#and he being helpless

[ladyfoxy42]

you know that post talking about how dnd can make a 6ft tall man built like a wall blush because he's pretending to kiss his very real wife's character in the pretend game? Its about Travis and Laura btw

#i was watching some moments from c2 #jester flirting with fjord #and he being helpless #and travis absolutely crumbling #i love those two #cr #critical role #dnd #c2 #jester #fjord

[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

[scoobydoodean]

Sam Winchester in the episode where he found out John ordered Dean to kill him, everybody.

#you can really tell he's so scared :(((( #he really thinks his brother might do that which is why he spends the entire next episode trying to force Dean to promise him he will :(((( #2.10 #good gifs with free tools challenge #pk rewatches spn number ? #In which Sam is not a helpless little waif with his hands cast over his eyes being carried along by the tides of the immutable sea #high sodium freak #season 2 #the flannel business

[stardust-falling]

SVSSS fandom really needs to learn what “white lotus” really means because I feel like that would clear up a lot of arguments tbh.

Hint: it probably doesn’t mean what you think it means.

#svsss #luo binghe #zhuixing svsss #I’m gonna post about the trope on my meta blog #but basically a white lotus has a pure and innocent exterior and a manipulative inside #uses perceived helplessness and innocence to their advantage to get what they want from people #LBH is not being seen as pure and innocent and good! he’s seen as being that way to get SQQ’s attention and approval #vs black lotus where he doesn’t care about being subtle and nice to get what he wants #where his intentions aren't actually bad but they appear that way because of the way he goes about it #and his reputation #it’s more complex than this but basically the way you read ‘white lotus’ changes the whole perspective of a lot of things #also I do not mean to be snarky or arrogant with this post! #it is meant to have a comedic/meme-like tone

[horseshoemybeloved]

Like da song goes

#he’s so helpless #he’s like a sad lonely biscuit being microwaved all alone rotated with no one else #wanted both kinds of bears in the bear tree lol #fall out boy #fob #art #my art #fall out boy fan art #patrick stump #fob8

[blood-orange-juice]

I just realised that Childe's random and seemingly pointless FL activation (the Golden House scene and the courtroom scene) is not rage, it's panic.

That one emotion that he demonstratively lacks.

I kept wondering why did he display cold type of anger in other cases but suddenly went all out in these two situations. That's why.

Types of stress response: fight, flight, freeze, fawn, foul legacy.

(technically it falls under fight but meh)

Also, uhm, he isn't actually hot-tempered then. Or reckless.

#or maybe not panic #but some kind of reaction to helplessness #this is all for CN voiceover #in EN he's very loudly angry when he's angry #childe #tartaglia #also he treats failing a mission as something equally bad to being dead/locked up #and I'm not even sure that in fontaine he feared being locked up by itself and not being stopped from getting to the whale #(which is sort of a mission too. just a personal one) #hmmm #I have headcanons now

[rubysparx]

im a fan of this guy

also these guys too or whatever;

(do not repost, click for a little more quality!)

#my art #please do not repost/trace/edit/copy/or claim #jrwi #just roll with it #jrwi show #jrwi the suckening #prince shilo #jrwi shilo #arthur bennett #jrwi emizel #flag on Emizel's shoulder is rabies. thumbs up emoji #unrelated he doesnt yet know he is nonbinary. crazy. #i honesty didntmean 2 put so much effort into arthur but it just kinda happened #did mean to put that much effort into Void tho #also yeah I gave Shilo the amongus anime eyes i hope that’s noticeable #I think it’s funny #ALSO ALSO. #I think it’s rlly funny that the whole blood all over the cravat image- #if your typically ooo sexy vampire prince image. except it’s not #it’s Shilo being a helpless and frankly idiotic prince who doesn’t even know how to drink his breakfast without making a mess

[daily-hanamura]

#p4 #persona 4 #p4au #persona 4 arena ultimax #yosuke hanamura #hanamura yosuke #narukami yu #souyo #you know im actually obsessed with this scene like yosuke is teasing yu like hehe big bro but also chie did that very early on in p4g #which yu didnt comment on at all #so its yosuke specifically that yu doesnt like him calling big bro #i mean yosuke quickly gets flustered and says he was just teasing before running away #and like yeah he is teasing but theres something about the teasing that just GETS me #ive written about the concept of amae before on this blog but calling someone onii-san/big brother is also kind of an example of that #like you're playing up your helplessness and acknowledging the other person as being a senior to you #and idk im sure im overthinking this but i think in this moment yosuke was carelessly flirting with yu like he always does #except yu doesnt like yosuke calling him that because for him big bro has a stronger connotation with nanako #and hes ok with chie teasing him and calling him that because he knows chie doesnt actually mean beyond it #but when yosuke calls him that it brings in undertones of flirtations and he doesn't like it because its supposed to be an innocent term #alternatively hes ok as seeing chie as a younger sister figure. but yosuke? no way. because yosuke is already hi #anyway the point im making is i think yosuke was definitely 100% flirting with yu here and they both knew it #he's good with his queue

[martyrbat]

where's bruce wayne giving his kids hugs that are a little too tight and a second too long after they let go because who knows when or if you'll be able to ever hug them again

where's bruce wayne who goes to his kid's recitals and school events when he can because he wants them to be able to see their father's face in the crowd

where's bruce wayne who hangs up and says i love you or that he's proud of them or to be safe because it can be the last thing he's ever said to them. the last thing they ever hear from him.

where's bruce wayne who is a nervous, over involved wreck because he knows how cruel the world can be

where's bruce wayne sucking in a breath and shaking anytime the phone calls because it can be the one to deliver fatal news

where's bruce wayne who's eyes water up when he realizes how much his children grown

where's bruce wayne who makes sure all his kids know they can always return back to the manor. for a day, for a lifetime, there's always a room. that they'll always have a place to stay and it'll always be their home too

where's bruce wayne who checks on his kids before going to bed, who visits the empty rooms too just in case and out of habit

where's bruce wayne who bandages his children's scrapes and bruises when theyre 20 because they'll always be his babies

where's bruce wayne who supports his children and let's them know they never have to be alone

where's bruce wayne who had his parents and childhood so violently ripped away from him that now he gets to be what he always wanted - a father.

#he can still have trouble with affection and being two decades behind in therapy but #youre telling me a man who clung to their deaths this rawly isnt trying to be the father he would dream of having still? #its not the same as being a child and having a father of course but ? to be a father and have a child is the other side of that coin #above all else he should prioritize his little birdies i hate dc and comic bros that think hes emotionless #like man has been having a breakdown since 8. he took a vow to risk his life and try to help people in a doomed city purely because he #doesn't want anyone to ever hurt like how he has. to become what he has. to go through what he has. to be alone and as helpless as he was #he just wants to help people. and you're telling me this same man doesnt care about his children?? yea ok. #bruce wayne #good dad bruce wayne #batdad #posts from the crypt #batfam

[significant-ace-nnoyance]

“why’d they miss the solstice deadline that’s not in the books????” did you hear ares say that zeus is going to war with poseidon no matter what no matter if they make the arbitrary deadline or not because “i think zeus just feels that it’s time for a war” “and honestly i think he’s okay with that”. 

did you hear perseus jackson, for the first time, look this quest in the eye and say NO we WILL complete this quest, not because im being forced to, not just for my mom, but because i am the son of the sea god and this is the right thing to do. 

do you realize that percy powering up requires him truly accepting his place in this world and his POWER in this world and he can only take down ares in the next two episodes if he has this moment of choosing this quest choosing his father, choosing to fight against not just this inevitable war but the series-long one brewing underneath it. 

because what is percy jackson if not choosing to look the impossible, the established, the millennia long arbitrary rules and traditions in the eye and say NO. FUCK THAT. ima do my own thing 

#if they can’t stop this war after the deadline how can they stop The War that’s coming #they needed to feel helpless and powerless and realize how arbitrary and frustrating the gods rules are #and to stand up against that anyways #it’s giving percy telling ares ‘we’re gonna succeed in this quest and i’m getting pretty tired of you saying we can’t’ #or whatever he says #ares said he’d fail and percy said BET. #IDC IF ITS PAST THE DEADLINE WERE DOING THIS JUST TO SPITE THIS BITCH #jk we’re doing it to becaus it’s the right thing to do and just bc u feel powerless doenst mean you are #and to spite ares’s ideology and worldview #i love the show writers #i love being in suspense abt what’s gonna happen next just like new viewers #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #pjo <3 #percy series #pjo

[tswwwit]

I want a bill whump so bad, if dipper falls in love with bill every time he reincarnates but hes also a little bit different in every reincarnation, could there be one where hes almost entirely replused by bill, or already in love with someone else?

We all love to see that terrible little man struggling! Typically hurting Bill is accomplished via Dipper-death, but this is a neat alternate scenario. You know he's definitely going to start out totally full of himself! Winning his husband back should be easy! Until he realizes he has no idea how he did it in the first place.

#answers #To really squeeze the good Angst Juice from a ripe Cipher you gotta put him in a position where he's helpless *despite* being so powerful #Killing Dipper off is a classic; Bill's got a lot of skills but full-on resurrection is outta his wheelhouse #The 'not in love' scenario offers another route that would be fun #One neat part of Bill is his lack of introspection #Sure of course Dipper fell for him! Why wouldn't he! He's great! #It's only when *forced* to look over the situation that Bill has to face facts: He didn't do that on purpose #No manipulation; no clever trick. Not something he can just *repeat* easily #He's gonna be REAL unhappy with trying to get THAT going around again #Of course it ends with him finally winning Dipper over once he STOPS trying to manipulate him into it #For that full-circle narrative #Which is a Good Ending for Bill! But leaves him with the lingering 'what the fuck' of STILL not knowing how he got it done #That's gonna bug you for ages now isn't it Bill

[bonefall]

Honest question, how do you think Clear Sky would react if he got yeeted to the Dark Forest upon death. I've been thinking about this for an AU and I have how I'll do it, but I'm super curious how you'd approach it because I like hearing you talk about the worst man ever

Oh he'd build an empire. Like. Immediately. First couple of cats that fall in with him would end up getting turned into his lackeys.

I lean into the Christian coding a lot but like, unironically, Clear Sky is the sort of dramaturge who could deliver lines out of Paradise Lost without breaking a sweat

Paradise Lost is about how Satan's ego lead him to oppose God, how he justifies hanging onto his anger at having had his ass kicked, and how he rallies all his demons to continue to fight for a lost cause they can't possibly win. Milton basically wrote it to connect that theme to humanity itself, exploring the various ways that Satan and humans aren't so different.

It just feels so right with Clear Sky in mind. Everyone knows the "Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven" line that the speech in Book 1 ends with, but the CONTEXT of Satan's words there is that he's looking at all his fallen allies doing the family guy death post at literally rock bottom, all these people who lost everything by following him, and he's giving them a pep talk.

"Ok yes. It smells like a sulphuric fart, the lights keep flickering, and everything is on fire," says Satan, "But maybe this is a you-problem. I'M this funny little thing called an ✨optimist✨ and you know what? Maybe God never built a minecraft base here because he's the real loser. YOU can say it's hell but you know what I call it? Free real estate babey. NOW LET'S GO FUCK WITH HIM!!!!"

And that's honestly the EXACT way I see Clear Sky reacting to something like that. Like he'd ever just lay down and die?? HELL no. He'd be PISSED that StarClan was SO UNGRATEFUL to him, that they did something so spiteful and unfair. Sure, he Made Some Mistakes, but he had to make HARD choices, and he was NEVER WRONG, and deserves his place being honored.

He might briefly have a moment of self-pity, woefully consider just giving up... but in the end, his damning would make him so mad. He'd want to get back at them as soon as his brief pity party is over (just like he did with One Eye), and he's absolutely incapable of ever NOT bossing other cats around. He just needs one or two goons before he's got a little base of power, and you KNOW that cats like Petal would do anything to go fight by his side again.

So yeah. If you're asking me, sending Clear Sky to the Dark Forest would unironically just result in the devil. And you'd have a great opportunity there, because StarClan SUCKS.

Both sides would be terrible options and you can really expand on the unfairness of WC's afterlife system, and the way that banishing a person like Clear Sky to an eternal prison with other desperate cats just ends up enabling and empowering his worst impulses.

#bone babble #He also reminds me a ton of Father homunculus in the flask from Fullmetal tbh. Especially his ending speaking to Truth #How in the end he's begging for his life and falling into the emotions of humanity that he had previously tried to reject #Showing that at no point was the creature fully able to stop BEING some flavor of human. It was part of him all along. #The way that he hated himself for that. But how he falls back on those things as a plea when he's truly helpless for the first time in year #''What was I supposed to do?!''

[orange-coloredsky]

the "3000 year old child" trope has the possibility to be genuinely intriguing and could explore the way children are treated across time no matter their apparent level of intelligence. it could be funny it could be heartbreaking it could be horrific to think about. too bad 90% of it is just an excuse to be a creep. sad!

#media #txt #er #kinda #i know some people dont like miquella being That Way mostly in relation to everything with mohg #but i think miquella is one of the only examples ive seen where this is taken seriously and like. actually thought about outside of #haha what if this grown woman was in a childs body so she was helpless but also sexualized isnt this groundbreaking #his whole thing is being hypercompetent to make up for being stuck as booster seat size for millenia #i think that its cool that his mind manilpulation powers are likely based partially on a survival instinct people have around kids. he just #uses it to his advantage to start a cult of suicide bombers sometimes because we get a little silly #also the funny factor of seeing this kid and being like 'oh how sweet hes reading his literature :-)' and then you look into his eyes and g #oh.. you have seen the endless yawning void havent you... well.. thats too bad

[rambunctioustoons]

thinking about pre-virus friendships..

dragging each other to parts&service after smacking around intruders a little too good

#my art #fnaf chica #fnaf moon #daycare attendant fnaf #fnaf glamrock chica #security breach fanart #security breach chica #do Not Come into my house and tell ME Moon wouldnt have been soft with the other animatronics too. #impish. silly. pulling pranks sure. #more than once hes probably asked Chica “bad pizza?” when her arms been ripped off and very clearly been in a fight. #she'd answer “no pinapple”. and slump directly on him. #chica has watched. all of her friends. including herself surcome to the virus. #none of them tell on each other. they sure AF gonna bury that shit down. #moon being the theater animatronic. actor by day. he loves his role. he loves loves preforming. #and one day #hes just straight up not anymore. and he *knows* they tried to delete his code. out of convenience. #chica being the first to coax him out of hiding when the guests are all long gone home. sitting with him in the dark with no words. #she'd watched at least two of her friends disappear. and she'd almost lost Moon too. what a helpless feeling. #neither of them carry each other to parts and service anymore. #srryyyy ignore any typos. #.. also shoving them both into the microwave to spin around together- adjkaka. #doombop!

[khihi]

paidatonriehuja ig story 10/11/23 (selling his monkey paw for 380€)

#sorry he was being cute i had to gif it i was helpless 😔 #käärijä

[rickybaby]

"I was definitely optimistic coming into the race. I knew where we've been suffering this weekend. I knew the start would be difficult, but then once everything start to settle, I felt we would be able to get into a rhythm and show a little more pace, but wasn't the case. With the restarts as well, we suffered so much more than the others with warm-up. I was getting overtaken on the outside of turn 3 and the outside is very slippery, and for them to have more grip on the outside, I was just like oh man. It was pretty humiliating.

We need to find out the reason for that because that's what obviously held us back. A bit of painful weekend.

[Abu Dhabi] is a more medium downforce circuit, so optimistic coming into that weekend. For now, its just about resting recovering for the next two days and get out to some warmth. Even if I had a good result tonight, you wouldn't see me out clubbing. We're all pretty knackered."

#he's so done with the cold 😭 #he sounds very disappointed with how the race went and i get the frustration of just being helpless while uou get overtaken #anyway AD next and then home #daniel ricciardo #vegas23