#seems like a ploy

[trixybobbitt]

#lgbtq #queer #meme #felix argyle #lgbtqa #trans #transgender #that's a ruse #it's an ambush #seems like a ploy #a snare

[worstloki]

Why don't we talk about the fact that Thor lets Loki hit him so often. If we don't take Thor 1 into consideration, In tdw too that deceiving Malekeith plan they made had so much of Loki hitting Thor on the face and what not. Would like to know your thots

Thor's into that

#those are my thots #but honestly I feel like both the brothers Get that when the other is angry he WILL lash out and they kinda #consider it their responsibility to Manage it #so like if Loki's out of it and Thor thinks it'll help to get beat up i think Thor would let it happen #and vice versa too if Thor was ever out to do anything outlandish Loki would rather take blame or get yelled at etc. #I feel like neither brother wants to hurt the other but Loki puts more effort into making it seem like he wants to kill Thor #because he wants Thor to react the same way and do it #he wants to coax Thor into an actual fight which he does not think he could win #neither of themselves value their wellbeing enough to think it's not worth it to take out frustration on the other #and Thor's vast misunderstanding that Something Minor And Fixable With A Few Words Is Wrong with Loki in Thor 1 and Avengers 1 #does not help #in TDW I feel like the plan Thor came up with was to convince Malekith that Loki was against them #and Thor expected a light beating and illusionwork to make it look that way #while Loki was there like oh no we're going to be CONVINCING #and then proceeded to kick Thor in the face #Thor of course was not able to object to that turn of events and Loki was happy the ploy worked #and he got to throw Thor around a little #consensually

[bebryzy]

i need this fandom to hyperanalyze the gun shot wounds again like they did when ch 109 came out because i need coping

#bsd #bsd spoilers #bungou stray dogs #bsd season 5 #please like its even less wounds than ch 109 showed #and yea chuuya shot extra but no extra blood or anything was shown so likely just for the ploy right??? #like come on even showing the fukuzawa atsushi and dazai all at the end is just paralleling the hopeless situation they seem to be in right #but they wouldnt kill atsushi hes the protag so like #would that imply they are all gonna be okay somehow??? #id hope so but even i know this is absolutely a stretch #mypost

[the-valiant-valkyrie]

Also completely unrelated to my previous Lucy post but I think it's very interesting to note that Lucy is afraid of Charlie? Not just for Woodie's safety, either, but seemingly for her own?

It doesn't even have to be night for her to say this quote. Survivors are never in any meaningful danger from Charlie in the light of day- pretty much cementing the fact that she's concerned for herself rather than Woodie, here.

Does she think that Charlie is going to do something to her? It isn't as though she can be broken... Specifically, this is a quote exclusive to Don't Starve Together, implying that Queen Charlie has seemingly taken a newfound fascination with Lucy that the standard Grue didn't.

Much to think about.

#dst #dontstarvetogether #lucy the axe #and. what the heck #dst charlie #granted lucy COULD just be. having a panic attack and having sensory hallucinations of. smelling roses. #but we can't really know that for sure. #lucy doesn't really have a penchant for lying so it doesn't seem like a ploy just to get woodie to come back either #i mean. we know lucy's got SOME sort of connection w maxwell #maybe charlie. Doesn't Like That

[everythingsinred]

controversial opinion of the year is that i dont think barbie was that great bc its message was all over the place and also they didnt realize they had made kens the women in their story so it just seemed bizarrely misogynistic to me

#little anya things #me mid-movie: ahh i see so the kens are women in this lil scenario #the movie: ACTUALLY no we have no idea what we're doing #before u come at me. 1. 'women view each other as competitors not for jobs or accomplishments #but for the attention of men' #2. the general vibe of condescension towards ken's efforts on beach echoing specific condescension of men towards women's interests #that 'oh u pathetic thing u' vibe was so strong #3. ken being shocked that a woman respected him enough to ask him for the time. an event that HAS NEVER happened to him before #he is so touched by the feeling of respect... 4. nobody knows where the kens even live. #miss representation quote abt how 50% of the population is disinterested in the other half. #5. barbie feels instantly objectified in the real world whereas ken instantly feels respected in a way hed never been #6. they dont even have genitals so ken arent actually men and barbies arent actually women bc thats not how things work in their world #listen the first half of that movie i was like. so kens are women here. #then theres the typical revenge narrative where they start the 'patriarchy' that wasnt rly all that creative but fine #but then they got all confusing and barbies are women and kens are just men who have been rightfully oppressed all along?? even tho #theyve been women-coded this whole time. okay #7. kens go back to having no government representation or right to vote and this is sposed to be funny. i guess? #im not mad at the movie for being misandrist bc it wasnt. it was just trying too hard to do too many things #that it ended up just seeming misogynistic to me #not to mention it was doing the bare minimum and is just step one in a huge capitalist ploy to start making a bunch of toy-related movies #im genuinely shocked i havent seen any criticism abt it on tumblr when its such a sloppy film throwing out a confused message #in order to make money and sell dolls. what exactly am i supposed to take away from this.... it just seems so bizarrely hypocritical #for mattel to make a movie where they feature as side-antagonists who essentially learn nothing... just for mattel irl to make more money #off of everything they mentioned in the movie. like. what changed. #also america ferrera's character existed just to give that speech and otherwise she and her daughter were not relevant to the plot at all #it was funny and aesthetic and all but the more i think abt it the more im not all that impressed. idk. am i missing smth #i dont think so. i disagree w most ppl's analysis praising it. idk idk

[transrevolutions]

corporate feminism the movie vs. war crimes the movie. fight?

#I don't get the hype tbh #seems like a marketing ploy #yknow #pigeon.txt

[malewifeph1lza]

thinking abt. him <- my qsmp oc and his little egg

#his egg (solace) can’t fight. he barely speaks to people. he’s got NOTHIN going on upstairs #and he has. a little chicken hat :] #uses more body language than anything which is an impressive feat on its own #he likes birds and farming. likes big clothes. he bites #and king (the oc not me) is just so. crazed bird man with trauma that made him so afraid of the skies he burrows underground instead #he is . everything to me #debating if I wanna have him had been there during ender kings reign and that’s why he left the end before it was flooded #he named himself ‘king’ after the guy as a sort of ploy to seem intimidating. this did #not work #so now he’s stuck with the name #colt posts #im so stoned I’m rotating him so fast I hope people like the him <3

[cavsracing]

hockey twitter finding out about Kate being Tyler's stalker, making her family move from Boston to Dallas, leaking his home address and STILL managing to marry him, is the funniest thing of today and also the f1 girlies have a long way to go before someone reaches this type of slay💅

#i love when people find out about the tyler and kate thing #it seems so insane BUT no it happened #i respect her grind ngl #tyler does seem like someone stupid enough to fall for this ploy #hockey

[i-see-you-as-a-sunflower]

Everyone wants to hate vee but I’m sorry I’m not he isn’t as bad as everyone is making him out to be many of y’all are going into this from reading the book and from watching en of love but I believe that this vee is different yes he has made some mistakes but not for a second do I not think he doesn’t love mark, the mark he didn’t leave even when he kept pushing him away during the whole bar thing, the mark he wanted to show so bad that he can be loved by someone and that he deserve someone to love him back unlike bar, the mark he went crazy over when he thought he was going to unalive himself vee has made mistakes as in not ending things sooner with ploy but I don’t blame him for having a hard time with that because for god sake they were together for 3 years he genuinely loved that girl even after she broke his heart but we can’t sit here and make it seem like vee put a gun to marks head for him to get together with him mark did that willingly he knew what he was getting into he knew there was a chance he could go back to ploy but still decided to stay and he waited till the day vee finally did it, yes vee also shouldn’t had put himself in that situation with Ploy but it still wasn’t what it was and I wished vees friends had let him freaking explained

Vee may be stupid and may do stupid things but he’s not a horrible person and he does love mark even if he feels like he isn’t the best for mark because he can’t give him everything like what nuea could or what that guy ploy cheated on him could but mark knows that and he’s fine with that that’s why I hope they can work on communication and fix what happens but I’m not going to act like vee is horrible like everyone else I like to see things from both characters pov and so I hope it gets fixed in the end

#like mark got into this by himself he knew there was either a chance vee would get back with ploy or not but he still stayed #everyone making it seem like he forced him to date him #like vee loves mark and mark knows that #even if vee is stupid #love mechanics #yinwar #veemark

[shandars-sorrow]

Thoughts on this??

#link is as close as i can get to crediting the original artist #if anyone knows the original artist pls lmk #but yeah any thoughts on the adoring fan VA being touted out in the starfield presentation? #im not a fan personally #but if this was a TRUE easter egg meant as an ode to fans then bethesda wouldnt bring it out in a presentation #they would wait for fans to discover it on their own #just seems like a very transparent marketing ploy imo #tes #elder scrolls #starfield #the elder scrolls #tes oblivion #dont get me wrong though i love that craig sechler is getting gigs and seems consistently employed by bethesda bc hes fantastic

[problemswithbooks]

Gonna be honest. It doesn't even feel like the manga wants me to think Hawks made a bad choice. Even now. Its just feels like a cliffhanger about the destruction that would have happened back then if Hawks didn't make the hardest choice. And then the heroes would have been utterly crushed.

Oh, yeah, I can totally see this interpretation of those scenes with Hawks and AfO, but I think that shows the poor writing of the story in and of itself. There are stories where the point is that it can have multiple interpretations, but the way bnha is set up that doesn't feel like Hori's intention (and if it is, he's not doing a good job writing it that way).

Part of the reason I saw it as the more Hawks Critical way was because of how other fans were talking about it--clearly a lot of people see it as Hawks past coming back to bite him in the butt. All I saw were people cheering it on and happy that he was getting his punishment for killing Twice, and of course ignoring how poor the writing was for this set up.

Because, yes, your interpretation is more plausible given how Hori wrote past events. Hawks killing Twice didn't do anything but save a a lot of people during the first war. The villains might have still retreated but Twice would have continued to fight for his friends and given the lack of care any of the LoV show for Shigaraki's condition and still blindly follow AfO, it's easy to assume Twice would be 100% fine with taking orders for him. This would have lead to a Sad Man's Parade anyway, and perhaps and even worse one that included cloned nomu and AfO's.

If Hori wanted Hawks to be wrong and this be his comeuppance for his actions there were one of two things he should done to pull this off at least moderately well.

Have Hawks actually straight up murder Twice. For all that people say Hawks killed Twice on orders and acted due to giving into his brainwashing from the HPSC, that's just not true. Hori went out of his way to show that Hawks only killed Twice after he had lost most of his feathers to Dabi and Twice was escaping in order to use his Quirk. Hori even had Twice kill a Hero in order to save Toga, proving his intentions were violent. If he wanted Hawks to be wrong and following orders similar to how Nagant did, all he had to do was have Hawks stab Twice in the back without even a second thought, or trying to talk him down at all.

Show Twice being unsure/ concerned about the PLA's plans and the part they want him to play in it. Something that Hori absolutely refuses to let any of his villains have is doubt or remorse for their actions. If we'd been given a few panels of Hawks and Twice bonding where Jin voices that he has some reservations about the plan. He joined the LoV for the feeling of family and he still feels that, but with the added MLA members he's worried that things are changing. He wants his freinds to be happy but isn't sure if trusting the MLA is a good choice. Plus, he doesn;t trust the doctor and is worried for Shigaraki, who he thinks the doctor might be tricking or hurting in someway. At the end he just fiuguires he's not a smart guy and he should trust his freinds, but it's clear the idea of using his Quirk to possibly level Japan still weighs on him.

Either of these would have helped show Hawks as wrong. The first one has Hawks do something actually morally wrong. Even if Twice his fine with the plan as he is in canon and as seen by Deika he's still willing to level cities for the LoV, it'd still be wrong for Hawks to just stab him in the back without even trying to arrest or talk him down as he does in the manga.

The second has Hawks knowing Twice is having conflicted feelings, giving him something to try and change Twice's mind about using his Quirk, and bring in doubt that Twice would 100% act like he did in Deika City and help the PLF destroy all of Japan and kill innocents lives just because his friends say so. It also could be used to foreshadow AfO's take over of Shigaraki and how the LoV feel about it. It makes Hawks wrong for killing Twice because there's a chance he might not use his Quirk to deadly effect, yet Hawks kills him anyway. It also means that Sad Man's Parade being used against the Heroes is his fault because now Twice/Toga is using it for revenge. There was a chance Jin would have changed his mind, but Hawks betrayal makes sure Jin uses his Quirk for revenge.

Using both together would be even better.

But as it is Hawks wasn't wrong for taking out Twice, and if Hori plays it off as if he was, it's not going to work very well. He made the villains way to remorseless and over the top violent, showcasing multiple times how much Twice was willing to do for his friends. On top of that if Twice's Quirk does turn the tides, it only proves more how right Hawks was to kill him during that first war. Because it's 100% certain that Jin would have used his Quirk had he lived, that Heroes losing major ground to it or people getting killed by it, only shows how the first war would have been a loss had Twice lived.

#ask #thanks for the ask #takami keigo #Hawks #Hori writes really weird #where it's impossible to know what he's trying to write/say #like he clearly wants the Heroes to be wrong on some level #yet refuses to actually make them fuck up that bad or do unquestionably bad things #and the Heroes that do (Endeavor) get a redemption #like it still boggles my mind people read the Hawks fight and still consider it cold blooded murder #and totally seem to disregard the fight after Dabi shows up #like saying he didn't to kill Twice because he had him subdued--as if Dabi didn't have him cornered and Twice was escaping #or disregarding that Hawks inner monologue states that he never intended to kill Twice #so that means the bit when he looked to be stabling Twice in the face was actually just to kill the clone coming off Twice #and should really be angry that Hori used it as a cheep ploy/ cliffhanger to get more readers #something he still does to this day with things like Bakugou's death #bnha 374 #bnha

[maretriarch]

fluttershy kinnies have evil souls

#never trust anyone like on purpose being cutesy or pinkcore whatever the fuck #or even authentically bcs those ppl dont exist it is 100% always a ploy to seem non-threatening

[chocolatespyro]

Uh I still think Cabby is cool. Im just tired i think

#the negative stuff is in the tags btw #wriggling around like a little worm thinking of all the cool things they couldve done with her arc and turn the mirrors around to reflect #the shows issues and the problems with bare-minimum tolerance and the hypocrisy of the rest of the contestants essentially shunning her or #making her feel unwelcome while Bot seems to get everything also on a surface level but there are injustices with them too and how they are #just being used as a silly marketing ploy and a friendly face to go #See? we're progressive! We love our fans! BUY THE PRODUCT #BUY THE PRODUCT BUY THE PRODUCT BUY THE PRODUCT BUY THE PRODUCT BUY THE PRODUCT BUY THE PRODUCT BUY THE PRODUCT BUY THE PR- #But then they take this whole thing and do nothing ignoring all the glaring ethical issues. god man im so sad #Bot n Cabby coulda had a real discussion about how they were treated and had a real close bond. IM SO SADDD #IM SO SAD!!! THEY HAD SOMETHING!!! THEY COULDVE FIXED IT!! #ii negativity #repetition #cant remember if i talked abt this before sorry if i have #i mightve hinted at it at some point in another persons post

[shiba-boyfriend]

genuinely upset about how much people miss the fucking point when discussing the actual reasons furries are targeted as "bad weird sex freaks". don't you ever question why it's a "fringe" culture despite how VAST the fandom is? it's because it is largely, in fact almost ENTIRELY queer, neurodivergent, and comprised of people of color. calling us all zoophiles when it's an all ages fandom where, while there is a large and prominent adult aspect (may i remind you how HUGELY QUEER furries are and how important and intrinsic sex and kink are to the LGBT+ community), the main focus is not on sex by any means, and the focus IS on loving and caring about animals and self expression through a variety of art, literature and music, is literally only doing the right wingers & alt-rights jobs for them. i have never seen a group of people with a larger desire to keep abusers (especially animal abusers. yknow. zoophiles.) OUT of their spaces in my entire life. it should have been obvious from the damn start that the reason people love to rag on furries is not just because we. care about animals and like to be represented by animals in art and costume. is that really what made the most sense to you?

#'they're freaks! they like animals! don't compare them to (x minority group) just to let them feel oppressed' #if you think furries are actually oppressed for being furries and not their other non-furry identities #then your skull is full of crumbling brick. learn to actually think for two seconds like holy christ #people just want to tout their bigotry without looking like actual bigots #that's literally it using furry as their umbrella term for a vast variety of minorities #and to use widespread furry hate as a way to subtly move the marker from furry to more specific and vulnerable identities #because those minority groups famously make up the majority of the furry fandom #they want to be hateful vile assholes and hating on furry at surface level and lying to make it seem like a disgusting group of animal- #and child abusers let's them shift the narrative gradually to 'the lgbt+ community of full of child abusers' for example. #because using 'furry' as the stand-in identity under their attack lets it become acceptable to the everyday person #are you seeing the connection yet??? please for the love of god???? #do you understand why they're literally putting bans on furries in actual right wing legislation that they are CURRENTLY trying to pass???? #because if you don't start realizing then you're literally falling for their ploys.

[lethal-liability]

I enjoy some pop music now and then, I will admit, but I refuse to be fucking earwormed into thinking young gravy makes good music

#my irls (including the one with the most similar taste to me) seem to think he's the second coming of christ because he sampled rick astley #like. ok. im sorry you think that was very obviously anything other than a very desperate ploy to appeal to the chronically online. #he could not sound more bored in all of his music like genuinely what do people see in him #ari screams into the void

[chrisbangs]

i wanna talk about this new man in my life but i also feel like this is me absolutely jinxing it anyway he's very nice to me :)

#i don't necessarily know what that means and i don't like him like that or whatever but #also he's nice to me in the aftermath of everyone finding out i've been sleeping with another man casually #so i cant tell if this is a ploy to get into my pants or if he's just ... nice 🫡 #um... yeah 😕 #he's nice.. #he texts me randomly and asks how i'm doing #asked me how work was #asked me if i feel better #and i am just normal when we talk but he's very nice #famously he is . you know 😕 nice.... #you guys idk #i wanna be in an ever spiralling loop of dramatic love with someone but #i just kinda 😕 don't trust anyone anymore that's the thing #i like him... like as a person he seems nice #he drove me home after i was famously abandoned at a party #and he didn't do anything weird (why is the bar in hell) esp as i was drunk and all that #so 😕 idk #i wanna pretend i'm head over heels bc it'll give me a reason to be excited abt life #i'm not . he's just normal #IM NORMAL... #i need to be sick to my stomach with grief and adoration . but i'm not #idk what's wrong with me 💗 #anyway #idk what goes on... if he's just being nice to get into my pants i'll be relieved . at least it's just Normal then.... that's My Life ... #but who knows.. #anyway......... #dl #li.txt