’re both back to their own colours

[balladetto]

more things to say about speech, actually. link has never been able to speak "properly" but also never felt like it was something lacking on his part in kokiri forest. for all that mido hassled and ridiculed him over the lack of a fairy, his voice wasn't something anyone seemed to think to touch. that was just link. that's just how he talks. when they can still understand him, what did it matter? link knows what it is to be listened to — and to suddenly not be. to suddenly not want to be, if only so any judgement and condescension will be left out too

#* lionheart / study. #* intermission / ooc. #mildly low-effort copy and paste from disc but shh. only one person will be hit with deja vu is okay asflksjdgl #once again i am taking from the game re: background and honestly. mi.do's the only kid who makes a point of saying shit about being #fairyless sdflkfj everyone else is either pretty pleased on link's behalf or like. Whatever about na.vi. which i am running with alfdkjslj #he's Different. yeah. no doubt they say that. but i don't think it stopped him from making friends outside of sa.ria #in the sort of. the ko.kiri are their own village way. they look after each other -- even the designated 'outcast' -- because they gotta #obv sa.ria is his best friend. but they gave him a treehouse!!! ladder and everything! no graffiti on its roots but a cute little drawing!! #he was not unloved there. he wasn't :( #long tags cw

[eventually--darling]

thinking about how truly... all seon gyeom wanted was to run with her... he didnt need to change her or demand anything from her he just wanted to be by her side

#me and who #obv u should make each other better #and they do! #he helps her form better habits #she teaches him how to communicate better and create goals of his own #but ultimately they just like each other waaa #run on #kdrama posting

[add1ctedt0you]

I suppose that my unpopular opinion is that jc enjoys his job lol

#This is a grey area where it's more about projecting than anything else. Because we don't have canon informations about jc's pov on general #But imo he enjoys what he does #mar!nonsense #Also. When people make jc's character about jealousy. I am mmmmm #To each his own obv

[formashimataichi]

Reading chihayafuru and why does taichi keep going on with "is this all i am" thoughts is beyond me, like bro is good in 10 other things school topper ig and Chihaya has been constantly working all the time since middle school ofcourse she will be better than him, arata has also been practicing crazy since he was a kid under a former meijin. I don't understand tchi arc sometimes like ofcourse everyone has expectations from parents, most asian households have that torture, to top this all off he's rich lmao. Like chihayas mom is literally scared her daughter will have unstable life because this field isn't like other sports..

Sometimes even comparing him to leero retro also don't seem to be fair, taichi is so good in short amount of time , why the narrative makes him seem like an underdog of sorts. He is kind and changed a lot since middle school is the model student but he can be self centred. There's a guy Going blind and karuta all he has in the series there are women who are juggling family and a queen title so the whole fandom coddling taichi with oh poor baby makes no sense.

that's why i really enjoy his interactions with suou the most, like the whole "you ignore what you're blessed with" shtick (apologies if i'm misremembering the exact wording of the line, i'm too lazy to go and check the translation). there is so much in taichi's life for him to appreciate and cherish but it always gets bogged down in his own insecurities and his belief that if he can't be great at this one thing he won't be able to actually maintain those connections that he desperately wants to keep. i don't think you can really view his insecurities as mutually exclusive of his desperation for companionship. he's always afraid he'll be left behind if he can't catch up and it takes him a while to realize that this is a community that will always have a place for him regardless of how he performs, bc they recognize that he has a passion akin to the rest of them. i'm not personally a fan of comparing taichi's problems to other characters' problems bc i think each person deals with their own slew of issues that is worthy in its own right. being pressured all your life by your parents to do well and being dismissed otherwise is something that can seriously mess with your head and debilitate your forays into passions thereafter. esp when that factors into the relationships you form with people bc you're constantly being forced to leave behind the endeavors that are meaningless, and thereby the friends who are attached to them. i don't think it's realistic to say that bc he's good at other things he should be content when it's clear karuta is the thing he specifically wants to be great at, esp bc it keeps him connected to his friends. but at the same time, i also love how the narrative addresses taichi's privilege and weaves it together with his tendency to be self-critical anyway. he knows he has to change and be better and question his priorities and that's what really draws me into his arc. he knows there are aspects of his attitude and behavior towards others that are unfair and borne of jealousy and he doesn't like that about himself, so he tries however incrementally he can to mold his perspective into something more constructive and less vindictive. his constant devotion to improvement is inspiring even if it's a slow work in progress, and i like that he has setbacks and doubts himself constantly. it's very realistic in its non-linear portrayal imo

#i think this is why i kind of sit on the fence between the two sides of fandom lol #i'm not really a fan of coddling him but i'm not a fan of diminishing his issues either #obv many of these characters have arcs that intersect but i think it's helpful to look at each character #as possessive of their own distinct arc too. like each person has problems that are worth addressing and growing from #but idk i'm also generally really drawn to characters who behave questionably but are immediately self critical #i like that awareness in a character and i like that it makes them miserable enough to want to be better #asks

[allmyoldhaunts]

thinking about how kirsten and tyler were probably the only two people alive in year twenty who had read the station eleven book

and also how they performed a scene from it in front of two of the only people who could recognize the words and who wrote them

#the fact that the book was so impactful on the story #but the amount of people who actually read it is so small #kind of blowing my mind right now #kirsten and tyler obv #we see kirsten and frank reading it but i don't think jeevan ever read it #and then maybe arthur? maybe jim? #there were five copies and arthur gave a copy to kirsten and a copy to tyler #he might have gotten his own? but i don't think so #miranda had one with her when she died that she was going to send to clark #elizabeth and clark were probably some of if not the only people alive in year twenty who knew miranda #which is very sad to me #god i just have a lot of thoughts on station eleven and that's not changing #station eleven #station eleven spoilers #they found each other because they knew each other because they are the same #<3

[lizard-dumbass]

I swear to god teenagers have some sort of telepathic superpower they use to reach into your mind to find things about you to make fun of because how else would that random ass boy have known that i like rock music and then started mocking me for it

#lizard-dumbass talks about stuff #text post #no seriously #i was in the library after school last week and there were no empty chairs anywhere so i leaned against a wall close to a group of kids who #were also hanging out in the library after school hours #i was legit just minding my own business‚ looking at my phone‚ headphones on‚ #when this random boy comes up to me‚ does the devil horns hand sign‚ and mockingly says 'dark side!' while headbanging #he did this several times too during the circa 20 minutes i was in that library‚ each time getting closer in my personal space #i just ignored him cuz i didnt know what else to do #but what confuses me is how the hell he knew that i like that type of music #i wasnt even dresed particularly goth/punk/emo/whatever #maybe it was the fact that i was wearing all black and had headphones on #but i kind of think he just telepathically looked into my mind to find out what music i like /j #he pulled that same shit again yesterday #he saw me walking outside and said to his buddy ''hey its my friend!'' (the use of 'friend' obvs being sarcastic) and shouted DARK SIDE at #me while headbanging and doing the devil horns hands #idk man teens are weird #and mean #so very mean

[thefluxqueen]

i think the point of goin out w/ friends is for two people ta start slapping their hands together and a third person joining until eventually all 7 of you in full cosplay in the middle of a hallway at the mall giggling in a weird arm stack

#spain speaks #went ta a cosplay meetup today it was. so fun #i went in the shittiest martyn cosplay i pulled together in like 4 days prior ta said meetup wkwbeejsh #GOD i love weirdos i befriended these two bitches (daver n fae) n theyre both just so strange in their own ways love that shit #daver is the person of all time i think #we were all sittin at a red robin at the enda the day n daver whos sittin next ta me puts his hand out so obvs i place mine utop it n we jus #t stare at each other for a mlment n then theyre like. ‘tell me about your birth’ #certainly a convo starter ill say that #me n fae also spent a good amount of time talkin bout fics wkenekeneke #twas fun #🥰🥰🥰

[haven-sent]

character stats

𝙻𝙰𝚈𝙴𝚁  𝟶𝟶𝟷    :    𝐓𝐇𝐄    𝐎𝐔𝐓𝐒𝐈𝐃𝐄.    

NAME  : stephanie “steph” gingrich

EYE COLOR  : hazel 

HAIR STYLE  /  COLOR  :  straight, shoulder length dark brown hair, experimented with a couple of different streaks of colour in high school.

HEIGHT  :     5′7

CLOTHING STYLE  :    exclusively in jeans at all times. formal event? black jeans. during the summer she’s pretty much only wearing tank tops to show off those drummer arms (deceptively buff looking, she is weak af). every other time it’s graphic tees, raglans and band tees, usually with a flannel or oversized button up thrown over the top and then a hoodie on top of that for winter. converse, or combat boots if she wants to add a little height. she basically just settled into her grunge phase in high school and never left it. if you see her not wearing a beanie you have witnessed a rare, almost mythical, sight.

BEST PHYSICAL FEATURE  :    her smile. absolutely adorable and incredibly infectious. also i love arm.

𝙻𝙰𝚈𝙴𝚁  𝟶𝟶𝟸    :    𝐓𝐇𝐄    𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐈𝐃𝐄.    

FEARS  :    getting close to people and them leaving her, losing loved ones, failing at her music career, ending up alone, disappointing her friends.

GUILTY PLEASURE  :    cheesy 90s pop, dancing when nobody’s watching, fruity cocktails, musicals

BIGGEST PET PEEVE  :    disorganization, being beaten at ANY game (she’s a very sore loser).

AMBITIONS FOR THE FUTURE  :    touring the world in a band.

𝙻𝙰𝚈𝙴𝚁  𝟶𝟶𝟹    :    𝐓𝐇𝐎𝐔𝐆𝐇𝐓𝐒.

FIRST THOUGHTS WAKING UP  :   coffee immediately needed to wake up, planning out what she wants to say on the radio that morning, if there’s a specific song on her brain that she wants to play.

WHAT THEY THINK ABOUT MOST  :    music - whether it’s a song she likes stuck in her head, or if she’s thinking about writing something. daydreaming about what she’d do if she made it big and had a steady career performing.

WHAT THEY THINK ABOUT BEFORE BED  :   her friends - the benefits of living in a small town is she gets to see and hang out with them pretty much every day and it always lets her go to sleep with a smile on her face.

WHAT THEY THINK THEIR BEST QUALITY IS  :    if anyone ever asked she’d say her smokin’ hot looks - an easy way to deflect. what she actually thinks is probably her sense of humour - she finds herself funny and most people seem to as well. her actual best quality is her ability to listen to people and know what they need to push through something tough.

𝙻𝙰𝚈𝙴𝚁  𝟶𝟶𝟺    :    𝐖𝐇𝐀𝐓’𝐒    𝐁𝐄𝐓𝐓𝐄𝐑?

SINGLE OR GROUP DATES  :    group - steph gets nervous around girls she actually likes and a group setting where she can pull focus from herself makes her way more comfortable.

TO BE LOVED OR RESPECTED  :    to be loved, but she’s scared of having to give it in return without a safety net.

BEAUTY OR BRAINS  :    bit of both, but brains add to the hotness.

DOGS OR CATS  :   cats. canonically will literally risk getting mauled to pet a cat.

𝙻𝙰𝚈𝙴𝚁  𝟶𝟶𝟻    :    𝐃𝐎    𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐘…

LIE  :    not usually, unless it’s necessary (usually to help cover for someone else). if you ask it of her though be warned - her pokerface is terrible.

BELIEVE IN THEMSELVES  :    it varies. she knows she’s good at what she does, she knows she’s hot, she knows she’s funny. objectively she knows all of this but she always falters at believing that it’s enough.

BELIEVE IN LOVE  :    yes. she’s been in love before and believes she could fall in love again. she’s just hesitant.

WANT SOMEONE  :    yes. anyone.

𝙻𝙰𝚈𝙴𝚁  𝟶𝟶𝟼    :    𝐇𝐀𝐕𝐄    𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐘    𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑…

BEEN ON STAGE  :   quite a few times, she loves being on stage and performing in front of people.

CHANGED WHO THEY WERE TO FIT IN  :    not really. she’s never had the attitude of wanting to fit in with people who won’t like her for who she is and her interests. she doesn’t consider them worth her time. but she does suppress some elements of herself sometimes so as not to turn people off.

𝙻𝙰𝚈𝙴𝚁  𝟶𝟶𝟽    :    𝐅𝐀𝐕𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐄𝐒.

FAVORITE COLOR  :    red or purple.

FAVORITE ANIMAL  :    cats. otters are also super cute.

FAVORITE BOOK  :    gideon the ninth.

FAVORITE GAME  :    dungeons and dragons

𝙻𝙰𝚈𝙴𝚁  𝟶𝟶𝟾    :    𝐀𝐆𝐄.

DAY THEIR NEXT BIRTHDAY WILL BE  :    december 17th

HOW OLD WILL THEY BE  :    29

𝙻𝙰𝚈𝙴𝚁  𝟶𝟶𝟿    :    𝐅𝐈𝐍𝐈𝐒𝐇    𝐓𝐇𝐄    𝐒𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄.

I LOVE  :   soft guitar melodies, headbanging to old 80s metal when no one’s around.

I FEEL  :    i might never be good enough to get what i want.

I HIDE  :    what i need if it might interfere with what others want.

I MISS  :    my dad, arcadia bay, gabe.

I WISH  :   i could get back the people i’ve lost or left behind.

tagged by: @reivontulet tagging:  i don’t know anyone here well enough yet to be tagging y’all out the blue but if you see this and want to do it please feel free

#badass dj? it's a no brainer | imagery #me looking at steph and i's clothing style: oh it's the same huh #this also sent me into a massive spiral on steph's true colours endgame choices like #i absolutely do think she's genuine when she says she doesn't care about seeing the world if it's not alongside alex #but it still breaks my heart a little that she's willing to give up her dream #something she went so back and forth on believing she was capable of achieving #that she already gave up once before when she didn't believe she could make it #because she doesn't want to lose alex #and she's not willing to make alex choose between their relationship and the other things alex needs to be happy #(and like the fear of losing your loved ones i feel is absolutely central to all the true colours characters) #(obvs everyone suffers the loss of gabe. ryan lost his mother pre-game. steph lost at least her mother in the storm - or chloe #gabe and alex desperate to reconnect after being torn from each other in the wake of losing their mother and being abandoned by their dad) #i absolutely believe steph would still be happy staying in haven because imo she does consider it home and would always come back anyway #but my girl my baby girl pls listen to your own advice #STOP THINKING ABOUT WHAT OTHER PEOPLE NEED AND THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU NEED #all this to say but yeah for the right person who steph can't live without? she drops everything for them even if it hurts #give me some prime angst material on that #doesn't even have to be romantic like she put off leaving haven because of gabe. because she loved him sm and he basically became her family #so anyway this is why i killed her dad because eh i see a muse with some fucked up attachment issues and think 'how can i make them worse' #long post #that's a lot of crying over steph for a friday lunch break

[kendallroygf]

rewatching always sunny for like the 14th time in my life and my god i need dee reynolds so bad

#sorry but ive always been a dee charlie girl like not in a romantic sense in the sense im obsessed w them and how they interact w each other #like sorry but i rewatched who got dee pregnant and the charlie pov where he misremembers halloween and he sees his interaction w dee as #like really warm like hey dee! how it’s going! like that’s his bes friendddd but also after like my 5th watch im like well ok he did wanna #smash in s3 im p sure but he got over that nd i think dee always wanted to smash but she had other shit going on except obv that time they #did fuck but they retconned that didn’t they if they did it’s in a season i don’t watch often. #but anyway dee and charlie best dynamic in that show. to me . #sorry but i started watching the show in like. 2018 so i have my own little always sunny library constructed in my own head where i Know #certain things to be true and have done so for years. much like the library of alexandria

[4giorno]

on day 5 artemy and daniil go to the bar at noon and talk at each other like this

#LMAO not in any way thats like theyre having a disagreement and cant get through to each other #just that the whole convo was just both of them going on their own train of thought ramblings and not reacting to the other in any way #and it made me laugh #also im assuming that me doing the infected organ testing in time now is the reason i got this dialogue and if thats so #is it truly so that if you get this dialogue at the bar daniil doesnt offer you his bed when you give him the blood later????? #that moment is so relevant to my life so this is honestly devastating even if the dialogue is otherwise the exact same #(but '... are you a mind reader?' 'sometimes. a bit.' still has me shaking and crying) #ALSO one thing that is so delightful abt actually progressing the panacea quest in a timely manner is that you get at least this #one extra dialogue with sticky. i didnt know it existed so i always thought oh its such a shame that stickys bond with artemy doesnt get #nearly as much development as murkys and yeah obv its still not AS elaborate/dramatic but just this one extra dialogue #rlly gives you the impression that he is becoming something like artemys anchor #and i just know the 'youre never home' line will hit even harder this time! #hhhh next is the scariest part of attempting this no death playthrough aka second night of protecting rubin #im pretty sure you dont have to do these night quests to save him but i want to lmao what am i trying to prove #the 1st one went kind of okay. now i have 4 bandages for this 2nd one and last time i did it first try with no bandages so 🤞 pls go well