#best friend plots

[raine-world]

When MatPat came on screen I freaked out (in a good way) and got so light headed I missed the entire conversation and almost passed out until he said "But that's just a theory-" which shocked me out of it like a sleeper agent code word

#fnaf #fnaf movie #fnaf spoilers #fnaf movie spoilers #matpat #had a good time! #movie was alright. some parts bad. many plot holes #but the animatronic moments were easily the best part and made it super enjoyable #both the sweet moments and the killing moments #i had to ask my friend afterwards why matpat said “that's just a theory” because i did legit almost black out #i haven't watched matpat in years btw

[papertowness]

jerry and elaine this kramer and newman that what about them huh . what about the real best duo of seinfeld .

#i love that elaine and george are such ride or dies but in a lowkey way #cries when jerry was talking about him n elaine not being friends anymore bc of the this that and the other thing plot #and george was like you know i can’t see her anymore because that means we’re breaking up by proxy ☹️☹️ #they’re best friends #theyre lowkey closer than jerry and george #seinfeld #elaine benes #george costanza #lgbtq #lgbt

[kinnbig]

I'm sorry.

#WHOAHHHH THAT PLOT TWIST!!!!!! #sorry these gifs are Not My Best Colouring(tm) they're the first ones i've made on my new laptop #and it's a different version of ps than i'm used to and i didn't have any of my settings yet so. yeah. SORRY! #anyway HOLY SHIT #TACODE?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!? IN MY BOC PRODUCTION?!?!?!?! it's more likely than you'd think!!! #dead friend forever #dff the series #dead friend forever the series #dead friends forever #dff spoilers #dead friend forever spoilers #barcode tinnasit #ta nannakun #be on cloud #thai bl #tabarcode #tacode #darcey.gif #darcey.txt #bl.gif #darcey.main

[sandwichsapphic]

story where gossip goes around that b. w. wooster is having an affair with his butler, and jeeves has genuine heartfailure trying to deal with it, like "what if he figures out im in love with him" and "hes going to make me resign i HAVE to resign this is terrible" meanwhile bertie hears it and is like "what rot! i dont even have a butler lol wait till jeeves hears this one!"

#bringing the fact that jeeves is a VALET not a butler to the forefront of plot #bertie's just so baffled like where on earth did everyone get the idea that he has a butler #he has JEEVES his VALET his BEST FRIEND #jeeves and wooster #and then they kiss

[super-who-locked-me-in-here]

Hannibal being unable to not talk about Will while lying naked in bed with Alana is the same to me as Arthur being on a beautiful picnic with Gwen talking about his dream of running away to a farm with just Merlin

#these pan/bi idiots need to understand something #yes women are pretty and lovely and wonderful #but Hannibal and Arthur y'all are more than just boy best friends with Will and Merlin #i mean I think Hannibal knew #but Arthur definitely didn't #also alana and gwen y'all gotta get out of there! #don't let yourself be a plot device in the way of the yaoi! #go! #be free! #save yourselves #hannibal #hannigram #hannibal lecter #alana bloom #will graham #bbc merlin #merthur #arthur pendragon #merlin #gwen merlin

[jventureart]

I love your kakagai art and the tattoos you've shared are super cool!

Tysm thats very nice of you to say! I'm so glad you like my scribbles! Have some more

It's grandpa hours

#ty for the kind words truly i was shook #These sketch pages keep getting out of hand fr #Biskue harassing Lee into giving him some food #Spot the tiny turtle summon #Shiba & urushi plotting #And in my heart bull & metal are best friends #kakagai #kakashi hatake #maito gai #might guy #rock lee #metal lee #Ninken #anon ask #jvart #nart #naruto fanart #hatake kakashi

[abitofboth]

I saw this tweet from @/forbestiel and I HAD to share!!!!!

#I think so many people don’t even know that loki was tortured to shit between thor and the avengers #one of my best friends who loves marvel to pieces had never even heard of that plot line until I told her about it #I think it’s gonna be really interesting to see how much they’re going to play into kang being a bigger threat than thanos #because so far I feel none of the characters have truly grasped how dangerous he is other than loki #loki #loki series 2 #loki spoilers #loki s2 #marvel #mcu #mobius #millie talks

[lord-squiggletits]

I think the key component to my personal reading of post-Delphi Pharma is that he's trying to be a horrible person on purpose. Not "on purpose" in the way that people have free will to exercise their own choices, but in that Pharma's "mad doctor" persona is a performance he puts on to deliberately embrace how much everyone else hates him. Basically, if people already think you're a "bad Autobot" and a horrible doctor who just kills his patients for fun, why try to prove otherwise to people who have already made up their minds about you? Just fully embrace the fact that people see you as an asshole. Don't try to change their minds. Don't plead for their forgiveness or understanding. Just stop caring. If you're going to be remembered as a monster, you might as well be a memorable monster, and eke as much pleasure and hedonism as you can out of it before karma catches up to you and you inevitably crash and burn.

I mean, I guess you could just go the route of "Oh, Pharma was always a fucked up creepy guy and Delphi was just him taking the mask off," but I really don't like that interpretation because, for one, it feels really wrong to take a character like Pharma becoming evil under duress and going, "Oh well clearly he did the things he did because he was evil all along," as if somehow Pharma breaking under blackmail/torture/threat of horrible death was a sign of him having poor moral character. As opposed to, you know, suffering under the very real threat of horrible death for himself and everyone he cares about while being manipulated by a guy who specializes in psychological torture.

The second reason is that it just doesn't make sense to write Pharma as having been evil all along. I mean...

Occam's Razor says that the best argument is the one with the simplest explanation. Doesn't it make way more sense to take Pharma's appearances in flashbacks, his friendship with Ratchet, his stunning medical accomplishments, and the few we see of him speaking kindly/sympathetically (or in the least charitable interpretation, at least professionally) towards his patients and conclude "This guy was just a normal person, if exceptionally talented." Taking all of these flashback appearances at face value and assuming Pharma was being genuine/honest is a way simpler and more logical explanation than trying to argue that Pharma for the past 4 million years was just faking being a good doctor/person. I mean, it's possible within the realm of headcanon, but the fact is Pharma's appearances in the story are so brief that there simply wasn't room in the story for there to be some sort of secret conspiracy/hidden manipulation behind why Pharma acted the way he did in the past.

I just can't help but look at things like Pharma's friendship with Ratchet (himself a good person and usually a fine judge of character) and the fact that even post-Delphi, pretty much every single mention of Pharma comes with some mention of "He was a good doctor for most of his life" or "He was making major headways in research [before he started killing patients]" which implies that even the Autobots themselves see Pharma's villainy as a recent turn in his life compared to how for "most of his life" he "used to be" a good doctor.

And although Pharma doesn't know this, we as the readers (and even other characters like Rung) know about Aequitas technology and the fact that it actually works, so... if Pharma really was an unrepentant murderer, why couldn't he get through the forcefield too? The Aequitas forcefield doesn't require that a person be completely morally pure and free of wrongdoing or else how could Tyrest get through, just that they feel a sense of inner peace and lack feelings of guilt. Pharma has murdered and tortured people by this point, and put on quite a campy and theatrical show of how much he sees it as a fun game, so why then can he not get through?

It circles back to my headcanon at the start of this post that the "mad doctor" persona is just that-- a persona. Delphi/post-Delphi Pharma's laughing madman personality is just so far removed from every flashback we saw of him and everything we can infer based on how other people see/saw him before that, to me, the mad doctor act is (at least in large part, if not fully) a persona that Pharma puts on to put his villainy in the forefront.

To avoid an overly simplistic/ableist take, I don't think Tarn tortured Pharma into turning crazy. To me, it's more like the constant pressure of death by horrific torture, the feeling of martyrdom as Pharma kept secret that he was the only one standing between Delphi and annihilation, the physical isolation of Messatine as well as the emotional separation from Ratchet, being forced to violate his medical oaths (pretty much the only thing Pharma's entire life has been about), etc. All of that combined traumatized Pharma to the point that the only way he could avoid cracking was to just stop caring about all of it. Because at least then, even if he's still murdering patients to save Delphi from a group of sadistic freaks, Pharma doesn't have to feel guilty and sick about doing it. As opposed to the alternatives, which were probably either going off the deep end and killing himself to escape, or confessing to what he did and getting jailed for it.

In that light, Pharma becoming a mad doctor makes sense. It avoids the bad writing tropes of "oh this character who was good his entire life was actually just evil and really good at hiding it" as well as "oh he got tortured and went crazy that's why he's so random and silly and killing people, he's crazy" and instead frames Pharma's evil as something he was forced into, to the point where in order to avoid a full psychological breakdown and keep defending Delphi, he just had to stop caring about the sanctity of life or about what other people might think of him.

Then, of course, the actual Delphi episode happens, and Pharma's own lifelong best friend Ratchet basically spits in his face and sees him as nothing more than a crazy murderer who went rogue from being a good Autobot. Then Pharma gets his hands cut off and left to die on Messatine. At that point, Pharma has not only been mentally/emotionally broken into losing his feelings of compassion, he's received the message loud and clear: He is alone. Everyone hates him. Not even his own best friend likes him any more. No one even cared enough about him to check if he actually died or not. He will only ever be remembered as a doctor who went insane and killed his patients.

So in the light of 1. Having all of your redeeming qualities be squeezed out of you one by one for the sake of survival and 2. Having your reputation and all of your positive relationships be destroyed and 3. People only know/care about you as "that doctor who became evil and killed his patients" rather than the millions of years of good service that came before.

What else is there to do but internalize the fact that you'll forever be seen as a monster and a freak, and embrace it? People already see you as a murderer for that blackmail deal you did, so why not become an actual murderer and just start killing people on a whim? People already see you as an irredeemable monster who puts a stain on the Autobot name, so why beg for their forgiveness when you could just shun them back? You've already become a murderer, a traitor, and a horrible doctor, so what's a few more evil acts added to the pile? It's not like anyone will ever forgive you or love you ever again.

Why care? Why try to hold on to your principles of compassion, kindness, medical ethics, when an entire lifetime of being a good person did nothing to save you from blackmail and then abandonment? Why put yourself through the emotional agony of feeling lonely, guilty, miserable, when you could just... stop caring, and not hurt any more?

#squiggposting #pharma apologism #i'm sure the doylist reason for the writing is just that pharma was a designated villain #so since he's a villain and 'crazy' it's fine for everyone even the good guys to treat him like complete trash #i just think from a watsonian perspective taking a sympathetic approach is way more interesting and logically consistent #what i mean is like. from a meta perspective one of the best ways to show that a character is super evil and not worth saving #is when even the good guy heroes. the ones who are supposed to be kind and compassionate and wise. see him as dirt #and this is also kind of a necessity in most plots bc TF is the kind of series that just needs action villains and long-term antagonists #so not every villain is written or has a plot to be made redeemable. and pharma is one of these bc he's not important or a legacy character #so from a doylist (meta) perspective you could read the autobots' disregard of pharma as a sign of #'this guy is not meant to have your sympathy as a reader. pay no attention to him' #but from a watsonian (in universe) perspective it paints a miserable picture of pharma being utterly forsaken by the ppl he served alongsid #and like yeah i'm super autistic about pharma so of course i view him with sympathy but like #the idea of being a loyal and good person for years only to be subjected to a Torment Nexus of #being blackmailed into breaking all of the oaths you held sacred. under threat of you and all your comrades dying horrible torturous deaths #then when your comrades find out about it they focus solely on the 'harvesting organs' and not on the 'blackmail' part #and then you get literally left for dead by your comrades and best friend hating your guts #and then you get rescued by a guy who uses you as a test subject for his evil machine #this is a fucking nightmare scenario like pharma could hardly be suffering more if the author TRIED to make him suffer #and for me it's like. the evil pharma did can't be decontextualized to what drove him to that. as well as the question of like #how easily ppl can write someone off as evil and turn a blind eye to (or even find satisfaction in) their suffering bc theyre evil #and either brought it on themselves or it's just karma paying a visit #like. i feel like if pharma WERE a shitty doctor and a terrible person his whole life then the delphi situation would feel like karma #but the way it's written and the lore retroactively put in makes it feel more pharma getting thrown in a torture carousel #and THEN becoming evil. but then being treated as if he was always evil or was some sort of bad apple #bc like i'm not opposed to LOLing when a villain gets a karmic torture/death related to the wrongs they committed #but in pharma's case it feels less like karma and more like endless torture + being abandoned by ppl who should have been more loyal

[dinitride-art]

“Best Friends” (pages 11-17) (1-5)(6-10)

Seven pages this time!!

Getting into the plot now!

#yes the miwi comic has a plot #miwi comic: ‘best friends’ #miwi #byler #my art #finally getting to the present timeline!

[ribbonbonny]

You gotta wonder if Mr Grizz discussed anything at all w the other two fuzzy mammals left alive right

#yes this is a shoutout to lil judd taking over grizzco potentially lmao #that cat saw grizz die and immediately stole his corporation from out under him. he was plotting #mr grizz #splatoon 3 #splatoon 3 spoilers #splatoon3 spoilers #splat 3 spoilers #splatoon spoilers #i did my best to tag all spoiler tags here </3 let it b enough #anyways ive seen ppl complain mr Grizz is actually a bear . what is wrong w ppl #this is literally best case scenario for real #when i saw him i was just screaming to my friend KJHDFKS bears in MY splatoon universe?? holy shit #INCREDIBLY SAD HES PRESUMABLY BLOWN UP ?? GET HIM BACK HERE. NOW #this isnt going on art blog for obvious reasons this is just a shitpost

[heatwavering]

waking up coughing and gagging in a cold feverish sweat to post this and then falling back into my cough medicine-induced slumber

#icemav #the plot is basically the same but mav is a mechanic that wants to fix up the inn his parents always dreamed of opening #carole and goose were his high school best friends who died in a car crash and left newborn bradley in his care #ice runs a diner for plot reasons #carole’s parents are emily and richard (?) #mav drops off bradley on his first day at chilton wearing a guns n' roses t shirt #all the townspeople are still the same #there is still a dog named paul anka #this is all very special to me in unexplainable ways

[ahhrenata]

@codywanweek Day 5 - sith & purge trooper shenanigans

#when you and your partner are plotting to destroy your evil best friends empire from within and he’s starting to get suspicious #codywan #codywanweek2022 #obi wan kenobi #commander cody #Star Wars #clone wars #i miss parks and rec #incorrect star wars quotes #my fanart #sw art #xuserann

[svtskneecaps]

see everyone worried and fretted and panicked and yet quesadilla island looked at pepito and went

#qsmp #qsmp pepito #this post is not about roier's parenting i PROMISE you don't need to defend your cubito #this is literally about pepito being bobbled between caretakers #bad etoiles foolish forever bagi pac and more that i just haven't seen #just. people who have shown an interest and desire to hang out with pepito and keep pepito safe #pepito went to find parents and look!! look!!! #listen. listen. to me the qsmp is about love. not mystery not roleplay not drama not plot. #the qsmp is at its ABSOLUTE best when it is People Talking To Each Other #purgatory was AMAZING for me as a bolas viewer bc if bolas was in the server THEY WERE IN A CALL they were CONSTANTLY talking and i THRIVED #people adopting each other into their fake families in the most middle school childlike wondrous form of love there is #when you like your friend so much they're your fake spouse. your fake child. your fake parent. your fake sibling. #eggs and parents that's LOVE tubbo and fred that's LOVE tazercraft and walter bob that's LOVE; cellbit and roier; phil and missa #baghera and bad and forever; bad and bagi; pierre and maxo; maxo and EVERYTHING his son his daughter his partner the theory bros #favela six that's LOVE LOOK AT THIS FUCKING SERVER EVEN ELENA WHO WE'VE KNOWN FOR AN HOUR IS ABOUT LOVE. HER PARTNER IS HER DRIVE. #jaiden's story is driven by LOVE the hole from the love of her son and chasing cucurucho's 'love' in return it's LOVE it's UNDERSTANDING #there's so much love and i'm biased to my povs but holy shit i will repeat it until y'all roll your eyes seeing me on the dash #like NOT THIS ANIME POWER OF FRIENDSHIP BULLSHIT AGAIN no i'm right u can't fight me #block game brainrot #shut up vic

[lloydfrontera]

the way lloyd will mourn being single and complain about how unfair life is by making some guys extremely handsome. all while being followed around by literally the hottest guy in the world who's hopelessly devoted to him and who has already planned on spending the rest of his life at his side. like. ok. fuck me i guess

#i talk a lot <3 #tged #the greatest estate developer #llojavi #lloyd frontera #listen i just think that if you're gonna make your protagonist comment often and extensively on how fucking hot his best friend is #and also make their relationship the foundation upon which the entire plot is built around. then there should be some kind of pay off #y'know? like i don't think i'm being too unreasonable about this now am i #javier asrahan

[onthemerits]

no one told me that the simone-karl plot from why women kill would rip my heart out and stomp it into little itty bitty pieces

#why women kill #im so late to this #but they mean so much to me #people talk about the beth ann plot being the best but like... #"please youre my best friend”... “its not enough” #turning into #“i want only you here”... “you're the love of my life” #but still in a plaTONIC WAY #where simone accepts the reality of their love and puts aside her pride and chooses to show up for karl #because hes her favorite person in the whole wide world even if they dont love each other romantically #and she cant imagine life without him #and then ends up... #and her devoting her life to... #bahhhhh im dead #literally deceased #~~like karl~~

[eldritchamy]

I'll tell you what I want what I really really want

I wanna- (my adhd interrupts me with a new idea) I wanna- (my adhd interrupts me with a new idea) I wanna- (my adhd interrupts me with a new idea) I wanna- (my adhd interrupts me with a new idea)

#I wanna watch a show #I wanna watch a completely different show #I wanna watch that one show that's been on my list for like 7 years #I wanna watch like 6 different movies #I wanna write! #I wanna map out plot for my homebrew universe #I wanna design a new dnd class #I wanna go to fuckin sleep #I wanna order some food #I wanna read a book #I wanna watch YET ANOTHER entirely different tv show #I wanna think of a christmas present for my best friend #and I want to do all of these things in the next 5 minutes #me @ my executive function system: SO TELL ME WHAT I WANT WHAT I REALLY REALLY WANT #anyway it's 10:30 in the morning I'm going to bed