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jaxxsoxxn · 8 days

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That one scene from Hercules the Disney movie

Captain cold : I can’t believe you’re getting so walked up about some hero

Captain boomerang : this one is different. He’s honest and sweet. Captain cold : oh please

Captain boomerang : he would never do anything to hurt me

Captain cold : he’s the flash

No, 'cause Boomer is probably so defensive about it. Cold would rather die than admit he cares, but he saw how Speedster can and will fuck you up, so whenever the two r just chilling around him, he gets full-on nitpicky.

Because of Flash's speed healing, I honestly doubt he has a lot of scars, especially from Digger, but the other way around? It's never anything too dangerous, usually a smaller cut that healed badly in the prison or something alike, but he has more than many scars from our fav Speedster. It's nothing that's too noticeable usually and his biggest harm was breaking his nose once or twice, which with how many times it was broken already makes it less than worth noting...

...for anyone, but Leonard Snart himself and his picky nature. Does he intend to make Flash feel bad with his snarky comments? Not exactly, but he's happy with it, even if they won't break up. Golden Glider absolutely adores it and tries her best to comfort Digger by saying "It's just in his big brother nature", but she's also not sure about what Flash wants from this relationship.

I wrote before that the JLA would need some time to understand that Digger is dating him without a second reason, but the Rouges? Some of them would eventually accept that Captain Boomerang and The Flash are dating just because they like each other and no-one is planning on changing their sides, even if Boomer is already on the grey-ish spectrum (tho most Rouges enjoy being on the grey-ish spectrum), some of them would never understand.

Trickster, for one, adores the fact that he can now hang out with the Flasher and just fool around! He's pretty fond of it and Boomer looks 100 times happier than before, so he's okay with it as long as it won't mess up anything.

Mirror Motherfucker- I mean, Master likes that he can annoy Barry more, but his fun is usually cut short because if there's one thing this man can do, it's running. The second Boomer is ready for their date or just happy to get somewhere else, he disappears. Him and Mirror boy ain't becoming besties any time soon, sadly. Lisa, who adores M&M(s), is a little sad because of it.

I feel like Captain Cold could warm up to the idea- (haha, get it?) but over all, he would not be a fan. You can see your totally-not-friend get his ass handed by a guy this many times before not trusting him with said totally-not-friend.

Weather Wizard would take a hot moment to warm up to the Speedster, but in the end, he'd be happy for the two (CC: Et tu, Mark?). He is the one and probably only Rouge that is willing to listen to Digger's rants about speedy. He's not trusting Barry per se, but he's not unhappy about the two together - even if there's no gain for him in it.

Golden Glider, a sour sweetheart she is, acts way more happily about it than she is - if she'll learn that Mark gets the juicy info from Digi, she's silently seething. Might be a little too much like her brother sometimes...

Heatwave, gods bless him, is slightly bitter about the fact that the Suicide Squad knows before them. Like, what do you mean people that kidnapped you know before us, your friend- he means, coworkers! He sulks a little, but as he's pretty happy for Digger, he is not as happy for Flash.

Also, a lil thing:

(expect possible ColdWeather/Hail aka CC x WW in the closest future <3 bc i lov 'em

Also the chatfic will happen!! I'll post the link to it, bc this mf is going to be on ao3, sorry <3 ships expected: Boomerflash, HarleyIvy, Flag x Deadshot for fun, Mirror Master x Golden Glider possibly, ColdWeather/Hail probably

It will be a chiller, easy to read and write ff! More info later <3)

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bookwyrminspiration · 2 years

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ngl kinda frustrated with some of the arguments people make for disliking fitz cause like- some of them are so nitpicky?? like you could dissect every single thing every character in the series has said, and i guarantee you could come up with a reason that over 40% of them are actually horrible things to say and these characters are horrible people. everyone always gets so worked up when people talk about disliking any other character. it’s just fitz that no one gives a fuck. like leave people alone ffs.

sorry for ranting lol

No need to apologize, Nonsie! I think your assessment of people's treatment of Fitz is accurate. It's like everything he does is being approached with bad faith, expecting the absolute worst of him so all the things he does are turned into things that can be used against him when it's actually not that serious at all!

You're right, we could absolutely come up with reasons why everyone is horrible in the series! Remember how mean Wylie was to Sophie? He probably still hates her but she healed his dad so now he's being nice, but he's just using her. Dex? He's so pushy and insensitive. Remember when he gave Sophie crush cuffs? Like "hey I like you so I think you should announce to the world that you like me back even though I have no proof you do" come on it's disgusting (to be clear these are exaggerated examples I don't actually think this way). That's how some of the arguments sound to me, looking for a way to spin every single action the worse way possible to use as more fuel against him.

You don't have to like Fitz! You don't have to like any of the characters and that's okay! But when you go out of your way to vilify someone and have these bad faith, weak arguments heavily influenced by your own distaste, please don't be surprised if people don't take them seriously. And don't take it out on them either or insult people for liking characters you don't.

All the other characters are generally loved with a few criticisms here and there, but when it comes to Fitz there's a very different vibe. People say they dislike Fitz and it's like it's no big deal, but you say you don't like Dex or Linh? That's going to get such a different reaction!

I think it's likely a lot of it is fueled by the love triangle and Fitz is the unfortunate casualty. Dex was part of it, but he never really had a chance, you know? So instead he became this sweet victim of it, retaining all the love people held for him. But Fitz was more of a real consideration, so he garnered a more severe (and in my opinion, undeserved) reaction.

It's frustrating to see the difference in treatment between Fitz and the other characters. I love Fitz! It's okay if you hate him, but please let those of us who like him enjoy him in peace without trying to spin him into this selfish, entitled villain. It really doesn't match with who he is.

Thank you for the rant Nonsie, I also wanted to rant about it.

#kotlc #keeper of the lost cities #kotlc discourse #quil's queries #fitz vacker #nonsie #fitz vacker defense squad #haven't used that tag in a while oof #but on this blog I love fitz vacker #it's gotten to the point where whenever someone says they don't like fitz I'm immediately suspicious #not because you can't like fitz!#but i'm going to assume someone's arguments are related to the love triangle and fueled by unjustified hatred until proven otherwise #there are valid criticisms against him! that's okay! I choose to love him anyway and accept those flaws as part of his character #arguments against him are fine! I love looking at characters in different lights #but if all of said arguments are made assuming the worst of every possible action...it's a lot harder to believe #you know?#tw discourse #long post

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myaspdnpdnotes · 11 months

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I was accidentally locked in the aircraft after everyone left because the stupid crew who’ve been nitpicky and cliquey all trip didn’t fucking check that we were all off (guess they’re not trustworthy in an evacuation then!), and even though I acted chill about it I still called the captain a dick through the door and I was fucking raging inside

I thought it was the first officer making a joke but they really didn’t think anyone was inside still but if I wasn’t on the jet bridge, where the fuck would I be?

When it was reopened the lever almost hit me in the face and that’s why we have the fucking procedures to knock and wait so that fucking doesn’t fucking happen!! You don’t want to get hit in the face with a fucking Airbus door handle!! But the fucking Captain almost fucking hit me!!

He wasn’t even the idiot on the plane. He was a normal sensible guy. I can cognitively forgive him - but the cabin crew? I joined them halfway through their trip and they just acted like they didn’t like me the entire time and even ignored me at points, and most of them were fucking immature newbies who OMITTED LINES OF the SAFETY DEMO and didn’t give out baby seatbelts to parents. I s2g. I got so much shit from Seniors when I was a newbie but I was nowhere near as dumb as these new lots seem to be recently. And the Senior was so patronising oh my god. They were amazing (phenomenal tbh) at customer service and the job, to give credit where it’s due, but they spoke to me like I was a child and just mansplained to us all. Had my blood boiling many times over the trip.

An example of a dumbass I encountered a month or so ago put her high heels on while still in the air. Um hello?? What if something happens while we land and we need to bust the slides and evacuate?? We even say in the demo to take heels off as they may tear the slide! So why would you as crew put yours on in the damn air? “Oh my last airline had us wear heels all the time” yeah well this is not Ryanair, you’re not at Ryanair anymore, and you’re posing a danger to yourself and others by doing that. Also the fucking obvious. We’re in a plane and if you wear heels and it gets bumpy there’s a greater risk of falling over. Dumbass. I admit I was patronising to her then, but I couldn’t believe the situation in front of me. Sorting that out delayed my announcement and so the others thought I wasn’t doing my job FFS.

The thing with aviation is we work with different, new, people every day. A blessing and a curse. But God, why did you create so many idiots? Is it to test me? I gave in and had a glass of wine before duty. It made everything better on the first flight. But it’s highly illegal. Why must you test me so??

#why do I work in aviation #ASPD #antisocial pd #antisocial personality disorder #aspd things #actually aspd #aspd feels #aspd thoughts #aspd tag #npd #narcissistic pd #narcissistic personality disorder #actually npd #cluster b #admin talks

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alikat7 · 2 years

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Some nitpicky things that have always bothered me about The Falcon and Winter Soldier (despite the fact I love it)

1. The relationship between Sharon and Bucky. They have multiple conversations that implied they knew each other in the past. But they never actually met. Winter Soldier tried to kill her then he watched the convo/kiss between her and Steve. He then went to Wakanda and she went on the run so why did they make it seem like they knew each other?

2. When Zemo smashed the vials of serum, John Walker knocked him out with the shield and then Bucky and Sam show up. But after that scene, Zemo and Sam (then Bucky joins them) are back in Zemos place. John bursts in demanding Zemo. Why did he let Zemo go with Sam/Bucky when he regained consciousness?

3. John takes the serum and he doesn't have a reaction when Karli said earlier that she thought their blood was on fire.

4. Certain lines are just so lame. Like when John says what's with all the knives? Or the threatening texts from the Power Broker. Just bad bad horrible writing

5. I don't see what Karli's plan was once they got away with the hostages because when she brought up killing them, the others seemed shocked.

6. They gave Karli so many passionate speeches from her soap box. She got more speeches than anyone and they were pretty much all the same

7 how did she manage to con Bucky on the phone into losing the people was pursuing? He's smarter than to fall for that weak ass diversion. He worked for Hydra ffs. I think he would have caught on

8. John Walkers stupid dinky shield. Really?

9. They never make it clear if the general public know about Bucky. Do they know he's 100+ yrs old and a former brainwashed assassin named the Winter Soldier? Because his date didn't seem to know. But the Flag Smashers did.

10. Bucky is supposed to be under supervision due to his pardon but they showed people videoing him fighting/beating people up in the bar in Madripoor (with an escaped Zemo with him)

There are probably more lol I worry about the same writers doing Captain America. The writing for Sam is better than Bucky though. I honestly don't get the impression that they were 100% sure how to deal with Bucky post-Thanos.

#the falcon and the winter soldier

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caustic-synishade · 6 years

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2018 should be the year people stop trying to control who Mark is

goes for anyone really

#im not mad #i just see people complaining about who mark is #it's just down to who he is at that point and it's just petty as fuck #i share that stubborness with mark so this rant might just seem like im being stubborn #but just stop trying to fucking control people ffs #it's so shitty #especially when that 'asshole' personality COMES FROM SOMEONE WHO ISN'T AN ASSHOLE #there's a difference between trying to help people be better people and trying to change a person into who YOU want them to be #at this point it's so nitpicky amd childish #those personalities don't always mean 'trying to be an asshole mOST of the time it's not that way #just stop trying to control mark ffs

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bestworstcase · 3 years

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farran rereads lost lagoon: chapters 9-10

it’s been a hot minute! previous installments here, in case you’d like to refresh your memory first.

- this chapter opens with rapunzel observing that cassandra is angry and concluding, correctly, that it’s because rapunzel followed her. i think this is a very interesting choice for howland to make. tts rapunzel is not like this. she often, particularly in s1, fails to notice when cass is frustrated with her and is startled when that frustration erupts into anger after repeated pushing. she is also generally quite bad at linking cause and effect together like this; she might recognize that cass is angry, but miss why. she stomps all over cassandra’s boundaries in large part because she doesn’t know any better. she can’t see how her behavior is hurting cass. but lagoon rapunzel does know better. she’s far more emotionally intuitive, and she can see right away that sticking her nose into cassandra’s business upsets cass, yet she will continue to do it. part of me wonders if this change is to facilitate the character growth lagoon rapunzel gets (which tts rapunzel does not)? it’s much easier, after all, to fix poor behavior if you’re able to see how it’s hurting people you care about.

- rapunzel here also observes that cassandra’s “eyes were wide and vulnerable,” indicating how afraid cass was of the water situation. cass denies that she was afraid when rapunzel asks her. this has a lot of similarities to how cass acts in fanon, cassunzel fanon in particular—outright denying her feelings, even when rapunzel accurately identifies them. and i know i’m beating a dead horse here, but tts cass is not like this. tts cass readily expresses her feelings to rapunzel—except when she thinks rapunzel isn’t willing to listen to her. in COTB, her reticence with rapunzel comes on the heels of rapunzel doing something cassandra pleaded with her not to do. in RATGT, rapunzel outright tells her to ‘be okay with’ the way rapunzel treats her, and in RDO cass bottles up her feelings and refuses to talk until rapunzel forces her to. actively hiding her feelings is a behavior she develops after becoming friends with rapunzel, because rapunzel continually dismisses or ignores her feelings. this is probably not the last time i am going to harp on this over the course of this little reread. it’s a huge pet peeve of mine.

- re: romance novel: “I hadn’t seen Eugene since the night before. After Cassandra left my room, I sent Pascal to follow her. I instructed him to come get me if she went anywhere.” ksdkjf

- cassandra, of course, wants the lagoon to be their—or rather, ideally, her—little secret, because she’s decided this is the thing that will prove she’s ready for the guard. her approach to getting rapunzel on board with this secret-keeping is to imply that frederic and arianna might compromise corona’s national security if they are informed. i think this is very funny.

- (again, contrast this to what happens in tts: when cass begs rapunzel to keep their midnight excursion a secret, she explains her reasoning in detail, because tts cass knows how to communicate like an adult.)

- “It’s so…blue” jksdfl cass has a way with words huh

- i do not think ms howland knows what a lagoon is, because what she is describing is absolutely not a lagoon. it appears to be a cenote. i suppose ‘rapunzel and the lost cenote’ doesn’t quite have the same ring to it, though, does it?

- cassandra reveals that she doesn’t know how to swim. i will get into this in a moment.

- corona has 315 miles of coastline, according to ms. howland. for purposes of comparison, rhode island has around 380 miles of coastline. now! in addition to those three hundred odd miles of coastline, corona has 212 lakes, 121 ponds, 67 rivers, of which 17 are significant in size and let out into the sea. with some cursory research i haven’t been able to get a precise count of the number of freshwater bodies of water there are in rhode island, but wikipedia tells me that about 90% of the inland freshwater in the state is contained in 237 lakes and ponds, which is a bit less than corona’s 333 total lakes and ponds, so… assuming the other 10% of rhode island’s inland freshwater is contained in a few dozen smaller lakes and ponds, those numbers are quite close as well. and according to wikipedia, rhode island has 59 rivers, of which 17 are ‘considered major rivers either geographically or historically.’

there is not really a point to this digression except that i think it is interesting. rhode island is 1,214 square miles in size and based on the general closeness of these numbers i have decided to tentatively conclude that corona is meant to be roughly similar in size. let’s call it a nice even 1,250 square miles for the sake of ease and to account for the greater number of lakes and ponds.

this is quite a bit larger than the kingdom appears to be in tts—unless the kingdom is very lopsided and island city is situated within a couple dozen miles of the nearest border—but it’s also quite small for a country. (europe has a few very small microstates and city-states, but excluding those, the smallest country in europe is almost twice the size of rhode island).

for my own writing, i decided that corona was quite a bit larger than this—bitter snow corona is in the neighborhood of 13,125 square miles, of which about ⅓ was formerly saporia and another ¼ is the disputed territory/province of malinar, meaning saporia is/was about 4,375 square miles, malinar is about 3,288 square miles, and pre-conquest corona would have been about 5,462 square miles—but, if you’re writing fanfiction and looking for an approximate ‘canon’ size for corona, 1,250 sq miles is not a bad guess. just remember that that big old wall rapunzel’s so eager to get to the other side of has to be within about twenty miles of the island capital in order for horses to be able to comfortably get there and back in less than a day! so either the island has to be very near the nearest border, or the wall isn’t actually corona’s border but rather a defensive wall around the capital or something like that.

- now back to cassandra, and the matter of her inability to swim. i think, given that they live on an island and the generally high standards to which he holds his daughter, it beggars belief a little that the captain did not force the issue of her learning how. it’s a safety matter. if you live near water you need to be able to swim. but, fine, she has a phobia, whatever. it’s for the romance novel™

- but i hate this. i hate it. ms. howland expects me to believe that:

1 - cassandra hasn’t been in swimming lessons since she could walk

2 - cassandra’s phobia was so severe that the captain never forced the issue of her learning to swim, while living on an island

3 - rapunzel magically knows how to swim, because the three or four minutes she spent almost drowning in a slowly flooding cave and then being spat out into a river and dragged to the bank by eugene was sufficient for her to become a great swimmer.

4 - all it takes for cassandra to overcome her debilitating phobia of water is for rapunzel to spend maybe ten or fifteen minutes gently coaxing her into the water and teaching her how to tread water

5 - swimming in the lagoon with rapunzel then becomes one of cassandra’s most treasured pastimes, and

6 - merely a few months after this, cassandra is a strong enough swimmer to (in fitzherbert pi) DIVE INTO THE FUCKING OCEAN FULLY DRESSED WITH HER BOOTS ON in order to rescue shorty before he drowns.

and NO!!!!!! NO! THAT’S NOT HOW SWIMMING WORKS THAT’S NOT HOW ANYTHING WORKS!!

now i get it. i get it. this is a romance novel and the symbolism of rapunzel liberating cassandra from her fears and teaching her a valuable new skill that they bond over and becomes their shared special secret thing to do together is obviously powerful and a staple trope for the genre. but it makes so little sense for this to be a skill that rapunzel has but cassandra does not. it feels almost infantalizing of cassandra and aggrandizing of rapunzel. like… rapunzel is an exceptionally competent young woman, yes. but no she can’t fucking swim you can’t learn to swim from that one time you almost drowned in a FUCKING cave. fuck!

- i’m still on the first page of chapter 10 and i am steamed.

- “It’s amazing how fast you can pick something up when your life depends on it.” FUCK you, ms. howland. you don’t learn how to turn sommersalts or swim laps by almost drowning. at most you might teach yourself how to doggy paddle.

- this scene would have worked just as goddamn well on the romance novel front if cass were the one who knew how to swim and rapunzel desperately wanted to learn and made big sad puppy eyes until cass caved and agreed to teach her. like! ffs you could even squeeze in the phobia stuff - rapunzel freaks out when she gets to a certain depth because it throws her back to being in that cave and cass, who has plenty of experience dealing with her own panic attacks, is able to gently calm her down.

- but that would require ms. howland to allow rapunzel to be bad at something. grumble.

- i don’t think rapunzel is qualified to give cass exposure therapy.

- this is nitpicky but i’m annoyed. this is not how you clean plate armor. “First you hang your suit of armor up to make sure every piece is properly aligned and that there’s no rust” WHAT? it’s not… like, it’s not like a onesie. plate armor is a bunch of individual components tied or buckled to an arming doublet or, in some cases, to other pieces of plate. you can’t ‘hang up’ a suit of plate armor the way you’d hang up, like, a jacket. you can put the pieces together on an arming doublet that you’ve hung up on a dummy, but… why would you do that in order to clean it.

“Then you attach the foot coverings” gjksdfjk just… the mental image of cassandra painstakingly putting a suit of armor together on a fucking mannequin and buckling the sabatons to the greaves or what the fuck ever she means by this and trying to clean the set that way is destroying me

“Then you need to polish the chest plate, with a soft cloth, work in circles, going outward” okay yes but you’d do the cuirrass separate from the rest of the set and you’d do the inside too and cass ought to know the proper name for all of these pieces please it’s not hard

“The arms can be tricky because the joints” WHAT. for arms you’ve got, like, a pauldron (or spaulder and rondel), rerebrace, couter, vambrace, gauntlets. these are separate pieces. you clean them one at a time, inside and outside. does howland think you just… don’t need to clean the inside of a set of plate armor? does she think the inside isn’t just as if not more susceptible to rust as the outside? does… does she realize that you can take plate armor apart i am CONFOUNDED

WHAT is a “mouth cover” in this context. is she refering to a visor. hinged pieces like on an armet? does she mean a bevor? the bevor isn’t even part of the helmet aljksdflkjsfdj

cassandra refers to cuisses and greaves as “thigh plates” and “shin [plates]” respectively i’m die. she also completely skips the poleyns. i do not think this cass has ever cleaned a suit of plate armor in her entire life.

i am losing. my. mind.

- in the immediate aftermath of cass learning how to tread water i think rapunzel asks her more personal questions than she does in the entirety of tts itself. like, it’s almost jarring how much more interested both rapunzel and eugene are in cassandra as a person in this book than they seem to be in tts. compare this conversation to the way cass opens up to rapunzel in beginnings - here, it’s prompted by rapunzel asking questions, expressing interest in cassandra’s feelings and encouraging her by telling her she’s brave. in beginnings, rapunzel builds a pillow fort in cass’s room because she wants to force a bonding moment and cass, after initially trying to kick her out, relents and volunteers some personal information as a kind of apology for being hostile. the vibes are completely different, so different that it feels like i’m not even reading about the same characters.

- like can you imagine tts rapunzel saying something like “it’s your story, that makes it important” to cass? lmao

- cass reveals that she’s afraid of water because she got dragged out by the undertow at the beach when she was small, and her dad saved her and then got so mad at her that she remembers being as afraid of him as she was of the water. this is not unrealistic per se, but… if cassandra was as scared of her dad that day as she was of drowning, then… shouldn’t that have more of an impact on her relationship with him? like…he screams at her after she almost drowns and she walks away with this debilitating phobia of the water but zero lingering fear of him?

- this chapter has given me a headache

- re: romance novel: “Rapunzel gripped my hand. This time I didn’t flinch.” snrk.

#lost lagoon reread #rta #cassunzel #i know it's juv fic i KNOW but i -#the plate armor thing it kills me

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abhorsenbranwen · 3 years

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“alone with a supersoldier” yeah what a new experience for sam

I rewatched most of tf&tws yesterday with a friend who hadn’t finished it yet and walker’s “you’re gonna let your partner go into a room with a supersoldier alone” to bucky was just like the height of absurdity to me.

like, way to disrespect sam who is clearly more skilled than you could ever hope to be and who has other tools he likes to use than just “let me punch guys who rub me the wrong way,” like dude he talked to karli for five fucking minutes and she spent a couple days like “oh you didn’t come alone like i told you to, that’s cool, want to join me” and “I would actively prefer not to kill him how can we make him be elsewhere” so i’m gonna go with sam was fucking correct, and also like...

i know this is a petty and super nitpicky note, but sam has been going into rooms alone with supersoldiers for awhile now? like his avengers journey basically started when he and a supersoldier started chatting while they were working out + his two avengers!friendships given the most screentime by a wide margin are with fucking supersoldiers. like by the end of the series sam has almost certainly still spent more time alone with supersoldiers than walker!

like just because you’re new to this shit walker doesn’t mean that everyone is ffs

#tfatws #tfatws spoilers #sam wilson #i fucking hate john walker and all of his disrespect #i was cursing at the tv for four fucking episodes

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ibitchytimemachine · 5 years

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Chapters: 28/? Fandom: Dragon Ball Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Bulma Briefs/Vegeta Summary:

Prince Vegeta "Destroyer of Worlds" is sent to investigate the rebel female who has made it her mission to destroy Frieza's planetary assets. How she is performing this feat or her motivations are a mystery as is another female that comes across his path, a Galactic Shadow Market Weapons Developer, Bulma Briefs. Bulma must stay on her toes as she plays a dangerous and seductive game of cat and mouse with the deadly prince.

I just finished binge reading this story. Y'all I passed up reading the latest chapter of @rockykelboa CFTT to finish the last few chapters of this I was so into it! My thoughts below the cut!

Ok - so imagine not a mange, but a legit American Comic Book with still working for Freeza Vegeta, Cooler, Jaco and Bulma. Thats this story. Bulma is a member of the Galactic Patrol who is working with Jaco to take down Freeza. All of the characters are overly described, and this colorful, over the top, universe is created. The story is so much fun. Everyone in the story (who is important) is extra amazing at what they do - Vegeta is both smart AND lethal, Bulma literally creates worlds, Freeza is not as brutal as I would expect him to be, he is more of the DBS Broly amused Freeza but he plays that role nicely. Jaco is Jaco. I know it doesn't sound like much, but as someone who loves the comic book-y tropes of the main characters being so extra awesome at what they do and pretty much everyone else sucking, this story really packs it in.

I do have several criticisms. The first is all the sex. I mean I know that sounds crazy, but once VegeBul starts fucking... like they don't do much else together. I realize that is probably about to change with the developments the last chapter gave us, but like.... Bulma must not chafe at all... and Vegeta cums and is immediately ready to go again.. Saiyan biology and all... but I personally need a breather in-between sessions. SO MUCH SEX. I will say that the writer knows how to write some fucking though.

Second - lots of grammar and spelling issues. It usually doesn't bother me, but sometimes it makes it difficult to understand the writers meaning. Tenses are something that this writer really struggles with. So if you are no a native English speaker, or have other issues related to reading or comprehension, you MAY have some issues with passages. A beat reader would do this story a LOT of good.

Third - and this is a spoiler, kinda obvious since this is a V/B fic, but still. Once Vegeta decides that Bulma is his mate (a touch that I really loved BTW) but he just becomes almost too OOC for me. Now - 99.9 percent of the time, OOC characters in a FF don’t bother me - but something about how far he goes when addressing Bulma in private just feels, iDK off? I love his internal dialogue, like he's praising Bulma so much in his head “My mate is so Beautiful, My Mate this.. My Mate that” It's awesome. It bothers me how much he does it out loud though. And it really takes away from the impact of him doing it when it would matter. Also, and this is nitpicky and I am sure some of you were so into it, but I wasn't a fan of the “teach me more about love” line.

Fourth - I need more Jaco. Like there is this amazing scene where Bulma gets in trouble and calls Jaco using her code word (panties lol great). In busts Jaco guns blazing and its SO RIDICULOUS and so amazing. Then later Bulma is talking about how Jaco makes a great old man in disguise. God I need more of these hilarious antics.

Like I know most of this review has been criticisms, but this story was so much fun to read. Its ridiculous, the characters are over the top, the world is over the top, the sex is ridiculous (wait till you read Vegeta’s dirty talking) but it is all the right amount of ridiculous, the right way. It works so nicely together and I AM DYING BECAUSE OF THIS CLIFFHANGER. On the extra plus side, at the time of this publish, the story has 28 chapters, with the last one being published just two days ago. So it appears that this writer updates really frequently.

Go Read it. It’s funny, sweet, over the top and just wonderful.

If you liked this review, after you check out this fic, head over to my A03 and check my stuff out too!

#btm fic review #reccommended #vegeta x bulma #a03 #SO FUN #Read it!

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bthump · 5 years

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what are the things you like and dislike about the '97 anime and the films?

ty for asking, i’m just gonna write a few long lists lol

97 anime likes:

the animation, including the like, yk the more detailed stills they pan over in place of action or to punctuate important moments, i love it

the gorgeous backgrounds

most of the colour choices. red eclipse, femto’s blue eyes, casca’s skintone, griffith’s mauve clothes, etc.

how close it is to the manga. like, it’s a solid adaption just by virtue of making very few changes.

so like, most of it really, because i like the manga

special mention to the entire lead up to the eclipse from griffith’s reality break to the sacrifice tho, because i think that was all pretty damn perfect. it’s the most important scene and they did it right.

actually also shout out to casca’s flashback to griffith and the dead kid, gennon, the river scene, all that. another difficult v emotional sequence that they nailed imo.

griffith thinking about how he “loves” guts during the monologue

skipped most of the griffith/charlotte sex scene iirc which i approve of

the glimpse of black swordsman guts in ep 1. it’s not perfect but it’s way better than the ovas starting w/ 15 yr old guts

the opening and closing themes. fucking love both songs ngl

also the opening monologue. never get tired of hearing it

the score

the portrayal of griffith was honestly pretty solid imo. i have very few issues there. and lbr that’s important lol

97 anime dislikes:

not a big fan of griffith or guts’ character designs.

just about everything that isn’t identical to the manga is a change for the worse

turned griffith’s scratch marks into that giant unexplained scar

adding extra scenes where casca is secretly impressed with guts’ skills in battle in an attempt to build up their relationship better, which instead just made casca look unfair for still being a dick to him for 3 years and made guts stupidly gary stu-ish

obviously the straightforwardly romantic portrayal of guts and casca’s relationship

through several seemingly minor changes (eg, skipping guts’ night of self-doubt after he leaves, giving guts’ stay with godo its own half-episode, making guts inviting casca along super romantic rather than the incredibly casual and assholish way he does it in the manga, etc) it makes Guts’ dream seem legitimately noble and worthwhile, with none of the like… implicit critique the manga has. like honestly it completely fucks up what i consider one of the central themes of the story lol

the pre eclipse stuff also fails to sell guts’ sense of regret - through things like playing guts’ theme while judeau is telling guts to leave, not repeating guts’ statement of regret after casca tells him to leave again, the tone remains consistently in favour of guts’ dream. wrong and bad.

like it really reads like the suggested tragedy is that guts doesn’t get the chance to ditch griffith with judeau and take off with casca and the raiders lol

also fucks it up by never directly mentioning guts’ csa trauma

also fucks it up by losing guts’ self-destructive single-minded urge to fight monsters that we saw thru the wyald stuff. i’m not gonna say that losing wyald was a bad decision, but they should’ve at least moved erika suggesting that guts just wants to fight zodd again to the fucking waterfall scene in question, which they portrayed completely sans zodd discussion, completely sans implication of the self-destructiveness of guts’ dream

like in the manga he nearly gets killed by the falling logs and just laughs it off like a dumbass while erika is concerned and suggests that guts is driven by something irrational and not actually a ~noble~ dream, ie, wanting to fight zodd again (ie, going deeper, his csa trauma), while in the anime we get a 2nd scene where he successfully slices through the logs as a super basic symbol of growth and a narrative pat on guts’ back that shouldn’t be there!

honestly just fucking everything about the portrayal of guts’ dream lol it just takes it at face value in a way the manga consistently never did and always undermined and critiqued, and it bugs the hell out of me.

guts is just drawn in a way that makes him look angry way too often and he often feels ooc to me bc of it. like he lacks a lot of the warmth he has in the manga imo

showing that griffith is awake when guts says “i’ll stay too” even tho in the manga those words are placed over a panel of him asleep for a reason like, ffs

lots of other random nitpicky details that only i give a fuck about because my opinions and feelings about the story are too strong lol. like not showing griffith’s face when he asks if guts thinks he’s cruel

oh huge one: moving the scene where the torturer rips off griffith’s behelit from about a day after he was imprisoned to right before his rescue. completely trivializes griffith’s torture because it still looks like he’s been in there for a day at most

why on earth did it end where it ended????????????? who’s bright idea was that? the perfect ending is skull knight riding tf out with guts and casca and femto not killing them, but then they also cut out skull knight’s first appearance so idfk man.

oh some downplaying of griffguts, like i can’t complain too much about this because it was still p homoerotic, but things like omitting guts assuming griffith wants to fuck him right before their first duel. boo.

ultimately at the end of the day as much as i do genuinely like the anime, it’s not telling quite the same story the manga was - the story it’s telling is more boring and basic. but because it sticks so close to the manga the good story still shines through? it just means there’s inconsistent tone choices and stuff, like the aforementioned grievances.

it’s like, they kept casca’s diatribe at guts line for line while she’s screaming that griffith needed him and a man can’t live on dreams alone, but they don’t extend that train of thought to guts going off to pursue his dream, while the manga does.

anyway despite that giant list of dislikes i still think the anime is pretty fantastic overall. i just also like, blame it for a lot of wrong fandom takes lol.

movie likes:

character designs! honestly imo everyone looked pretty great.

they played up the homoeroticism and i appreciate that

illustrating griffith being torn between guts and his dream through that lovely moment when he catches guts when he nearly falls off the stairs right before he catches charlotte, and in a more romantically suggestive way

the whole scene where griffith shows up at charlotte’s window thoroughly improved on the manga, so hats off there. loved how completely out of it he was to the point where he barely realized where he was and immediately turned to leave when charlotte was like ‘woah dude wtf,’ love that charlotte was the one to ask him to stay and then physically move his hand back to her tit, love how emphatically griffith was thinking about guts during that sex scene, etc. like it’s still not perfect, but it is a vast improvement.

griffith showing up in person after the hundred man fight was a nice touch

it was cool that they got a lot of the same english vas from the anime dub back, and they all did a gr8 job. like it’s a pretty good dub imo.

i liked that they moved ‘the crystalization of your last tear shed’ to after guts’ post-eclipse breakdown

compared to the anime at least gtsca was more low-key and chill rather than dramatically romantic. still don’t want it there, and still not as… unromantic as the manga, but i’ll take what i can get

the animation during griffith’s transformation into femto, yk that whole sequence, was cool

slan’s english voice was super sexy

ummmmm i feel like they conveyed the whole dreams are stupid theme, and guts’ decision to leave being a mistake, better than the anime? like i got the sense that the ova ppl recognized that was a theme, at least. i’d have to watch them again to really be sure of that tho

movie dislikes:

GRIFFITH’S. NARRATIVE.

like holy fuck they completely destroyed his character lmao

i cannot believe

no backstory! no tombstone of flame! no ‘do you think i’m cruel?’ THAT WAS THE REASON HE MADE THE SACRIFICE FFS HOW DO YOU SKIP IT????

no dead kid angst, gennon only in vague implication, no self harm - oh no wait we saw self inflicted scratches, they were just completely contextless and meaningless to the point where we could assume charlotte’s nails made them

no torture chamber monologue

no guts monologue in the tavern either for that matter

no rooftop scene

again barely the implication of guts’ childhood trauma, both the sexual abuse and the general parental abuse. one vague flashbacky nightmare doesn’t cut it, it’s the cornerstone of the story

like i get it, it’s a movie trilogy, you have to cut some things, but goddamn, cut out gtsca. trim the hundred man fight. add 20 minutes to the first ova and take the insanely long rape scene out of the third. trim down the whole eclipse sequence. don’t cut out like… the story. like they cut out SO MANY emotionally relevant scenes and kept so many much less relevant scenes, idek.

and like let’s be real here, they turned griffith from an immensely interesting and complex character into a 1 dimensional dude who is torn between a vaguely evil ambition and being in vaguely evil love with guts, just for the sake of streamlining the least interesting aspects of the story

they don’t even try to pretend otherwise lol, look at his fucking hilarious evil smile here

also while i’m looking at it, in general i think they failed at the whole eclipse sequence. looks, lighting, colour, build up of tension… there are a few minor improvements here and there (eg casca’s point of view shot of femto, femto telekinesising guts back a la the black swordsman arc which emphasizes his failure to act when he escapes), but overall it doesn’t work for me at all. like imo the anime has the exact same highs and lows as the manga, but while the ova avoids some lows it never reaches those highs.

they also had griffith overhear guts saying he wants to stay. i really don’t get why this happened twice lol, like… ok his face is kind of shadowed here but he’s still very clearly asleep? this is an important detail, guts’ interrupted words are even on that very panel, so why would you go out of your way to show that he’s awake and listening at that point.

the pacing sucked. 3rd movie was too long, 1st was too short, and they skipped waaaaaay too many significant scenes that should’ve been there as emotional beats

honestly the movies are pretty, they’re nicely fanservicey in ways, they capture some good subtleties and nuances at times, but they’re a husk of the story

oh did i mention the music during the eclipse rape? incredible.

also i am actually generally positive about the movies too despite what it seems like here lmao. i’ve watched them all like, 3 or more times and i find them v enjoyable.

i just have a way easier time listing nitpicky flaws than positives honestly. the flaws stand out to me, the virtues pass me by because i’m just enjoying them and not dwelling on them

and lbr here at the end of the day no adaption will ever really satisfy me unless i somehow find several million dollars lying around and make my own lol. and that would probably be a flop anyway.

#Anonymous #ask #a #b #theme: adaption #theme: dreams #arc: ga

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yexiu · 6 years

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my f4 #1 thoughts

first of all - LOVE the dynamic between ben and johnny re moving on vs. still believing they're out there

bc it makes sense! ben had a life before the 4, he was an adult and he's struck out on his own multiple times - secret wars i, the avengers for example

meanwhile johnny was 16 when the crash happened, his entire life and personality have been structured around the 4, his identity is based on being a member of the 4. and reed and sue were much more than just his sister and brother-in-law, sue raised him and reed was more like a father than anything else to him

secondly - wyatt wingfoot is BACK baby and i love him so much wyatt invented being iconic and i loved the period of time where he was basically a member of the 4 and did everything with them.

i'm also really loving jenwyatt, they have a really cute dynamic and i missed them a whole lot, esp since fraction established in his run that they were getting back together

third - yancy street gang RIGHTS i love the ysg

fourth - benalicia getting engaged i'm so happy they deserve it and they were SO cute in this issue and alicia had some looks(edited)

fifth - there were so many little details that jumped off the page and really made the issue work; johnny's f4 sneakers, the rips in reedsue's uniforms, the news broadcast, alicia's cane

six - VINDICATION i knew johnny could sing thank you for confirming it

seven - the doom story was SOOOOOO good YES he is more complicated than just evil dictator man he's a savior to his people and while that comes and goes depending on the writer, i'm so happy it made it into this issue

eight? - FF'S LOST TALES YES i love that i love the story i love that sue can't sing or cook queen of being relatable

i didn't expect to like pichelli's art as much as i am i think she's got a really good face for reed, ben, alicia, and sue and her johnny is really growing on me

now onto the very few criticisms i have, they're mostly nitpicky tho

1 - wyatt was very white in this issue. colorist issue tho

2 - i don't believe johnny has any patience for team sports nor do i believe he understands how baseball works

maybe he's just there to support his bf

wyatt knows how sports work

3 - i have NO idea how this fits into current timeline bc after the last issue of mito, johnny shouldn't believe they're still alive? so i guess if delays hadn't happened on mito it might fit but i need the next issue to really know

but it was apparently very important to them to release vol 6 #1 on this date and i wouldn't have wanted them to push it back just for timeline issues bc i can figure that out

anyway i'm emo i love the fantastic four i can't wait for issue 2

and this is just a world building question but the world (and everyone who's not family) still thinks alicia and johnny got married and then divorced so like...wonder what they're thinking

actually i thought about it some more and while pichelli's johnny isn't as pretty as he should be (he should be extremely pretty) she does draw him crying very pretty and that's what matters considering he does it every other issue

#comics.txt #i woke up at 8:07 just to read the issue dfhgjkfh #johnny storm #johnny posting #vidhi.txt

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home-halone · 6 years

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I thought I could handle the recordings. I never realized how visceral the reaction I'd get was, just from hearing stories of emotional abuse and manipulation from other victims. I'm in tears for them. I have nothing but empathy and love for these people, and I stand by them but hearing their accounts is just so hard hitting. I'm in tears because I know the exact feeling of being in their shoes. It disgusts me that so many others had experienced this, and that he's neither the first nor the last.

The more I heard about their stories as I clicked to listen to each one, the more I realize how precisely my old situation fits the same pattern. In my case it did not happen on FFXIV and the abuser in question was a completely different person.

I actually used this game to escape my previous MMO.

I don't know if it's appropriate for me to speak up about the abuse I experienced here, or in this situation, if it takes the spotlight away from the here-and-now of it all, but if anything it just reiterates how common it is and how easy it is to miss. So, so easy to miss.

Did you guys know I used to be a healer main? I loved playing support, and I could never bring myself to tank or DPS. I liked helping my friends and working with them.

Did you guys know I used to be wholly content doing casual stuff? I didn't care about endgame, and clearing the latest content. I just wanted to hang out with friends, doing silly things, making a whole army of alts to try new things and classes with. I liked to explore and have fun at whatever pace I wanted and I didn't fucking care if anyone thought it was lame.

But then I met him.

I'd seen Q* around before. He was real life friends with P, someone I played with on occasion, but I had no real interactions with him.

At least not until Q and that friend had a fight, and pretty much left him with nothing. He played the game casually, and ended up borrowing much of P's things. Now that they weren't on speaking terms, he had nothing. I wasn't the richest player or anything, but a friend (who quit playing shortly after) and I offered to give him some in-game money to start off fresh.

Eventually, I saw him around more and more often, and I started to play with him. I invited him to communities I had been a part of, including a very casual weekly group raid group. It was very much less savage and more like extreme primals in terms of difficulty. So it wasn't anything crazy, really.

When we weren't doing that, we were farming and raking in cash for glamour. I thought it was nice because I knew that being P's friend meant he was of a higher skill level than I was. I trusted his opinion and followed his lead basically. Not only that, I really connected with him in a way I hadn't connected with other people. Spending time with him was a lot of fun, and we'd be on Skype for literal hours.

It was the same story. Very charismatic, somewhat flirtatious guy. It was all for fun until he started sounding serious and I found myself very into it even with all the red flags and gut feelings. When I confronted him about the nature of our relationship it moved to us becoming a couple.

But don't tell anyone.

It was a secret.

The same story.

I should've figured it out because a lot of times it felt like he was talking at me instead of to me. I couldn't put my finger on it at the time, but that's what it was. Consent was a line he would try to push. He would switch from an absolute sweetheart to using disappointment and frustration against me to get what he wanted. He never raised his voice, but he was excellent at making me feel like shit.

If I didn't play well enough. Because "this is so simple". Or if I didn't know where certain items were stored. Even knowing I have problems with my memory. If it turned out he had it the whole time, he’d laugh it off. If it was with me, he’d be so so disappointed and upset and tell me I’m careless.

Q wanted another group to raid with. I get it. He wants to do more, because that's just his skill level. I was in a very casual guild, but they looked up to me as a mother figure, partly because of my age compared to everyone else's, partly because of the character I RPed. I knew I could convince them to play, and it would make him happy.

They were all new, so they weren't like the regular group. But that just made them so malleable for him.

I became stricter and nitpicky towards people who treated me like I was the group mom. I kept the same tone but there was an underlying annoyance. Why couldn't they be as good? Some things are so simple. I started to echo what Q told me. Because if they failed, to Q, I'd failed.

Praises became so hard to come by. Even when I singlehandedly shortlist and fix our raiding roster, when I make literal spreadsheets for schedules and attendance and for the item directory just so I don't forget and I keep things perfect and convenient for him, just so he wouldn't be upset or disappointed. And he would top it off by being sweet and make up for two weeks worth of not spending time with me. He treated me like a retainer. Sometimes worse. I was there to accompany him to dungeons. As far as he was concerned, that was probably all I was good for.

Because when I'd asked to spend time talking, and not playing, I'd just get told that I was suffocating him. Like I was demanding more time, and what we had wasn't enough.

I organized every raid we had, I was raid leader, I called the shots, I pushed a group of casual players into helping me avoid feeling like shit by doing well enough. When it was my fault, I'd be blamed. Even when it wasn't, I'd be blamed. There were times when I had to fill a role we were missing. It couldn't be helped. Not everyone had every class. All Q had to do was show up and do the easiest fucking class. If we'd wipe, he'd ask me why I wasn't on healer. But somehow when I play healer he'd find all the ways to tell me what I was doing wrong. I didn't feel dependable. I always felt like I fell short and I wasn't good enough.

But I had to reassure everyone, I had to remind everyone. Cast this buff when X happens. Use this element for better DPS. I had to keep it all together until he shows up. Even when we'd reached one of the deepest parts of the dungeon we'd never seen before, and I was happy and excited for them, he wasn't. He was just disappointed we didn't clear.

So I became disappointed too.

Somehow, I had hoped it was the stress of school and it would pass. And Q will go back the the way he used to be when he and I first met. It was stupid but it was some sort of blind faith I latched onto. That somehow if I'd endured and if I were the bigger person, he would wake the fuck up. Obviously that wasn't true at all.

It got to the point where I really was just his retainer. Hold this. Go here. Go there. Why are you not producing the results I want? Affection was a reward, or something to quell me when I was upset and not a staple expression. I'd drawn a lot for him, but I'd hardly get a response. When I was kidding around and having fun making silly voices, all he said was "What is that voice? I'm just gonna mute you." And actually did. He was very pushy when it came to intimate stuff, asked for pictures and pictures and all that but showed me maybe two shit quality photos of himself and a 5 minute skype video call.

I could fucking solo heal 11 people and he wouldn't be impressed. He would nitpick me and ask why I hadn't used the right buff at the right time. Because healing is so easy. I would spend 4 hours straight doing some super menial stuff that would get an open-world boss into spawning mobs that you could farm. When I tell him I'd finally accomplished it, he'd check hours later when he wakes up to say "it isn't there anymore" and nothing else. I'd have to hold on but once he's salty he can rage quit at any point he wants.

I would be praised by other people, and I'd have fun without anyone pointing out how poorly I do or what I'm missing. The disparity was so evident but I kept lying to myself.

I gifted him an official comic of one of "our" favorite series via mail. He never thanked me. He complained about how inconvenient it was that HE missed the delivery and now HE has to go to the post office to pick it up.

I never got to read it.

After half a year of enduring this, I'd confided what I'd experienced with my guild, it came to light that he had been abusing them too. I'd realized we'd effectively converted my poor, fun-loving casual guild of friends into a farming mill for profit.

We farmed not for fun, but for profit. It was awful. Some of my friends still never want to set foot in that game again. It's been 4 years since then.

That's when I'd worked up the courage to break it off. Not for myself. It was kinda pathetic that what woke me up wasn't the need to fight for myself, but because he had hurt my friends. The ones who trusted me to guide them. People I'd hurt myself, by pushing them beyond what they really wanted via peer pressure.

Even when I broke it off it didn't feel satisfactory. It just felt like he didn't care. He went, "ah yeah, it's difficult." I mean that response makes sense considering at some point he told me I wasn’t his real girlfriend until I had sex with him lol.

And that was it. He gave back my stuff in game but lol wait remember the part where he knew I had memory problems? The fucker stole some gear from me and took advantage of that. Burn in hell, Q.

I lied about the reasons why I no longer wanted a relationship and made it seem simple, and I couldn't call him out. I didn't want to upset him. I was afraid of the dirt he had on me. I was afraid of what he'd say to me. Part of me is still afraid he has some of these things on me, years and years after it had happened. I never told anyone the full story really.

I moved on to FF at this point and it was a fresh start, with another friend inviting me to play. No one to tell me what was wrong.

But it sticks to you. The bullshit people like Q and Oldbear do to get what they want. If I said that I raid ONLY because I find it fun (and I do find it fun), it wouldn't be wholly truthful.

There's a part of me that still hears his sleazy voice telling me I'm not good enough. What I'm doing is easy. Support is easy.

I wanted to stop supporting and do things on my own ability. So I switched to DPS. I kept pushing the boundaries of my comfort zone to shut the voice up. I am good enough, and I can raid. I'm afraid to try new classes because of that fear of failure he'd inflicted on me.

I've never gone to a therapist because of the costs and the general stigma in the country, so I don't know how deep this has settled within me. But it's enough that I carry that elitist voice in the back of my head telling me I have to do more, more, more and that I'm not good enough.

Sometimes I’m in denial it was abuse and I probably just had a bad relationship with poor choices ;;;; Like I said, he never outright yelled at me, and he never swore at me or called me names, so I did not think it was abusive. But he gaslit me and used my emotional attachment as leverage whenever he could, would put me down but get away scot-free for things he’d do.

Anyway tl;dr emotional abuse is fucked up and downright diabolical and disgusting and victims suffer some repercussions long after they've moved on and fixed their lives, and now several of these women have had the chance to speak out and name their abuser we must give them that closure and draw attention to this very real and heartbreakingly commonplace issue.

#very very personal #long post #cw: abuse

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thunderoad · 6 years

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I... i don’t wanna be a debbie downer but I have a gut feeling Niall is going to stay firmly entrenched with Julian for a looooong time - dude is too loyal a guy. Especially bc he produced his most popular hit SH, and they seem such tight personal friends... and Julian seems to have a big influence on his own music tastes (i think JB put Maren Morris and Thomas Rhett on his radar, since he also collab’ed with them). Alas. I also want more producing diversity! Fingers crossed for the future.

ahh, i sure hope so too!! i do think that loyalty is a great quality of character, of course, i’m just furiously nitpicky about drums and bass!! without them, what even is there?? a bunch of walls and a roof with no frame?? it’s all going to COLLAPSE INWARD !! hahaha, but in all seriousness, julian does seem like a nice fella, so i’m not saying anything at all against him. we just have vastly different ideas of what sounds good on record, i suppose? although, in fairness, he does seem to have a pretty good ear for what will track well on radio, so i suppose i shouldn’t complain too much. i love ‘slow hands,’ and i think i was onboard with ‘finally free’ faster than any of niall’s other tracks!! but so many reviews of ‘slow hands’ made a point of asking what the heck was up with the voice gating at the beginning, and i think you can hear a little voice filtering on ‘ff,’ too, so i’m always left wondering to what extent julian (and niall!) feels obliged to sound sufficiently like stuff on the radio to be successful, and to what extent they could just...throw that whole book out and bring in a professional drummer lol

#anon

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ladylavellaan · 6 years

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Placeholder; FF XV Imagine

Request: Noctis fell for you back then. But you were the sun, destined to set when dusk came. Luna is the moon, always rising with the night sky. He loved her, he has always loved her.

Words: 1449

Warnings: Implications of sex and violence

Comments: My first short fic! I’m so sorry if it isn’t good at all; I’m still trying to get the hang of writing like this.

Here is what you want to remember:

The night of your confession, blustered, blundering words that made no sense when they formed a barely cohesive sentence; but your feelings poured out of you like a barrel of wine with a hole. A huge hole. An impressively humongous hole. It poured until you were empty and breathless, and you just stared up at him underneath all those stars.

The campfire brought light to his eyes, wide in slight surprise.

“Well?” You demanded.

“Well,” he had echoed, then scratched the back of his neck. “I, uh, wasn’t…” When uncertainty began to fill his expression, panic flooded you.

“Oh, gods,” you hissed, and buried your face into your hands. “Oh, gods. I shouldn’t have… I’m an idiot. I just- Prompto said to just go for it unless I wanted it to eat away at me forever, and I finally decided to, but then I forgot all about the consequences-”

“Consequences?” Noctis repeated.

“-consequences, like, well, I mean, it would just be… so out of place, wouldn’t it, love on the battlefield, and you’re- you’re the prince.”

Amusement began to fill his expression. “So I am. What does that have to do with anything?”

“You’re the prince.”

He laughed, “So? You’ve known me since forever. Been with me through thick and thin.”

“And now I’ve ruined everything,” you turned away from him. From there, you could hear Gladio snoring softly in the tent.

Noctis took a step forward so the two of you stood shoulder to shoulder. He nudged his shoulder with yours, and you glanced at him. “I would disagree. I think you made things better. Infinitely better.”

You stared at him, then felt your face flush.

That was the same night of your first kiss, soft and sweet, followed by a bright flash, a click. Then laughter. You both turned to catch Prompto catching a shot of you both kissing. Noctis yelled at him and chased him. Prompto’s laughter caught the attention of some beasts in the forest, which led to a midnight battle no one appreciated.

After that, things were perfect between you and Noctis. There was the threat of impending doom looming over all of your heads, the two of you were quite aware, but you both found time to make it work. Sometimes, it would just be holding hands in the Regalia. Sometimes, when Iggy wanted a break from cooking, you’d all find a restaurant and you and Noct would find a secluded booth and eat alone. Prompto and Gladio teased the prince endlessly, and it was endearing. Iggy was more open-minded, and gave you two the privacy you needed.

You were flexible. He was yours. He loved you. You’d spend nights in his arms and think to yourself, This is everything I ever wanted.

You remember your first time with Noctis, too.

It was when Ignis, Gladiolus, and Prompto went on a side mission to gather ingredients for some recipe Ignis came up with. Noctis was injured from the most recent battle, and he decided to milk that fact by complaining that he was in too much pain to go.

Prompto had grinned. “Maybe your love should nurse you back to health. You’d like that, now wouldn’t you? You sly fox, Noct.”

“Stop,” Noctis complained.

“You peeervert.”

“STOP.”

They left. You were left alone with him, and one kiss led to the other. The next thing you knew, you were underneath him, and he was asking you if this was okay. You said, “Do you even have to ask?”

Things happened. You know. Things.

Your relationship with Noctis was secret. Only a select few knew; even Luna. He wrote about you in his letters. Umbra sent it to Luna, who received it. Her next letter was a happy one, and she said she was dying to see you again. Noctis smiled softly at her letter when reading it. He said, “She misses you.”

“Aw,” you crooned, nuzzling closer against him. You and Lunafreya went way back; you two were childhood friends, and you remember her stealing sweets for you to eat whenever you visited. Her fate and her destiny demanded for less simpler things. The gods beckoned and she answered. “I miss her too.”

You remembered how he said his next set of words, so soft and so heartbroken: “I miss her more than anything.”

And that’s when you knew. Or suspected, at least. Each passing moment between you both became tests; you grew paranoid, but never voiced your concerns. Because what would he think? He trusted you, and this is how you make him out to be? Surely he wouldn’t be so shallow. Something in your gut was screaming at you to face the obvious, but you were afraid of your speculations; they were based on little evidence, and you would look like a crazy significant other.

But you kept suspecting.

Love; what once was fulfilling became empty inside of you. Lunafreya was the world’s saving grace. Noctis, when finally reunited with her, weeped in her arms, much to everyone’s surprise. He sputtered and sobbed and voiced his fears; “I had a dream that you were washed away from me by the sea,” he told her, “that you died and I failed you.”

“You did no such thing,” Luna said, stroking his hair. “Noct-”

“I missed you,” he said into her shoulder, and she held him tightly.

You watched, heart heavy.

“Oh, gods,” Luna gasped when she saw you, and wrapped you in her arms. “It is so good to see you. A sight for sore eyes, instead of your weepy boyfriend. Tell him to man up, hm? I conversed with nitpicky gods and goddesses just for him and he decides to snot all over my clothes as a result.”

You laughed, and hugged her back. She was warm, and smelled like vanilla. “I’ll give him the memo. I missed you, Lu.”

She pulled away and smiled. “Let’s go celebrate, shall we?”

You love her. She’s your best friend. But you love Noctis as a lover, and you were growing more and more paranoid as his attention moved from you to Luna in an instant.

Prompto noticed your worries, and tried to reassure you. “He’s just… He’s worked so hard to save her, you know? He’s just really glad to have her back.”

“But what if…”

“Don’t,” Prompto smiled. “He loves you, okay? You kept him sane this whole journey, after the whole ‘scourge of the stars’ thing or whatever. Are you sure you’re not a god yourself?”

You laughed, and felt lighter. “Thank you, Prompto.”

“Not a problem. If he keeps being an idiot, just tell me and I’ll smack him with my camera.”

“Not shoot him with your gun?”

“I would be sent to jail for that. To jail, Y/N.”

Things slowly escalated, and you let them. In truth, you should have confronted Noctis about it instead of watching your relationship fall apart in front of you. Something held you back; maybe it was hope that he would return to you, one day. You’ve spent nights in the Lucian kingdom alone, while he spent more and more of his time with Luna. You didn’t even want to think about what he did with Luna while you laid in bed and tried not to cry.

He was still nice to you, whenever you two were together. But he wouldn’t hold your hand anymore, or kiss you. The most he’d do is kiss your cheek, and even that felt lifeless. Prompto noticed. Ignis noticed. Gladiolus noticed and tried to comfort you, but nothing satiated the anger and despair that began to knot up inside of you. And you didn’t want anyone to untie the knots. You wanted to leave them there to decay over time, you wanted them to burn away. You wanted to burn.

Luna noticed. She tried to say something about Noctis, and you told her to shut up and go away. No hurt filled her eyes, but only concern and pity. She said, “I’ll be here for you if you need me,” which was the stupidest thing to say in the given situation. You yelled that at her as she walked away.

You don’t want to remember this, the parts where he began to make his choice. You don’t want to remember all the nights you spent sleepless and alone, crying into your pillow. You don’t want to remember the way he looks at her. You don’t want to remember the jealousy inside of you.

You don’t want to remember him approaching you, finally, and him saying, “We can’t be together anymore.”

Darkness filled you, then. You let it swallow you whole.

#ff xv #noctis #ff xv imagines #noctis imagines #prompto #ignis #gladiolus #lunafreya

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higginsarnott · 6 years

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Nitpickers

I hate nitpickers.

Absolutely hate them.

And I can sometimes be one of them.

Like I will happily admit I can be a real hypocrite but I do not nitpick to the extent some other people do.

I got a message last night on Twitter and they were like ‘Oh I love your cosplay in your profile pic!’ And I was like wow ok this is nice I don’t usually get PM’s complimenting my cosplays. And I don’t expect them either, I’m 15, it could be seen as inappropriate and I get that. And so this person asks if I made it and I said no someone made the base of it and then we did alterations when we got it, which is the truth.

And all of a sudden this person just kinda got really nitpicky. Clearly they’re a real history buff and they said ‘Well it could be a shade darker of blue, and the trousers look a bit tight and the boots make it clear it’s not the right shade of blue but it looks good!’

And I just thought to myself ‘Are you honestly gonna be a nitpicking bitch here? Like do you honestly think that I can change all of this? I cannot help that the trousers are tight, or that they look tight, ffs I was posing in that photo, obviously they were gonna tighten!’

So I just said to them ‘Well I can’t help any of that, we’d have to redo the entire outfit and we don’t wanna ruin it if we take it apart.’

But it literally does not matter if certain details are a bit off. You work with what you have in cosplay. Just because some cosplayers are absolutely spot on to the T, doesn’t mean you have to be too. Heck my Evie Frye cosplay is missing some details. There are meant to be buttons on the bottom part of the black lining around the red parts of the coat, and they’re not there.

Why?

Money.

Not everyone has the money to get the exact material they need to make the outfit spot on. You work with what you have. And I feel like some people don’t understand that money can be tight with cosplay budgets. Heck my Aveline de Grandpre cosplay is off in several ways to Sunday but at least people knew who I was. That outfit was handmade. The jacket was made by my mum. And so was my Elise de la Serre cosplay, my mum made that too. I made the hat band for my Jacob Frye cosplay, and I sourced all the parts for my Higgins cosplay. I found the helmet badge on eBay, really cheap thankfully. I found the boots on eBay. I found the suspenders, and our friend who makes beautiful outfits made the outfit for us and we altered the buttons. I found the collar numbers too.

Because I wanted this outfit to be the best one I have. I wanted to honour Lachlan for his portrayal as this character because it’s such a good character. And thank fuck he absolutely loved it right? He’s not a nitpicker in the slightest, he loves it, even though I’ve never met the guy (hoping that changes but then again aren’t we all secretly just hoping he meets me?)

Nitpicking should be shamed in cosplay if I’m honest. It’s rude and ruins people’s confidence in making cosplays.

Ya bastards.

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softgrungeprophet · 4 years

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skipped last month’s issue to read this month’s intro specifically for wyatt and like

At least he got the state right!!!!

jesus

but he got the fucking college wrong, and is another of two or so authors who thinks wyatt actually joined the football team when he DIDN’T and specifically said he doesn’t like sports and even conway managed to point out that he never joined the football team no matter how hard the coach tried to get him to join

I know these are Nitpicky Details but in the age of the fucking unofficial wiki you’d think he’d get the college right at the very least???? He went to Metro with Johnny. Period. Unless Dan is deciding to retcon that he was a transfer from an OK state u where he did football, into NY metro i guess?? Or that he went to State U AFTER? But we never saw that and if he is that isn’t clear and if it’s a retcon from some other comic it’s not one I have read.

I know he went to Columbia U for literally like , a day

the other tribe members being critical of wyatt constantly leaving i will take, i think about that a lot and it’s totally fair to be like what the fuck. cause while wyatt shows up pretty frequently to like...... help out... like a LOT... he does seem to be absent a lot BUT. his actual appearances in FF comics are actually rare enough and frequently have him with his tribe so often that it’s more reasonable to assume he spends most of his time with the tribe and simply spends a week or two each year or every couple of years with the four which.... is not unreasonable? But that requires a deeper analysis of his appearances obviously and who the fuck other than me gives enough of a shit to think about that?

With the tribe in general it feels like this is a group of people who just don’t know him (realistically this would be fair because realistically OK doesn’t even have reservations (with one exception) so they would live all over the place) and don’t have the history of the actual fictional tribe in the comics (you know i roll my eyes at any mention of “keewazi”)

cause like.... I find it hard to believe that even a small portion of the tribe would willingly work with Roxxon after the sheer number of times they have been fucked over by corporations and wealthy white dudes.... (Oh but of course the rep isn’t white so that makes it Nuanced I guess)

it doesn’t really..... make sense. Like the protesting def makes the most sense. Even for the young dudes, these are gonna be young people who--LIKE WYATT-- lost family members to this shit.

wyatt’s ENTIRE family is dead except for his sisters. his grandmother textually died because of corporate greed and plenty of other background old people and other characters have died for similar reasons. i just don’t think it fits but it’s clear that its purpose is pretty much only to justify the mole man plot (though i think there are probably other ways)

Amusingly this feels like a rehash of a DIFFERENT older plot featuring wyatt, about a DIFFERENT tribe and the two brothers who disagreed about partnering with the corporations--and shock of shocks, it ended badly.

It also does directly contradict the fact that Wyatt’s tribe is supposed to be fairly self-sufficient though I will say I do think Claremont’s take was bad and baseless and I’ve read criticism of the presentation of the Secret High Tech natives with outward destitute appearances. So like it’s not great either way. But even before then (probably stereotypically) there were hints about the tribe being fairly wealthy. Really it’s ALL pretty bad and constantly contradictory so frankly what is even the point of getting into it, now. It’s never been consistent.

ALSO

DAN

Are you REALLY out here trying to emulate the way Wyatt met She-Hulk? AKA a meeting that was awkwardly paced and poorly written and super forced that made Wyatt seem shallow and self-centered????? REALLY?? The LEAST romantic part of their relationship? The worst written part? And with an innuendo about how “large” he is???? Are you kidding me??

I would also say there are characters wyatt already knew who make more sense as very obvious potential romantic interests (BECKY) but I hardly expect any writer to give even half of enough of a shit to know who rebecca rainbow is lmfao

if you only go by she-hulk and newer comics, by all rights, wyatt doesn’t know anyone other than jen!

anyway

Hold wyatt responsible for his constantly leaving: SURE why not, it’s not the deepest read on how much time he spends at home but it’s reasonable

all the rest: NO??????? Stop.

I’m not reading the rest of the issue because: I don’t care.

#nadia reads comics

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