#but he has his absolute trust

[blueeyedcitadel]

I love how Arthur catches the bounty hunter Halig about to beat Merlin and he goes like, "Leave him alone. Merlin is my servant. He has my absolute trust. If you have a problem with him, you come to me. Do you understand?" And it's the same servant that told him he was fat and stole his food twice that day, and also nearly boiled him when preparing his bath.

#but he has his absolute trust #merlin bbc #merlin #arthur pendragon #merthur #merlin x arthur #merlin emrys #merlin 2x09 #my thoughts

[bloodiegawz]

the ordeal of waking up

#twst #twisted wonderland #twst silver #gawzdrawz #how tired do you think this guy is #literally the strongest man ever #it has to be like. terrifying #right ? #he gets so much sleep against his will #doing so much training and exertion #even though his brain and body must be absolutely miserable #not to mention it doesnt even seem like he notices when he falls asleep #forced to trust someone will wake him up #and that when he does he'll be in the same place

[shima-draws]

My brain: Haha yeah I dunno if I’ll ever get into One Piece I mean it’s so long and such a huge dedication timewise—

Me, already 13 episodes in: Um. Well,

#JFNSNFJSJD HELP!!! #Shima speaks #Okay I HIGHLY doubt I’m going to slog through over 1000 episodes. BUT. #I will watch a chunk of it #Anyway. I LOVE Luffy. And I LOVE Zoro. #They really made Zoro out to be this supreme badass who’s super edgy and cool #He is all those things. BUT. He is also soooo dumb. And I love him #His reactions are just so over the top #And I love his quarrels with Naomi #*Nami. Spellcheck PLEASE. #And the fact that he trusts Luffy so MUCH already #And that he has absolute faith in Luffy so even when Luffy is hurt! He’s like ‘Oh yeah he’ll be fine dw’ #Makes me soft. #AND AGAIN. HE IS DUMB (affectionate) #Love me a goofy gang of pirates #Also REALLY loving Usopp too #Gathers them all up #My kids now. #One Piece

[sincerely-sofie]

*Skitters up to you on all fours and drops this in your lap, then scrambles up the walls and onto the ceiling and immediately falls asleep*

Comic time! Lucky wakes up in the middle of the night and has a chat with Sen in this one.

#ah yes. the struggle of seeing yourself as a machine incapable of truly having an emotional connection with others #no matter how deeply you long for such things #whilst simultaneously seeing that deep longing within you as a mistake. a flaw. an imperfection #you were made to be absolute and impartial #to be biased in favor of your charges beyond that which your ‘programming’ dictates is shameful #you are broken. you are flawed. you want and you want and you want and you’ve never stopped /wanting./ #you aren’t supposed to worry or care or love. you weren’t made for it. #and if you were not made for it then you simply cannot worry or care or love. #these /things/ that haunt you and make you inefficient are not emotions. #they are your imperfections; flaws in your make; symbols of your failures to live up to your purpose #you are broken. you are flawed. and you want so deeply that you can scarcely keep the longing inside you #such a failure you are; to not only survive the fall of the metropolis you were built to give your life to defend #but also to stoop to and revel in such indulgent imperfections as these false emotions the moment your makers are gone to dust #Fun Fact! Sen doesn’t require sleep #and spends every evening standing outside of Sharpedo Bluff / whatever campsite the gang have set up to guard the entrance. #she doesn't stay inside at night because it wasn't something done in the metropolis she hails from. #sentries are meant to watch over their charges. they are not meant to indulge in the pleasant and dry warmth of their homes. #Kip hears about this eventually (he thought it was just Sen not trusting people enough to sleep around them) and FLIPS OUT #“PLEASE would you come inside IT'S LITERALLY HAILING” #Sen is taking so much hail damage and has the gall to look at him and say “You should return to your home. the weather is unfavorable” #Kip just screams into his hands because he might have found someone even worse at self-care than Twig #And with that #it is beddy-bye time for Sofie :) #the present is a gift au #pmd oc #pmd ocs #pokemon mystery dungeon #pokémon mystery dungeon #pmd explorers #pmd eos

[nnayomaise]

i think the thing that really gets me about all the "we've got to kill this guy kabru" meme redraws with mithrun is that in the very first conversation mithrun has with laios, he trusts him with, essentially the fate of the world and his life long revenge quest against the demon

#dungeon meshi #mithrun #laios touden #i just think is neat really. #like in a way. laios is entrusted with what has haunted both kabru and mithrun for a significant portion of their lives #actually i think its. pretty interesting how trusting mithrun tends to be. while he says outright that he knows kabru is plotting something #he lets him go and execute his plan to start with..think its only until kabru says hes going to go get the shadow lord's help that mithrun #is like 'yeah okay thats not going to work im going to go ahead with mine' #is just really interesting to me. how he gives people chances where others wouldn't. bcs im sure any other canary captain wouldn't #not that its not deserved but the demon benefits so much from people seeing the canaries as this unreasonable unforgiving threat #also it was absolutely to the winged lions benefit that marcille become the dungeon lord- even if it liked laios more marcille was more #vulnerable to his manipulation and brainwashing #i think laios could've been reasoned with before becoming the dungeon lord but marcille couldn't #dungeon meshi spoilers

[leo-bandito]

CORRUPTS ABSOLUTELY.

#this has been in my brain fer a while but i rewatched absolute power yesterday and im insane again. Lol #this never happens in the show. The real scene in ultimate alien is worse IMO #Gripping my head screaming crying throwing up forever #The ultimate kevin arc is fucking stupid. however ☝ im not normal #ben 10 #ben tennyson #kevin levin #kevin 11 #ultimate alien #ben 10 ultimate alien #b10 #uaf #ben 10 uaf #I lied actually there is a bit in the nightmare episode w albedo where kev grabs his wrist. Which im. Normal about :zimscrunge: #THE FACT THAT HE KNOWS HE'LL LOSE CONTROL AGAIN........... AND HE DOES IT ANYWAYS......... #LITTLE BEN TELLING HIM TO USE IT.... FMLLLLLLLLL #esp cos ben knows.. The last interaction lil Ben had w him was him being scary and he fucking. Trusts him enough to offer it as a solution #IM GONNA DIIIEIEEEEEEEEEE

[ajooples]

I love him a lot

#the inspiration for this piece was a cameo pendant #you know the ones that art a carving of a pretty lady in profile in a pretty frame #i think that has such an elegant yet melancholy vibe #which absolutely suits Astarion especially in this period of transition in his story #where he begins to soften and trust tav #and i wanted the infernal text to be really subtle because that abuse has clearly shaped him but its not all he is #anyway i love him and this game #hand embroidery #art by me #bg3 #astarion #neil newbon #nobigneil

[ctl-yuejie]

a taste

#only friends #only friends the series #ofts #mark pakin #papang phromphiriya #i am obsessed with how good papang is #trust me to read too much into it but to me he clearly has an idea who 30 sth year old Dan is #seemingly out of the dating scene since at least his graduation so doesn't know the current lingo #feeling a bit too old but also unsure how he likes being called old but hot #very charmed by this junior but not used anymore to getting butterflies in a club #lowkey knows that the boss thing might be a bit hmm... #(listen: i love that again the show doesn't give us a clear line of 'dan is a creep' because there is a lot of room for him to essentially #be a good option for nick as well as the possibility of accidentally acting unethical) especially within the community it is worth to #observe whether the power imbalance on its own speaks against the person #he's also a bit shy wondering whether this cute guy would actually be interested in him because he is sweet and obviously aquainted with #going to bars so surely he must have options #and mark is also so wonderful ;A; even before he spots boston you can see that there is still some heartbreak lingering #but also that he liked the kiss but it was a very different feel to boston #also: somehow papang in mlc and papang here kisses absolutely differently and it makes so much sense to me that he at this point in his #life would kiss like this?? idk how to explain it better #this show continues to bring out the best acting out of everyone #(to derail: maybe why i want the writing for top to be that he's still in the grey so badly because i think that is the kind of difficult #acting force is actually mastering in this series)

[moongothic]

We all know how a lot of Luffy's opponents have been in some ways premonitions of the type of person Luffy could end up as if something went wrong in his life. For example Moria is what Luffy could've become had he truly lost his entire crew at Sabaody if Kuma had not saved them

And we know Crocodile is what Luffy maybe could've become had Luffy given up on his dreams and become jaded after losing to him. But like, when you think about it, that's not the only dark reflection of Luffy in Crocodile, is it

'Cause Crocodile, despite employing people for Baroque Works, did not trust anyone around him and did not considder anyone to be anything else but an employee to him. And we know he had been planning on taking over Alabasta for like 14 years (at the very least), BW being a thing for only the past four (pre-timeskip)

So like. Did Crocodile spend the last 14 years alone

Like yes he had his workers at the Casino and Robin etc, so he was like, around people, he wasn't like Brook who was in Total Isolation. But on an emotional level, has he not spent the last 14 years all by himself, completely detached from anyone, unable to trust or rely on anyone else?

That is sad as fucking shit, holy hell

'Cause then you compare him to like Luffy and like

Our sweet baby boy was so afraid of being alone that Luffy literally went through hell just to gain Ace's approval despite Ace trying to signal to him he wasn't interested befriending him

And through out the whole series Luffy reiterates time and time again how he needs and wants his friends around because he literally can't live without them, both on a literal "he can't cook or navigate or have fun by himself" level but also on that emotional level

And Crocodile just. Spent 14 years of his life, if not longer, alone.

Sweet jesus what happened to this man

And that just makes me further wonder, what the absolute fuck were Crocodile's Rookie Pirate days like?? Like did he have a crew or was he just yolo'ing it by himself???

Like. Mihawk's never been on a crew as far as we know. Kuma was a Revolutionary, not a pirate, but he wasn't like alone still. Doflaming, Hancock, Jinbei and Moria however have/had crews of their own. So what was Crocodile's deal? Did he have a crew before? Was he a captain or was he on someone else's ship? (Although surely the Government wouldn't offer the position of a Shichibukai to a cabin boy or the first mate, right)

And if he did have a crew, the hell happened to them??

Like we know Crocodile got his ass kicked by Whitebeard, I just find it unlikely Whitebeard would've pulled a Kaidou on Crocodile's crew and slaughtered them, that's not a very Whitebeard-y thing do, right?? ...Unless Whitebeard was just different 20+ years ago and was willing to annihilate entire crews. We don't know. Or maybe Crocodile and his entire crew were like Turbo Rotten from the beginning and Whitebeard figured they deserved to get wiped out, much like how we saw Shanks wipe out Kid's crew at Elbaf. Or maybe Whitebeard saw no reason to have mercy on someone affiliated with the World Government.

That all said, if we wanted to assume Crocodile had somekind of trauma that lead to him viewing people not only as disposable but also untrustworthy, then maybe losing people dear to him like that wouldn't lead to that mindset. Like Moria witnessed his beloved crew die and that caused him to want to create a crew he couldn't die, so he wouldn't go through that emotional trauma again.

Which leaves me to wonder. If something caused him to lose his ability to (emotionally) trust people, and if Whitebeard broke his dreams... Maybe Crocodile had a crew. And maybe they abandoned him when he lost to Whitebeard. Figuring they didn't need a weak captain who was probably going to bleed to death anyways. Or maybe the crew tried to take his head (after Whitebeard kicked his ass), after all, he was already a Shichibukai, anybody who took Crocodile's head could maybe attempt to take that title for themselves if the Government allowed it, and if not, at least gain more fame for themselves.

Either of these scenarios would certainly result in you losing your ability to rely on others. And leave you willing to spend the rest of your life alone. Who would have in them to go through that again.

Or maybe he came out of the womb unable to trust people and he was just yolo'ing it by himself like Mihawk right from the begining, who knows

Regardless I'm just

#Moon posting #Sir Crocodile #OP Meta #Me @ Crocodile: Who hurt you #No fucking wonder Crocodile was absolutely deranged in Alabasta #Dude just spent like 14 years speaking to a wall by himself. Or maybe not who knows the walls could betray him too #This man has so much unresolved trauma #BTW if true this would also make Crocodile a dark reflection of Robin. Which is a different layer of sad on its own #Like. Both expecting the other to be the one to betray them. And in the end it's Robin who shot first. #Break week in the middle of Kuma Backstory. I am in pain. #When will our husband return from the war #I need to know what his deal is so bad. I must study him under a microscope #My derangement will not know end until then #There could've been a counterargument that Crocodile couldn't trust anyone lest his Utopia Plans got ruined #And to be fair if the Government had found out his plans would've been screwed. Shichibukai Rights REVOKED #But he still seems to carry those trust issues since Mihawk is on relatively thin ice it seems #So me thinks. This smells like trauma. #The real conclusion to this post is that the Crocodile x Daz shippers are RIGHT

[evilkitten3]

au where there's like a paperwork error and sasuke ends up on team eight. but no one else's placement changes. so kakashi has to deal with just naruto and sakura, who isn't filtering herself at all. or better yet, sasuke gets swapped with kiba, so kakashi has to deal with three loudmouth hotheads, one of whom can just track him down whenever he's late.

meanwhile kurenai's first lesson is homicide 101 and sasuke thinks he just hit the team jackpot

#naruto #team seven #team eight #uchiha sasuke #yuuhi kurenai #kurenai: ok kids now that we've all introduced each other i'm giving you a test to see if you're really ready to be genin #kurenai: the test is murder btw. afterwards we'll go over better and more creative ways to do murder #sasuke: this is the best possible thing that could have happened to me #meanwhile kakashi has a massive headache bc the only person on his team with any kind of volume control is akamaru #kakashi: ur the only one i can trust buddy #akamaru: bork #kakashi's ninken absolutely adore akamaru #sakura gets a headstart on medic-ing bc hana shows up to meet her lil bro's new team #also sasuke feels weird without someone challenging him to a fight every 20 minutes so he starts hoping one of his teammates will #shino gets sick of sasuke's incredibly awkward attempts at egging him on and persuades hinata to make sasuke her rival #yes they bond over their obsession with naruto what about it #hinata is. not good at being a rival #but she's trying #hinata: um sasuke-kun i bet. i bet. um i bet i can get to the top of this tree f-faster than you... #hinata: um but only by a little bit actually y-you'll be right behind me in fact you'll probably do it better but um. #sasuke: we can just start hitting each other if that's easier for you #hinata: oh cool just like my home life. yeah i can do that #shino: i'm a genius

[iholli]

literally I just want to give MAWS Clark a hug can we give this man a break please he's baby

#the constant dilemma between DCAU Clark and MAWS Clark but really i just want to be friends with them both #anyway i cried like half the new episode it really came for my feelings again #my adventures with superman #and then i went and watched the preview for next week. what the absolute FUCK #i like how they're handling kryptonite in this show but i also Do Not Like That At All #DCAU Clark is like. the fun uncle who seems like he has his shit together a little because he's experienced #but really his internal monologue is just shit shit shit 24/7 #meanwhile MAWS Clark is just. he's baby. that's it. he doesn't know who he is he hasn't truly experienced the worst and the best yet #he like. has to grow into DCAU Clark ??? #but his lack of experience gives him unique strengths. like he's more forgiving and trusting. DCAU Clark has spent too much time with Bruce. #anyway that's my thoughts goodnight #i have a headache fr it's been a day #i love MAWS #ratkingrambles #dc

[liquidstar]

All that arc 8 boy drama over Subaru's who's best bro as if the answer isn't clearly Ram

#they have a much more stereotypically ''bro-y'' relationship than subaru does with any of the guys honestly #they're consistently assholes to each other and yet they're also besties who'd trust the other with their life #and absolutely 0 hints of romance. subaru straight up says he's never seen her that way #subaru has canonically spent more time looking at julius's ass than considering ram as a viable romantic partner #like no way. she's just his bro basically #re:zero

[ineed-to-sleep]

Couple of little references I made for my prophet's design bc I love him a little too much

#enderal #enderal forgotten stories #he's literally just Some Guy and yet. I love him so much #my traumatized widdle scrimblo #he's quiet and introverted and doesn't really trust people #but he's also compassionate with others and will help a stranger on occasion #but mostly just 'prefers the company of books' type of guy. loves a good mystery. hyperfixates on magic #goes nuts after his magical talent blooms at the beginning of the story #he's so excited about it. but from just looking at him you'd never guess it #he comes off as dry and unaffected if you don't know him but if you do and you peel off the mask he's literally just a scared little kid #overwhelmed by everything that's happening #but at the same time excited about the wonders of the world #this guy has been through sm and has sm ptsd that it's like. no wonder he doesn't feel comfortable around people #but when he's by himself or with someone he trusts he's absolutely adorable #he likes jespar and once he gets comfortable around him he rambles to him abt stuff it's so CUTE #his name is erin btw. just erin no last name #he's 5'7 and full of bisexualism #oc.erin #sleepyscribble

[tennessoui]

Fishook!Obi-Wan looking at Leia with proud tears in his eyes after she successfully manipulates Luke and Ahsoka for the first time. His clever, clever child. Maybe she'd like a planet for her birthday? Just a small one, a tiny moon the perfect size for the perfect 2 year old. (Anakin makes him get 3 moons; a romance novel featuring a widowed parent taught him it's important not to play favorites)

obi-wan: a moon is a perfect starter planet for a young megalomaniac, therefore for leia's birthday i am going to give her a moon :)

anakin: i agree - but also luke has a birthday soon. imagine that.

obi-wan: i'm offended you think i don't know when my son is born. he will be getting a paint set and a star wars easy bake oven.

anakin: and leia gets a moon???

obi-wan: do you think it's unfair that luke is getting two things and leia only gets one? maybe we could get her something else too....

anakin: nO

#asks #squick tag: a/b/o dynamics #it is not that space mob boss obi-wan plays favorites #but it's that space mob boss obi-wan notices and rewards young megalomaniacs in training #and luke at 2 years old is in his babbling phase still #no megalomaniac signs yet #maybe he has more anakin in him #which obi-wan absolutely loves about him because he's obsessed with anakin #but leia has so many obi-wan traits #meanwhile ahsoka is very much the step child #but cody likes her and obi-wan trusts his opinion #and he knows she's very important to anakin #so her place is set for life

[tending-the-hearth]

thinking abt tlt, som, and ttc era percy

percy who's still struggling to find his footing at camp, and every single time during those first three prophecies, he's seen as the outcast, and never once brought into the fold until he comes back after finishing the prophecy.

there's always something that pushes him to the outskirts, something that gives the other campers fodder to make fun of him or completely ignore him.

he thinks he's found his place after the minotaur? nope, turns out everyone sees him as a bad omen and he doesn't make any friends because the entire camp refuses to be around him.

he thinks he's found his place after lighting thief? restoring zeus' bolt? NOPE he finds out tyson is a cyclopes and his brother and now one of his closest friends + the campers are icing him out and grover's not around.

he thinks he's found his place after sea of monsters? restored thalia's tree and hey, now he's got a cousin? NOPE he's pushed aside in favor of her by the campers and chiron and is seen as incompetent and his best friend has been kidnapped and he's being blamed.

rereading those first three books now is so painful, because the way percy gets treated by the camp hurts so much, because literally all he wants is to be accepted by this group of people he should have so much in common with, but every single turn meets him with more people pushing him away.

and it isn't until battle of the labyrinth, until he's named as the child of the prophecy, that people actually start to treat him as one of them.

#the amount of stuff that is kept from percy makes my blood boil #sometimes i think abt how thalia treated him/talked down to him in ttc and i get upset #also ofc this is not excusing percy's own behavior towards tyson in som #AND THE FACT THAT CHIRON PROMISED TO TEACH AND TELL HIM SO MANY THINGS #THEN TURNED AROUND AND TAUGHT THOSE THINGS TO THALIA AND COMPLETELY FORGOT ABOUT PERCY #thinking abt a percy who absolutely has trust issues #and his circle of real trustworthy people is SO small #literally it's only annabeth grover hazel frank and rachel #sometimes i reread the 'percy gets betrayed' fics and i'm like he's so valid for all of this #percy jackson and the olympians #percy jackson #annabeth chase #grover underwood #thalia grace #chiron

[uncanny-tranny]

It's always tempting to debate bigots about their bigotry, but honestly the best thing you can do is often to directly help those affected by said bigotry.

Bigotry doesn't exist to be debated. People who are bigots do not care about debate - they care about humiliating their opponents. You cannot outsmart somebody who doesn't give a flying fuck about their position being incorrect. You will be playing a completely different game by trying to debate somebody out of their bigotry.

The best thing you can do is to show up for the marginalized. Check in on them, talk to them, and engage with them as people. Ask them if they would like help and then respect their answer to the best of your capabilities. Oftentimes, that will be sufficient enough and will go a long way.

#ally advice #the bigot will not rely on trusted peer-reviewed sources. they will rely on charisma and charm and humiliating and degrading the other team #because a bigot doesn't believe in 'you go low and we go high'. like... they're bigots because they choose to go low #so they will use dirty tactics in order to absolutely obliterate your point because you aren't going to be playing the same game #this is why i don't debate transphobes. i will engage in conversation but i do not debate bigots anymore #like do y'all remember in 2016 when the online alt-r*ght started to grow exponentially? that's the same sort of thing #many people argue that debating bigots has the chance of bringing them over to your side but... #...personally i don't really value that as a *sole* strategy or something we should focus our energy on #i absolutely will never debate a bigot because i know the stakes and i know that they'd play dirty (especially if it is in front of others) #inspired by a conversation with my dad where he surprised me with his outlook and views #(i'd assume that we would disagree heavily but no... he actually pretty much completely agreed) #(which isn't a huge achievement BUT we are pretty different people with very different views at times) #(i'm a carbon copy of him but if he came back Wrong)