#Here’s a possible solution!

[101flavoursofweird]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Owl House (Cartoon) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Mattholomule/Gus Porter, Camila Noceda & Gus Porter, Gus Porter & Perry Porter, Lumity and HuntLow are mentioned Characters: Gus Porter, Mattholomule (The Owl House) Additional Tags: Love Confessions, Future Fic, Set ten years after the ending of Season Three, First Kiss, Fluff and Humor, very light angst Summary:

‘Matt pointed at the name on the wedding invitation. “Who the flying fart is GUS NOCEDA-PORTER?”’

- Gus wants a plus-one for Amity and Luz’s wedding. But first, he needs to explain himself to Mattholomule.

#Gus/Mattolomule #Gustholomule #Gus porter #gus owl house #augustus porter #mattholomule #I dub thee Mattholomule Smith! #(I’m sorry Steve’s not in this fic!) #the owl house #toh #toh fanfic #Owl house #owl house fanfiction #Post Season 3 #My writing #my fics #This was inspired by a post worrying Gus would feel left out if all of his friends took the Noceda name through adoption or marriage #Here’s a possible solution! #Camila just declares Gus an official Noceda because she CAN #Hunter has been adopted by Camila and Eda and Darius #They have joint custody but Titan knows what Hunter’s schedule looks like #Gus was originally going to take the name Clawthorne too but King would take him to court #Why did I give Perry such needless angst #I’m sorry Perry!

[ladycrimsonandblack]

So I’ve been trying to get into a new anime and had to force myself to go through the first three episodes because the protagonist did not sit well with me. Nothing bad about him, he’s just not the kind of intelligent bastard character I prefer.

And that got me thinking. I’ve been obsessed with Luffy for two years now. He’s my favorite One Piece character. He’s one of my favorite characters in all media, period. I adore him.

But, and I think we can all agree, he is very much not the sharpest crayon in the box.

Usually, I would hate this type of character. In fact, it was one of the reasons it took me so long to watch One Piece – I was one hundred percent sure Luffy would bore me. I saw the fandom joking around about his idiocy, and didn’t really look more into it before deciding that 900+ episodes is too long of an investment when I knew the main character is exactly the kind of protagonist I hate. The fact that I actually started One Piece was a total fluke, and I did it despite everything I saw and read about Luffy.

Here’s the thing. I still hate the stock shōnen characters. But I love Luffy, and I think that the main difference here is that Luffy is, before anything else, competent.

He is not a stupidly naive, bleeding-heart hero trying to see the best in everybody and having no actual connection to the real world. He does not bumble around, being tossed around by forces bigger than him and only resolving an impossible situation thanks to luck or being able to throw a bigger punch (though the punching bit does play a significant part). Luffy is always the instigator, the one in charge of the plot, the one driving the whole thing forward – the plot does not happen to Luffy, Luffy happens to the plot.

He’s not the smartest. Often, he’s not the strongest even. But when something needs to be done, when someone needs to step up and resolve the problem, he knows what to do. And he does not hesitate to do it, often in the most surprising of ways. He is a very simple thinker, but that simple thinking lets him see a clear line from a problem to a solution, without taking any detours a more intelligent character might have taken. It’s not just about who punches the strongest. It’s about pulling the right emotional lever (Robin in Enies Lobby), or finding a hidden weakness (Crocodile), or even about concocting the most outrageous solution that would resolve the situation immediately (destroying the Baratie, anyone?)

Also, he might not be the cleverest person around, but his insane emotional intelligence ensures that he does not have to be. He has friends for that. He surrounds himself with people who are smart and strong and just as competent as he is. His nakama do what he cannot, and so even this personal drawback is eliminated.

Luffy is just straight-up competent, in every way and situation possible. He does what needs to be done, always and without hesitation. And he does it well.

In his own way, he is just as effective as my personal favorite intelligent bastard characters. He’s just so much simpler about it.

#one piece #so this rambling character study actually made me realise #that maybe it's not the intelligent characters that are my favorite #but the competent ones #it's just that usually those characters are also the clever ones too #but then luffy here made me realize that i just like seeing characters actually doing something about their issues #and doing it well #and not just bumbling around and coming upon the solution thanks to luck or strength #and to be fair #luffy does use both #but he is so confident in his skills that you can never really doubt the final outcome #luffy knows exactly what he can do in any possible situation #and then does it #i love him

[r-aindr0p]

To think I’m going to have to wait one year until I seize this guy by his uniform bell the second his banner is here…

Same song I took the lyrics from for a previous post. "Belle" from the french musical version of Notre dame de Paris

#twisted wonderland #rollo flamme #twst rollo #basically the song is about the hunchback Frollo and Phoebus talking sus abt Esmeralda but in a poetic way #Haven’t seen the disney and I never read the novel bc I know it’s horrifying #I’m just here for the twink rug with a bell from twst #+ made a sentence inclusive to fit every possible solution #wether you think he thinks of yuu or idk malleus #leaving the translations here in the tags for the lyrics from top left to bottom right #’does desiring you make me a criminal ?’ #’What use is there yet in praying Notre Dame’ #’Who… will be the one throwing the first stone at them ?’ #’This one does not deserve to be on Earth’ #simp lyrics #I should finish my inktober before december at least but Rollo keeps coming back #Im cursed or blessed idk #Ohh I remembered I have shrinkong plastic sheets Rollo will be baked he will be put in the oven

[moeblob]

As Tales of Symphonia was my first Tales game and the only game I've beaten like five times completely... it holds a special place in my heart. I really love the cast and I was a walking strategy guide for it back in the GameCube days.

I had all the unlockable outfits carried over into NG+ (gotta collect those swimsuits baby) and honestly. I just. Really like this game. I haven't played it in a while but I have it on PS3 and now I long to hook it up and play it (sorry to my many other Tales games I haven't beaten once on PS3......).

#tales of symphonia #colette brunel #martel yggdrasill #i love my dottr coletteeeeeeeeeeeeee #and also i love everyone but anyway here hi hello #this game really hit me as a kid and i dont know if id enjoy it as much now but i still wanna try again lol #my kiddos...... #did i possibly print out the strategy guides from gamefaqs and then proceed to memorize all the solutions back in the day? #yes i did indeed print out SO MANY guides for various things for this game #but hey man i had a blast with learning everything #granted my memory is now fuzzy but its to be expected after so long

[mokeonn]

Before I go to sleep I leave you all with this piece of advice: sometimes you don't actually have to answer big political questions, sometimes you can just say "I am not smart enough to know that, I just know the small things I do to help." Like you can often times completely avoid making a fool of yourself if you just say you don't know.

#simon says #to explain here and not in a reblog: #sometimes when you try to explain big picture solutions you're gonna sound dumb #you might not have done enough research #you might not have a rebuttal to a counter argument #you might not be articulate enough to explain why you think this #sometimes you gotta take a step back and give the simple solution. the one man solution #you do what you can to fight against the problem #you talk to people to help spread awareness and how to fight the bad problem #and you vote and invite others to vote for bigger steps towards solving the problem #like you can talk about theory and how you believe we need to do a huge drastic thing to solve and issue #but people will disagree and argue til you're blue in the face #they'll poke and prod until you mess up or lose your temper and use it against you #and you'll feel dumb and they'll learn nothing #sometimes the best thing to do is step away from the big picture and just say 'idk what the solution is I just know the things I can do“ #sometimes you gotta admit you're not a scientist/expert and you can't answer that #i used this while talking with my Dad tonight #he brought up our climate crisis and space travel as a possible solution #and I said I think that's just addressing the symptom and not the cause and we need to care for our Earth now #and he asked me what solutions I think would fix it #and knowing my incredibly smart Dad who is articulate and ready to throw rebuttles at a moments notice to play devils advocate #and my past experience in struggling in this topic with him before #i just told him I didn't know. all i knew is the little things I can and do do to help #and that hopefully by spreading the word and habits and encouraging others to vote for those bigger solutions I could help make a change #but all I really could do is the little things I have control over #and the topic became much less stressful about the little things we have control over #like planting native plants and recycling and adopting habits that are healthier to our planet #which was 100% more preferable to if I tried to give a big solution. because I would reveal i didn't have all the knowledge needed to argue #and my articulation would make me sound like a stupid kid who only thinks they know what's best #so yeah I basically suggest that if you dont wanna feel like shit after debating someone just step away from the big picture for a moment

[scintillatingshortgirl19]

it's just that i reeeally don't think it would have been that hard to find a solution to the timeline problem that didn't involve condemning the main character to an eternity trapped in his own solitary personal hell

#loki #loki spoilers #loki tv series #ive only barely started thinking about possible solutions and i already have one idea #loki could've figured out how to take someone with him as he timeslipped #(no reason why that couldn't have been a possibility considering he can also do things like pause time) #and taken sylvie back to the end of time and had her convince herself not to kill he who remains #also probably would be smart to go further back in time #rather than try to convince her to change her mind at the height of her emotion and rage #that might have. helped a bit maybe #idk it just really feels like there were options here #and that's part of why this all feels so unsatisfying to me #one thing that makes a lot of tragedies satisfying is inevitability #knowing that for one reason or another #the tragic ending was inescapable #that wasn't the case here #it didn't have to be this way #loki series negativity #op

[thestarlightforge]

I don’t think y’all are Prepared for the amount of polycule activity that’s gonna take place in this Hunger Games/TBOSAS fic series—

#I’m not even talking about #everlark #everthorne #katniss everdeen #practically had a girlfriend in the books #madge undersee #then we have #coriolanus snow #over here on his #Snowbaird #snowjanus #business #as he should #and need we not forget #johanna mason #ofc female friendship is possible. platonic love is valuable #but I have a favorite solution to this problem and it’s gonna SHOW 🤣 #tbosas fanfiction #thg fanfiction #tbosas #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #ballad of songbirds and snakes #the hunger games #thg series #lucy gray baird #sejanus plinth #polycule #polyamory #lgbtqia #ao3 writer

[dj-wayback]

NS, what do you think of sliverists?

#(guy who’s not mad about the possibility of someone finding the solution before him) #needless separation is here

[faithfromanewperspective]

it's such a radical kind of positivity to be like 'maybe things will be okay in the end' in the face of biodiversity collapse and colonialism. but it's also exactly what we need. for some of us to go 'what if things turn out okay' and then do the work to get there because we loved that vision so much we made it happen

#climate solutions #climate justice #climate action #biodiversity #colonialism #decolonise #and yes i know we're living through terrible things rn #and it's okay if you're suffering and unable to see the positive #but. i don't usually believe in manifesting but i'm manifesting right now. i'm sick of my prayers being in desperation #what if the best possible outcome happens? and sometimes that means surrounding myself with a much less negative skew #and so. psa i guess. i'm really working on that #and doing so in a way that isn't too rushed so hopefully the hypomania and desperation doesn't kick in #so please if you've read to here ask me how it's going! i won't be checking my dash but i will be checking notifs and messages #personal mental health tag #anti-worrying i guess

[mcybree]

still doing research and I’m kind of in love with this Scott and Cleo interaction in Impulse’s episode

GRIAN: So the question is: which one of you’s paired with Pearl, and which one of you’s paired with Martyn? SCOTT: Watch out! Cleo Cleo Cleo Cleo Cleo—! (SCOTT defends CLEO from a creeper.) SCOTT: I was about to find out! I thought about it! (CLEO and SCOTT both laugh.) SCOTT: (undecipherable) — “If I let Cleo die, I’ll find out who my pair is!” But I didn’t. CLEO: I appreciate you Scott, I do. SCOTT: Okay. :]

It’s reminding me of all my 3L clips where Scott talks about how he’s just waiting for Jimmy to die but like. The fun version of that

I think there’s a lot of reasons why cleo trusts scott so much but I do wonder if scott blatantly saying fucked up things instead of keeping it to himself is part of it. The acknowledgment that he’s smart enough to have done that but actively chose not to is comforting, rather than being around someone who just doesnt think about it. Because I think, to Cleo, that says more about a person’s trustworthiness. Because she’s had people who dont think about it choose the other option before.

#This also says a lot about scott but. nothing I havent touched on already i dont think. #scott saw a solution to him being left in the dark about who his soulmate is and considered it. he’s just always thinking about these thing #it’s in the same vein as him telling Cleo to kill Etho in SL because getting the ten extra hearts is technically the best option #He often boils other people’s lives down to hearts and minutes as with his own #It’s a symptom of both struggling to truly connect with people + needing to gain an advantage whenever possible. #happens with him. but he’s clearly happy with himself about choosing Cleo’s safety here. this is cute to me please understand #that.blue.mf

[melancholiaenthroned]

im not a watcher fan so correct me if im wrong but its weird to see people be So Against the idea of them moving to their own streaming service like yes it costs money which sucks but. how is this tangibly different from dropout? it has less stuff i guess but still the premise of a creator owned streaming service so they dont have to take sponsorships anymore like. i dont know it doesnt seem new to me?

#i guess if i was a fan and truly unable to afford it i understand being upset but it seems disproportionate #but i feel like again the dropout solution of sharing accounts and even splitting the cost is like. possible here #poison.txt #again didnt watch their vid and dont rlly follow them so if this is totally different from what theyre doing lmk

[jekyllnahyena]

The problem is that I wanna show characters in scenes but I need dialog, but I don't want to write, so I need to draw comics, but comics take a lot of time and energy, which I don't have, so I get stuck with scenes in my brain and think that I need to draw them before I forget the scene or they keep me from thinking about other things, but I can't, so now I'll explode

#do u see my problen here??? #like im slow #soooooooo fucking slow #and i dont have time #my only solution rn is ti really just put iut the sketchiest littls things possible #and then i have to lock myself somewhere so the perfectionist in me doesnt try and murder the tired lad

[bluebudgie]

Alright gw2 peeps, here's one for all of you with a lot of alts:

All your characters of the same class (e.g. all your rangers) are stuck together in an escape room.

Which of your "class groups" is off the worst and who gets the job done with no problem?

#edit: yall did this way more detailed than my word salad so lemme redo this class by class as well: #eles: not awful. overall a relatively cooperative group despite very differing personalities. #wouldnt be the fastest in finding the solutions but definitely are getting out of there without casualties or other damages #necros: shit tier dynamics. hostile charr that wants to be left alone vs. volatile chak madman vs. way too gentle sylvari plant #communication would NOT go well but they would make it out (neljje contributes NOTHING to this) #mesmers: nightmare courtier who is out to be as destructive on purpose as possible vs. just some guy vs. tvekks (enough said) #tvekks will suffer but they'll probably make it out. maybe. im unsure. #rangers: actually competent. if we ignore the hostile inquest rat in the room we're left with a competent charr leader and a #very cooperative norn huntsman (and bobbie but he contributes absolutely nothing). they will get out just fine. #engineers: disaster. there might be dead. too many egos in one room and a poor norn who just wants to get out beween everyone fighting #she might jus solve this on her own while the other three are about to slice each other's throats #thieves: absolute hell tier. mordrem sylvari trying to eat everything he can possble dig his teeth into. #a mildly confused human who probably just tries her best while the asura in the room is suffering psychic damage caused by #the mordrem and the charr that will simply not shut up for one second #i do not see ANYONE managing to get a solution in these conditions even if individually they might just be able to. #revs: awkward atmosphere between happy upbeat asura kid and really grumpy charr but they're getting through it #warriors: also a weird clash of personalities but they'd pull their asscheeks together and get out of there #and finally the guardians: no destructive force in here. just two very mature people and a slightly chaotic but otherwise clever bard #absolute dream team coming up with solutions. peace and happiness. #budgie plays gw2

[paris-geller-was-straightwashed]

I've been trying to figure out what I want to say. not that anything I have to say is important; more as a way to think things through.

there's no way to exactly compartmentalize. but if I've realized anything, it's this. in my roughly ten year process of activism and coming to understand social inequity, nothing has radicalized me more then palestine.

nothing has made me more aware of the utter betrayals of our social system. nothing directly at this point, has made me truly see that our political systems can and will turn their backs on human lives when it suits them. it's embarrassing, but it took a scale as big as this to undo 27 years of propaganda that we (as in those in a western capitalist society) have created this system that allows for lives to be wiped out and for others to allow this to happen. how utterly dangerous and cruel. really, you only have to watch so many back to back clips of people being slaughtered right next to clips of rich men in suits chatting casually at the UN like they're not debating over who gets to live or die, to become enraged.

the devastation we were seeing even just a couple days after oct 7th was enough, but when the west did not report or cry over those little lives left all alone to rot in a decomposed hospital like how they wailed over every single israeli hostage - that said everything to me.

I'm sure we're all waiting for the day we can talk about this as a past event and for the palestinians living through it to still be alive to talk about it. for their freedom. but right now, this has changed everything for me. I'm not heavily involved in politics or would pretend like I have a finger on the pulse of anything, but I really do believe, that this has massively shifted things here in north america. note I'm canadian, not american, but regardless, ppl my age and younger have not only never seen such aggressive destruction play out worldwide like this, but more so, been so blatantly lied to and disregarded by their government. their worries quieted, their demands tossed aside; the whole world is calling for a ceasefire, and it's literally like no one in a suit behind a desk can see us. we're screaming and they can't even be asked to look at us. this already fragile line of trust between the public and their politicians, has essentially snapped completely. people like myself, have come into the reality the system & the people in it not only do not care for us, but that they don't need to either. I'm not sure how these politicians in power are going to get people to back them again, when it's becoming very clear to the masses that whatever we have to say doesn't matter to them anyway. it all feels very much like a tipping point, at least to me.

but I'm about to take a hard turn, back to palestine. there was a moment in all this madness that has stuck with me ever since, that I've thought to post about but couldn't verbalize. I think it was AJ who had a clip of it and I've searched their YT pages up and down for the video, but annoyingly cannot find it again - so I apologize that I don't know any names (but if you know what I'm referring to, then PLEASE let me know bc I truly want to know who this happened to). it was early in the war, I believe it was still october.

there was a video from someone who's become one of gaza's media reporters, a man I do not know the name of. from what I understand, he was born and raised there, and did local photography. but like many media personal in gaza, when the war hit, he started to document. he ended up posting a clip that haunts me; he was riding in an ambulance with others that was transporting people to a hospital. while they were riding, people fleeing from what I believe was a bombing stopped the vehicle. they were carrying a baby. the baby was bleeding and bruised and cut, from the recent attack. they pleaded with them, to take the child to the hospital and then placed the baby all alone into this man's arms. imagine that. you're a photographer with no training, caught in the middle of one of the world's bloodiest fights ever witnessed. you're unequipped and frightened. you're just trying to escape with your own life in tact. and then someone hands you a baby. they just place a baby in your arms.

out of nowhere, there's this little life in your hands. blood is cracked over their once soft skin and they're crying, blindly calling out for mom or for dad, who may never come back. their tiny heartbeat hammers under the torn pair of clothes, having narrowly escaped death. but only narrowly. and now, it's yours to bear. a human life, clutching on still, and it's up to you to wrap it in your arms and make sure it lives.

out of everything coming from gaza, I've been unable to shake this image. I just couldn't possibly imagine if that was me. as far as I understand it, this guy wasn't a formal journalist, just a media influencer who photographed and talked about his hometown, no training - and then he's thrown into a warzone. and more, another life is placed onto him.

he handled it, from the clip, very well; kept calm and composed and tried to calm the baby too. I wish I knew, if he was able to help that baby survive. I hope the little life did.

I hope they both did.

#free palestine #meanwhile guess who just learned that the company they had investments in sponsors #a local jewish group that has ardent ties with israel and sponsors groups and builds centers there #so I'm gunna be pulling my assets outta there as FAST as as I possibly can #would've been fine if it was just a regular jewish community group but then you had to go ruin it by feeding money to warmongers #they also put up this stupid website claiming to be about 'real peace' solutions and they put in ''''facts'''' #which says it's antisemitic to equate the israeli government/army to nazis #and their '''''proof''''' is just links to right-wing sites with NO SOURCES or articles that literally only cite themselves #if my eyes could roll back any further in my head I'd have seen into my brain #anyway here's just my rambling thoughts but I will be reblogging actual useful information/posts when it comes to palestine

[tomatoluvr69]

I am not saying anything that is news to anyone here but man. Boy is it difficult to have your closest interpersonal relationship strained for an extended period.

#and the solutions just aren’t really there bc it’s just like…ramifications of an incompatibility for which no one is at fault #but I am just so hurt and tired and lonely and losing sleep all the time lol #and I just am so very aware that I’m out of my depth in terms of my emotional wisdom and like…abilities? to navigate as best as possible? #uuuuuuughguggghghhhhh I’m so so sad lol #i could go on for the length of a novel here but. man. I’m just kinda drowning :-(

[twilightarcade]

me vs integration

#wordstag #anyway ramble post 4 the night have been doing more like?????? Whatsitcalled #not shapes n stuff but like. The look. You knwo. Colors n stuff. Been doing more practice with that as of late #which is fun! I enjoy it! But also there's like a . Horrid divide going on here between my realism* pieces #& my heavily stylized pieces . Looks over at my ocs. And I REALLY want to bridge said gap #But I have been struggling SOOOOO hard you have no clue. Guy who's beating the shit out of me #I think the solution is going from realism then stylizing it down. Like relearn everything #which is what I'm inevitably going to have to do I think. But by cod if I'm not going to whine about it #whatever I whine about everything. I'm like if there was a guy and he whined. #anyway what else is going down in Neptune's life. My mom made curry like. A bit ago. #it was pretty good 👍 #rereading it this post sounds like smthn a politician would make. I WILL UNINTEGRATE SCHOOLS!!! VOTE ME !!!! #whhat ever I'm trusting you 2 not read it like that . #I drawk like so much water also. I'm hydrated man. #mmy acquaintances birthday is coming up and I don't know what 2 get her. I don't know if she even wants anything really #that just feels awfully cruel thoug #I would loooove 2 paint her something but also I haven't painted in like 842781 years and don't have paints. Nor a canvas. Really unprepare #4 that one; are we? #mmaybe I can try. Trhiugh the power of love anything is possible and such