#being trustworthy

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Thank you. I'm sorry.

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #jin guangyao #lan wangij #jin ling #LWJ shifting into fight mode was so damn cool. He is always ready to start throwing hands. #It's in a way that befits someone with a bit more bloodlust that his calm demeanor lets on - but nearly always in defense of someone. #What a great synergy with his personal philosophies! see that he is a Genuinely Noble Guy time and time again! #Is is also way more hilarious and unhinged than most people give him credit for? Also yes. #Nothing and no one ever said he did not or would not rip off JGY's hat mid-fight. I think LWJ needs to snatch more wigs LITERALLY. #Yes I'm delaying the part where I have to address the emotional turmoil of Jin Ling stabbing wwx. It gutted me terribly. #What is worse that realizing that someone you respected has done horrible things #than discovering someone who did horrible things being a kind and trustworthy person? #What is more horrifying that realizing other people are extremely complex and cannot be categorized into black and white? #When people hurt us or our loved ones we very much want to make them out to be irredeemable monsters. But they are not. #It is not actually such a terrible fate to just be a person. To be forgiven and forgive is possible. To change is possible. #This lesson is hard. It is something you have to actively challenge yourself to do. Black and white is the innate path to go down. #And its *why* I love Jin Ling so much. He is the character who fights the longest and hardest to challenge social and personal beliefs #He gets a pass for stabbing wwx for being so deliciously conflicted and tormented by it. #And with wrists THAT limp I can't imagine the wound was particularly deep

[mspaint-flower]

Hi there~! It’s been a while aaaa— {I was the anon back in this ask— tho I’m now coming back off anon lol, even if an ask from an rp blog might seem a lil odd, but anyways—}

And seeing as requests are open for a bit, I was wondering… Could you perhaps draw Flower and Piko together? Like just, vibing together as besties u w u

the brainrot is so strong in them

#vflower #v4 flower #v4flower #vocaloid #vocaloid flower #utatane piko #piko utatane #piko vocaloid #my art #ms paint #THEY'RE 100% BESTIES AUGGHGHHG #i always imagined flower being able to spill all of her true feelings on piko #cus he's a really trustworthy and reassuring person

[daily-hanamura]

#persona 4 #p4 #persona 4 dancing all night #p4d #hanamura yosuke #yosuke hanamura #satonaka chie #chie satonaka #see this is super funny because chie describes yosuke as cool behind his back and we know she finds him reliable and trustworthy #esp in p4au where we see how she turns to yosuke for affirmation when shes frustrated or terrified #chie and yosuke quibble a lot and shes 100% joking here because its very much in line with the kind of ribbing the IT give each other #i feel like yosuke took this a bit seriously though yaboy probably went home and replayed that moment over and over again in his head #so i guess when i say super funny i guess i mean someone please give yosuke a hug by which i mean lets all give yosuke a hug #i think he reacts like this a lot to be fair its rare that hes calm enough to realise that hes being poked fun at #he's good with his queue

[artsysurvivor]

It's soo telling that Halt (a prince-become-ranger who will die if he's alone for 2 minutes) saw Will having a hard time with the death of Alyss and Maddie being a little snotty/bratty and immediately thought "you know what would work?

Ranger training"

#halt o'carrick #will treaty #madelyn altman #ranger's apprentice #rangers apprentice #he didn't immediately think that if I recall #and he certainly doesn't die in two minutes #but whatever you get the point #I still kind of headcanon that he gets the whole “I can't be alone or I'll murder someone” from being a twin but that's another can of worm #And I know some people will be like “well he only was extra grumpy because Will was gone” #Which #yeah #true #But also??? #Canonically he joined up with Crowley a couple months after nearly being drowned by his brother #like #even if he could logically say “oh he's trustworthy” #his feelings would be totally different with that #idk I'd have to read TEY/the main series to make a post about that #but that's not the point here so IDK why... my brain... went to that. .

[defectiveferalfreak]

What Zim going to do with SpongeBob body parts ?

better question what wouldn't he do if given a chance

#nicktoons unite globs of doom #nicktoons unite GoD #invader zim #zim iz #dib membrane #sorry anon i literally forgot i got an ask but i remembered now! ;D #danny phantom #spongebob squarepants #timmy turner #jimmy neutron #im gonna call this #NU:GoDly AU #get it? cause ungodly? haha im hilarious. not #zim imitating Prof. Membrane because he considers him a best reference to 'trustworthy' human even tho he thinks Prof is completely bonkers #dib i just tired. always. no fucsk to give #Spongebob being a babey that others must protect despite being an adult is something i hold very close to my heart #danny is particularly pissed and protective because both Zim and Dib give him greymorality scientists vibes and he aint about that! #timmy just realizing that jimmy and others with their science are even more crazy than he and his magic

[grandcovenant]

carlo's inherent tragedy as a character means that if he hadn't died young he would've gone through something worse. the horrifying realization that he inherited his father's personality <3

#lies of p #geppetto is over and over mentioned and shown to be a very stubborn man. #and the little we see of carlo.... it works.... he was in fact kind of a bull-headed little brat. #and everyone knows how much parents with strong personalities ~loooooooove~ when their kids. get it from them. #i'm not ragging on carlo. the basis of personality that is inherited is not the sole defining factor in what a person is like-- #--and what is developed & changed by one's experiences would make them very different people still. #THAT SAID: i do think carlo achieving his little dream of being The Best Stalker In The World WOULD put him at risk of. #going down the same path his dear old man did :^) #there's something about being at the top of your field and what being the unquestioned authority in all that pertains to it can-- #--very easily make one close-minded and set in their ways. it's probably what happened with geppetto. #i mean if my timeline is right he fucked with venigni's grand covenant long before he needed to enact mass murder to resurrect his son. #which to me speaks of him considering only himself as a trustworthy authority for a long time. #the tags in these posts really are the main feature now huh. sorry about that i just like talking here better.👍its like a secret post. #anyway. LOVE YOU DEAD BOY

[winepresswrath]

hi! i always love your MDZS/CQL takes; can i ask what are the questions you think CQL is asking, as compared to MDZS?

I haven't actually revisited either canon in ages, which is making me nervous. what questions the novel is interested in can be pretty contentious all on its own! @mikkeneko has an excellent answer in the notes here which I reccomend to everyone. My own thoughts are honestly pretty scattered- I keep on deleting things and going hm, that's not quite right.

So, for the obvious-to-me example, people reasonably zero in on the creation of innocent doctors/radish farmers who Wen Ruohan is holding hostage. In CQL it's easy to infer that Wen Qing and Wen Ning are maybe the only cultivators and almost certainly the only combatants among the Wen remnants, and their status is much more ambiguous in the novel, which I personally think is asking, essentially, "and so what? were they wrong to run, when they had a chance? Do they deserve what Jin Guangshan will do to them if they go back? Aren't they just people, actually?" Whereas the question that CQL is asking is more to the effect of "What does Wen Qing owe these people, when she is their only defence? What is she entitled to do to save them, at other people's expense? If she fucks up that moral calculus, what then? Does it matter if she's personally fond of some of the outsiders who are going to get hurt? If one of them saved her brother? Later, this question will flip to what Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng, and the parallel to Jiang Cheng's situation in particular is, I think, genuinely pretty fun. You're giving up the Wen as soldiers who've laid down their arms in exchange for Wen Qing also grappling with leadership and the question of how many horrors she can stand to look the other way on to protect her own people. one reason I keep deleting so much is that a lot cql's changes were motivated at least in part by censorship, which I think we mostly share a general and justified distaste for! but I also think that within the bounds of that censorship the creative team put a lot of work into actually doing something interesting with those changes. Or, for another example- nieyao! There's a much greater emphasis on the nmj-jgy relationship, it's unambiguously very close and they are clearly extremely important to one another, and I think that's because the cql team has a lot to say about love, trust, power, and the ways those things interact, and that reflects back on all of the other relationships in play, including Wangxian. Almost every time, when CQL chooses change a relationship they make the characters in question closer- that's true for Jiang Cheng and Lan Wangji, for Wen Qing and the Yunmeng contingent, for Zixuan and Mianmian, and Huaisang and Meng Yao. It's even true for Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian, who have a close and trusting relationship in first life! CQL puts a much greater emphasis on "all right, so you care, what next?" How do you choose someone and then choose to be good to them? What if there's a massive power disparity between you? What if you seriously disagree about your priorities and morals? How do you trust someone who's betrayed you? When is it a stupid choice to trust at all? How do you have faith that you know someone well enough for that trust to be meaningful?

for legal reasons i would like to specify that it's not that mdzs isn't interested in these problems. i do remember wangxian's literal trust fall. cql is asking these questions all the time about everyone. also for legal purposes i'm not suggesting that cql lwj and jc love each other. but! they establish a three month wartime partnership looking for wwx and then jc immediately drops him on wwx's say-so despite apparently having a positive enough opinion of him to tell wwx he thinks they should make up twice. lan wangji will later tell wwx he thinks he should loop jc in on the second flautist! these are people trying to navigate some kind of relationship/shared interest/community, as opposed to a hateful void. cql wants to say hey, how do you go about this? while I'm here and rambling cql also puts a lot of emphasis on wwx's connection to yunmeng and changes things up so instead of feeling alienated right before he leaves our last glimpse of him there is happily picking lotuses and playing with a kid! in both stories the narrative is asking who do you protect? who do you leave behind? can you ever get it back? but the angles are very different.

#why are there so many people who simultaneously argue that cql dumbs down mdzs and also that mdzs is the slow reveal of how wwx is a #perfect angel who has never done anything wrong in his life #being let down by everyone around him #surely you have to pick an option #but lan wangji and wei wuxian being close friends in the first life really does change everything #i have seen people (reasonably) be annoyed with this as an adaptation choice #but! i like this change a lot and i think they do interesting things with it #There's still a lot of emphasis on what makes them so particularly perfect for each other but imo moving Lan Wangji into the category of #people wwx loved in the first life #shifts the focus from #when will they get together #to #What it would take and what would they have to do for these people to have to do to have a successful partnership? #If loving someone is the first step what comes next? Who do I want to be to the people around me? #i love the focus on wwx's trust issues as trust issues! problems that he's had with lwj specifically before! #and the solution isn't just oh well lwj is perfectly trustworthy #though that's obviously part of it #wwx has to like. decide for himself to do some things differently this time around in order to reap the rewards of being really in it with #someone. and lwj does too! it's a journey they're on together #i have simply rambled in all directions i'm sorry anon

[nixthelapin]

I just saw someone claim that during Passion (season 5), when Adrien was tempted to use their miraculous to make a Wish and heal Natalie, that he was pretending to not remember that the Wish has a cost to trick LB into letting him make the Wish, and therefore Marinette actually can’t trust him (this was made in response to the fandom being mad at Marinette for keeping secrets from him at the end of the season). Lmao what?? What planet are you on? 🤣

#I’m not gonna link the post bc I don’t want hate thrown #and I didn’t want to start an argument with an anti #but #at what point was Adrien pretending?? #and he literally asked her first it’s not like he was going behind her back #if he was going to use the wish he could’ve just run off with both miraculous instead of giving her the ring #and being tempted to do something can make you forget/ignore the consequences #the fact that he didn’t follow through is a huge testament to his character and actually shows how trustworthy he is #don’t vilify characters just for being tempted guys #miraculous #mlb #miraculous ladybug #adrien agreste #chat noir #cat noir #miraculous passion #Marinette #marinette dupain cheng #miraculous season 5

[turbo-overkill]

I NEED to know why the transformers fandom is relevant

okay so, assuming you don't know anything beyond like. 4 characters: Megatron is depicted as a revolutionary in several of the continuities which bleeds over to the fandom perception, and he of course falls into that "bad guy makes good points so we need to have him commit genocide so people don't agree with him" camp. The comics published by IDW up to a few years ago had Megatron be essentially at the very bottom of the working class, while Optimus Prime was a fucking cop. Megatron rightfully pointed out the injustices on their planet, but was Too Radial™ about it, so of course he became the evil warmonger and Optimus Prime (canon police brutality enjoyer) went about it the Right Way™.

The comics series has had a MASSIVE impact on both the fandom and franchise itself, with current cartoons continuing to pull from it. It wasn't all bad, there are some interesting characters and in-universe concepts that IDW introduced, but what I've described above has left a really bad taste in my mouth.

So, with the main Transformers fandom on tumblr being a bunch of white 30 year old ao3 addicts whose peak theory moment was reading a Twitter thread, these cunts LOVE to act like they have everything figured out by reading that fucking god awful comics series and having their main takeaway be "yeah Megatron was right to build literal extermination camps, also cops are cool". It's soooooo annoying

#asks #this is probably so much longer than you were expecting and I'm so sorry #who needs Lenin when the fictional alien gun robot wrote some shitty poetry obv 🙄 #it get even worse because the Transformers pr/ime cartoon had Mtron being a LITERAL SLAVE whose original #stated goal was to give people equal rights 😭 #like maybe let's not take this fucking franchise as trustworthy political/philosophical literature

[bestworstcase]

pacing and muttering again

“cinder, i am going to ask you this one more time, and i expect a clear answer. did you… kill ozpin?”

an unknown amount of time prior to this conversation, salem named ozpin’s death as the most important of cinder’s successes at beacon.

cinder did in fact kill ozpin, by melting his face into the floor, and has no reason to doubt herself on this point.

cinder is quick to claim her victories, even to the point of eliding help she received from others, but reports her failures in whatever manner she thinks will be most advantageous to herself.

salem can tell when people lie to her.

salem has been trying—seemingly for several months—to get a “clear answer” out of cinder regarding whether she did or did not kill ozpin.

which is a yes or no question.

if the answer was “yes” or “no” and salem didn’t believe that, she would be saying “i expect a truthful answer.”

salem does apparently take it as fact that ozpin is dead, or else she wouldn’t have emphasized his death in her praise of cinder’s accomplishments.

the point of contention is whether cinder killed him.

the answer is yes.

salem has repeatedly asked the question “did you kill ozpin?” and cinder has, up until this point, refused to give a straight answer—perhaps saying “he’s dead” or “i beat him”—which is peculiar because 1. salem seems to believe that ozpin is dead, 2. ozpin really is dead and cinder killed him, and 3. salem praises cinder for killing ozpin in front of the inner circle.

why has this question become an ongoing point of contention between them which cinder, evidently, is not willing to answer plainly? why, when salem asks “did you kill ozpin,” is cinder afraid to answer “yes”—despite the glowing praise salem gives her for killing ozpin, which cinder did in fact do?

she wasn’t supposed to.

like—it’s either that or cinder left ozpin alive enough behind herself to think he might have survived, which… do we believe that little miss the floor is lava now left without reducing him to a smear of charcoal first? and then shot pyrrha in the heart and incinerated her for good measure? cinder “no kill like overkill” fall? is it plausible to think that she did not know with absolute certainty that ozpin was dead?—whereas,

”that stunt you pulled; she’d have killed you if you wouldn’t just pop up somewhere else.”

hazel’s perception of who salem is may or may not be accurate, and he’s probably making an assumption here based on the intensity of salem’s reaction to learning that ozpin was back, but regardless: the possibility that salem might have wanted ozpin alive so that she’d know where he is has been textually stated. “did you… kill ozpin?”—and cinder is afraid to answer “yes.”

if those seers are something new salem devised after beacon tower fell, for the sake of being able to contact her agents over long distances without the CCTS—and emerald and mercury do react like they’ve never seen one before, and watts does treat the seer like a novelty in v5—then it is entirely possible that the seer in 4.3 is the first time salem has received a report from summer since the fall.

she leans over, listens to what summer tells her, and then tells cinder point blank, this time you are going to give me a clear yes or no. no, not through her—i want to hear you say it.

cinder, cornered:

either ozpin wasn’t supposed to die that night or salem didn’t want cinder, specifically, to kill him. salem knows he’s dead and that cinder killed him—cinder wouldn’t be this cagey otherwise—but she wants cinder to tell her.

this is probably the first time cinder’s disobeyed salem—or at least failed to follow orders to the letter, if cinder didn’t deliberately set out to kill him but realized their fight wasn’t going to end until one of them was dead—and after months of letting her dodge, salem just backed her into a corner. she’s terrified.

and then nothing bad happens. salem more or less just goes…ok. and moves on.

rolls over.

“i’m not especially fond of failure” / “then i see no reason for your cruelty toward young cinder; she’s become our fall maiden, destroyed beacon tower, and most importantly, killed dear ozpin… so i’m curious: to what failures are you referring?”

<- acquires a completely different subtext if killing ozpin was an act of disobedience that cinder has so far been unwilling to admit.

salem would have preferred ozpin alive as a known quantity over the uncertainty of not knowing when or where he might return, or she had specific concerns about cinder fighting him which are now largely moot; in either case he’s dead and she’s decided to take that as a victory. she isn’t upset or angry. but she does want cinder to tell her the truth.

she’s not stupid. she is undoubtedly aware that cinder is afraid of what salem will do to her if/when she confesses.

“then i see no reason for your cruelty toward young cinder; she’s become our fall maiden, destroyed beacon tower, and killed ozpin”—salem holds eye contact with cinder the whole time she’s saying this. it’s a message for cinder as much as it is watts: i know you killed him, it is of no consequence, i will not be cruel to you. days, weeks, however much longer it is, she corners cinder and then just moves on without so much as a word of rebuke.

compare:

what she does when hazel lies to her. 4.3 and 6.4 are identical circumstances in that salem already knows the answer and what matters to her is that her subordinate tells the truth, with 4.3 demonstrating how she answers honesty (no consequences at all) and 6.4 the spectacle she makes of punishing a lie.

(<- same posture, same intent.)

it speaks to how much lenience salem gives cinder that she does not extend to anyone else, because she gives hazel just two chances (“i would like you to explain to me how it is you failed so spectacularly,” and then when hazel skirts around it, “stop. let me rephrase the question: who is responsible for your defeat?”) whereas she lets cinder evade the “did you kill ozpin?” question for, apparently, months whilst making a point of signaling to cinder that she already knows and will not be angry before she finally puts her foot down and insists on a straight answer.

salem knows cinder lied to her about what happened while she was reconstituting. the exact moment she clocks it is when cinder says “i couldn’t even stop the maiden from escaping without putting the relics in jeopardy”—

—she knows. but she knew in v4 that cinder’s caginess came from a place of fear, and made an effort to allay that fear before forcing the issue. (also: “it can sense your trepidation; don’t fight it, girl. you must make it dread you” is a very thinly-veiled “don’t be afraid”). by the end of v8 salem is aware of both cinder’s fear and the intensity of cinder’s resentment; what rapport existed between them before haven is gone and the relationship is badly fractured.

so she is being Delicate.

which isn’t the same as letting cinder get away with the deception; she’s still going to want cinder to tell her the truth.

but she’s going to handle it the way she handled “did you kill ozpin?” and i anticipate that will be the fulcrum of whatever happens between her and cinder during the beacon arc (villains edition), because salem’s practical interest in the relics is secondary to her emotional investment in honesty. and of course there’s the symbol of cinder being the one who knows jinn’s name—if salem wants the truth she needs to first earn real trust, not just the veneer she gained in v4-5 and then shattered in v8.

#much to think abt. #obviously resolving the issue of cinder lying—both the lying itself and salem not being trustworthy—precipitates the ozlem reconciliation #cinder’s lying to her for a reason; how does salem persuade cinder to trust her?

[maraudover]

y’all i was just chilling watch the bad batch and vibing along until rampart was like “you’re like me crosshair. crosshair the empire is calling bb. crosshair can you be trusted crosshair?” and at first i’m like duh obviously but then i was like SHIT WE CAN TRUST HIM RIGHT? OR ARE WE GONNA GET PLAYED? DID THEY PLANT THAT SEED TO PROVE HIM WRONG OR TO PROVE HIM RIGHT?

#the bad batch #i know he’s gonna end up being trustworthy but istg- #star wars #tbb spoilers #tbb #the bad batch spoilers #the bad batch season 3 #tbb season 3 spoilers #bad batch #bad batch spoilers #tbb crosshair

[vegaseatsass]

NONJINPHEE NATION, RISE!!

#i feel so ALIVE #ALIVE FRIEND FOREVER #dead friend forever #dff #dff the series spoilers #dff spoilers #the implications of phee being jins fuckbuddy and jin like im not easy like that anymore u always said we were just friends well NO MORE 😤 #AND THE WHOLE TIME!!! THE WHOLE TIME PHEE WAS DOING THAT #the whole time he was PLAYING with jin's FEELINGS #it was what????????? elaborate revenge that they're now taking to the next level before jin leaves the country ? ? ? #what did jin with his earnest sincere stars-and-hearts non-vision DO #why is he a target for GAY REVENGE i'm so amped #and tee!!! what a disaster human!!!! love this little (ok big) fucker #love how much he is not the safe trustworthy lifestyle dom white went into this believing he was. needing him to be #oh man oh man #heart emoji man i love you #gonna get possessive next week gonna get 'why do you need friends who aren't me' #like honestly not sure nonphee is even so very healthy but ykw it is full of codependence and GAY REVENGE #(plus hes not wrong about THESE particular friends) #IM SO AMPED!!!!!!!!!! IM SO ALIVE #dear diary

[freckliedan]

On the topic of secrets, your person that you tell everything to is entitled to YOUR secrets, not anyone else’s. If I tell my best friend something in confidence, I know she won’t tell her husband. He gets to know everything about her, not everything about me.

Dan and Phil definitely understand that distinction and don’t share other’s secrets with each other.

THANK you you get it!!!! i've been losing my fucking mind at the attitude on my dash like... pretty much everyone is out here proving dan's point. by interpreting what he said to mean the exact opposite of what he told us. are people incapable of taking dnp at their word????

#like what? #being trustworthy in my relationships means i have emotional intimacy and support with multiple people in my life which is so much safer an #more fulfilling than the isolating trap of viewing romantic relationships as seperate and above and as something that should meet every #single one of your needs. #like. i have the support and connection w my husband. but i also have 6+ other intimate significant friendships. #there's always someone to talk to and get support from. and if i privilaged my relationship w my husband over those friendships and violate #their trust i would be living a much lonelier and emptier and less supported life. #IT'S THE MOST STRAIGHTFORWARD THING IN TBE WORLD TO ME. WHAT #jam replies #anon

[firsttraintovictoriaville]

Tennessee's little brother watching Tennessee make himself out to be the victim when he's not the one that got catapulted from the handlebars

#ngl it must suck big time being the brother of a state. #like they get all the spotlight and are viewed as trustworthy since they're the state while you're just some average joe who likes fantasy #football and works as a network administrator #welcome to the table #wttt #i also apparently gave tenn's lil bro a whole fucking life in these tags

[suntails]

im feeling a little better today so i scribbled myself if i were in twst

#i forgot to label my loving trustworthy eyes. blinking so cutely at u. do u want to hear me talk At you about the housing market #me with my unstoppable brainrot over diasomnia: so anyways i am sooooooo deeply octavinelle to my core. i hate it here <3 #its the Everything abt me. fun fact! i figured out when i was 7 that i could do whatever i wanted if i was willing to accept the price of th #e punishment for an action. it was a fair transaction! and thus started my whole life where i do anything i want without worry! wooooo!!! #thank u octavinelle for embracing my silly life-hack of a transactional mindset!! so fucked up!! #also bought a house at 21 and i know EXACTLY how the slippery slope to being a landlord would work soooo. sighs. i know too much #pls. i want to say id pull a rook hunt and switch dorms but i rly dont know if i would. the outfit is so snazzy. and i wouldnt get into dias #omnia so whatd be the point lmao #okay thats enough rambling lmao #hush catriona #for good measure <3 #twisted wonderland

[schizodesires]

thank god i got my period me and my sister were lowkey worried LMAOOO

#nsft #sibcest #siscest #sibcon #siscon #also turns out that a good majority of the days my sisters visited were also days i couldve gotten pregnant my LORD #thank you period app for being very trustworthy and not incorrect about anything ever