#outlier fam

[zephyrrhiesfyrian]

i have more art that i forgot to post earlier lmao

tarn is such a stupid little man and i love him

messin around with bugformers: shockwave is an orchid mantis and the tiny spooder in his secondary arms is damus :3

don't fall for it

skids and shockwave (i just like doodlin em bein happy 🥺)

merformers shockwave with his children

and also a merformers fortress maximus >:3

#transformers #transformers idw #transformers mtmte #transformers art #sketches #transformers tarn #transformers damus #transformers senator shockwave #transformers skids #transformers trailbreaker #transformers windcharger #transformers fortress maximus #merformers #bugformers #outlier fam #aaaaaa so many babies #pls i just wanna pick them up and kiss their cute lil faces

[rinokami]

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#youtuber i watch on occasion uploads a 4 hour criticism of rings of power #(i did not watch it) #(i have no intention of watching it) #(sorry fam but I got shit to do) #and the comments are of course filled with the usual litany of fans who are so disappointed it didn't meet their expectations #and I'm over here like #ya'll had expectations? #it's an over-budgeted series from the biggest money grubbers on planet earth #who didn't even bother to get the rights to half the shit #and ya'll had EXPECTATIONS? #idk maybe it's because I'm a fucking Old #who remembers when Tolkien adaptations were Rankin/Bass and Bakshi and that one Interplay SNES game #but ya'll got some weird ass expectations #PJ's LOTR movies were outliers and should not have been counted

[jams-sims]

Hey the music just cut the fuck out fam- the music is gone and you are just left with this.

"What is a human doing here in devildom-"

Suddenly this no longer feels like a safe space! Lets break it down- if Solomon is human why does Diavolo care that he brought another human. If anything he should come to the natural conclusion that. Solomom lied to protect you- but no he singles you out and I would bet he set it up so he could have dinner with you alone. You are the outlier-

But this is so chilling- he has fed you and had pleasent conversation with you for- probably weeks now. An with this single line he basically just tells you i've known the whole time and I could have dealt with you weeks ago.

#obey me nightbringer #obey me game #obey me

[magewolf-the-artist]

Well if it isn't Ashley Parks and Brian Stells!

Yeah sorry about forgetting about them for a while guys, I got really really attached to Susan, Charles, Rosemary, Edd, and Molly (who I will call the 74' gang throughout this post) for a while there. But they're here now!

Just some headshots of the goobers while they were alive. What pretty and youthful faces! Gosh, I hope nothing horrible happens to them that might distort these faces into bloody mashes of flesh and bone

So in the Domestic K-9 AU, Ashley was kind of an outlier among the 74' gang. Not only were they either twice her age or actual children, but they were all used to each other and any interactions at first held an extremely awkward, stilted air to them (partly because Ashley was obviously having an extremely hard time but that's neither here nor there) While she gets along okay with most of the residents (Rosemary and Charles act vaguely parental towards her, Rocket acts vaguely sibling-ish towards her, and she's terrified of Susan and avoids her), there was a pretty sharp disconnect. That is, until Brian came along. Don't get me wrong, it sucks he died, but they gravitated towards each other due to their similar age ranges and senses of humor. So they get along swimmingly during the month or so Brian exists, but then he starts fading, and FAST (I HC that ghost's don't fade as fast if they stay in Wonderland but Brian got locked out by Bon sooooo). Ashley panics at this and desperately tries to convince him to possess something. But upon looking at the pain and suffering of her and the rest of the residents, Brian's like, nah I'm good fam. And then once he fades Ashley falls into a deep depressive state

A fun lil doodle. Have some fun facts: I imagine soon after she possessed Billy she taped over the cassette player because she was super paranoid Bon would put the tape in to mess with her after hearing everyone else’s horror stories about Bon fucking with them. Now granted, Bon is unable to do that because he destroyed that tape afterwards, but it makes her feel safer and generally brings up bad memories. Also, she never got her body removed! Why is this important? Because when the other residents got their bodies removed the constant agony they were in was dulled down into a deep ache. But poor Ashley has to constantly suffering through the pain she was in when she died and thus is extremely twitchy and HATES being touched.

#the walten files #walten files #twf fanart #brian stells #ashley parks #twf fandom #twf billy #twf brian #twf ashley #the walten files fanart #Domestic K-9

[maxemilianverstappen]

George is petty on main and I respect him for it lol. I give him a year and he will become the biggest villain of the grid. Most of Charles stans in twitter wants petty Charles from karting days come back(tbh he was definitely wild as child, pure menace with anger issues, jealousy and hate on his heart it’s not even funny) but he is PR king now so he will tolerate Carlos antics, Carlos family basically liking Charles hate tweets and Spanish media articles like “oh so pretty boy Charles isn’t so talented anymore, huh?”🤷🏽‍♀️

Gonna answer this first.

I have a love-hate relationship with George. I find him amusing in most cases, and he irritates team lh and play padel with Max, so he is getting a pass currently. But the jury is always out for him 🤣.

As I am an outlier about almost all the fandom "perceptions" of how lestappen was/is, so, I think Charles was really the 'actual' hateful one between him and Max. Everyone pretends that they hated each other equally. No, fam... Charles hated Max with the force of a million suns, meanwhile Max was smiling and acting like "There is this extremely fast guy with whom I'm coming together on track frequently, which is irritating but we live. Wish he wasn't such a sour puss about it, tho, because I'd like to be friends."

Max never said a bad word about him or looked at his way funny even after where they both ended up in the wall because of Charles, for example. But Charles was ready for things to go nasty in 2022 simply because he couldn't believe Max has always been a nice guy, actually. Yes, even when they were teens. C'mon, we are talking about a boy who was giving up his toys or favorite things to his sister just so that there wouldn't be a conflict. Just because they'd fight for a wdc, expecting that everyone would turn passive aggressive/subtly hateful is not a good look, but lol, Charles was ready for it. And I am sure, in 2022 after seeing that Max wasn't the guy he thought he was, Charles started to open up and chose to be weird about him in other pent-up ways if you know what I mean.

Charles certainly is capable of being a murder beast, people seem to have forgotten how he used to be in 2019 and 2020, but he is also aware it is not a very good look. So, he is calmer and does his talking behind the closed doors instead of going to the media. Let's see how this will resolve itself or escalate.

When families get into the conflict and be a part of it, I lose some respect, sorry. There is literally no reason to do it unless to stir shit and only NicoR and Nando can do it well, so Sainz Senior should just leave the talking to his son and go do some more rallying or something.

#i answer things

[thyandrawrites]

I love reading your insightful thoughts on topics regarding mha and especially touya you alone bring my hype up

I just wanted to ask, after having read your rei meta (which I agree with wholeheartedly) I can't help but feel kind of a distaste towards some actions towards some members BECAUSE of the narrative framing

Rei calling her son "dabi" in the hospital scene was so distasteful considering she was ready to forgive her husband after everything but it almost narratively seems she holds no such regard towards the son whose demise she took part in regardless of intention

Also in the mental hospital scene where fuyumi was telling that "natsuo is the only one who isn't letting begones be begone" like hello? we are talking about you dead brother who mer his end due to your father's actions?

I don't know I am pretty sure it's because of horikoshi and I shouldn't think like this blaming the characters because he is the writer after all but the way he writes rei and fuyumi sometimes is so distasteful to me that I almost wish touya never returns to that home where he was labeled a black sheep simply for being self aware because of how they used him as a scrapegoat especially in the hospital chapter

Ps i am well aware touya will probably reunite with his family and all will be well but it's the narrative choices that kind of make me dislike them even endeavor who is pathetic is at leadt enjoyable to read in a sense that he stays true to character to an extent. Shouto is on the way of reaching an epiphany about how to reach his brother as family instead of a hero so i still have hope for him and natsuo is still true to character kind of in the hospital chapters but fuyumi and rei got me fighting against everything in me to not dislike them. Even toga and freaking afo calls him touya but his family is stuck with dabi like bffr

Hey! First of all, thank you for reading my stuff! I'm glad it can bring you some positivity in these otherwise trying times as a Touya stan. 

Now, to answer you... I debated how best to approach this reply, because there's a number of ways I could go about this. But you specifically mentioned the framing, so I'm gonna build my argument on that. 

So. How is Horikoshi framing Touya in the eyes of the Todofam? As you said yourself, they’re treating him like the black sheep to Shouto's golden child, and uniting to stop him. 

From what I understand, though, you seem dissatisfied with the execution because you think that while every other fam member acts coherent about either blaming or wanting to rescue Touya, the Todoroki women are outliers because they have instances where they go back on that resolve to save him to blame Touya instead. 

Am I getting this correctly? 

If so, I think there is a problem with that conclusion. It's not just the women who go back and forth, and in fact, I think Rei and Fuyumi are the mildest ones of the bunch. But for reasons that I'm going to dissect later, I also think the fandom… latches on to them as exceptions, and in the process doesn't understand that it's meant to be a family narrative in which all of them are imperfect. 

(putting this under a cut for length)

I think it’s important to remember that all the Todorokis agreed that Touya needs stopping. Not just Rei and Enji, or not even just the two heroes, Shouto and Enji. All of them gathered in that hospital room to discuss family matters, and they reached that conclusion as a collective decision. 

Now, I’m stressing this because the language they used is peculiar. We all noticed that they said that Touya needs stopping, not saving. But when it comes to the Todofam, that word carries a certain weight, and I don’t think it was used randomly here. 

As this person pointed out in this post, Touya was always asked to “stop” whenever his self-awareness or his attempts to be acknowledged disrupted the family dynamics. This is less apparent if you haven’t checked out the revised flashbacks in chapter 302. But the fact that Horikoshi went back to alter the storyboard and narration for the tankobon release means he wanted to draw more attention to something, to make it clearer for the audience. And indeed, the why becomes clear when we see Shouto confront Dabi and echo the same words: “please, stop.”

[source]

The Todorokis haven’t yet reached a place where they can fully sympathize with Touya. In Shouto’s case, it’s because he doesn’t know his brother; he can empathize with Touya’s circumstances, but not with Touya’s reasons. After all, Shouto is a successful creation. He never faced the brunt of the entire family’s blame and disappointment. As a result, he doesn’t understand that this approach is doomed to fail, because it echoes the scoldings Dabi’s used to. 

Whenever someone tried to reason with Touya, it was always framed as if the root of Touya’s unhappiness (and the family’s by extension) was his refusal to quit his ambitions. Basically, they told him that it was his fault, and not his father’s for putting those ambitions in him. Even if it’s Enji who’s guilty of rewriting Touya’s sense of self around an impossible goal, the one who’s held accountable for it is the victim. 

Not only do they all ask Touya to stop over and over (and not his father), but Touya’s also blamed for the fallout of Enji’s abuse. First, he was framed as the reason for Enji to keep making replacements, then for why Enji isolated Shouto from his siblings. It’s always because of him. Because Touya couldn’t quit. 

Even now that the family supposedly knows better, they’re still struggling to move on from that pattern. Just like how back then Touya was always singled out as the disruption, as the element of unrest, Dabi is still pushed into this role. Except now he’s singled out as the disruptive element that exacerbates not only the inner dynamics of the family, but of society as a whole. Once again, his refusal to stop is making things worse for everyone willing to just lay down and take it in silence. Because of it, he’s not regarded with sympathy. Instead, all the flaws he addresses are his responsibility to bear. It doesn’t matter if those issues existed before him. He becomes the suitable scapegoat.  

Now, all of these are things you seem well aware of. But you still singled out Fuyumi and Rei as subjects of your ire, and I don’t think that’s entirely fair. If this was something we could blame just on one character, or just on Rei and Enji as parents, we wouldn’t have heard the same words repeated by multiple family members. We would’ve at least seen someone push back against them. 

Instead, even Shouto is still torn between seeing Touya as a villain and as his older brother. Linkspooky wrote an excellent post on this recently that I encourage you to check out. 

This makes sense for him because Dabi was just a villain to him until a while ago. He has no solid memories of Touya because as a kid he wasn’t allowed to exist in the same room as his siblings. Yet, he has several memories of his brother as an enemy. He fought against him. Dabi kidnapped his classmate. So that mental divide is at least somewhat justified. It’s hard to wrap your head around the fact that your presumed dead brother, who you only saw as a normal kid in your sparse memories, committed atrocities and tried to kill you and your dad (and himself). 

However, I also think this divide works on a societal scale as well. During the present arc, we’ve seen the hero kids struggle to reconcile the idea of the League as victims with the crimes they’ve committed. Those two sides should coexist; one doesn’t exclude the other. Hurting people doesn’t mean someone can’t have hurt you first. The kids seem aware of this, unlike the rest of society. They see the League’s victimhood. The problem is, they still think in terms of which side weighs in more, which one deserves more of their heroic efforts. And because the people they’ve hurt are multiple, while their victimhood only involves a single person, the good of the many always ends up being more important than showing sympathy. 

This is what happens with Uraraka, for example. She remembers Toga’s tears, and wants to help her smile, but because Toga is part of the League and wreaked havoc in several cities with the PLF, killing many innocents… that sympathy becomes conditional. So Uraraka looks at the destroyed landscape to remind herself that there’s also another side of Toga. One less worthy of her concern. One that deserves it, because this suffering she’s experiencing is Toga’s own fault. If Toga wants to live her version of a happy life, she tells her, she also must be ready to live with the consequences. 

This sentiment is the same that Shouto later directs at his brother. You can’t blame dad for the lives you took, he tells Touya, because you did those things, not Endvr. They are your own fault. 

The problem with this approach is that it asks victims to put their shit together on their own, for everyone else’s convenience, without anyone else involved in fixing a broken system. And most importantly, it also asks victims to face the consequences of their actions, while also turning around and not holding abusers accountable for their own. 

The fact that this idea is explored through Toga and Shigaraki as well makes me think it goes beyond the Todofam’s dysfunctionality. But to bring this back to them… 

Do I think it’s distasteful that the framing treats Touya this way? Yes. It hurts to watch on a near constant basis, even when I know there’s likely a reason for it. But at the same time, I dislike on principle when people hold Rei and Fuyumi to a higher standard than the men in the house for displaying character flaws. 

Now, don't get me wrong. I'm not accusing you of purposeful malice or anything like that. You're clearly struggling against your instinctive dislike, and you came here to discuss it, so I presume you're looking for reasons to either reinforce it, or to let go of it. I hope that by the end of this, you will find some more reasons to be kind to them regardless of the quality of the writing. 

What I’ve noticed during my time in this fandom is a certain... expectation, almost...? for women to always perform the role of "perfect victims", with the penance of getting the brunt of the fandom's anger when they don't. 

What does that even mean? 

In short, women in fiction aren't given the same leniency as their male counterparts when it comes to displaying said flaws. While for men having any is typically regarded as a good thing because it gives the character depth, when women do something “wrong,” they get crucified. 

I believe this happens in the bnha fandom as well, particularly amongst Todofam stans. While Shouto, Natsuo and Touya are all allowed to be imperfect, and their rough edges get widely recognized as faucets of trauma, Fuyumi and Rei aren't given the same sympathy. 

As I mentioned above, Shouto gets to be undecided and to direct unkind words to his brother without the same backlash from fans. Natsuo is allowed to put faith in Enji because he shows reluctance to trust his old man. But the women are hated because they take a less belligerent approach to Enji’s atonement. 

I believe that the reason why so many fans struggle to like Fuyumi and Rei is because they misread them. Their lack of outright hostility is widely interpreted as forgiveness, when in fact, it’s not quite written that way. I find that equating their willingness to let Enji try to be a better person with forgiveness is a flattening of their depth as abuse survivors. 

I think much of the blame Rei faces isn’t actually rooted in anything particularly bad she did in canon. Most of the things we can blame her for are also things that Enji did alongside her, and Enji did them with far more cruelty and selfishness. But! I also think that some people have an instinctual dislike of her because she’s written with a lot of stereotypes of submissive femininity in mind, and that understandably makes a lot of folks uncomfortable. 

What I’ve seen is that because Enji is a pos, people have turned to Rei in hopes she could be a better parent, or someone okay-ish enough to make up for the bad, you know? And that’s totally fair. I’ve done the same. But I also think that in the process, people sort of created this idealized version of her that then didn’t live up to her canon characterization. They—perhaps subconsciously—wanted her to be a good victim and a good mom, when she’s meant to be neither. I think she’s more nuanced than that, and that perfect victims don’t really exist anyway. 

But because they expected her to balance out Enji’s bad, they don’t really know what to make of a character who’s now written to parallel him in many ways. While she did not hit her kids, she still hurt them in other ways. While she tried her best to oppose her husband’s will, she still didn’t oppose it in a way that mattered when it came to Touya’s mental well-being in particular. Just like Enji, she was shown to be neglectful and avoidant of her eldest.

This makes her a nuanced character. Just like Touya, she can have done horrible things and still be a victim because the two things can coexist. But expecting her to be just one over the other, ironically, results in the same scapegoating Touya’s being subjected to by the narrative. 

The fact that she’s a victim and that she ended up hurting others as a result of unaddressed and spiraling mental health problems aren’t factors that are battling for dominance. You’re not supposed to look at her and think “the bad she’s done outweighs the good, hence she doesn’t deserve any sympathy.” If you’re not doing that for Touya, why are you doing it for her? 

To address the one complaint you mentioned about her, the fact that she calls her son “Dabi.”

She does that once. 

In fact, if you look at it closely you’ll notice something interesting. She calls him “Dabi” when she’s thinking of him as a villain. When the topic of fighting comes up, and with it, the emotional baggage that “stopping” Touya already has as an ongoing theme. But Rei also calls him “our son” when she’s apologizing to Hawks for the burns, and she calls him “Touya” when she’s confronting Enji. To me, this confirms the idea I talked about above, the mental divide that makes it harder to reconcile the villain with the crying boy they remember. Rei, like Shouto, loves Touya, but her reaction isn’t perfect because she’s an imperfect victim living in a flawed world. 

In the grand scheme of things, the issue with the framing of Touya as a bad sheep does exist, but I don’t blame it on Rei specifically. I think there’s a fundamental difference between her calling her son “Dabi” that one time versus Enji privately thinking of Touya as a mass murderer. 

Putting this out there for those who can’t read japanese. The word (in kanji) Enji uses here reads tairyousatsujinsha. Which means indeed “mass murderer.” We only know that he’s even referring to Touya because the furigana (which typically shows the actual reading of the word in kanji) reads a different word, musuko, “son.” 

So, sure, might be more internally coherent as an asshole who can’t face his actions, but getting angry at Rei for calling Touya “Dabi” seems rather… mean-spirited imho, when it’s not even on the same magnitude of alienation Enji shows for the blood of his blood here. He doesn’t even call him the more generic word for villain. Not his chosen villain moniker, either. He goes straight for the moral upper ground of calling attention to Dabi’s crimes, when he can’t even properly own up to his own.  

Anyway. Moving on, there’s also the topic of Fuyumi. You mentioned that her line “letting bygones stay bygones” was in the hospital chapters, but I couldn’t find it there. Were you by chance referencing this?

because if so, I believe the above panel on the left comes from a fan scanlation. If you compare it to the official Viz translation, her words don't carry quite the same edge. Now, the wording is similar enough that it might be an instance of Viz correcting the release at a later date (it has happened before. Japanese is a tricky language). 

But since you quoted this line, let’s discuss the nuance. 

In the picture on the left, Fuyumi appears less sympathetic towards Natsu. It reads like she's blaming him for being too stubborn to let the past go, while also minimizing the extent of his trauma as something that can be just… brushed off. As something that should stay in the past. 

As opposed to that, the version on the right puts more emphasis on the process of grieving, on Natsuo's mental well-being. "Can't seem to let go" still carries the same implication that closure on Touya’s death is desirable, but her phrasing is soft enough that it comes across like she's sad about Natsuo’s sadness. Like she wishes he'd let himself find some peace, after all this time.

I'm bringing up both these versions because I wanted to compare and contrast them to the original. See, the jp text says this: 

Which translates to: "Only Natsuo can't lower his raised fist." 

Being fair to the eng translation, all these versions more or less say the same thing. She's still singling out Natsuo for reacting differently from the rest of them. Which does indeed seem like she’s blaming him for it.

However, the original wording has a completely different nuance imho. By bringing attention to his raised fist, Fuyumi is commenting on Natsuo using anger as a coping mechanism to deal with his grief. The emphasis then is not so much on whether or not she thinks he should "let go" or "let bygones be bygones," but on the fact that Natsuo is stuck in that defense position. His fists are permanently raised, and he cannot let them lower. He's constantly poised for a fight, and as a result, he always slams headfirst into one. 

I think this confirms my reading of Fuyumi as a mediator, as someone trying her best to de-escalate all the fighting in the house. 

In this post I explained why I think she's stuck into a part herself. As the big sister who stepped into the role of caretaker at a young age, Fuyumi displays all the traits of someone who learned early on to fear explosive tempers, and resorted to acting like the patient one to protect her siblings. She sorta acts like a… fire-retardant blanket, so to say. She attempts to put out fires before they can get bigger by sucking out the air that keeps them alight. She’s shown doing this with Natsuo during dinner, and she’s shown often playing mediator to avoid explosive tempers from bursting. 

I think a lot of people read her as someone pursuing her idea of a perfect family because she remembers a time where things were better and wants that again. The problem with that, imho, is when people call her selfish for it. When they say she’s pressuring her brothers into forgiving Enji like she did. I find that—at least the latter part—a malicious misreading rooted in badly hidden misogyny. Why is she not allowed to want things that are at odds with her brother’s wishes, but her siblings are allowed to want things that are at odds with hers? Why is she perceived as selfish for it, but her brothers are not? And why is the reading of her as forceful in this pursuit so widespread, when she made no attempts to steer Natsuo back in both times he stormed out the room?

It seems to me like the same issue with Rei. Fuyumi needs to be a good victim and a good sister, or be crucified if she dares have flaws and imperfections. But again, just like Rei, she’s a victim as well, and she has trauma too. I think people shouldn’t presume that her feelings for her abuser are clearcut and black and white. 

I know it’s easy to dislike her because she seemingly “forgave” Enji, but so far she’s never stated that. It’s the audience’s inference that she has. The fact that she wants a shot at having a more normal family doesn’t mean she thinks Enji did a 180°. It just means she’s willing to give him a chance to be a better person, which is something that Shouto’s also shown doing. But because Shouto remains hostile while Fuyumi makes an effort to treat Enji like a person, it’s widely assumed she must have no complex feelings for her father, or that she’s okay with moving on. 

I find that an oversimplification. Don’t get me wrong, I know the Todoroki women are much less fleshed out than the men. Rei doesn’t even have a character profile yet. But because of this, I wish the fandom didn’t jump for their throat based on those few sparse lines we do have. Just because Horikoshi hates women doesn’t mean we should all follow in his example 

Let’s all allow ourselves to think these characters can have depth. To experiment and play with ideas when something’s yet unconfirmed, to headcanon and theorize and fill the gaps of missing info like we do for other (male) characters. I promise it’s much more fun than getting angry or upset at all the failings from canon

If that's not your cup of tea... that's fine, but I hope I was at least able to make you consider something you hadn't thought of before

#bnha meta #meta:rei #meta:fuyumi #my post #bnha #bnha spoilers #todoroki rei #todoroki fuyumi #todoroki shouto

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

I just. idk. something about Steph getting along best/closest to Jason and Damian out of everybody... like I have no clue how much canon basis that's actually got but I can't stop thinking about it. yeah, yeah, the Dead Robin's Club, we've all seen it, but also — they're the outcasts. the ones who forged their own paths, the ones who question if they're really wanted at all. they have the most fundamental disagreements with Bruce/Batman, based in numerous unfortunate uncontrollable circumstances. Stephanie Brown is an outlier and shoudl not have been counted. she forced her way in and died on the way out — middle point between Tim and Jason. she isn't part of the family the way anyone else is and her one tie to them (dating Tim) is a thing of the past but she still sticks around with the excuse of the nightlife because if she didn't what would she have to call family. her situation with her mom is complicated but at least she HAS a mom, yknow? and that's a point of connection with Damian, because his relationship with Talia is complicated and complex and fraught as well. so she gets it. she gets Damian and she gets Jason because she understands where he comes from and why he believes the way he does and can just accept it and move on. maybe she believes in capital punishment, too, just a little (maybe it would be easier if her father just died). her place in the family is so fragile and she almost wishes she didn't have one at all, she's so at odds with Bruce so often, the whole thing with Tim is a mess, STEPH HERSELF is a mess. but she has the most connection with Damian and Jason because they feel that way too. they've burned bridges and, to varying degrees, repaired them too. they've all died and come back. the three of them have a unique understanding of each other that the rest of the fam maybe can never quite understand. that's why I can't stop thinking about it.

#like... in n52 canon jason and tim see themselves and each other as outsiders in the family yes. I'm obsessed with that. #but this??? wildly and poignantly different #idk I'm just stuck on that one AU run (i think they call them elseworlds?) with the zombie apocalypse whatnot #(i know i know I'm Predictable) #bc damian takes up the batman cowl doesn't he? and steph steps in as his robin?? #like I've gotten the impression that they're REALLY close in that au #like... maybe. maybe just maybe... all steph really wants is to be included #so she pushes her way into things before anyone can say no the same way jay burns his bridges before anyone can do it first #FASCINATED by these dynamics. dead robins club my beloved.... #Lu rambles #meta finding tag #batfam #steph brown #damian wayne #jason todd

[cambion-companion]

Dictional siblings: Don't act like they hate eachother, actually get along, aren't constantly fighting

Incest shippers: This must mean they want eachother carnally

It makes it worse because their main argument is "that's what Targaryens do" and "it's an incest show, don't watch if you don't like incest" (all actual quotes from multiple people). Like...nah fam at this rate you're sounding like Cersei and Jaime. Full stop.

Yes Targaryens traditionally kept it in the family...out of duty not desire. Aegon and Helaena certainly aren't thrilled being wed to each other which makes the romanticization of incest all the more problematic to me. The outliers in the Targaryen family tree broke the incestuous chain because they married for love.

#just the fact people want more incest throws me #ask: hawke #i certainly would rather die than be married to my brother #yikes #im done pulling my punches

[fireflowersims]

Going to readings by the local heritage group is such a fun thing. Like you go there and it's mostly elderly ppl with some middle aged ones scattered in between and then you are most definitely the outlier in age,the young pipsqueak.

You listen to a dude talk about dirt barriers and how they relate to medieval agriculture (bonus points for a mention of "potstalcultuur" (a type of animal-poop-based fertilizing method)) for a solid hour and then after the break there's a photographer who put together a nice powerpoint. Bonus points for jokes about him being some immortal being.

After that you go down to the cafe to talk w ppl (free drinks!) and u discover that ur dad's cousin has supplied info about your dad's mom's side of the family and it's all rather exciting since your fam has the unfortunate habit of destroying documentation.

You're back home shortly before midnight, knowing more about dirt barriers than you ever thought you needed to know. But oh my was it fun

#non sims #rl stuff #fire flower speaks #museum work

[zephyrrhiesfyrian]

After possibly a week and a half, it is finally done uwu

Premise for this comic is that during their stint in the past, Tailgate accidentally drags Damus along with them through time, stranding him in the present on the Lost Light.

(also don't mind me, ignoring Teebs's death *whistles innocently*)

they're my precious babbies and i just want them to be happy okay

#transformers #transformers idw #transformers mtmte #transformers art #transformers skids #transformers damus #outlier fam #time travel shenanigans #sibling loves #vaguely angsty but mostly wholesome #if necroworld still happens in this timeline tarn is gonna need a minute to reevaluate lmao

[anachronistic-falsehood]

Thinking about hs^2 and the idea of an Ultimate Self - what are your thoughts on it? How would the Ultimate Self play out for the kids, alpha or beta, that aren't Ultimate yet?

*cracks knuckles* fam this shit is so interesting to me i hope you’re prepared for a bit of a rant

Something that a lot of people (including the writers of post canon themselves) seem to forget is that at one point during HS Proper, Rose was her Ultimate Self! During the first doomed timeline, shortly before we meet Davesprite, Doomed Rose goes to sleep and the Rose in the alpha timeline absorbs the full knowledge and memories of Doomed Rose. it’s so cool. hashtag just seer of light things

Unlike in post canon, she didn’t physically deteriorate because at the time there was only one other Rose, and she merged with her no problem. Theoretically, if someone has very few doomed timeline splinters, they should be physically fine. Time or Heart players? Players in games that went wayward multiple times before succeeding? Not so much.

That means pretty much everyone we know of (except for Caliborn and Calliope since there are so few versions of them) would probably physically die if they became their Ultimate Selves unless they had a robot backup. Either that, or they could become so in tune with themselves as a person like Ult!Dirk claims to be* and somehow avoid the deterioration of their body and mind.

Roxy, for example, is someone I think could figure out how to survive the process. They’re very in touch with themself as a person no matter the timeline. They could probably turn out just fine! John/June would also probably survive. They’re literally the breeze, they’re kind of meant to just go with the flow! If they started becoming their Ultimate Self, they might have a small crisis about it at first, but then they’d probably shrug and be like yeah ok i guess this is just happening now

Other people I could see becoming Ultimate and coming out the other side are Vriska, due to sheer spite and stubbornness, and Terezi, as she’s very in tune with herself, being a Mind player. I feel like the rest of the beta and alpha kids would need some sort of backup to put their soul into in order to preserve their memories. Ultimate Selves are a really interesting concept to me, but tbh I’m still not sure how it would work for all of the players!

*Obviously Dirk is an outlier in terms of Ultimate Selves because he’s got all these fucking splinters, i still think Ult!Dirk is not his ultimate self bc of Brain Ghost Dirk but yk w/e I digress

#homestuck #homestuck 2 #homestuck epilogues #hs^2 #whiskeys word soup

[lochdandloaded]

Aizawa Mai >> Aizawa Shoko >> Aizawa Noboru

my Aizawa fam OCs needed a revamp and here it finally is!!

Shota is the black sheep of the Aizawa fam, who are absolute sunshine people who live up in Hokkaido running their hobby farm. Shota never talks about them, and let his friends and others come to their own conclusions about his home life without bothering to correct them. The news only got out when Shota took Eri and Shinsho to meet their grandparents on one of his annual trips north and he hasn’t known peace since.

More info under the cut:

Mai Aizawa, lovingly known as Maizawa to everyone she befriends, is just as snarky, dry and sarcastic as her baby brother, but is a total extrovert who lives to liven up the party. Her quirk, Tactile Float, is a weak telekinesis that only effects things she’s touched in the last 30 seconds; she tried throughout childhood to train her power into something stronger, but it never developed much. She’s the family kid that went to college and university for an Economics degree, and nowadays is running the business side of her parents’ farm. The best way to describe her and Shota’s relationship is: Alexis and David from Schitt’s Creek lmao

Dr. Shoko Aizawa is Mai and Shota’s mother, despite her dead eyes and tired manner, is an upbeat and hopeful woman who never hesitates to show love and compassion to those around her. However, she is the iron spine of the Aizawa family and will absolutely cut a bitch who threatens her livestock and/or children. Shoko is also an accomplished Quirk counsellor, specialist and therapist who deals in children and teens with unique and 'dangerous' quirks; this work sometimes takes her all over Japan to lend her expertise to outlier cases, but these days she's formally retired on her farm. Her quirk is Null & Void, which can nullify someone else’s quirk through skin contact (and is cancelled through a second touch, ala Pushing Daisies rules). As a child, she was horrendously bullied for ‘stealing’ others’ quirks and others refused to let her touch them for years; when she saw that her son was going through similar treatment after his quirk manifested, she vowed to drown him in love and support so that he’d never feel the way she once did.

Noboru Aizawa is Mai and Shota’s father, the quieter of the pair, but the main agent of chaos. He’s extremely tactile and will use any excuse he can to hug someone, so it’s lucky that his hugs are some of the best out there. He’s a curious sort who loves to learn and teach others, as well as lend a helping hand where he can. Noboru made a small fortune in real estate early in their marriage, allowing his family to grow in comfort and afford various luxuries, though most of the money went towards developing their Hokkaido farm for many years. His quirk, Look Up, can make anything he looks at float a few inches (or more if he concentrates), and his eyes glow when it’s activated. This side effect of his quirk has always made him self-conscious about using it, as it can be incredibly creepy to other people, but raising his kids to be positive about their quirks has boosted his own self-esteem too. Side-note: his farmer’s tan is permanent and awful.

Shoko and Noboru met while studying at college and became fast friends, only dating after a deep and frank discussion about their goals and views for the future. They married after graduation and moved to Musutafu to raise their new family, though they made the move to Hokkaido during Shota’s second year at U.A, when Oboro died. They attempted to convince him to move with them, but he refused and stayed in the city in his own place in order to achieve his goals of becoming a hero. Shoko and Noboru are a prime example of a married couple that have never left the Honeymoon Phase and have no plans to ever do so, despite this disgusting their kids to no end.

#boku no hero academia #my hero academia #fanart #bnha oc #aizawa shouta #bnha #mha #aizawa shota #Shota is the April Ludgate of BNHA you can't change my mind aslkfh

[bigskydreaming]

What I love is how the most Game of Thrones DC family is the Flashes. Oh, this guy who hates Barry is his 40-great-nephew, and his son will marry a Thawne, and that kid will have a clone, and Barry erased another nephew from existence that one time. And yet their optimism is unshakeable.

I literally never thought of it this way before but lol omg you're right the Flash fam IS the most messed up canonically, the Thawnes aren't outliers and absolutely SHOULD be counted.

[8bitscarlet]

List five things that make you happy, then put this in the ask box of the last ten people who reblogged something from you. Spread the positivity ✨💛🌻

ooooooo five things??? hm

talking with the discord family (and family friends- 😂 and the other little outliers 😂 - @kitmoas @stealth-kittyy )

anyone who talks to me knows; Bluey

dogs, and more recently, cats

music

video games

if the discord fam wants to do this, do it 👀 @therunawaykind (grab the kids)

#ask game

[goddessofroyalty]

So, I was stuck in a car all day and I really couldn't help myself a out the Zaun fam au but this was about the Jayvik family.

The two have Naph but I legit get little sister vibes from Amarantine and I really couldn't help myself when thinking genetics and then it hit me. Recessive genes. If she was Jayce and Viks kid, she would look nothing like them but just where would her looks come from? Her grandparents. I think in the flashback Vanders got, like, dusty blonde and Jayces is already toned and who's to say his father wasn't?.

Just having fun cause I got qualities that certainly skipped a few generations and caused mass confusion. So who's to say Jayce and Viks got a genetic mystery box baby?

Just quickly the reference picture for Amaranthine so it's fresh for us all:

I stick with there's also a third option of Jayce lets her dye her hair young. Because he very clearly dyes his hair to cover his greys going by what age he should be in that picture (at least 30 although if Amaranthine is their second born than he's probably nearly 40 by the time she's 10) and I could totally see him letting his daughter as well just because he doesn't see anything wrong with it and she asked.

She's not that much darker than Arcane Jayce's design (league of legends Jayce is just apparently a lot paler). And okay the server I'm on recently discovered Silco actually has Olive undertones to his skin which is in our world is typically found in people who are in the darker range (he just obviously has never seen much sunlight in his life). Plus she's growing up in Piltover so is likely to have her skin tan if it has the capacity to (which look I'm biased to Jayvik's kids going really pale if they don't see sunlight but as soon as they do they're immediately getting three shades darker and only getting tanner the more they are out in the sun).

But yeah we really don't know much about the further back genetic. Hell, for all we know Jayce's mum comes from a family of blondes and she just happened to be an outlier with her darker hair. Genes are confusing and complicated. So I always have said that Amaranthine could be theirs just with some random genetic throwbacks in the mix.

#Zaun Family #Amaranthine Arcane #Jayce Arcane #Viktor Arcane #Ramblings of the Goddess #Q and A of the Goddess #Anon question

[northwest-cryptid]

"from dirt we come from dirt we all will return" = they/them's obsession with death

I don't know fam, I've literally never thought about that. I like death as an aesthetic but I also have crippling existentialism so I guess I might be an outlier as a they/them.

I think it's just a cool aesthetic, I don't think it's really any deeper than that on my end at least. However if I had to assign meaning to it I think it's closer to the idea that Death is genderless, doesn't care what you are, comes for all of us all that jazz.

Never the less I kinda get what you mean.