#it does solve everything

[alexiethymia]

With the reveal that Aduo didn’t actually want to be the mother of the nation, looks like we now have a concrete path to a happy ending for Jinshi.

Though I actually really want to see him as the Emperor one day (at least for a time), it would be thematically appropriate if Jinshi takes not after the Emperor, but after Gaoshun and becomes the retainer of the future Emperor.

#knh spoilers #kusuriya no hitorigoto #the apothecary diaries #jinshi #aduo #maomao #looking at gaoshun and taomei #it does solve everything #jinshi would still be able to be close to the seat of power #and do good for the nation #in guiding the future emperor the same way gaoshun guided him #since he’s not power hungry he would have the emperor’s interests (not just as the leader of the nation) but as a family member at heart #and at the same time he wouldn’t be pressured to take in more than one spouse #maomao would be free to explore the nation as she pleases #the history of the owner of the jade plaque with the favored son of a former emperor #abdicating and eventually being given a name #seems to be foreshadowing for what will happen even if Jinshi’s true heritage does get out #I’m sure factions will try to use him as a piece #but in the same vein that maomao decided her own fate herself #it would make sense for Jinshi to achieve what he wants to do regardless of the circumstances of his birth #and it would be sweet if he took after his foster father #win win solution for everyone really #yeah ok I’ll be fine even if jinshi doesn’t become emperor as long as he becomes retainer #maomao would be better leading medical reforms rather than be an empress too #it would also be subversion of the usual chosen one will lead tropes #yeah no how about the secret prince becomes the mentor instead

[regina-del-cielo]

Maybe it's a 'study finds water is wet' type of thought, but

considering it's an action movie whose overall plot is "immortal warriors Fuck Shit Up™️", I think it's significant that in The Old Guard the thing that makes Copley pull red strings through his Murder Conspiracy Board and say "[Merrick] doesn't care what [Andy]'s done with [her immortality]" is the people they save, not the ones they kill

Most of the Conspiracy Board is him circling random newspaper headlines and faces on old photographs to (more or less realistically) follow the immortals' treck through the world and big historical events. Which is, in-canon, not much different than putting portraits from different centuries next to a picture of Keanu Reeves and saying "they look the same, clearly Reeves is an immortal!"

But then there are the connections. A little girl holding Joe's hand in WW1 becoming the youngest (and first) woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize for Medicine (suck it, Kozak). Or the grandchild of a family that Andy saved from [something] helping people escape from the Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia.

They are warriors. They have fought and been in the midst of countless wars, major or minor, throughout history. They must have killed as many people as they saved... and yet.

It's not them taking out a random warlord or dictator or rabidly hateful politician that has tangible repercussions in history. It's the children and families they get out of war zones, save from accidents, protect from natural disasters. People to whom they give a second chance at life, and grow to change the world (or even just their own world), like a mysterious stranger once changed theirs just by holding out a hand or patching a wound.

I don't know I just think it's particularly neat

#my ponderings #the old guard #I know we all love to play the 'if you could go back in time and kill One Person who would it be' game #but I think a movie that makes it EXTREMELY SATISFYING to see the Bad Guys die - #- having 'actually the best and greatest changes happen when people help each other' as its underlying message... #it means something #I also think it connects to Andy feeling like nothing she does changes anything at the start of the movie #for 80% of her life you could Solve A Problem by Taking Out The Guy Causing The Problem #especially in battle! you kill the general and you win. if you win the Problem Is Solved #but then everything becomes More Complex. the Problems™️ are globalized and/or systemic. #and Winning a Battle means just killing people. it doesn't Stop The Problem (nor really end a war) #so it feels useless #and even when they save people... they can’t stay in people's lives for long because immortality #which means they can never know what happens to the people they save #they don't (and can't) have the full picture

[drabbling-away]

"The Remnant is what's keeping Michael alive" "Michael is a zombie because he's still alive but also dead"

wrong

That man is dead. That man's body is dead. That man is not a zombie, that man is a ghost who is stuck possessing his own decaying corpse.

"How does he move with all the damage that must have been done by Ennard?" he's possessing it.

"How does he talk when he probably doesnt have lungs or vocal chords anymore?" he's possessing it.

"How does he [insert thing that you probably wouldn't be able to do as a corpse and that you need a fully intact body for]" HE'S POSSESSING IT.

IT LITERALLY SOLVES ALL OF THOSE PROBLEMS.

How does Springtrap speak? How does Scraptrap move with those rusty ass joints? How does the puppet speak with a childs voice that it is definitely not programmed to have?

GHOST MAN.

#fnaf #michael afton #fnaf michael afton #springtrap #ennard #scraptrap #literally solves all of those problems #so that everything he does as a corpse is plausible #and makes it so i dont have to jump through a million hurdles for suspension of disbelief #i feel like ive discovered a cheat code #and i am loving it #five nights at freddy's

[kagoutiss]

crossposting stuff again but i’m having a Wind Waker emotions attack and did you know that WW ganon actually took the time to wrap tetra in the blanket she was sleeping under before hovering up to the top of the tower with her under his arm like a soccer ball. it’s such a tiny thing but the fact that he thought to do that at all. i cant i cant

hewas really like ‘Get Bundled Idiot!!!’ like he had adoption papers ready to go. he was dead from the moment he decided he’d rather take care of her than kill her

#wind waker #not art #ganondorf #tetra #zelda #game that kills you. game that rips you into individual pieces #game that takes the character everyone brands as inherently evil and inhuman when in reality he would win if he actually just killed her #and he never does even though objectively it should solve all of his problems #still cant even do it after losing everything and Saying that he’ll kill them #puts his sword away in the final fight before hitting her so it isn’t even lethal. game that punches u in the stomach repeatedly for life

[angel-of-sweet-revenge]

Chekov and Sulu have absolutely woken everyone at three am by screaming like they're being murdered because they're watching really really really terrible 3 am horror videos on YouTube. If it's by not their screams then it's by Bones, Kirk, or both of them yelling at the two for waking everyone up.

Kirk's tried switching off the WiFi at night. Sulu and Chekov just use data. He tried to block YouTube on the ship, but that just made everyone inconvenienced and Sulu and Chekov just used more sites. He's even grounded them forbidden them from leaving their quarters the next day but then he'll always need Sulu or Chekov on the Bridge.

At this point Kirk's given up. Everyone just does what they like and he tries to pretend he's semi-in control of his children crew.

#if youre wondering what spock does he never even bothered to do anything because he knew from the start it wouldn't solve this #he just puts earplugs on and ignores everything #tos #star trek the original series #star trek tos #jim kirk #captain kirk #hikaru sulu #pavel chekov

[itsmealaiah]

#fiona gallagher #being a gallagher does NOT solve everything #shameless #shameless smut #shameless us #ian gallagher #mickey milkovich #itsmealaiah

[notetaeker]

Eldest daughter energy is feeling 100% confident you can solve everyone's problems and also feeling like everyone's problems are your responsibility to solve 💀

#in the sense of feeling plagued by problems even tho they aren't yours #but also in the sense of needing to meddle even though it's not your business technically #but you could Fix™️ it! you really think you can #silly you #where does it come from tho im so curious #this. feeling that you can solve everything #is it because you don't have anyone to refer to or to boss you around so in essence all your problems you have solved them successfully #solved them successfully by yourself many times #so you're like my success rate is basically 99% #💭.txt

[faelapis]

i wonder what cartoon discourse would even look like if SU didnt exist. would people want non-violent cartoons pushing for systemic change over the individualist narrative that everything is solved by killing a big bad, or would everyone be in a constant state of perfect ecstasy that no such thing exists?

#steven universe #i mean western cartoons and its discourse is dominated by a very american sense of crime & punishment so i can imagine lol #but you'd think at some point someone might be like hey wait a minute... why is there always a Single Super Evil Guy on top that must be #killed and why does that always solve everything rather than actually dealing with widespread societal ills with systemic solutions #oh well i guess we never have to think about it. can i have 16 more copies of this exact story please? i can eat this shit forever

[queenretcon]

okay so listen I have this thought

after seeing the movie twice in theaters (where I could still have missed something), I don’t think there’s any direct mention that Victoria was the one who took Jenny in after her mom died (when she was 6) and her dad disappeared (when she was 8)

I think the 15 years Victoria mentions probably started from when Ted disappears (putting Jenny around 23?), so there’s a lot of time in Jenny’s life where we don’t know who was taking care of her. I suspect the intention was for it to be Victoria unless the ambiguity was on purpose, and Jenny likely did live with her for a time

but maybe not the whole time? maybe there’s somebody else who Ted would leave his darling daughter with if he was about to try a dangerous stunt? somebody who Victoria would easily be able to win custody from, adding to Jenny & Victoria’s animosity? somebody who would raise a kid who would steal some shit from a high security facility while wearing that rad lavender suit?

#talk tag #‘is everything about booster with you’ kinda #but honestly I’ve just been trying to get a frame to understand Jenny. she’s not like ted and she’s not like Vicky. #I don’t feel like we really got to the heart of her beyond love interest and exposition box. this angle interests me. #I think it also solves ‘why does she know all this she was 8’ bc booster fucking loves talking about ted #and considering a booster show is on the horizon (BLEH) I think it’s not UNlikely #blue beetle spoilers

[tech-obssessed-shark]

Explanation(Mental Issues+Questions) Under cut:

”Man do you think if I was a transformer I’d be a triple changer like Blitzwing?”

“Oh yeah cause those ones are really cool right?”

“heh”

“it-its because theyre just really cool right?”

*Cue flashback* ”Hey guys do you ever feel like you’re multiple people in one body but not in a DID way, like in a way where my personality changes so rapidly it’s like I’m different people. And I remember everything I do but my mind and mood change so suddenly. But like I refer to myself as We sometimes in a plural but not plural way- And sometimes it feel like there are multiple thought processes going on in my head Do you guys ever feel like that?”

“NO????”

#How to tag this #question #mental illness #help #TECHNICALLY #transformers #specifically #tfa blitzwing #like I know he has multiple personalities but is it exactly DID because I know tv logic and whatever #But he does seem to remember everything he does #Solving mental disorders through transformers #For real for real #might delete later #Blitzwing

[dennisboobs]

plain and simple i am not going to be able to remain in this fandom long-term if i have to keep putting disclaimers on every single one of my posts that say i don't condone dennis' bad, bad actions and that i am in fact aware he's got a history of sexual assault and dubious/nonconsent. the entire gang has done heinous shit. why is dennis the only one who needs to be treated like this? if some rando wants to post about how dennis is pookie pie that doesn't automatically mean they're blind to his crimes. every single member of the gang is a piece of shit. that's kind of the point.

draw dennis with cat ears who give a shit

#ada speaks #i'm not vagueing this is a constant thing ive experienced #i still have angry anons sitting in my askbox mad that i didn't explicitly condemn him last time i got into this #i'm really not a fan of the tension in the fandom the last few days #and like. i know its a hot button issue rn. everyone's going back and forth abt mac and dennis' SA #but this fandom genuinely does have an issue SPECIFICALLY MENTIONING things mac does to dennis and uwu-ifying them #when they are explicitly classified as SA in canon (which is an actual present issue i think needs to be addressed) #rather than like. just the mere MENTION of dennis outside of his SA is somehow condoning his actions #im sorry but i really do not feel the need to constantly talk about him assaulting women #everyone knows. everyone sees it. just bc i am dissecting other parts of his character does not mean i forgot he's a horrible person #it just means im trying to understand where he's coming from (which obviously does not change the facts.) #viewing dennis as a person with unresolved trauma stemming from elsewhere doesn't negate the damage he is doing to other people #he's not a real person where humanizing him does tangible damage #so i am going to continue to look into shit. when i talk about the CSA he went through it's not a justification. #but it does explain his actions in a character motivation type way which is what i am interested in #seeing what makes him tick #i think most people who follow me understand this by now. but i also don't think shit we see him do constantly in canon needs bringing up. #it's the subtle stuff that ties everything together and i want to put it all together to solve a puzzle

[imagionationstation]

No Pressure!

@craacked-splatters and a @ellestrade

MY PEOPLES! YOU GETS IT!! YOU ARE GIVING ME FEELS!!!

#Like every single time he refuses food tho?? #And everything he takes to heart because has has to solve EVERYTHING ALWAYS?? #SITTING AROUND THINKING ABOUT EVERYONE HE’S FAILED BECAUSE NO ONE NOTICES ALL HE DOES?!? #teenage mutant ninja turtles 2012 #2012 tmnt #teenage mutant ninja turtles #tmnt donnie 2012 #2012 donnie #donnie 2012 #tmnt 2012 donnie #2012 donatello #tmnt donatello 2012 #donatello 2012 #2012 tmnt donnie #2012 teenage mutant ninja turtles #tmnt april 2012 #tmnt 2012 april #tmnt leo 2012 #leo 2012 #tmnt 2012 leo #tmnt 2012 leonardo #2012 leo #leo tmnt 2012 #donnie tmnt 2012 #donnie hamato #tmnt edit #donnie tmnt #tmnt 2012 #tmnt 2k12 #tmnt fandom

[meggydolaon]

something that bugs me about Frieren is that the adventure of the Hero Party to slay the Demon King famously took 10 years... what about the return trip....?

#sousou no frieren #frieren: beyond journey's end #frieren at the funeral #haven't written anything down but I'm trying to make a mental timeline #girl the math isn;t mathing #yeah sure the way back could be shorter bc Mr. Hero Completionist solved everything but surely travel alone would take some years?? #even if the manga made it look like they had a cart all the way from the north to back #also 10 years can't include the return trip already bc just making it to the goddess monument took 7 #unless they made it to Ende and back in 3 years somehow #(not impossible tbh maybe Himmel decided to speedrun to [REDACTED]) #btw Himmel started the journey at 16!! WILD!!! #so he'd be 26 when he slayed the Demon King and 76 when he died #weird that he's so skrunkly and bald at that age esp since Heiter aged more gracefully #but maybe terminal yearning just does that to you. who knows!! #btw he's still strong as fuck being able to travel far and defeat monsters solo just before he died #I forgor Frieren's timeline I think she was already a couple centuries old when she met Flamme #then Flamme dies some 50 years later. and it takes a few hundred more years before she joins the hero party at which point she's already #around a thousand years old #will I read the manga again to take notes? probably I feel deranged enough #IF I'M MISSING ANY DETAILS FEEL FREE TO SLAP ME WITH IT

[brown-little-robin]

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#Robin speaks #discourse sorry #ok so! something is bothering me about the current Christianity and stories and therapy discussion #I feel that people are treating Eucatastrophe like the only true thing in the world and... sorta discounting the nitty-gritty as reality? #by saying for instance that therapy isn't the right way to solve problems in stories because Eucatastrophe will solve everything in reality #and saying that problems being solved via organic story/narrative is truer than problems being solved professionally #which... I don't Totally disagree with? I mean it makes sense that therapy can be a really cheaty way to resolve situations in fiction lol #but like... people Do go to therapy. if you weave it into the story right as a step a character needs to take it can totally work. #it'd be hard to do but it COULD work. speaking as someone actively doing that btw. #but it really bothers me to say that Eucatastrophe is the only true reality. because like... does that mean that this life is a shadow? #I don't want it to be! I think our pain is real actually—and that NOT everything will be solved at the second coming. #every tear will be wiped—but there will be tears. and there's a tree of healing—but that means there will be wounds. #does this make sense? theologians or people who do theological thinking feel free to weigh in only if you want to :}

[sisaloofafump]

Don't talk to me, I'm thinking about Clark Kent and the inherent tragedy of a weapon who only wants to heal

#an alien god whose greatest wish is to be human #is he over powered? yes. and yet he always falls short #he can only use so much of his powers to be able to heal #and to save #and not to truly harm those he fights #and those who watch #and yet #he believes his powers were created for good #were created to heal #to protect #don't you see how you crush the things you love? set fire to all that you see? #everyone else sees it #Bruce. Luthor. even Diana #''why are you superman?'' ''because no one else can be'' #but that's not exactly true. is it? #because he's not superman #if superman is some ideal benevolent god who can solve the world's problems... than he is not superman no matter how hard he tries to be #if superman is some all powerful destructive ruling god... then he is not superman and does everything not to be #if superman is the latter then he could be super man #but he's not #so why is he superman? #because no one else has the ability to try. and no one else has the ability to refuse #okay up tearing up again I'm gonna go to slee #dc comics #superman #clark kent #my rambles

[armulyn]

Galaxy brained idea that maybe three people will get:

Feanor and Fingolfin with the Noldorin inheritance being identical to that of the Annieran rulers in the Wingfeather Saga, specifically the Throne Warden/High King set-up.

(For non-Wingfeather Saga fans: In Anniera, the crown prince/princess is the SECOND child of the high king/queen, and the eldest child becomes the Throne Warden, whose job is to protect his/her sibling from all harm/guide them in their rule. The Throne Warden is very much honored for their role, but it's made clear from birth that they will never rule.)

(For non-Silmarillion fans: Feanor is the eldest from Finwe's first wife, Miriel, and Fingolfin is his eldest son from his second wife. This is a race of immortals, so remarrying has been unheard-of before this. Feanor hates Fingolfin's guts, and after Finwe dies there's a bit of puzzlement of who actually is the king here?)

#!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #feanor #fingolfin #the wingfeather saga #silmarillion #i can't stop thinking about this #it would change LITERALLY EVERYTHING #how does feanor feel about this???? #c #the only problem this would solve is the inheritance dilemma #AND A HOST OF NEW PROBLEMS ARE CAUSED #of course for this to actually mean anything findis and lalwen would have to be younger than their brothers BUT STILL #another thing is since miriel died it might have just been assumed by everyone that feanor would ALSO be the heir #as an only child #it's only when finwe remarried that that gets dispelled #for Top Drama this would be either in Beleriand for some reason or in a mortal au so the heirship means something #!!!!!!!! #will copy tags to other blog