#'cause you totally could

[aroaceleovaldez]

It's honestly wild to me that ToA went through so much trouble to emphasize the fact that Will did not magically fix all of Nico's problems and was explicitly not Nico's only doctor.

Only for TSATS to have Will fix all of Nico's problems and have Nico be entirely reliant on him the entire book and literally helpless without him and LITERALLY have Nico's problems be magically removed.

#pjo #riordanverse #tsats crit #nico di angelo #solangelo #it doesnt make any sense too cause. in HoO we KNOW Nico was fully capable of handling himself in Tartarus #we already knew he was explicitly on his own. we know he had it worse than Percy and Annabeth did #because we are explicitly told that Nico saw Tartarus' true nature the ENTIRE TIME versus Percy only getting a tiny half-glimpse of it once #and Percy acknowledges that he would not be able to withstand actually seeing Tartarus more than he did without just dying on the spot #and Nico was down there for as long as Percy and Annabeth at least. on his own. flying blind and explicitly having it worse. #so it doesnt make sense to totally retcon Nico's ENTIRE experiences with Tartarus to make him sopping wet and pathetic about it #needing to be helped and only being down there for twenty minutes and crying the whole time #and then all of the book he's literally functionally helpless without Will for some reason. despite being in his element. #could not get more in his element than being in the Underworld. my guy literally lives there. that's his HOUSE. that's his YARD. #and he's still just totally sopping wet and pathetic in Tartarus the second time around #like im sorry. no. we literally have previously established canon indicating this is absolutely not the case #that is not something you can retcon. that is an entire major event. it was not glossed over. #unless you are doing time travel and it's a canonical retcon a la Homestuck im sorry the events of TSATS just could never occur #(not to mention Damasen is just never acknowledged in TSATS and him and Bob were absorbed by Tartarus the god and ergo dead in HoH) #(so Bob and Damasen are like. *Gone* gone. they didn't just die to be reformed later they got ERASED.) #(and Nyx sure as hell isnt gonna be the one to have Bob trapped for whatever reason. definitely not cause she hates light/change/whatever) #(nyx is literally the mother/sister [depends on version - sometimes a mitosis situation] of the personification of day? and sky?) #(and FRIENDSHIP? and the nymphs of sunset? sometimes also CHEERFULNESS? and THOUGHTFULNESS? and old age) #(ah yes the mother of concepts such as love/friendship and aging and. day. would HATE [checks notes] love/friendship changing and light) #(she INVENTED THOSE) < anyways thank u for coming to my aside rant in the tags #in parenthesis to indicate this is an aside/tangent rant. anyways i have so many problems with this plot. it just DOESNT WORK #on NO LEVEL DOES IT WORK AT ALL WITH ESTABLISHED CANON

[femmeconomics]

hate to say it, but part of ending the stigma around sexual assault means not assuming every woman blames herself. yes, female socialization encourages it, but that doesn’t make it a given, and the goal of all of these campaigns is to eventually diminish the proportion of women who do blame themselves. it is entirely possible, and increasingly common, for women to experience sexual assault and not feel shame or guilt, which we should be happy about. but instead, there are only so many times you can hear “you know it’s not your fault, right?” before it sounds like “it was your fault”. and there’s only so many times you can hear “don’t blame yourself” before it sounds like “you should blame yourself”. because it feels good to say, doesn’t it? sure, you don’t believe she’s guilty, but you do believe she should feel guilty, so that you can disabuse her of the notion. just something to consider.

#i think we are very pleased with the idea of female shame #even among people who genuinely do not believe women are at fault for being assaulted #you are still meant to pay the penance of suffering and self destruction #god fucking knows why #“i got mugged” “aww don’t blame yourself for walking around with those fancy shoes and visible wallet okay? it’s not your fault” #you’d be like girl what. i didn’t fucking say it was my fault but your mind sure jumped there fast 🤨 #“my mom died” “wow. do you feel terrible crippling shame for everything you’ve ever done wrong in your life? #up to and including causing your mom’s death? because that would be totally wrong if you did” #like how could that possibly be an appropriate response #genuinely i think the feeling that i was going completely insane post-being raped because no one would believe i didn’t blame myself #was like. solidly half as traumatic as the actual event #like. it is okay not to feel guilty and shameful. it’s great actually. you’re not having the wrong response.

[buck2eddie]

quote from “but i can see all along, love (it was you all the way down)” // written by @captain-hen

#ok this took like 3 hours BUT TOTALLY WORTH IT #yes i am obsessed with this fic if you could not tell #absolutely incredible i recommend EVERYONE read it #had yo make something and decided to go for buck's /oh/ moment cause it was truly my favorite #neethu i hope you like this <3 please accept my humble gift as appreciation #for you writing this incredible fic and sharing it with us all <3 #ok mwah im going to eat now im so hungry ajsgsgsk #buddie #buddie fic #buddieedit #911 #911 abc #911edit #m*edits

[rouge-the-bat]

i feel like some people forget that not everyone actually can help/engage with issues going on in the world. its great to encourage doing it when people are able to, but its not an obligation everyone needs to abide by or theyre a terrible person.

a lot of people have their own issues, and dont even have the energy to expend for activism. not everyone is well off enough to even be taking care of their own life properly. guilt tripping just causes more undue stress for those already suffering.

#also people dont need to use social media as their source of activism. not posting about it doesnt mean theyre not doing anything #and if you want to encourage people to support causes theres better ways to do that than by guilt tripping #also people dont need to give their life story for you to judge if they actually totally could be being activists #no one owns anyone information on their personal struggles

[aspecpolls]

I'm actually confused about if it's normal that other aromantics or asexuals have other preferences

I'm sorry these are all I can put, there are too many sexualities to add them all.

Aromantic and bisexual

Aromantic and lesbian

Aromantic and gay

Aromantic and straight

Aromantic and another sexuality

Asexual and biromantic

Asexual and lesbian

Asexual and gay

Asexual and straight

Asexual and another sexuality

Aromantic asexual

#aro #aromantic #ace #asexual #aroace #arospec #acespec #aroacespec #aspec #confused-spood #polls #it's totally normal! :D #the aro and ace spectrums are huge #so pretty much any combo you can think of #there are people out there that will be that #also hope it's ok that i changed your wording around a bit! #just to hopefully avoid what i suspected could cause confusion #as well as adding 'aromantic and asexual' further up on the list #because people might hit 'aromantic and another sexuality' before they saw the aroace option at the bottom

[marvelousartcatastrophe]

If you can’t tell I am entirely obsessed with this guy

#qi rong and guzi #qi rong #qi rong fanart #qi rong design #tgcf #tgcf qi rong #heaven officials blessing #heaven officials blessing season two #tgcf season two #tian guan ci fu #LITERALLT LOOK AT HIM PLS #Idk what to call his dynamic with Guzi cause he’s not fatherly at all but at the same time he’s guzis father #he really is my favorite character #go ahead and ask me why if you dare I will write you AN ENTIRE ESSAY about it #if I was more insane than I unfortunately am I would deadass write tgcf from his perspective just for fun #AND I WOULD IF I DIDNT HAVE SO MANY PROJECTS IN THE WAY #college is dumb and I’ve got books to sell before I can even attempt fanfiction again #BUT I TOTALLY WOULD #maybe I could #like as a string of oneshots ya know #like the flower crown prince ceremony but qi rong’s perspective like “the AUDACITY of that HOMELESS ASS LOOKING CHILD to FALL FROM A BRIDGE #‘THE FUCK IS HIS PROBLEM?!’ #like really dude I have so many things to go running with #anyways #if you dare you could ask me to talk about him and I would just go off #love qi rong #qi rong appreciation

[gxlden-angels]

Bro I hate fundamentalists and culturally-fundie parents they'll say shit like "spare the rod spoil the child am I right haha yea my parents used to have to beat my ass with a switch almost everyday but I sure did learn my lesson" but like??? no you didn't??? you were hit multiple times for something you very obviously did not, in fact, learn

Like studies about how harmful even lightly spanking children is aside, you're literally contradicting yourself?? Some even admitted they got worse as they got older cause they wanted to see how far they could push their parents before they got punished

And studies not aside, you're gonna get child raising advice from the same book that tells you to stone your wife if her hymen doesn't break on your wedding night instead of the decades of research we have now?? Just say you're a bad parent and move on my guy. Skill issue

#bro I had a coworker go 'unpopular opinion I think some kids really do need beatings' and I'm like???? #unprompted???? what's going on there???? #well anyways I ended up going 'yea so I plan on specializing in play therapy with autistic children so I've been learning about talking #to children and the ways their parents and environment affects them' #and they're like hmmm but beating this kid with a stick after they broke something or I upset them to the point of yelling is good actually #had a boss say it taught him and his kids respect cause they were hard-headed #and I'm like?? that's fear not respect! they fear punishment! they do not act out of respect for you! #he's a conservative christian black man tho so he's like 'But Authority!' like bro I don't even respect you what are you on about #'You don't respect police and their authority?' Nope! I fear them! I do not respect cops and every cop/cop-adjacent person I personally know #has reinforced that for me #'We'll agree to disagree' Cool! Doesn't mean you're not wrong! I could believe trees aren't real but that is in fact incorrect #then he pulled out the bible verse and I was like ah okay I forgot you like 'here's how to treat slaves' book you're so right bestie #I'm totally wrong now and so sorry for doubting you and your 2000+ year old book I don't believe in <3 #They'd go 'well I turned out fine!' then say something that directly contradicts that #anyways I need christians to get their grubby little hands off the current state of Child Protection and Rights in the U.S. #So we can actually start working on helping kids without the force of christian hands suffocating them #cause homeschooling and child raising by evangelicals are so fucked up bro I'm tired of this shit #I'd only stay in my current state to help children get out of that cycle since I'm in the bible belt #ex christian #religious trauma #child abuse tw

[tswwwit]

[About the ask where you said that dipper blurted out "I'm pregnant" To bill and his immediate response is panic]

Does this mean that bill has impregnated someone??? Or the other way around??

Bill's never sired or sprouted any offspring, and has no intention of doing so!

Dipper was pulling a prank, and it worked very well - because Bill's been around the block enough to not dismiss the supposedly 'impossible'.

#answers #Dipper's never really thought about the mechanics of Bill's true form. On purpose. For his sanity. #So he hasn't questioned his assumption that it could never happen #He's right too! With what they're doing they aren't going to have any progeny #Bill though is not one to rule out some freak twist of magic causing an 'accident' #Heck knows he sees twelve impossible things before breakfast #And let's face it: These two get themselves into quite a few Shenanigans #It's almost like someone out there has it out for them 🤔 Weird huh #Given Bill's true nature I think it's equally likely he could be the siring or gestating partner #And between the two he'd pick lying down on the train track himself of that particular trolley problem #My version of Bill has negative desire to procreate at the moment #Though if Bill ever DID sire a kid prior to meeting Dipper #You just KNOW he was the worst most deadbeat piece of shit #this was in my drafts and I totally forgot it was there

[front-facing-pokemon]

#jirachi #as i'm queuing this up. i'm sorta. realizing that deoxys has four forms. and i'm wondering what to do about that #like. do i just choose normal form and go with that?? or do i do every single form?? or do all the forms in one post?? or what #this isn't about jirachi. i like jirachi and i think those theories about how bidoof actually caused all of pmd sky are pretty funny #and like. also weirdly reasonable. but i dunno if jirachi is the type to be like a genie. where when you make a wish he's like #o0o0o0o but there's a caAaAaAaAtch……… #i don't think. that's something jirachi does? so it's even funnier then bc it's like jirachi did that on TOTAL accident. but i find that #hard to believe. folks say it's like… he did that so that he could get bidoof some friends Naturally or whatever but i just don't feel like #he'd be the type. but maybe that's why he ends up in the expedition society later on. he felt so bad about ending the world just to help out #a rookie who wanted some friends that he dedicated himself to saving the world instead. which. is kinda sweet. and the whole reason i've #been he/him-ing him this whole time. bc that's what they do in psmd. where his boss battle theme is just a whole banger for no reason #anyway those are some fun theories. i have to figure out what to do for jirachi and also put some chicken in the slow cooker

[blinkpen]

waking up in a cabin deep in a remote pine forest as the sun is going down. or coming up? you can't tell yet. suppose that's less important when you remember this world has no pine forests, or a sun to rise and set.

instead, this world has no sky at all. instead, this world has stale air and monsters. instead, this world has a man you've only heard rumors of. suppose the rumors are true, and that man has a cabin. and that cabin doesn't smell quite right.

but when has anything ever smelled right down here

#mog art #artists on tumblr #surreal horror #ferrumites redux #blood cw #in universe this dude's psychic powers are so OP just -glancing- him can cause existential breakdowns in people #not bc he did anything but bc his ability to totally rewrite your perception of reality both retroactively and permanently is Infamous #few other espers are powerful enough to break/overwrite this' dude's Effects If They Can Event Detect They're Present #to even learn he exists and is not a boogeyman legend is enough to make some people go nuts wondering if they've always had 5 fingers #so just a reminder he is Out There and Could do that to you (or maybe already has and you wouldn't know) rattles Most Individuals #unreality cw #given the descriptions i just rambled in sorry

[youngyoo-apologist]

OG Choi Han they could never make me hate you cause if some random rich boy was yelling at me and telling me my family deserved to die like a day after it happened and all I wanted was to know how I could get help I’d beat him up too

This plus the added fact that the Harris Village people were the first people to take Choi Han in and take care of him after years and years in the dark forest. Like he’s obviously not going to be mentally stable after all that, and he was so young when everything happened to him like I cannot blame him at all. I don’t think I can ever hate OG Choi Han like ever, he’s flawed, he has problems, but I love him dearly. He deserves the world. This kid who had to fight for his life, was taken away from his family, and in the process had to give up parts of his own humanity to survive, and like went to war two years later, they could never make me hate u OG Choi Han…

Like yeah violence is bad I guess but OG Cale had it coming(saying this as an OG Cale fan, I love him, but he was mean as hell when he was younger!)

If I’m honest, I think they were both in the wrong to an extent. Like OG Cale shouldn’t have said all that no matter the circumstances, and OG Choi Han shouldn’t have beaten him up so much. But u say mean shit and you get hit, that is how it will work when you’re talking to the guy who just saw his entire village get murdered like idkkkk man

I understand where OG Cale was coming from, but he had many issues and while he wasn’t an awful person, he was capable of doing bad things because of his own internalized pain and emotions that he never got to properly process because of his emotionally distant childhood and relationship with his father who should have been there for him more when he was younger.

Okay speaking of his childhood, Deruth isn’t the WORST father in the world but there are a lot of things he could have done better. I think a lot of Deruth’s flaws come from his fear of failure and messing up. He’s scared of doing the wrong thing, and so he sticks to doing what he knows and using what he knows best. That’s why he uses his money, that’s why gift giving is his way of showing affection, he knows that it is one thing he cannot mess up.

The problem is that money and gifts is NOT what OG Cale needed. I think what that guy needed the most was a parent who wasn’t afraid to talk to him, to ask him questions. Not to say that Deruth gave up on OG Cale, but I think in a way he gave up on OG Cale by giving up on himself. Deruth didn’t trust himself to have the capabilities to talk to OG Cale, which is why he never did. It’s because that Deruth was scared, and didn’t trust himself, that he could never face OG Cale

If Deruth was able to trust himself a little more, and pull himself together, I don’t think OG Cale would have turned out the way he did. As a kid, he probably thought the only way he could help his family without relying on anyone(no doubt this whole ‘I have to do it myself’ thing came from the fact that he couldn’t rely on his father when his mom died, and instead was acting as a pillar of support for his father when it should have been the other way around) was to sabotage himself, the only heir. If he was shown to be unfit to be heir, then everyone else would have no choice but to direct their hatred towards him instead of his family.

If Deruth had talked to his son at least ONCE when he was a kid, asking him why he was upset or why he did the things he did, I think OG Cale would have told him. Why? Because he’s a kid!! A kid will obviously want to rely on his father, if he just had one sign telling him that he didn’t have to do it alone I’m 90% sure OG Cale would have said something.

Basically, while Deruth isn’t the worst father, he’s not really a great father either. I think he does do his best, but he has issues with communication lol

OG Cale and OG Choi Han are both complex characters and had their own reasons to behave the way they did. The thing is with people is that they’re complicated and have layers, so the situation with them would have layers behind it as well with multiple co-existing truths and stuff

#guys I’m a big fan of Choi Han #and I get sad when people bring up this scene and all the blame is on him #like okay he was wrong but if YOU saw your entire family dead and some random rich boy started yelling abt how their lives were worthless #you’d be mad too no? #like his feelinsg were totally justified cause OG Cale was REALLY mean in that scene #‘their lives are worth less than the bottle in my hand’ OHHHHH OKAY OG CALE THATS ENOUGH THATS ENOUGHHHH #I love OG Cale but u have to admit he wasn’t very nice when he was younger #like the statements ‘he had his reasons’ ‘being trash was an act’ ‘he wasn’t a bad person’ ‘but he did say bad things’ can co exist #yes being trash was an act but he is ALSO capable of saying mean things and things that are wrong #LIKE TELLING THE GUY WHO JUST GOT HIS FAMILY MURDERED THAT THEIR LIVES WERE WORTHLESS #HE WAS NOT INNOCENT FOR THAT #Younger OG Cale is not a black and white character #and neither is older OG Cale but this post isn’t abt him #okay I’m gonna bring up someone who isn’t from TCF #but take Eunyung Baek from no home as an example okay #eunyung did bad things and was a bad person because of his childhood right #the reasons to being a bad person do not take away the bad things he did #but just cause he did bad things and was capable of them did not mean he could not change #I love OG Cale a LOT and I just think that his character has a lot behind it #Older OG Cale is obviously very different from his younger self #years and years of war and tragedy have matured him and like he’s not the same person he was anymore #okay back to Choi Han I love that guy I will defend him with my life #beating up people is wrong yeah but with the circumstances I’d say OG Cale had it coming #like okay it would be different if it was unprovoked but it was very much provoked #I swear I love OG Cale I just think he was very wrong for that #not to say he can’t change or isn’t capable of change he definitely is #idk I guess my point is that OG Cale was wrong but he changed as a person #and OG Choi Han was wrong for beating him up so much but it wasn’t unjustifiable #tcf #lcf

[tennessoui]

I like your thoughts about the children in the cheating AU.

As a child I wished that my parents would divorce. Even as an adult I wished for it because I always thought my mother was so unhappy. Now that something happened to my father I realized I never really knew the feelings of my mother. I only have my own view and feelings.

It would be interesting to know if the children ever really talked with their parents over this fucked-up situation before they came up with their own thoughts and feelings.

I think they have to eventually but it’s definitely not the first reaction for them because the scale of the wrong that obi-wan and anakin did to Padmé is absolutely startling. Not only did the affair last for years, but it was probably some sort of scandalous news story too. Come on, two senators get divorced around the same time and then one of those senators starts openly dating the other senator’s ex husband? And there are children involved? Scandalous!!

I don’t think it’s galactic level news that the new kenobi Skywalkers never escape, but I’m sure the trashy gossip magazines are there when the twins are old enough to look for themselves and see it

and then the whole truth also involves that obi-wan really did worm his way into the twins’ lives like a third parental figure and the twins didn’t know any better than to accept him eagerly and now they have to deal with the realization that they must have hurt their mother…a lot…without even knowing it. and maybe it’s not rational but I bet they feel really guilty about that

so I think in the case of the cheating au, the twins finding out about the past affair and how shit it was and how much it fucked over their mom isn’t something that leaves room for talking with obiwan and anakin before reacting. I can imagine one twin being like “well maybe we should hear their side” and the other going “fuck that, look at what they did look at all the evidence there is no side that makes this better” and the first twin being like…..ok you’re right ….

but I don’t think it ruins their relationship with their fathers forever!! And that eventually they do talk to them and they do hear them out and they see how devastated obi-wan is feeling at the idea of losing them and how guilty anakin still feels and it gets marginally better

it’s just the scale of wrong doing and destruction and betrayal in the cheating au…it’s so much I dont think anyone could be rational about it before reacting in emotion if they truly love every party involved

#asks #obikin #cw: infidelity #and also that good good consequences of obikin’s actions here!! #love that comeuppance #only question is how much does Padmé play into it #she can’t honestly be expected to hold her chin high and ask tht the twins forgive them #that’s too nice and too good and my padmes are never that nice and that good #she’d totally see this as an opportunity to rain down upon them the only consequence that could possibly make them suffer #cause even ten years later you don’t get over that sort of hurt #or Padmé doesn’t - she’s moved on but she’s not over it

[moonmunster]

been rewatching adventure time eps and obsidian really got me..

#bubbline #adventure time #marceline #princess bubblegum #my kraft #I know we'll never grow old together #'Cause you'll never grow old to me #remember when in 2011?12? the what was missing episode came out and it was a whole thing that bubbline might be a canon thing #and someone had set up like a hotline?? that you could call and tell CN why you supported bubbline #my baby gay ass totally called that number and left a voicemail :

[confused-beany]

"Oh Crowley. Nothing lasts forever." He says

HE SAYS AFTER they did everything they could to make it all last. To make sure it all doesn't get destroyed. only for Aziraphale to say this

#I CANNOT #i cant #good omens #good omens season 2 #ineffable husbands #more like #ineffable idiots #aziraphale specifically tho #baby i kinda get it #but I also don't with that one standing right in front of you #right besides you always #how could you #(i totally get it. i hate it cause I am him) #bUT #HOW DARE #aziraphale #crowley #aziracrow

[puttheglareinminecraft]

So unfortunately I don’t know the specifics to Shazam’s backstory so there’s probably someone who can do this better. Regardless, picture this.

The ghost king and The Champion of Magic are meeting. The last time this happened, many centuries ago, wars broke out. The power struggle was maintained over generations and the loss was insurmountable

The realms watch on in fear. They know nothing good can come of this, as two beings with as much power is had simply cannot coexist.

King Phantom approaches the Champion and is met head on with resistance. The two share a look of each other, conversing in a language that can’t be heard.

Looking into what’s happening between the two, there’s an understanding. Whether it be in how they hold themself, the glint in their eyes, or an instinct only shared by those in company, They Know. The two godlike beings understand that the other is merely acting. That is being so vastly different, they are more alike than anyone else.

The meeting adjourned with no bloodshed and a collective sigh of relief was heard. Danny and Billy found each other after the fact, and after dropping the respective masks, forged a friendship that would haunt any hero over the age of 18. The world anticipated a war, they didn’t understand the kind they’d get.

#so I totally could have made this shorter but I simply didn’t want to #listen it’d be so in character for their first interaction to cause everyone panic #ooh I should have wrote a prophecy of war #do you think ancient prophets could understand shaving cream #dc #dc comcis #danny fenton #danny phantom #dp x dc #shazam #billy batson

[widevibratobitch]

ripping this moment to shreds with my teeth

#OUGH YGHHHH ARGHHHH UGHHH RHRGRHRRHHRRRGRHRGHRRGHRH #sorry but im forever thinking about this literally tattooed this moment on my skin forever it means everything to me #one day we will unpack my obsession with murderous prettyboys who scratch their own skin bloody in moments of despair #cause their own downfall with their carelessness and their closest loyal friends' deaths with their fucked up ambition #and attempt suicide after their fall from grace #(they also fuck highborn women and have a weird gay thing going on with their misogynistic bestie. btw) #so yes we will unpack that but not today thanks. its not illegal to want to chew on murderous femboys yet #the three musketeers #vicomte de bragelonne #alexandre dumas #aramis i like you a normal amount king haha im unwell #anyway the fact that i could have just let this hyperfixation go a year ago and been totally fine and at peace with it #if sofia hadnt organised a playdate for her two coolest mutuals who hadnt known each other before...