#stop blaming my boy

[my-drama-heart2406]

Warning: A long Rant

Okay, so I've spent the whole span of AoS season 2 seeing people criticize Jang Uk for not recognising Naksu.

And I can't take it anymore.

Yes it is a bit of a lazy writing on the writers part. But this is not wrong in any way. See the biggest mistake they did was show us Jang Uk 3 yrs later, but there's just one flashback scene. Only one. We don't see him building into a dark character. That was definitely lazy writing.

But have you gone through a dark patch in your life? It takes so much away from you. It makes your mind foggy. It hampers with your thinking. You behave weirdly. So much so that people around you tell you're not you anymore. Which just adds on to the misery.

Which is exactly what happened to Jang Uk. He died guys. Protecting the woman he loved. But he came back alive. And he couldn't save her. And then he finds out that in some f**ked up way he's responsible for her death.

The 1st season was very clearly showed how smart Jang Uk was. Witty, edgy, sharp, spontaneous. A genius. He had to be. He had been judged and humiliated all his life, left with no speck of power. His wit was all he had.

He had read, understood and memorized books far over his level.

He had recognised Naksu by looking at the blue marks in her eyes and the way she held the crab leg to his neck.

Remember he copied Heo Yeom's breathing technique even when he knew nothing about energy usage.

He had figured out they were trapped in the ice stone and was already finding solutions even before Mudeok mentioned it. He was also the one who came up with the solution.

When Naksu stabbed him, before the pain the surprise registers. You can actually see the wheels turning in his head. Which is why he pulls her in. He knows she didn't do it. Even to the very end he was the smartest. Jin Mu managed to fool the entire kingdom, but not him.

So what changed?

Do you remember that flashback scene. It was sometime after he'd come back to life. And in that short span of time he'd completely figured out that she was not responsible for those crimes and who were. Till that moment Jang Uk was still sharp. But Park Jin telling him he's responsible for her death is the point of no return. You see in his eyes the moment he breaks apart (Lee Jae Wook deserves all the awards for this). For the first time in his life there is something, that with all his intelligence, he can't wrap his head around. That not only could he not save the love of his life, but he was responsible for her death.

After that Jang Uk changes. He doesn't see and notice things like before, because he's not like before. He's not bright and witty anymore. He considers himself dead, which is why he says he's not going to do anything. He wants to die. Do you think he's seeing things straight when he's suicidal?

We do see some semblance of the old Jang Uk when he's with his close ones. When he meets Yul and Dangu. When he's with Park Jin or Kim Doju. When Yul is sad he understands. He is genuinely happy Jin Bu-Yeon lights up the lamp.

When Park Jin asks Jang Uk who he would save between him and Kim Doju, he says Kim Doju. Which was a funny scene. But this not what season 1 Jang Uk would have said. Remember Jang Uk sacrificed his own powers to save everybody trapped in the ice stone. And when Park Jin says that he should save both, you see realisation hit his eyes. He was not given a scenario where he could only save one. He can save both, but this didn't occur to him. Season 1 Jang Uk would have answered that he would try to save both.

He saves Jin Bu-Yeon only because she can kill him. But you see he does recognise her. He looks deep into her eyes. Searching... But he doesn't find what he's looking for. Her actions confuse him. But at that point he's to scared to be hopeful. Because it's too good to be true. Which is why he outright says to Jin Bu-Yeon that she could be a replacement for Naksu since she reminded him so much of her. But she retaliates. Everytime. She repeatedly tells him she's not that woman. That she is herself. That he should see her for who she is. Which is how he is finally able to mourn and heal. He's finally able to be happy again.

Also him finding out who she was would have made him happy and relieved that she was alive. But it wouldn't have brought him out his guilt or his darkness. He would still be haunted by events of his past. He wouldn't have been able to mourn or heal.

And you see Jang Uk come back. He's accepted the fact that sometimes his wife might remember things from his past because she has the blue jade egg. He knows that she reminds him of his lover, but that's okay, he can love again. He's made peace with his past. And just when he is happy, she leaves, again. But this time he's not confused. He tells her that he doesn't care about her past. Or that he fell for her over some confusion. He also knows that she does like him, but also is only lying to him. But he doesn't pry. He only says that he'll wait for her.

Yes, I see the problem with him finding out about her so late. Or prolonging the amnesia plot. Because there's only 2 episodes left. And there's your problem. Only 10 episodes. If season 2 was also 20 episodes that wouldn't be a problem. Moving at this pace is not actually wrong. But leaving only 2 episodes to solve the rest of the problems is.

If you've read this far, you do see my point. Don't you?

P.S. I knew they weren't going to let them find out before they fell in love again. I knew that they were going to find out just when they were happy again. Because for some reason Hong Sisters don't like happy couples.

#alchemy of souls #stop blaming my boy #he deserves all the happiness in the world #alchemy of souls season 2 #alchemy of souls: light and shadow #alchemy of souls light and shadow #jang uk #lee jae wook #naksu #go yoon jung #jang uk x naksu

[crookedkingdom]

here's the thing i supported their patreon (at their lowest tier but still) because i genuinely liked them and wanted them to succeed and i felt like i was contributing to that even if it was in a very small way. but i did that voluntarily and because i could afford it and it helped them make content that was free for people who couldn't afford it. forcing people to pay for your previously free content- which is currently just one 30ish minute video a week- feels greedy and dismissive of the goodwill and love they've built up within their fanbase

#watcher #the way this all couldve been solved with like one simple poll #like yea i probably could support their streamer since i canceled my patreon #but its the principle of the thing and this was a bad move on nearly all fronts #and speaks volumes to the companys leadership (including ryan and shane) and values #also for the love of god please stop solely blaming steven lim #yes hes the ceo but ryan and shane are cofounders and would still have a say in major decisions like this #and theyre big boys who can take responsibility for the things they support even reluctantly #text

[wingtoots]

I’d like to thank @llamagoddessofficial and @aka-indulgence for filling my maladaptive daydreams

Had to sketch my latest obsession- Horror Sans from aka-indulgence fic “Stay” and hmf!Sans by both mentioned above <3

#I blame y’all writers for my obsessions #I seriously cannot stop help me #how do I function as a normal society member #Horror still best boy #hmf sans #horrortale sans #my art

[glass-noodle]

I must know what they do to Connor to make him depressed afterwards :(

You will pay for making me cry so much everytime I reread your comics

The answer is probably what DIDN’T they do 😅 Connor’s the first known merman in captivity and Kamski and Co. aren’t held back by scientific or medical ethics. You can fill in the blanks :’)

I will say that Kamski’s favourite experiments are those involving Connor’s rapid healing abilities. He’s had more than a few incisions/excisions, some of which have been less…anesthetized. Just to measure stress response and its relation to healing rate, of course.

He hides his spiraling as best he can, but he’s been cracked open and violated so many times, in so many ways, that on his bad days he often feels like nothing more than an empty shell. That he has nothing left to offer; to himself, to his family, to Hank.

He hates Kamski, but he did this to himself, after all. If only he had been faster, stronger…more resilient.

#I’m so sorry this boy is so broken #he will heal with time. promise #maybe not fully but back to having some semblance of peace and normalcy and agency #maybe even stop blaming himself one day #lab merman au #Connor #Kamski #tw torture #tw abuse #tw trauma #thank you for telling me this it’s the highest compliment an artist can receive 😚💕 #all my love and sorry for making it so angsty lol #*elmo on fire gif* #noodle talk

[boardboxes]

the violence in my soul awakening when Miguel had the nerve to call Miles a mistake

#GET UR HANDS OFF MY SON #HE IS A LITTLE BOY STOP BLAMING HIM #i stg i will PERSONALLY avenge miles for the things Miguel said to him #miguel o’hara #miles molares #across the spiderverse

[spiderwarden]

while i'm on my bullshit, I want to extend a special 'fuck you' to whoever it was on the Larian team that made the companions nicer and propped one up over the others. Give me Bitch!Shadowheart back, I want Sassy!OG!Wyll, where is MEANER Lae'zel, put Astarion back in the pod I don't like his 'knife to the throat' introduction, Give Minthara's extra scenes and snipped dialogue back - remember she had TWO sex scenes. WHY are we treating the ORIGINAL script like its some sort of taboo thing that needs to be repulsed.

#[ 🕷️ ] —— out of character #[ I swear to God if I see one more person say 'oh this was cut cause it was an old line' Im going to tell them to fuck off ] #[ since when are ORIGINAL lines bad? I WANT the original shit ] #[ la*rian stop doing major updates where you're revamping a whole game that wasn't even complete when you released it challenge ] #[ stop babying ONE companion over the other- no offense my as*tarion fan mutuals but goddamn ] #[ I just learned the other day his origin has so much extra shit in it and now I blame this guy for why ] #[ all of the other companion and shite are neglected and glitched to hell or lacking ] #[ ASTA*rion rpers save me I'm this close to hating your boy outside of RP because of general fandom and l*rian favoritism ] #[ and BECAUSE I like you my as*tar*ion peeps I will make a special tag for YOU when I btich about him because o Boy am I gonna start soon ] #[ thing is you have to ask me to do it ]

[justafriendofxanders]

sorry for the meme format that's apparently nearing a DECADE old but i unironically feel a shiver down my spine any time someone mentions buffy being rebooted

#i can SEE the fucking netflix machine stamping it into the LA winx club/wednesday mold and it makes me want to tear apart #a chain link fence with my teeth #i've watched too much bad tv recently and i don't know who to blame but it fucking sucks out here man #can we stop writing tv like it's a bad novel and/or a collection of Funny Tweets xd #there's no fucking SUBSTANCE these days it's just one nonsensical twitter draft after another #if there's a tiktok plot i will kms in front of the writer's room and forever change the trajectory of their bond. for better or worse idc #also if they cast an actor younger than me to play spike i'll- i'll- i'll oh boy you don't even KNOW how worked up i can get about #this imaginary scenario i just made up in my head #buffyposting #btvs #*specifying 'gen z' here because if the main thrust of your reboot pitch is that the show is the same but less universal i will eat you ali

[bunabi]

I really hope Tate’s arrest is one small step towards destroying the super depressing ‘pickup artist’ community that’s been developing over the past five years

#iont blame them tho cause if I was raised to think women are beneath me yet also gatekeeping my self-worth Id be insane too #idk how to say this but the idea you have to 'get' another human being by any means necessary to prove your own value is so depressing #we need to do better for boys cause this aint it #i want to hold their hand like its okay dude lets start a gunpla hobby together #stop focusing on relationships watch mobile suit gundam then model yourself after Char Aznable its the only way

[theflyingfeeling]

” #they all look submissive but some of them look submissiver than the others 😌 ”

Wanna elaborate who do you think looks the most submissive? 👀

I mean

look at this absolute dirty napkin of a man <3 he's just waiting for you to boss him around

although ngl I was as surprised as the rest of you to notice how good Tommi looks on his knees 😳

he looks like a man full of regret about his life decisions and is ready for the inevitable punishment 😔

Joonas, on the other hand, looks like if they made a limited edition Dance Moves Barbie™ but instead of dancing, all the kids make him do this:

Niko just looks like a rejected character from a Magic Mike sequel

...and then we have these fuckers who are probably just experiencing a normal Tuesday

#tommi be like #''oh was i a bad boy? 🥺 do you need to punish me now? 🥺 okay *siiiiigh* 😔'' #(he was the best boy actually but you loooooove seeing him on his knees don't you) #whereas joel's more like #''was i a bad boy? 🥺'' no honey i was told you were the worst <3 #i had a dance moves barbie btw 🥰 (still do lol i didn't just throw away my barbies when i stopped playing with them they're my FRIENDS) #sorry if the pictures fuck up anyone's dashboard. blame the hellsite not the blogger #answered asks #anon asks

[cptsd-skywalker]

@ those people who consider Anakin to be just as bad or worse than Palpatine, are you ok? Like is everything alright up there? Got to be one of the most out there takes I’ve ever heard.

#Palpatine blew up whole planets and murdered billions #Anakin is cannonicly his victim that he groomed since Anakin was 9 years old #Anakin was a wondeful lightside jedi until the abuse and grooming took over and he was forced to make a choice #meanwhile Palpatine was plotting the downfall of the whole galaxy #Anakin was born into slavery with nothing and just wanted love understanding and family #while Palpatine wanted absolute power and delighted in destroying Anakin from the inside out #Anakin is a trauma victim with CPTSD and arguably BPD #palpatine is an abuser #anakin skywalker #star wars #anakin star wars #anakin and obi wan #anakin needs therapy #anakin #stop this victim blaming horseshit #Anakin never was and never will be the same as Palpatine #not to mention he yeeted Palpatine off the Death Star #my boy was a hero in the end he chose the light #while Palpatine doesn’t have a pinprick of goodness #George Lucas compares him to the devil for a reason

[poisonhemloc]

don’t mind me, being cringe on main (there are some dlc spoilers here)

...this is. an outer wilds taco truck au

why? Brain is Bad

It’s Outer Wilds Tacos and Outer Wilds Mechanics- despite the names on paper they’re unrelated businesses. Slate owns/is the primary mechanic for the Mechanics. They’re usually pretty busy, but they do all the work on the taco trucks. Esker is their secondary mechanic (when that gets too busy) or the cashier/phones/general ‘I’m here what do you want’ person. They used to help out with the taco trucks, but since the trucks have gotten more people they’re not called on to help as much anymore they’re not lonely sh

Feldspar and Gossan co-founded Outer Wilds Tacos and generally run a truck together. They’ve gotten a lot more popular than they planned, so they’ve expanded a little- they have a few trucks now a days. Gabbro was the first helper- they’re a professor at Local University (...college town) (Physics and philosophy, both) and they’re part time with the trucks for weed money. You cannot call Gabbro to come in on a day off. They are either at their day job or probably stoned.

Chert was next- they work at the local observatory outside of town, and they’re part time for extra cash. Riebeck is a full time archeology student at Local University and full time with the trucks to help pay for that. Hatchling is newest hire, they’re full time while they figure their life out.

Hornfels is a part time astronomy professor, but also is kinda the manager for both Outer Wilds businesses- they do all the payrolls, orders, shifts, booking appointments for everything, all that. Slate Esker and Gossan can (and will) handle that but Hornfels is good with numbers and they’re happy to let them do most of the heavy lifting.

Hal is at Local University and working at a library both; they start frequenting the taco trucks when Hatchling starts working.

Porphy runs ‘Sap,’ a brewery with a huge wine list, and a frequent Outer Wilds Tacos spot; the truck’s there four days out of the week generally, and Gossan’s always there. Both of them think no one has noticed them flirting. Everyone has noticed they’re flirting. No one wants to say anything. Someone put together a ‘this taco goes best with this wine’ menu specifically for Sap days.

(After talking about it with Friend Feef on and off all day) The Nomai run franchised food trucks- I do think their name would just be ‘Greek Food’ but that’s what they sell. It’s really good, though, and they tend to have a bunch of vegetarian options. And really good baklava. One of their more popular items is ‘Eye of the gyro-verse’ which, among the normal ingredients, has whole olives on it. If there’s an even with a bunch of food trucks someone from Outer Wilds will be sent over to the Nomai truck with tacos to trade for a gyro and baklava.

The Owlks (mostly) run hot dog carts with tons of available toppings- Stranger Sausages- that people think is a front for something. They never go under, despite never making a lot of visible sales. They also seem to take ‘vegetarian options’ as a threat, but they do generally have something. Despite the name and overall demeanor, the sausages are high quality.

The Prisoner runs their own buisness- like, a drive in movie theater type thing. It started perking up once Outer Wilds Tacos started working there once a week- they’re doing better than the hot dog carts now.

Finally, Outer Wilds Tacos has a signature dessert taco- waffle cone shaped like a taco shell, chocolate, toasted marshmallows. Optionally ice cream (...Feef is gonna make that, and tell me how it tastes). Getting those is Porphy’s excuse for wandering over every half hour when it’s slow.

#Poisonhemloc’s rambles #outer wilds #i did not proofread this #...this is due to a tumblr post and a fall out boy song and. ya know. happens. #if you see me on the discord. and want to talk. feel free to ping me this is all my brain will focus on rn #extra notes down here- Feldspar and Gossan are still half siblings. With this au Porphy is now Gabbros younger sibling #just for the au you understand. Gossan still lost an eye- Feldspar was in a coma for a while from the same accident (brake issues #not Slates fault but that doesnt stop the blame for a while) #My hatchling starts as a new hire and then becomes Gabbros new roommate/tenant #...also. if theyre hearthians? all good. if they arent. no one is cisgender. i wrote down everything but this is getting too long so

[theokusgallery]

#if you had any hope nick could ever be redeemable here's your sign that that's just not gonna happen

Bold of you to assume we don't want to make him worse

LMAO that's the spirit

#ask #anon #arsenic #me too anon. me too #my unethical boy... #he hasn't killed anyone or anything in the storyline i have planned out which is a fucking miracle #...in all fairness it's just because i want him to have as much plausable deniability as possible #and yknow. murder makes him undeniably a. murderer #anything he does to sunny is something sunny technically agreed to. i want to keep that a theme #i don't know how to say this in a way that isn't horrible but- #i want people to be able to victim blame sunny in a way that sounds so reasonable they don't realize it's victim blaming. #toying with the idea that sunny is not /at all/ a perfect victim. i like it when you can question the morality of his actions #(instead of having it clear-cut that Nick Is Bad And Sunny Is The Poor Unwilling Victim™) #the perfect victim doesn't exist and i'm kind of tired of seeing that type of abusive relationship be so... black-and-white #most of what i've seen is so over the top and neatly separated into good and bad boxes it doesn't feel real. #in the real world no one's perfect. sunny sure as hell isn't. but while that would make him toxic to anyone who isn't Nick- #-it doesn't mean he's not a victim #(also we all know what happens to domestic abuse victims when they have a cluster b pd. the fuckin. victime-blaming festivals i've seen) #tw victim blaming #i talk so much in tags i have to add trigger warnings about them. i should really stop rambling #rant

[always-a-joyful-note]

As I have somehow become entangled in the Ensemble Stars fandom (I hate it here. Don't follow me to these waters, you guys) and am slowly reading the stories after the main one of music (and after watching the anime), I have come to the conclusion that Nito Nazuna is (probably unintentionally) Velveteen Rabbit coded.

If you don't know the story (spoilers for it ahead, you can read the short story here), it's basically about how a stuffed rabbit given to a boy as a Christmas present gets neglected in favour of newer mechanical toys. During his neglect, an older toy tells him a story about how the love of children to their toys can make them real, which the rabbit desperately wants but has little hope for. But by chance, a nanny gives the boy the rabbit to sleep with, cementing it as the boy's favourite toy. Sure, it gets more worn and other rabbits point out how it can't hop, but at least its loved...until the boy contracts scarlet fever and, for disinfecting reasons, the rabbit has to be taken out to be burned. Yeah, messed up...but as it waits for its fate, the stuffed rabbit sheds a tear where a flower with a fairy grows. The fairy proceeds to tell him that the boy's love made him real and takes him to the forest where he's able to finally hop away with the other rabbits.

I know it's a stretch. But a former toy/doll, incredibly loved but not really seen as real and that destroying him even if he's fine with it...then neglected when his "owner" contracts a sickness...then finding a spark of life that frees him from his inability to move...a transformation from loved doll to a real something that learns to love himself. Tell me that isn't Nazuna, and the rabbit imagery even fits. He breaks free from his constraints not to be alone but to be with others of his kind, to move of his own will with others! It's just so...we are all human and our relationships are so complex and someone else's tragedy that also makes you hurt for them can also be the reason you find your own self -

Honestly, I'm not sure if this is actually Velveteen Rabbit coded since I've only seen that story in the anime, but like...if you squint, it fits?

#jaofisjaeiorjwaeriwejr the anime flashback storyline killed me you guys #and just to let you know while i think shu was definitely...something for his views on mika and nazuna #im not blaming him for abandoning or neglecting valkyrie (seriously eichi what?) like i wouldnt blame the boy for getting a fever #one day i will read the rest of reminiscence (already read crossroads with slightly little context and still died) #and then ill be unstoppable #but guys guys guyssss #nazuna nito being a doll and finding his humanity with the other ra*bits is soooooooo #and ra*bits isnt even my favourite group #anyway dont get into enstars. especially when you dont have time like me #also if you think this is the end of me comparing enstars to literature you thought wrong #i will type more of these comparisons up in future days. this is a threat #enstars #ensemble stars #stuff i say #fandom spamdom #anyway note stop getting into media with questionable ethics writing and views on social and philosophical topics challenge... #seriously the morals of this game are messed up no matter what you believe in or who you are #it is amazing i want to kill it with fire but it compels me #please help #none of the characters in enstars are normal #the one good thing about enstars is that its good to take slow with...since its a game and something you read #unlike my poor neglected bsd and link click. im so sorry guys #but the other flipside is that THERES TOO MUCH LORE AND THE MORE I LEARN THE MORE IM LOSING MY MIND #what is WRONG WITH THIS STORY?

[karamell-sweetz]

kissing practice with my favourite gay theatre kids

#project sekai #karamell doodles #rui kamishiro #tsukasa tenma #ruikasa #when in doubt. rui scribble #'NOT AGAIN' you scream. 'KARAMELL STOP DRAWING RUIKASA' you cry. #sorry. blame my fingers and demotivation #i like the one in the bottom right. the rest of them idk #boy on boy lip on lip action whoaaaoh

[raemeh]

You guys are lucky I like lark cause if I didn’t I’d actively be bringing him up anytime someone hated on sparrow

#It’s honestly baffling to me people bring up what sparrow has done wrong but no one has brought up lark #Like love my boy #but if you put them next to one another all the stuff sparrow has done is more internal while lark’s done more external #Like Sparrow blames himself for bringing Lark to Henry and it doesn’t help the fact that Lark seems to blame the two of them aloud #Kinda reminds me when I blamed my sister for my hand being hurt cause it was her idea that caused it and she blamed herself as well #When my dad should’ve not been drunk and kept a better eye on the 6 year olds running around the house #But yea thing is Willy should’ve never suggested it and Sparrow hate should stop. #End of story #dndads

[dangoulains-devotion]

thinking just a bit too hard about how the added depth given to tifa and aerith's friendship only increases the weight threatening to crush tifa after the forgotten capital, she already had so much to carry on her weary shoulders, she's going to have to carry even more when mideel happens, and it doesn't even stop after meteorfall, ohg od oh i love her so much i

#(sobbing and crying and snotting everywhere) AERITH GAVE HER SOMEONE TO CONFIDE IN ON SUCH A TUMULTUOUS JOURNEY #SOMEONE SHE COULD BE AS CLOSE TO FULLY RELAXED AS POSSIBLE #SOMEONE TO GOSSIP WITH OR SHARE HER CONCERNS OR JUST. BE A NORMAL GIRL WITH #YUFFIE'S THERE BUT SHE'S JUST A KID AND TIFA WOULD NEVER WANT TO HARM THE AIR OF CAREFREE CHILDISHNESS SHE MANAGES TO MAINTAIN EVEN IF #ITS BECAUSE YUFFIE IS HIDING THINGS THAT ARE CRUSHING HER #but poor tifa . gentle tifa. is now left to regret. to blame herself. #she has barret who acts like a father figure to her sure - but despite how much she cares about him and values her frienship with him #he's not aerith. he's not someone she can just gossip about first loves with. not someone she can fully Relate to. if you get what i mean #she is left to trace back the thread of how poor aerith got caught in this mess #she was the one to ask aerith to save marlene. but how did they get there? aerith refused to let cloud be a bystander in wall market #how did that happen? she made a risky choice that put her in a position where their paths crossed. why? because cloud was briefly lost #during the bombing mission. why did the bombing mission happen? she couldn't stop it. ETC ETC #NONE OF IT WAS HER FAULT... BUT SHE NEVER WANTED TO DRAG INNOCENT PEOPLE INTO THIS AT ANY SINGLE POINT #AND NOW SOMEONE WHO QUICKLY BECAME A CLOSE FRIEND IS GONE oh lord my heart #all of this added onto the things like how alone she was in nibelheim... it was just her and her dad for some years after the boys all left #and then the Incident happens and she loses that last person she had... and to an extent another she didn't even know was right there(cloud #god i could talk about her and how she has suffered more than jesus for ages (happy easter. lmao) #FF7 Rebirth spoilers #just in case?? for anyone who's only playing the remakes i guess. since this was basically already there the remakes just elaborate on it #i think about 'we found you!' 'i guess you did!' SO OFTEN #these two girls mean the world to me and i will not let you reduce them to love interest rivals #when tifa ran over to aerith's body i think everyone in the world heard my heart shattering into dust #these thoughts are a bit disjointed and don't articulate well what i mean but god. god. i am thinking about her today