#i'm glad he's surviving

[lakemichigans]

“I forgot you do that. Whenever we get – what’s the word – close? Anywhere in the neighborhood of emotional vulnerability? You back off, or make some joke, or find any way to shut the door on me.”

FAVORITE SPN COUPLES (1/?) → Dean & Cassie

#supernatural #spn edit #spn #dean winchester #cassie robinson #spn gifs #deanedit #deancassie #spngifs #spn 1x13 #favoritespncouples #everybody loves season 1 aesthetics til its time to gif #anyway dean spilled the family secret to cassie after just a few weeks #i never want to hear anyone say he's the less emotional / romantic one ever again #i'm convinced the only reason why dean has this womanizer reputation is because we see season 1 from sam's POV #they've grown apart so much but sam still thinks dean is exactly who he was at 20 #so the audience is told that dean doesn't want to settle down and could never take a relationship seriously #even though we know that's not true. his life just doesn't allow him to get what he wants #anyway the point is i love cassie and i love them together #but i'm glad she survived and never got involved with the winchesters drama <3 #myspn

[franky-y]

Man I literally just woke up and it took me a second to realize that this is the drawing I gave him haha

Anyway, I don't know why but him posting this honestly makes me really happy 💛💛💛

#the drawing really looks a bit roughed up at this point #but i'm just glad it survived at all lmao #but yeah to anyone who asked me if i gave the drawing to him and if he liked it #i think this is your answer haha 😄 #häärijä #käärijä

[six-of-cringe]

I think that one of the reasons why people misinterpret Wylan's character and arc, among others, is because they misinterpret the relationship between him and Kaz. This post has kind of mitosised off from the BFWP (Big Fucking Wylan Post) I'm writing because it's a bit of a different focus and constitutes its own post.

A lot of people talk about Wylan's character and development as though it's meant to match Kaz's - starting out as a nice kid who the city forces to become amoral, indifferent to violence, and well-versed in crime. These qualities are usually talked about with a weird reverence as an irrefutable symbol of "badassery", as though it's always a positive development for any character regardless of the story's narrative, which annoys me but is not the topic of this post. That's part of the BFWP's job.

Following Kaz's exact development is not the point of Wylan's character. The point is that Kaz and Wylan narrative foils - very similar in many ways, but with a fundamental difference that creates the "broken mirror" effect/shows how they could have turned out if they'd chosen differently. I think that difference is how they respond when they climb out of the harbor after their respective betrayals. Narratively, Ketterdam represents a very harsh system that presents the people struggling there with very few options. You can either choose to ditch decency, play by the Barrel's rules, and live, or you can hold on to decency and die.

When Kaz returns to the streets after Jordie's death, he chooses the first option. He copes with what happened through ideas of revenge, and to survive long enough to see it he quickly turns to thievery and violence. He thinks to himself after he robs a kid for money and food that it was much easier to survive when you've left decency behind. He survived through violence, creating the Dirtyhands persona around himself for protection.

When Wylan has to fend for himself, he choses the second option. He finds "honest work" at the tannery, where they exploit workers and expose them to toxins. He wonders if he'll live long enough to use his savings to leave the city, or if the chemicals would kill him first. He was smart enough to steal and survive, but he chose decency, and with it, he chose death. There are a number of reasons why he chose differently than Kaz despite their similarities - his older age and thus more developed moral code, having no one to avenge but himself when he believed himself worthless, his more privileged upbringing, and his relatively low drive to live. Alone, he would have died.

Then Kaz steps in. Kaz's role in all the crow's lives is that, intentionally or not, his ruthless rule of the Barrel creates a sort of haven that allows them to survive where they would have died had they stayed alone. Wylan is a really clear example of this, and though Kaz's intentions were at least partly self-serving, his involvement both kept Wylan from dying of exposure or street violence as well as prevented him from needing to do the more terrible things that it takes to survive in the Barrel. Throughout the books, we see Kaz kind of taking the brunt of enacting violence in Wylan's place - traumatizing Smeet's daughter, killing the clerk on the lighthouse. Wylan could get by making explosives in the workshop rather than having to shoot or stab or beat the life out of people. And at the end of the series, Kaz sees to it that he never will have to. Of course Wylan did bad stuff to survive when working with the Dregs, it's the Barrel. But the extent is greatly lessened because of Kaz's involvement.

Wylan's arc was never about becoming comfortable with violence, or becoming just like Kaz - the way people characterize him as some sort of ruthless murder mastermind is inaccurate and redundant with Kaz's character. He isn't nonchalant or celebratory about crime or death or violence by the end of the book. He doesn't HAVE to become like Kaz, because Kaz himself gave him the space to continue being decent, intentionally or otherwise. Understanding that dynamic is important to understanding what Wylan is like as a character and as a person. If you assume Wylan's trajectory is to become "Kaz 2.0", then you're going to mischaracterize him. I've seen posts about how Kaz was the Jordie that he didn't have to Wylan, and I think that makes a lot more sense. Because Kaz is willing to do the horrible things in his stead, Wylan has the third option otherwise impossible in the Barrel - maintaining his decency and surviving.

#Kaz really do expose ppl to the horrors of the world but simultaneously protect ppl from losing themselves to it #sorry guys. wylan likes math and puzzles and his friends he does not like crime. crime is an unfortunate byproduct of surviving #'we could wake them up' Mark my words you stupid quote i'm coming for YOU this week #does this make sense. does this post Sense??? #wylan nearly blows his cover just thinking about a terrible guy kaz killed in front of him. THIS is your ruthless killer?? lol #one thing about me. i like characters with Hope and Gumption. thank you wylan sixofcrows #wylan is a bitch but only when standing up for what he thinks is right. especially against kaz. GUMPTION. the GALL. #glad you didn't bite it in the cancer factory you funky little genius #this pairs nicely with my jesper analysis. he enacted violence but unlike wylan he Refuses to Think About It #wylan van eck #kaz brekker #six of crows #soc #tgt #soc meta #soc analysis #bfwp #crooked kingdom spoilers

[formulaonedirection]

One instagram story later.....

#lando norris #max fewtrell #drive to survive #this part made me laugh i'm sorry #he's such a little troll #i mean i'm glad he's not like EMBARRASSED by his relationship? #the shared glances are giving hashtag lumax is real tho? LOL #I'M KIDDING...JK UNLESS? #hehe #nadia's things

[minty-playhouse]

Keith Moon was specifically engineered to only be able to survive in the microcosm of the 60's and 70's. Like, I feel he embodies a type of energy that would only fly during this specific window of time, and I dunno if that's beautiful or tragic.

#keith moon #this man would be getting death threats and cancel posts every day if he had survived to this day #I mean I've seen people wish death on roger so #honestly I'm glad he didn't have to see this mess #the who

[chainsawmascara]

You can tell who hasn't been through severe psychological and sexual abuse by whether or not they want to hug astarion after he kills cazador.

#bro #i would fucking murder the first person who tried to touch me #he's holding a fucking knife #are you insane #astarion #I'm v glad you haven't experienced that #but he's in a massive ptsd moment #and you would fucking die #i need you to understand that #and stop asking larian to hug him #so that survivors can see ourselves represented #and not infantilized by your need to hug sad vampire man #who is holding a KNIFE #and just MURDERED SOMEONE #and has a DEBUFF FROM TRAUMA #and almost MURDERED 7000 PEOPLE #you will not survive that hug #don't touch him do not touch his shoulder #the DON'T FUCKING TOUCH ME scream that would illicit #is so blatant #like #honey #stop #please stop

[pushing500]

Our caravan was viciously ambushed by... two lil' munchkin cats. They were no match for Laursen, and our nomads continued on their way without any issues.

Until...

They were ambushed again! This time by a pair of terrifying... blind salamanders. These ones were dealt with by none other than our favourite lucky charm, Shamrock the donkey. A hero for sure!

Finally, we arrived at a lovely stretch of grassland where we decided to settle down for a few weeks to resupply. Don't they all look adorable camping out around their ominous obelisk? I wish I could draw scenery better. I'd love to be able to paint this up in a pretty oil-painting scene. Still, the screenshot itself is cute enough. <3

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#rimworld #gracie plays #The Children of Ecthuctu #art #my art #traditional art #rimworld art #unpolished art #I think Salvatore the cat is glad he's on our side #those munchkin cats didn't stand a chance #Neither did the blind salamanders #I'm so proud of Shamrock. #What a good donkey he is!! #The grassland is very nice #Much greener than the desert was #We'll grow and hunt to prepare some more survival meals #and maybe wait until Duchess has her baby? #Then we can set off once more #Hooray! Things are looking up #Have an awesome day <3

[evilkaeya]

I JUST READ 106.5 HOLY FUCK

#there's so much to unpack #sigma would have DIED if he inhaled that air #he was ready to die so many times this chapter #but dazai saved him every time #AND WE GOT TO SEE DAZAI'S RAW EMOTION TWICE THIS CHAPTER?? #i know dazai will survive somehow #but I'm glad sigma didn't become soup actaully #he's going to be dostoyevsky's downfall i know it #not dazai or chuuya #what if this is sigma's entrance exam #bungo stray dogs #bsd manga #bsd 106.5 #dazai osamu #bsd sigma

[fuedalreesespieces]

99.5% of inuyasha's youkai dna has to be concentrated in his hair because how the fuck did it not get cut off at some point especially while he was carrying that huge ass sword

#ESPECIALLY during that arc where the tessaiga was heavy and he couldnt even lift it lmao #hell in the second episode kagome holds onto his side bangs so that she isn't carried away by the centipede monster #back when i first watched the anime i was praying that he wouldn't have a short hair arc because all my fav dudes with long hair #get their hair SLAUGHTERED within a season or two (yes im talking about miyamura) #so i was glad inuyasha kept his hair but was also wondering: how #because those other guys are usually in like. fuckin slice of life so if their hair is cut it's usually by choice #meanwhile inuyasha is close to kissing a blade every other episode #HOOWWW DID HIS HAIR SURVIVE KAGURA????? #it's magic i'm telling u #inuyasha #inuyasha a feudal fairy tale #inuyasha anime

[epickiya722]

DO MY EYES DECEIVE ME?! MIGUEL?! BRO IS BACK?!

I was just thinking about him! Bro deserves some more credit honestly.

#because one he did survive gojo #two he trained yuta while he was over there in africa with him looking for that rope #MIGUEL I'M GLAD TO SEE YOU 😭 #aaaayyyyeeee let's get it #just kiya's thoughts #jjk #jujutsu kaisen #jjk manga spoilers #jjk spoilers #jjk leaks #jjk 254 #miguel #miguel jjk #miguel oduol

[lee-hakhyun]

thinking about ye hyunwoo again. chapter 621

#i am kim dokja. #but you need to remember that at the same time you are not kim dokja. you do not need to sacrifice yourself to live. #you can survive‚ you will survive‚ no matter what #ye hyunwoo‚ a child. he made a big mistake. he got too in over his head. but he still had good intentions in the end #sure‚ reading orv 50 times is impressive. you can joke it's insane. but have you thought about why someone would read orv 50 times? #if orv is what you needed to live i'm glad you found this story #god. i hope this kid stays alive #stay with pildu and max‚ hyunwoo. you're doing great #and lee hakhyun‚ keep doing what you're doing. keep doing everything you can to keep these readers alive. keep being genuinely yourself #orv side story #orv spoilers #orv #it might sound fake repeating these words so much but maybe someone needs to hear it. you matter. you have value. you deserve to live. #and if you don't feel that way yet then keep going until it clicks. because it will‚ no matter what you think #sorry i am just. filled with love

[aeoneris]

so i got the sunbreak design works artbook that just came out last week. it turns out there was one final short story in the back of the book to go along with the ones that were released last summer, and it marks the very end of rise. here is a very, very rough paraphrased translation that i told to my friend about it. it's about kagero and yomogi. it's so precious...

Edit: This story has now been properly translated by me and a Japanese friend of mine! Please refer to it here! (this post has a lot of inaccuracies since it was a quick run through, but now we've properly translated it)

#kagero #yomogi #monster hunter rise #master utsushi #utsushi #i could barely sleep last night like idk if they will ever release a full translation of this so i tried my best with machine translate #ughhhhhhhh i love everyone in kamura village so much #but i ESPECIALLY WISH ALL THE HAPPINESS IN THE WORLD FOR KAGERO AND YOMOGI... #kagero 's deadname is literally the thing that ruined everything for him... that's such horrific misfortune... #but i'm glad he survived ... he's the world's number 1 grandpa #also laughing at how they had to shove in one final utsushi x hunter moment right at the end dude pls

[shadowglens]

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#mine #ch: ione diem #i'm so glad i brought this girl back out of retirement because she means so much to me #i wanted this edit to be a lot more Interseting but lost steam halfway through #so have this half baked thing instead #anyway i'm v emotional about her network slide #especially gungi #the idea of ione having a padawan towards the end of the war makes me 😭🥺 and gungi is my favourite child from that one arc in tcw #the fact that he survives (at least the initial order 66 situation) also gives me the opportunity for him and ione to reunite at some point #😭😭😭 #also yeah i'm a sucker for jedi/clone ships (looks at codywan) so i just had to make my own #dylan my love!!!!! #the star wars brainrot is back ever since i finished my tcw rewatch and watched the bad batch all the way through afgasdjhfa #i'm sorry to my non star wars mutuals

[loyalhorror]

this is a very sweet sentiment but when i say "my past self is dead" i mean "i had a host change sometime shortly after harri died due to The Horror Of It All and am very literally no longer the same alter (and the alter i was, the one you all knew as malakh, is more or less gone)" dskfnlsdkfjnsdfn

#rat.exe #mxincognito #i care you though and i get what you were getting at. it just doesn't quite fit my experience. <3 #tek said something very good that was like #'he's dead because you're not' #which i think is true. malakh is dead because i survived. and i'm glad for that.

[fisheito]

@milkeumilkeou so far i have 5/8 and the only one that has a story to it is the foxy tantrum (more on that in the tags...)

#rusted nation #i am missing numbers 2/3/6 #will extra hilarity or sadness find me in those stories :):):):):)))) we shall see #when i read the shipwreck note i just imagined #was kuya worse at controlling his form back in the day #like he was too tired by nightfall so he just reverted to his foxy self for honkshoo bedtime #but this sailor saw him and kuya threw a fit like those mythical creatures who pride themselves on their rarity #so kuya's all How Dare plebian eyes grace my vessel u must all perish for this transgression #or. wait. did kuya have fox self esteem issues back then #so was it more like someone walking into a teen's room uninvited #while the teen is trying to cover up their pimples in the mirror #so now they're embarrassed and hormonal and the only option is to lash out? #like GOD mom [drunk sailor] GET OUT OF MY ROOM!!!! *sets ship on fire* #i mean I'm glad that they survived (assuming) #but what was huey thinking... like sure kuya sink the ship doesn't matter to me either way #wait no THIRD hypothesis #kuya hates boats bc he gets seasick. not a water fox i guess #so he whines at huey and huey's like idgaf teleportation is not a thing right now and i want to tinker with these strange artifacts #while eavesdropping on the stories of all these stowaways #so kuya harrumphs and just sulks in the cabin until the sailor finds him and #ok well no that's the same story as the second hypothesis. it's just kuya getting embarrassed #and reacting with 12x more violence than he should to being discovered. #is he really so reactive? so baby? is this my vision of him? oh well

[italictext]

I desperately need to befriend a Death Note fan irl who likes Death Note the way I do.. The only DN fans I've met irl are anime only Near haters :'(

#I NEED someone to shake while I rant to them about Death Note pls pls pls #I JUST WANT SOMEONE TO GIGGLE WITH WHILE WE STARE AT DEATH NOTE PANELS PLS PLS PLS #My sister has seen Death Note but she's not really into it + anime only + Near hater </3 #It sucks to remember that the Death Note fandom isn't just my mutuals.. Some people genuinely hate Near :(( #I LOVE the anime the animation is beautiful the soundtrack is beautiful and OOOOO THE COLOR CODING EEEE but #It butchered the 2nd half soo so badly and changed Near's personality and I'm not a fan of the ending :( #THE MANGA ENDING IS SOOO SO GOOD AND BEAUTIFUL #OMGGGG when Light admits to being Kira and gives them his speech and calls himself god of the new world AND EEEE NEAR SAYS “NO YOURE JUST A #MASS MURDERER“ #LIKE EEEE THAT ALWAYS ALWAYS MAKES ME GIGGLE NEAR WAS SOOO SO COOL FOR THAT LIKE HE'S LITERALLY FACE TO FACE WITH KIRA THE GUY WHO KILLED L #And Near REPEATS IT. HE CALLS HIM “JUST A MURDERER” TWICE. #Sorry but the anime made Near so stupid “lol just let him run away it's not like he'll survive” #I love Near and Light's dynamic so much they're so funny. They have the prettiest panels too #Maybe an unpopular opinion but Near vs Light was wayyy more entertaining that L vs Light #And it hurts me to see people say that it should've ended at the 1st half. I know people can have their own opinions or whatever but THEYRE #WRONG!! DN is SOOO much better with the 2nd half + if it ended at L's death that would've sucked. So glad L died midway #I wish I had a friend I could talk about DN to :( I'll just hope one of my friends decide to watch it because idk how to make new friends #Discord servers scare me and while I love my mutuals if any of you tried to message me I think I'd cry out of nervousness lol #Gosh this is long shoukd I even post this