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celaenaeiln · 9 months

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I always love how heros only kill if there really is no other options. Even then, their deeply disturbed or torn up about it. Killing is easy. But seeing a criminal as a person at the end of the day is much harder. It takes an unfathomable amount of strength to keep this going. It won't always work and it's not easy. But there's a difference between right and easy.

Oh me too!!

Anon you have no idea how much I’ve thought about this over the past five years and come to the same conclusion every time.

There are two reasons why I like that heroes only kill as an extreme necessity.

The first is what you said. It's extremely difficult to be able to control yourself in the face of repulsiveness. Some I do believe are irredeemable but many characters are not worth killing. Because there's a lot that goes into killing. It's not just about moral ethics for me, it's also about how that impacts society. I don't know if you've seen the show "The Boys", but it's about heroes who kill. Originally they kill criminals but at some point their anger and frustration bleeds over and they start killing innocents. The repercussions on society were massive. There was a significant loss of trust and hatred and fear going on. Ordinary people like the main character and the rebel side were dragged into a world and fighting that perpetuated fear and bloodshed until everything became irreversible. It's a terrifying world I would absolutely not want to live in. In the previously posted comic Batman says:

He's not saying this lightly. In a world where killing criminals is done and seen as common place by the people, what's stopping the people from following their hero's actions? Nothing is ever contained on the internet and nothing is ever done in moderation. It's like watching your favorite superhero blast a bad guy's head off on TV and turning around to seeing your mom blast your dad's head off with a gun over an argument about going to the movies. The violence is commonplace, after all. It takes an incredible amount of willpower, far more than anyone gives credit for, to look at someone who hurt you and walk away.

The canon version of this argument and why Bruce should never kill the Joker is proved in the comic, "The Batman Who Laughs." I was terrified for Damian when he encountered that universe.

The second reason I love the no-killing rule- and it's a little more twisted- is because I love self-control.

Not just as a person who tries to practice it in their life but there’s just something so exciting about a character who fights with control.

Having someone run free is super fun to read but having someone who never breaks the line, edge so dangerously close to it, but never kill? Oh the feeling is delicious. You're left pondering-what is it? What will it take? What will cause you to break?

Ironic. I know. But you can't tell me you were never curious about their limits.

Aside from that excitement, I love how the villains are reusable. They may be your worst enemy on a tuesday but on a thursday they're dragging your broken body out of a ditch to go fight the bad guy who got on their nerves.

It's like the idiom- better the devil you know than the devil you don't. Sometimes, no matter how horrible their actions were in the past, they're keeping a larger threat at bay. For example Blockbuster and Heartless. Bane, William Cobb, Lex Luthor, Freeze, Black Manta, and Sinestro in Forever Evil. The Riddler. And when Bruce was dead/lost in time the Joker was straight up like "damn bro I'm so sad I think I'm gonna turn good" which actually sort of saved all of Gotham from that bat cult that nearly killed them. Sort of. He bailed halfway but props to him for the first half.

Also the villains in the comics are terrible people but they're good characters. Like these characters are so well-developed. You'll hate them but you'll never fully hate them because they're funny and mean and deep down, you'll never admit it but they have a small teeny, tiny point.

A couple of my favorite villain scenes:

The Riddler (Batman #699)

Joker (Batman and Robin #22)

Joker

Victor Zsaz in his undies swearing revenge on another villain. Damian and Dick in the photo

Dick bashing up Slade in Damian's body

Damian, Harvey, and Dick

#self-control is much harder than killing #just because you can doesn't mean you should #because you can't control the consequences or yourself #dc villains #dick grayson #the riddler #edward nygma #the joker #damian wayne #robin #harvey dent #two face #victor zsasz #dickbats #bruce wayne #batman #cl anon asks

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hyperfixatedfandomer · 9 months

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Hey guys 🤭 a massive one-shot for a superhero/vigilante au just dropped!

It’s a work made for the superhero AU that I and @fictionramblings have worked on for quite some time. Hope you like it!

Warm-hearted

Summary: The Sullies at a first glance, seem like a normal middle-class family with five kids (two of them adopted), thriving on selling herbal medicine and architectural services, but it’s only half of the truth. In reality, each member of the family possesses supernatural powers, and in line with Eywa’s teachings, they use them to protect citizens of Hometree-city, keeping the great balance and and the people safe.

One of them is not like the others, however, and his name is Spider Socorro. A boy that possesses an ability to manipulate and breathe fire, inherited from his father, who used to be a notorious villain that kept the city in a steel grip until a reformed hero, Ironheart (aka Jake), together with his lover and friends defeated him. Nowadays the boy lives with the Sullies, treated as a bother, yet barely accepted as a son. His sad pining for a parental figure is sadly interrupted though, when a new villain, Ardmore, uses her telekinesis to possess Ironheart, tuning him against his own family.

Neytiri is desperate, and puts a certain doomsday plan into action. She will bring Red Phoenix and his deadly squad back, to fight by their side, and she’ll make a deal with the devil by promising to give what Jake had stolen.

Miles Junior.

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ingoodjesst · 1 year

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this is an off-the-cuff analysis that's disorganized and maybe a bit of projection based on stuff i think about a lot, but to me there's some applicability in aki's arc in chainsaw man part 1 to like, the concept of wanting to take down an entire institution with your own hands all at once. in that, attempting such a feat by yourself is unsustainable and self-annhilating. that's just not how real life works. especially when you're not a superhero, even and especially by the standards of the manga you're in. that's why aki's story is a tragedy.

choosing something destructive over something nourishing.

like. consider the gun devil as a standin for the institutions that drive gun violence or idk, capitalism itself. you could push yourself to the brink railing and fighting it all your life - you can make risky contracts and squander all but two years of your life - but it'll never happen through you alone. it's far more realistic that you need infrastructure, coalitions, and most importantly. sustainability.

and y'know, to his credit, aki DOES understand that he needs help, that he needs people who are stronger, more resilient than him. he understands that he cannot do it literally all by himself; that's part of why he looks out for denji and power and angel and the others. but it is the hubris of constant urgency that is his downfall nonetheless. like. expecting to take down the gun in his lifetime by his very actions? all his life, up until he got cold feet, this was his driving philosophy that he desperately needed to believe. and so he did, to his ultimate detriment.

radical action is often necessary, but breaking apart institutions takes many lives and lifetimes even with direct action and tactics beyond non-violence on the table. because you require the work of building community, connections, resources, infrastructure, etc to (1) organize enough power to rival that of whatever you're tackling; (2) to replace whatever institution(s) you took down; and (3) to create a generative, restorative engine that people can lean on as they go. and sometimes you are just in that ongoing process of building so that when the right convergent conditions finally emerge, victory is possible.

but that's why you cannot wear yourself down and grind yourself down to the bone and expect that to just work. we can dream of systemic change being possible through more than just moderate incrementalism, but it is still unwise to believe that it's literally just you and your work that will make the ultimate difference, that will make the last domino fall. it takes a collective, deliberate, sustainable effort. we as individuals are not insignificant in the makings of change, and sometimes meaningful societal change requires difficult choices and much perseverance. but we cannot expect ultimate sacrifice to result in ultimate success either.

that's why paying attention to what you're doing to your soul and your body and your loved ones matters. that's why it's shortsighted to believe that giving your all to a noble cause is the only way to make something of your life. that's why aki's story is a tragedy.

#my metas #my jessays #csm manga spoilers #csm spoilers #chainsaw man #aki hayakawa #idk if this makes sense or resonates but hggmhdflksjfsf idk simply using media as mediator of Thoughts On Society I Guess #mb i flesh this out even more with actual textual input and citations but i have written So Much already augh gsdflksdjl #so for now it's mostly Vibes aaaaaaaaa hghhagsdkl #gif /

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goddesspharo · 11 months

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top five fic titles you haven't used yet; top five worst adaptations or reboots

ask me my top fives!

top five unused fic titles:

click the pieces into sharp arrangements

what would an angel say? (the devil wants to know)

memories are films about ghosts

searching through thrift store jungles

your stories ring of perjury

top five worst adaptations/reboots(/remakes):

Going with the first few things that pop into my head.

I think most reboots/remakes of horror movies from the 80s are bad and unnecessary. Sometimes it’s because the original isn’t great - Prom Night (1980) is not my jam; Prom Night (2008) is somehow worse! Sometimes it’s because the original is good enough that it doesn’t need a remake, especially one so subpar - Brian De Palma’s Carrie (1976) vs Carrie (2013); Black Christmas (1974) is great so what the hell happened with Black Christmas (2006, 2019)? And sometimes it’s because certain movies really work for that decade and either don’t translate to a modern day setting or there’s nothing that putting it in a modern day setting will add to the story - John Carpenter’s original Halloween (1978) works because it’s so atmospheric and he knew how to light a movie so you could actually SEE what was happening; Rob Zombie’s Halloween (2007) is so terrible in so many ways, but mostly because I don’t need or care about Michael Myers’ tragic backstory; David Gordon Green’s Halloween (2018) reboot/remake trilogy thing said nothing new but annoyed me plenty AND killed off Judy Greer AND I couldn’t see shit so what was the point? Horror remakes: just don’t do them.

Almost every time they take an animated Disney movie and turn it into an uninspired live action and/or photorealistic live action movie, I’m not into it. It’s never as vibrant, it’s never as fun, sometimes they miscast SO badly (sorry Emma Watson) - use your Disney+ subscription to watch 2D animation like the universe intended. The Lion King animated movie is gorgeous; The Lion King photorealistic movie looks like mud.

I’m not saying that the original Gossip Girl on the CW was a work of art (I’m not saying the first season was not a work of art either though), but it wasn’t as boring as the HBOMax reboot. Truly, no one was likable on that show and they made Luke Kirby a creep! No one asked for this!

Long before we had Marvel/superhero fatigue, 20th Century Fox made the first X-men movie with the positively inspired casting choices of Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, and Ian McKellan and I loved it! Even X2 was fun. (X3 went off the rails and was bad.) Ten years later and a solo Wolverine movie in between, they decided to soft reboot the franchise with those First Class movies and you know what? They shouldn’t have. Except for one or two moments here and there, those movies are all pretty awful. I’m not sure how you can mess up the Days of Future Past storyline that badly or cast Oscar Isaac only to make him a member of the blue man group, but they should all be ashamed. I still maintain that the most worthwhile X-Men adaptation in media is the animated series from the 90s.

I don’t know if this qualifies as a soft reboot but when Fox brought The X-Files back in 2016, it was a lesson in “be careful what you wish for because it’s going to suck.” Except I didn’t wish for this because I watched the second movie and it sucked so I was completely fine with never getting more new episodes again. What we got was Scully whispering a lot, some half-assed search for William that I was not invested in (they spent nine seasons denying Mulder and Scully had boned even after she had his damn kid!), and monsters of the week episodes that were so uninspired that I didn’t even watch the second season of the reboot (maybe didn’t finish the first season of the reboot?). And now there’s talk of a Jordan Peele remake of the show to which I say - find something else. The (OG) X-Files worked because it was the perfect place in the perfect time with the perfect people and you’re never going to trap that lightning in a bottle twice so why try?

#ask me things

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greatwyrmgold · 10 months

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Chainsaw Man:Tokyo::Spider-Man:NYC ?

Someone on Twitter said Chainsaw Man is to Tokyo as Spider-Man is to New York. And I can definitely see the comparison, but I think it's complicated by the fact that Chainsaw Man is also kinda Tokyo's Superman. And my reasons for thinking that do not fit in a tweet.

Compare and Contrast

Superman is many things to the DC universe. He's often the first superhero, or at least one of the first. He's the most prominent, and also the strongest. Superman is the superhero, the first character we recognize as such, the root of the superhero genre, and this fact is often reflected in his later adaptations.

Chainsaw Man is also those things! He's not the first devil hunter, any more than Superman was the first crime fighter, but he seems to be the first of his kind. He's not professional, he doesn't accept assignments to hunt down devils; he just fights them when they show up. He's clearly popular, to the point that some of his fans started a Chainsaw Man cult that now has 10,000 followers. And when you look at the list of devils he's defeated, it's hard to imagine he has any rivals short of the Primal Devils.

(Also, I'm pretty sure some characters in part 2 of the manga literally call him a superhero. I can't remember what chapter that's in, but...well, no other devil hunters are called superheroes, not even outliers like Quanxi.)

Of course, Denji is also Spider-Man. Spidey is a kid from Brooklyn who stumbled into great power; after an initial rough patch, he starts using that power to protect people in his community. He takes it seriously in the sense that he works hard to stop people from getting hurt, but not that seriously; he famously chats with and insults his villains. And while he sometimes gets tied up in cosmic-scale events, Spider-Man mostly focuses on villains in his part of the Big Apple.

Denji is also a kid from...one of Tokyo's Wards. He also stumbles into great power, decides to help people after an initial rough patch, and doesn't take his fights very seriously. And he exclusively fights devils threatening Tokyo and its residents, aside from that one time he fought a civilization-scale threat (which happened to live in Tokyo).

There are obvious differences, of course, but the parallels are equally obvious.

Contrasting Comparisons

One of the big reasons Spider-Man is "just some kid from Brooklyn" is that he's kind of a small fish. Yeah, he's stronger than the average superhero, but he's not that strong, especially not for New York superheroes. The Marvel wiki identifies five noteworthy superhero teams headquartered within the city, including two of the three Marvel teams you've probably heard of and two teams which Dr. Strange formed to fight cosmic threats. Spider-Man is strong, but he's surrounded by world-class superheroes, and that shapes his actions and self-perception a lot.

One of the reasons that Superman is the superhero is that he takes stuff seriously. He bears the weight of the world on his shoulders, and acts accordingly. And Denji...does not. I don't think I need to explain either of these points. Even Superman's most casual attitude is more serious and dignified than Denji ever gets, outside a handful of exceptionally personal or perilous moments.

Synthesis

Now, I obviously don't think Denji Chainsawman is simply Superman plus Spider-Man. To pick an obvious example, one of those exceptionally perilous moments where Denji approaches Superman's serious attitude is when he's trying to talk one of his peers out of a suicidal attitude. (Not literally talking her down from jumping off a ledge, but emotionally the same.)

Towards the end of that scene, Denji is trying to explain why it's worth eating the crapburger that is life. His peer asks what he's looking forward to that's worth it, and his response is, word for word: "SEX! I wanna have sex!" This is...not something Superman or Spider-Man would say, even if they were driven by their libidos. Denji is more crass, less mature, and less...socially competent than either Clark or Peter, and only part of that is because he's younger than most Spider-Men (let alone Supermen).

Denji's role in Tokyo is kinda like the roles Spider-Man and Superman play in New York/Metropolis. But it's also different. He can't be Superman, because of his casual attitude, local scope, and selfish streak. He can't be Spider-Man, either, because of his prominence, power, and irresponsibility.

It makes sense to analyze Denji and his impact on Tokyo through the lens of Spider-Man. It also makes sense to analyze Denji and his impact on Tokyo through the lens of Superman. But it doesn't make sense to say that his role is that of Spider-Man or Superman, because it isn't. There are too many differences in both their roles and their places in the world for such an absolute comparison to withstand even light scrutiny.

#denji chainsaw man #spiderman #superman #compare and contrast #chainsaw man #marvel #dc #comics #response #essay

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put-me-out-of-my-destiny · 1 year

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Because I am constantly plagued by visions but can't/won't actually write, you get another long-ass Put Me Out Of My Destiny Original Plot Synopsis™.

It's going under a read-more, but you may be interested if you're a Nero enjoyer, and you aren't entirely weary of time travel and multiverses as plot devices, as has become common in the superhero genre.

Though not directly inspired, I'd compare this to Flashpoint (the story where The Flash goes back in time to save his mom, and it has a butterfly effect that basically ruins the entire world). However, the offending party in this story actually played a much more direct hand in fucking up the world.

So, like the aforementioned Flash story, this one begins with Nero waking up one day to find himself in an alternate timeline, in which:

He is Nico's foster brother, raised by Rock Goldstein.

He is Nico's lab assistant at the Research and Development division of the ruling party in Fortuna, apparently led by a king called Rodin, who is believed by many to be Sparda incarnate.

Luckily, Nero still has his powers, which - along with his funny new accent - are a big help toward convincing Nico that something extremely fucky is going on.

Nico catches Nero up on the history of this timeline, specifically on the feats of Emperor Rodin:

His earliest known appearance was after the Temen-ni-gru appeared in Capulet City. Rodin entered the tower, and emerged with Sparda's own Devil Sword, as well as Yamato, the sword Sparda used to cut off the human world from the demon world. He quickly exterminated any remaining demons, and began to develop a following.

His followers claim that he is Sparda incarnate gained further legitimacy about a decade later, when he defeated Mundus, who had returned to the human world to conquer it once more.

He gained actual political power some years later, when he went to Fortuna, and exposed Sanctus's scheme to open hell gates and unleash demons into the human world, and killed him shortly after.

Some years after that, Rodin forced all civilians out of Redgrave City, and turned it into a city-wide prison for his enemies. No one has seen the inside and lived.

What Nero notices on his own, however, is that all statues of the Idol Of Space And Time have been destroyed, which Nico explains was at the king's command. Given that history has changed, Nero concludes that making contact with the Idol is his best bet at figuring out what's going on.

Nico restores a statue, and Nero sacrifices a lot of demon blood to it - probably from the Angelo Knights that serve Rodin - and they make contact with the Idol. She confirms that history has been changed, and that Rodin is responsible. However, she is unsure why Nero suddenly has knowledge of another timeline.

Nero, with the help of Nico and the Idol, begins fighting to reach the king and figure out what's going on, until Nero meets Rodin's highest-ranking fighter - Credo. Unwilling to fight Credo with all of his strength, Nero loses, and is taken into custody.

However, Nero and Nico are freed by none other than Kyrie, who turns out to be some sort of insurgent working against Rodin.

It's also around this point that he learns that Credo and Kyrie's parents are still alive. I also don't think Kyrie and Credo even know Nero in this timeline, which really hurts for him. He couldn't bear to live in a world where Kyrie doesn't love him.

Kyrie informs them of the crueler side of their king - notably, that the Redgrave Prison is home to a demonic tree called the Qliphoth, which fed on the blood of Rodin's enemies, and bore a fruit which granted him a massive power boost.

Kyrie and her allies help Nero get close to Rodin, and his true identity is revealed:

Rodin is a future version of Nero himself.

In Rodin's timeline, a series of events occurs in which Dante's actions lead to Kyrie dying.

So Rodin, using his own power - a replication of Yamato's power - to travel back in time to kill Dante as a child. This same power is the reason Nero was sort of protected from the altered timeline.

He then waited for this timeline's Nero to be conceived, took him to Rock Goldstein, and then waited until the Temen-ni-gru incident to kill Vergil, and take both Yamato and Sparda.

While this idea certainly needs a lot more time to cook, I like it as a means to explore Nero's darker side, to make him face up to the fact that Kyrie is the only thing keeping him from Vergiling harder than Vergil ever did (something one of the writers apparently said once? I don't have a source for that). I think it would be interesting to see Nero evaluate and really define his reasons for fighting beyond protecting Kyrie, seeking approval from his uncle, or seeking the acceptance of his father.

Besides exploring Nero, I think it could also be a good opportunity to flesh out the metaphysics of DMC. I know a lot of people are already sick of multiverses, and I'm not necessarily saying DMC should adopt one, but I think it could hypothetically work. There's already a DMC2 tie-in novel set in an alternate timeline, there's a reboot with a very different continuity, and DMC3 retconned enough things that the established timeline before that game came out could be considered it's own continuity. But if DMC had a multiverse, it raises the question of why the Idol would even care what Rodin had done, unless she just doesn't want anyone but her messing with time?

There's also the question of why, from the perspective of everyone within the altered timeline, Nero regained his memories and powers on that particular day. Since Rodin exists, and by extension, the future exists, considering Nero's time "the present" is pretty arbitrary, so what makes that instance of Nero special?

I don't have the clearest picture of how the story ends, either. I'm thinking maybe at some point Rodin's actions lead to Credo and/or Kyrie dying, which causes him to see how far he's gone and allow Nero to go back in time to save Dante from past Rodin. However, I would like this timeline's Credo to survive, and I really wouldn't want to fridge even an alternate timeline Kyrie.

That's all I have to share at this time, but if you made it this far, thank you for your interest, and have a nice day.

#devil may cry #au #story #nero dmc #quen speaking #dc mention #dc comics mention #comics mention #comic books mention

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lucsayimann-12-63 · 4 months

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Tom Holland: The Rising Star of the Marvel Cinematic UniverseTom Holland is an English actor who has gained worldwide fame for playing Spider-Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). He is also known for his roles in The Impossible, The Devil All the Time, and Cherry. He is one of the most popular actors of his generation and has won several awards, including a BAFTA Rising Star Award and three Saturn Awards.Holland was born on 1 June 1996 in Kingston upon Thames, in south west London, to a photographer mother and a comedian father. He has three younger brothers and a paternal grandmother from Ireland. He was diagnosed with dyslexia at the age of seven and attended various schools, including the BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology.Holland's career began at age nine when he enrolled in a dancing class, where a choreographer noticed him and arranged for him to audition for a role in Billy Elliot the Musical at London's Victoria Palace Theatre. After two years of training, he secured a supporting part in 2008 and was upgraded to the title role that year, which he played until 2010. His performance received positive reviews and he appeared on several television shows to promote the musical.Holland made his film debut in the disaster drama The Impossible (2012) as a teenage tourist trapped in a tsunami, for which he received praise and nominations for various awards. He then decided to pursue acting as a full-time career, appearing in How I Live Now (2013) and playing historical figures in the film In the Heart of the Sea (2015) and the miniseries Wolf Hall (2015).Holland achieved international recognition playing Spider-Man in six MCU superhero films, beginning with Captain America: Civil War (2016). The following year, Holland received the BAFTA Rising Star Award and became the youngest actor to play a title role in an MCU film in Spider-Man: Homecoming. The sequels, subtitled Far From Home (2019) and No Way Home (2021), each grossed more than $1 billion worldwide, and the latter became the highest-grossing film of the year. He had another action film role in Uncharted (2022), and also expanded to play against-type roles in the crime dramas The Devil All the Time (2020) and Cherry (2021).Holland has additionally directed the short film Tweet (2015) and voiced roles in computer-animated features, such as Onward (2020). He is also involved in charitable work, having founded The Brothers Trust, a non-profit organization that supports various causes around the world. He is currently dating actress Zendaya, his co-star in the Spider-Man films.Tom Holland is a versatile and talented actor who has proven his ability to play diverse and challenging roles. He is one of the most successful and influential stars of the MCU and has a bright future ahead of him.

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javaelemental · 11 months

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Well, hang on, just let me answer this question before I crumble to dust and die of extreme old age.

Dude, nobody thought they could actually make an Avengers movie and it would be good, for starters. Like, literally, that was a nutty idea. And then when it hit theaters? Holy shit. We were blown away. I saw that damn movie in the theater like three times.

Fucking nobody thought superhero movies were going to be THIS good. Especially with these characters. Like, comics!Tony Stark was a drunk asshole. How were they going to make a good movie about some drunk asshole who caused half his own problems? Fuckin' Robert Downey Jr. rehabilitated an entire loser-ass character.

Nobody liked comics!Thor. Dude was so boring.

A lot of people liked the Hulk, but also he was kinda played out. Hawkeye was fun and had a couple of good runs, but also he wasn't that popular a character. Neither was Cap. Like, he'd had some good stories, but he was a little old fashioned. Black Window was also kind of a mid-lister.

Like, I don't want to undersell Marvel's comics properties, but compared to DC, these guys weren't super popular. If you thought superhero teams back in the day, you were probably thinking Justice League or X-Men. You weren't thinking Avengers, which had a fairly serious soap opera issue. Like that whole thing with Vison and Scarlet Witch and they're together and they're not together and she's dating the white version now and it's not working out and now there's weird devil kids who aren't actually real and Hank Pym's over there beating Janet and being a massive abusive asshole and trying to destroy Ultron who's trying to destroy the world and... it was kind of a mess, y'all. Even for comics.

I mean, not that Justice League or X-Men were way better or anything. But Justice League's got Wonder Woman being 100% entirely done with Maxwell Lord and snapping his neck on live TV, which he absolutely had coming and we were all cool with it. Batman had to teach Guy Gardner a lesson and knocked him the fuck out. Martian Manhunter got addicted to Oreos and had to go to rehab. Like, it was still weird and dumb, but it was FUN weird and dumb.

Plus both Justice League and X-Men got their rehabs via extremely popular cartoon shows before the Marvel movies came out. And we figured NOBODY could do that in a live action movie for Marvel.

The first Ironman movie hit and we were like, hey, this is good. Like, way better than we were expecting. Robert Downey Jr. knocked it out of the park. Entire sexualities were decided by that scene of sweaty Tony Stark building the first suit in the cave in a tank top. And then the movies just kept being really good. And funny. And fun. Except Thor, but like, they did all right and Chris Hemsworth took his shirt off and even straight dudes and lesbians were like, Heeey.

It was obvious they were building up to an Avengers movie, but we were like, no way. They can't make that work, right?

And then it did. And it went on working. And it was amazing. I remember walking out of the theater after End Game just, like, entirely blown away by what had been accomplished, story-wise, movie-wise, like, nothing like that had ever been done before ever. And it was good.

I haven't been super impressed with what's come after End Game, but just the fact that they did that initial run. You can bag on them for that last Thor movie and the other stinkers they've put out since End Game, but I have to respect the run-up through End Game. That was a historic feat of movie-making history, IMO. Can't believe I was there for it.

#Marvel #The Avengers #Superhero Movies

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arpov-blog-blog · 2 years

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...."First off let me say this: If I am ever trapped behind enemy lines or wander accidentally back into Gilead, there is only one person I want with me to fight off the hordes of evildoers, just one soldier in the foxhole who has my back and if necessary will throw themself on the hand grenade so that I may live — and that person is Nancy ”Thor” Pelosi! I’m talking about the 82-year-old “Don’t-Fuck-with-Biden?-NO-DON’T-FUCK-WITH-ME” Nancy Pelosi!!

That newly released raw footage from January 6th we saw yesterday — shot by the brilliant documentary filmmaker, the Kathryn Bigelow of nonfiction action films, Alexandra Pelosi — showed us the first ever female Speaker/Slayer in full superhero mode. When she hears Trump on TV order the mob to raid the Capitol Building, Pelosi exclaims, “I hope he comes — I’m gonna punch him out! This is my moment. I’ve been waiting for this — for trespassing on the Capitol grounds…” (and then she launches into a very detailed description of what she’s going to do to Trump as if she HAS INDEED thought about this moment for a long time). “I’m gonna punch him out and I’m gonna go to jail and I’m gonna be HAPPY!”

I got so excited I thought someone offstage was going to toss her a bazooka and a red beret and she was going to break out in song!

But then, as if straight from a scene from “A Very Pelosi Family Thanksgiving Special”, grandson Paul Pelosi is looking out grandma’s window over our Nation’s Capitol and shouts, “Grandma! Grandma! The fascist mob is coming up the Mall!”

And sure enough, it was.

Grandma Nancy had invited her whole family to come to the Capitol that day to witness history. Not hang Mike Pence. So she leapt into action.

First, she got the family and staff to a safe place. Next, she loaded a fresh clip into the Glock she keeps strapped to her ankle. Then, to confuse the idiots who would soon ransack her office, she placed a few nice things out on her desk for them to see: A copy of Betty Freidan’s “The Feminine Mystique”. An open laptop with the “Critical Race Theory” website left up on the screen. A half-written love note to Angela Davis. And Her personal “To-Do List:” 1. Take away everyone’s guns. 2. Burn all Confederate flags. 3. Ban the NFL. 4. Appoint only ppl under 30 to Cabinet. 5. Remove testicles (on a need-to-know basis).

Her staff tried to whisk her away. She asked them, “Have you called the National Guard?!”

“Yes!”, an aide replied. The “yes” did not sound believable, so she would ask this question three more times.

For the next 11 minutes, while walking to wherever they were taking her, she showed no fear. She just kept working the phones. She called the Acting Secretary of Defense to tell him to send in the troops. She called the Acting Secretary of the Army to send in other troops. She called the governors of Virginia and Maryland to send in their National Guard. Then she thought for a moment and said “Let’s call the head of Prince George’s County!”, thinking they may have some extra troops, too. Next, from her secure location, we see her and Chuck Schumer badgering the Attorney General (Acting) to tell him to call Trump. Eventually they were calling every (acting) Trump appointee and tearing them each a new hole. It was like a symphony they were conducting, albeit one for the devil. It was a wonder to watch.

And through it all, Pelosi kept repeating her mantra: “If we cannot get back in there tonight and finish our business, then they’ve won.”

“They can’t win!!”

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📚BTS Fic Reads - 2021 Aug Pt. 2

I enjoyed last month’s reading list 🥰. Variety of themes from genies to superheroes to hybrids to doctors to slice of life. I also think I said and commented a lot on each fic because I couldn’t help express how I feel 💖

Kudos to these authors for making my exhausting Aug a bearable one 🥰

🌷 Aug 2021 Fic Reads Part 1: Ongoing Series

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🥕 [Completed Fics/Series]

Tip: If link doesn’t work, click on author and go to their masterlist S - smut | F - fluff | A - angst

After Rain @rmverse - one shot | 12.8k | kind of supernatural, patient!namjoon x patient!reader, hurt/comfort, strangers to lovers, lucid dreams at one point | f, s, slight a

Are You Allowed to Tell God to Suck It + Blossom @min-youngis - two shot | 3.7k | Angel AU, Angel!Reader, Human!Namjoon, CEO Namjoon, sort of established relationship, some philosophical talks | f

Competitive @jjksblackgf - drabble | 1k | enemies to lovers, college au (grad school?), rivalry turned sexy thanks to one hot namjoon | f

Hit the Back @ironicarmy (deactivated) - one shot | 6.6k | fratboy au, stem major!reader, college au, car wash au, summer au, friends to lovers | s, slight f (no updates yet if author will re-post but will put this here in case it gets posted again)

Hourglass @joonbird - drabble | 750 wc | strangers to lovers, strangers on a train | s

Inner Universe @donewithjeon - one shot | 6.9k | College AU, disability themes | a, f

Rental Series @moononthejoon (deactivated but on AO3) - one shot + drabble series | 30.9k | Fake Dating? (more of Rent a Boyfriend), Psychologist!Namjoon, Rental Drabble: Established Relationship, Boyfriend AU, Husband AU, Parenting AU | s, f, a (linked the AO3 in my reblog)

29 + 1 @taeescript - series [3/3] | 21.9k | CEO!Seokjin, Seokin is the devil from The Devil Wears Prada (he was really mean T_T), slice of life, enemies to lovers, intern!oc, date/companion oc to gala (not really fake dating but seokjin needs her to help his image) | a, s, f

Code Blue @saladejin - one shot | 4.5k | doctor!seokjin x nurse!reader, hospital au, humor, lots of teasing | f

Exes and Superher-O’s @kpopfanfictrash - two shot | 59k | Superhero AU, Enemies to Lovers AU, Action, Exes AU, eventually Boyfriend AU (Part 2) | a, f, s

Gold Embers Touch the Blue Veil @magicalsalamander - one shot | 19.5k | Avatar AU, Fire Bender!Seokjin, Water Bender!OC, Enemies to Lovers, Military AU, Warrior!OC | a, s

.Docx @yngpraisebot - one shot | 4.4k | CEO!Yoongi, dom themes, harassment themes (proceed with caution) | s

“Are You Flirting With Me” @rmverse - drabble | 1k? | barista!reader, prompt: “Are you flirting with me?” / “You finally noticed?” | f

2am @sunshinejoon - series [4/4] | 5.7k | established relationship, semi-break up au, she thinks he’s fooling around (?) | a

A Scam Marriage @xotoosweet - one shot | 4k | arranged marriage (marriage of convenience), grad school au, architecture major!yoongi, psychology!oc, college au, friends to lovers, some unrequited pining | f

Breakfast in Bed @joonbird - one shot | 12k | IKEA Employee!Yoongi, bed display crasher OC, strangers to lovers, crack/humor, retail AU | s, f (really hot and yet tooth rotting fluff)

Helping Out @itsallabouthedetails - one shot | 2.5k | OC is Jin’s roommate, but Yoongi helping her with cramps | s

Mortalised @minyfic - one shot | 5.5k | dilf!yoongi, single dad au, bestfriend au, they live apart but Yoongi visited OC, a proposition… | s, f

Not Around @minyfic - one shot | 19.8k | best friend’s boyfriend, basketball player!yoongi x cheerleader!oc, college au | a, f, s

Off the Deep End @boymeetsweevil - one shot | 17.5k | kind of sci-fi?, mermaid!yoongi, fwb au, slice of life-ish | s, a, slight f

Petrichor @donewithjeon - one shot | 10k | barista!reader, coffee shop au, yoongi is not the type who stays | a, s

Post-it Note @couture-kookie - one shot | 6k | Neighbor AU, Enemies to Lovers, that turned sort of BDSM | s

Snake Kisses @peekaboongi - one shot | 8.5k | Hybrid AU, Snake Hybrid Yoongi, fluffy ending | s, f

Absolution @junghelioseok - one shot | 21.9k | action, secret agent au, secret identity themes, part of the crosshairs/budapest universe | s 🌷

Angsty Divorced Parents drabble @ughcore - drabble | 700 wc | exes au, infidelity themes, parents au | a 🌷

Golden Hour @snackhobi - drabble | 2.6k | sfw, magic au | f

I Don’t Know What to Call This @httphopewrld - one shot | 16.4k | idol!hoseok, friends to lovers, sort of fwb au | s, a, f

Remember Me Not @taeescript - one shot | 14.5k | genie!hoseok, fantasy au, sort of star crossed lovers, bestfriend au, memory-alter themes, sort of reincarnation too? | a, f 🌷

Blazing Arrows @kingminie - series [7/7] | 35.3k | Unrequited Love (for Jungkook). Love Triangle themes, Cupid!Jimin, kind of Roommate!Jimin too | f, a (wasn’t expecting this to be angsty T_T)

Spring Leaves @alilbihh - one shot | 11.5k | witch!jimin, witch!reader, arranged marriage au, kind of slice of life but world is more on fantasy, slow burn | f (tooth-rotting fluff 🥰)

The Call to You @1lyhobi - one shot | 2k | werewolf au, alpha!reader, mating themes | s

You Have (1) New Voicemail @coepiteamare - one shot | 4.9k | epistolary (all through voicemail), mystery (because we don’t know where Jimin is), sort of falling out? | a (perfect angst) 🌷

A Crow Without Wings @kissmetae - one shot | 5.8k | demon!taehyung (the sweetest demon), but dark scenario (must be in soul form for them to be together) | s, a

Apartment 512 + About the Boy @moononthejoon (deactivated, but on AO3) - one shot + drabble series | 41.3k | neighbor au, fwb au, sort of enemies to lovers, college au (originally), tattooed!taehyung, eventually boyfriend AU, husband AU, post-grad AU | f, s, a

Can’t Flaunt What’s Not Yours @turtletaemin - one shot | 6k | FWB AU, OC nonchalant about their fuckbuddy situation but got jealous (and bitchy) | s, a, f

Corruption @95boysbe - one shot | 2.5k | established relationship, boyfriend!taehyung loves corrupting OC | s, slight f

Fantasies @anoddkpopfan - one shot | 2.7k | dom!taehyung, college au, gaming buddy!Taehyung | s

Friends @hobistagram - drabble | 1.7k | best friend au, idol au, oc suddenly revealed she had a crush on him before | f

Good Luck Charm @gukyi - one shot | 11k | Bestfriend AU, Unrequited AU (for OC), Roommate AU, Actor!Taehyung | f, a

Letters @bangtanocean - series [3/3] | 10.3k | historical au, soulmate au, feat Prince!Yoongi, chef!oc, soldier!taehyung (commander), war themes?, heavy angst | s, f, a

North Star @kainks - drabble | 1.8k | god AU, Fantasy AU, Christmas AU, Soulmate AU, Reincarnation AU | f

Once Upon a Boy @eternally-writing - drabble | 2.8k | rich!taehyung, strangers to lovers, Cinderella AU | f, a

One Last Time @softjaehyvn - one shot | 3.6k | actor!taehyung x actress!reader, break up au, co-worker au | a, f

Pluto Protector @kitsutaes - drabble | 2.6k | childhood friends, bestfriend AU, artist!taehyung, astrophysicist!reader | f

Poetry of the Stars @jjiimin - one shot | 25.4k | hurt/comfort, enemies to lovers, best friend’s brother, heavy themes (please check tags) | f, a

SPH @venusjeon - drabble | 2.2k | FWB AU, humor, SPH stands for ‘small penis humiliation’ 😂, bad parent themes but taehyung is such a sweetheart to make your world better | s, a, f

When a Ladybug Meets a Spider @gxtsmxt-blog - one shot | 14.1k | College AU, Tarantula Owner!Taehyung, Dorm mate!OC, humor (really cute and quirky) | a, f, s 🌷

↬ One-shots | Drabbles

12:49 PM @likeastarstar - drabble | 424 wc | bad boy!jungkook (or so it seems because people are judgers), a little plot twist on characters (who goes soft for wildflowers? who rides the bike?) | f 🌷

Apodyopsis @jeonsjiddies - one shot | 12k | Nude Model!Jungkook, Artist!OC, strangers to lovers, Kookie has a sad backstory but he’ll give you whiplash with his triplicity (boy with a story that makes me sad, cocky/flirty, feral!jk - take your pick) | s 🌷

Autumn: My Old Story @thedefinitionofbts - one shot | 9.5k | Werewolf AU, supernatural au, sort of childhood friends | a (beautifully written angst) 🌷

Bunny @btssmutgalore - one shot | 17.5k | friends to lovers, shy!jungkook, camboy au, secret identity | s 🌷

Cheer @btssaysstudy - one shot | 9.9k | cheerleader!oc, athlete!jungkook, rugby, college au | f

Combative @smasmashin - one shot (with ongoing drabbles) | 6.2k | Fuck or Die AU, Assassin AU, kinda alien too? (feat Alien!Seokjin), Enemies to Lovers, Crack/Humor | S (pwp) 🌷

Fighter @eureka-its-zico - one shot | 4.8k | strangers to lovers, tsundere!jungkook, bartender!oc, bar AU, ex-fighter!jungkook, protective!jungkook *yes yes* | s, a 🌷

Green Room @honeymoonjin - drabble | 1.8k | idol au, jealous!jungkook, exhibitionist (because he’s so jealous of Hoseok 😁) | s 🌷

Hot Ones @yoon-kooks - one shot | 5.1k | FWB AU, Co-worker AU, idol!jungkook, sort of Bet AU (over array of deadly hot sauce samples) | f 🌷

Illusions of Choice @hobibliophile - one shot | 7.3k | heir au, arranged marriage au, supposedly arranged with the older brother but got arranged with jungkook instead after brother’s death | a, f, s

I Think I’m in Love With You and I’m Terrified @cupofteaguk - drabble | 1.9k | fake dating au, unrequited love for Kookie because he couldn’t say how he feels | f 🌷

I Want You @moonlightchildz - one shot | 13k | slow burn, strangers to lovers, eventual friends, virgin!reader (and only wants Jungkook) | s, f 🌷

Just For Tonight @jungkxook - one shot | 17.7k | strangers to lovers, dare au (inspired by the film Nerve), party au | s, f 🌷

Kinky Hours Drabble: Single Dad!JK and Babysitter!OC @lavishedinjimin - drabble | 1k | Nanny!OC, DILF!Jungkook, single dad au who is also sexually frustrated, age gap (consenting adults) | s 🔥 🌷

Koopid @gwoongi - one shot | 4.7k | feat. Namjoon (viewer), porn stars Jungkook and OC, established relationship, all the acts are seen through Namjoon’s viewing experience | s, kind of f 🌷

Losing Game @kookaine - drabble | 988 wc | villain!jungkook, dystopian, apocalypse | a (heavy)

Morning After @jmnjmnjmn - drabble | 1k | one night stand AU, friends to lovers, really cute | f 🌷

Mr. & Mrs. Jeon @taetaesbaebaepsae - one shot | 7.1k | assassin au, husband au, secret identities, Mr. and Mrs. Smith adaptation | a, f, s

Nothing Compares 2U + Since U Been Gone @burberryplaid - drabble | 790 wc | idol au, breakup au, themes of cheating (someone is rumored with jk) | a

One on One @thatmultifandomhoe - one shot | 3.1k | College AU, Sports AU, Boxer AU | f (really cute) 🌷

Pearls and Pastries @masterninjacow - one shot | 3.6k | baker!reader, pirate!jungkook, fantasy, pining, medieval au | f, a

Philtatos @sweetbunnykook - drabble | 2.1k | god AU, hades’ son!Jungkook, soulmate AU, established relationship 🌷

Quarter Life Crisis @heungtanbts - one shot | 25k | slow burn, bestfriend AU, idiots to lovers, OC experiencing quarter life crisis and they think the solution is for her to get a boyfriend, some angst from one silent bunny | a, f, implied s 🌷

Revenge is Brutally Sweet @yumeyooa - one shot | 14.6k | guitarist!jungkook, vocalist!reader, band au, high school au, post break up au, exes au | a, slight f

Sacrifices @jiminiethot - one shot | 4.4k | Gamer!Jungkook, Parenting AU, Husband AU, Unplanned pregnancy, really sweet and was part of my established rel fic rec list for jungkook | f, s 🌷

Sleeposal @joyfulhopelox - drabble | 2.8k | boyfriend AU, sleep talker!jungkook proposing in his sleep, really cute!, proposal AU | f 🌷

Snaps @cryxtal-moon - one shot | 10.3k | photographer!jungkook, assistant!oc, neighbor au, producer!oc | f (really cute)

Somebody That I Used to Know @imyourhobiii - one shot | 9.7k | childhood best friends, roommate au, fwb au, waterpark au, falling out type of fic, really angsty | a, s

Still With You @kooktrash - one shot | 4k? | Strangers to Lovers, summer romance type, sort of Exes (but not really because they weren’t officially together) | a, s, f 🌷

The Art of Cheating @justcallmenikki7 - one shot | 1.3k | soulmate au, soulmate marks (they see what is written on their skin except name, phone number, address) | f

The Big Cats @breakiebunny - one shot | 10.5k | Mafia AU, Hybrid AU, Amur Leopard!Jungkook, enemies to lovers, last amur leopard hybrids alive (they need to mate) | a, s

The Cheetah Lounge @kookiecrumb - one shot | 2.3k | Kookie just got fired, OC is the girl he sees on the subway on his way to work every day, party/club setting | s, slight f

The Lighthouse @rubycoast - one shot | 12k | strangers to lovers, pining, tsundere!jungkook in the beginning, friends to lovers, kind of supernatural, plot twist | a, f 🌷

The Lines Between Us @chateautae - one shot | 10k | detective!jungkook, enemies to lovers, slight fantasy, FWB AU, coworker au, | s, a 🌷

The Pool Boy @idolimagines - one shot | 8.1k | pool boy!jungkook, executive!OC, recently divorced OC, hired employee!jungkook, noona cougar vibes | s, f 🌷

This Time Around @alternateafterthought - one shot | 22k | strangers to lovers, hybrid au, both of them are rare snow leopard hybrids, forced to breed (rare hybrid type), kind of action (? when they were trying to escape), OT7 | a, s, f 🌷

Trick @blkjmn - one shot | 4.4k | Piercer!Jungkook, tattoo artist AU, OC getting a clit piercing | s 🌷

True Damage @krreader - drabble | 1.3k | idol!reader, rivals on the outside but friends but JK messed up | a

War of Hormones @babiekaykes - one shot | 5.6k | Werewolf!Jungkook, supernatural, Established Relationship, Boyfriend AU, Alpha!Jungkook who is scared of touching OC (afraid of hurting her and this is the point of the story because OC is ready to take their relationship to the next level) | s, f 🌷

You @breakiebunny - one shot | 10.7k | childhood bestfriend, former fling, idol!jungkook, OC in a relationship (but abusive one), protective!koo | a, f, s

Your Every Wish is my Command @jeonggukingdom - one shot | 13.6k | genie!jungkook, fantasy (a bit), sort of star-crossed? (not sure how a genie and human can end up together and that made me sad a bit) | s, f, a 🌷

↬ Two-shots | Series

50% Cotton + 50% Polyester @perpetually-jungshook - two shot | 11.8k | Shy!Jungkook, virgin!jungkook, College AU, friends to lovers | f, s 🌷

All The Times You Knocked @taehyung-the-baehyung - drabble series [5/?] | 5k+ | neighbor au, slice of life, strangers to lovers | f, a (I don’t think it’ll be completed but it’s a good read ^_^) 🌷

Glitter and Disquiet @joheunsaram - two shot | 36k | heir au, ceo au, youtuber!oc, virgin!jungkook, gaming company, post grad au, enemies to lovers | a, f, s

Hiraeth @darlingwoes - series [15/15] | 54k | Royalty AU, Time Travel AU, Fantasy, Slow Burn, sort of starcrossed | f, s, a 🌷

Hot Summer @httphopewrld - two shot | 15.4k | Jungkook is the boy across the street, tattoo artist!jungkook, voyeurism (? OC could see JK and his ex-gf across), eventual established relationship, angst due to OC not admitting about seeing him through his window | s, a, f

Irrevocably Yours, Part 2 @eureka-its-zico - series [2/3] | 29.2k+ | Enemies to Lovers, slow burn, Rich!Jungkook but now adjusting to his situation, disability themes (jk had an accident which now affected his leg), hurt/comfort,, First Love type of fic, really cute | f, a 🌷

(also I realized this is not completed yet but it’s doesn’t have that cliffhanger-ish type of plot so you can still read and feel satisfied with how things ended so far)

Payback @thatsabae - series [12/12] | 21.8k | strangers to lovers, their partners are cheating on them, revenge au, comedy, friends to lovers | a, f

Somewhere Only We Know (Final) @qersona - series [4/4] | 21k | Hybrid AU, FWB AU, childhood friends au, enemies to lovers, college AU, unrequited (for OC), sports (JK) | s, a, f (this was part of my Aug 2020 reading list so we’ve come a full circle here 🥰) 🌷

Sweet Like Sugar @defsoulstation - series [3/3] | 4.5k | Werewolf AU, Noona!OC, a/b/o dynamics but OC is human, Jungkook is like one big puppy who likes Noona who gives him food 🥺(but went feral during his heat) | a, f 🌷

They Were Liars @kooktrash - series [8/8] | 23k | College AU, Neighbor AU, Fake Dating AU, sort of FWB AU, OC recently broke up with hoseok (caught him cheating) and concocted a “fake dating” plan with the neighbor | s, a, f

The Switch @kookingtae - one shot | 9k | Established Relationship (Hoseok), Christmas AU, Poly AU, fantasy I guess? (members can switch during sex so she gets to try them all in different stages of smut *wink wink*) | s, f 🌷

posted: 2021 Sep 04

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blamblamblairy · 2 years

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Top 10 works of fiction ask? 👉🏻👈🏻

fuck this is hard for me without any order, it would probably have to be WTC Series - Ryukishi07: kinda obvious considering my blog. It covers all my favorite genres and it has relatable characters (i already know what you're gonna say.) (still need to start ciconia but i keep not finishing other things so i need to finish those first) Madoka Magica - Gen Urobuchi: lesbians, time loops and tragedy. honestly what more can you ask for. homura best girl (love them all tho) Neon Genesis Evangelion - Hideaki Anno: with my current list so far and including this i couldn't even lie about being mentally stable (not that anyone would believe a yasu is). eva is a series i hold really close to my heart. its focus on more introspective things rather than on the actual robot fights themselves led to me realizing and accepting some things about myself and for that i will always love it. K-On - Kakifly: not all my favorites are dark and emotionally driven, sometimes i just need a simple comedy to enjoy and laugh at. what can i even say about k-on other than haha funny light music club go brrrrrr. Spider-Man - Marvel: i have my fair share of issues with everything modern when it comes to superhero shit but everything pre 2006 of spider-man i still adore. compared to all the heroes on the level of gods and idols theres something special about an ordinary guy who got his powers by chance and still has to deal with the same struggles regular people face. Girls Last Tour - tkmiz: pretty simple series of a pair of girls and their lives at the end of the world. made me laugh. made me cry. truly wonderful series. (tkmiz's shimeji simulation will probably join this list but i wanna see where it goes further first. still deserves a mention tho.) Shin Godzilla - Hideaki Anno: i love this kaiju to death so ofc i had to put the greatest godzilla movie on this list. with a return to godzilla as a destructive force of nature as opposed to a semi hero type figure the american films have been trying and a new take with a constantly evolving monster, shin godzilla mixes new and old for a spectacle that can be taken both at face value and a little deeper. Devilman Crybaby - Masaaki Yuasa: (never read the devilman manga so idk if im missing out on anything) truly a beautiful series that says a lot about human nature and discrimination of people for being "different." would recommend to anyone Serial Experiments Lain - Yasuyuki Ueda: why yes i do have a thing for weird thought provoking shows. they're just so good. lain probably is the weirdest one i have on here but that adds to the intriguing nature of it. its hard for me to really talk about it without going too much into weird spoilery shit but funky internet girl. Chainsaw Man - Tatsuki Fujimoto: epic action series with devils and some horror elements and characters to get way too attached to. check out the manga or the anime later this year idk. its mappa so i expect it to be good. in conclusion im a huge weeb who likes things that make me think

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scotianostra · 2 years

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Fuckity fuck and Happy Birthday to the fabulous Peter Capaldi born April 14th 1958 in Glasgow. Peter Dougan Capaldi grew up in Glasgow and attended the Glasgow School of Art, while studying there he secured his first breakthrough role in Local Hero in 1983. He has also had roles in Dangerous Liaisons, The Crow Road, The Devil’s Whore and Torchwood: Children of Earth but it was his brilliant portrayal of political spin doctor, Malcolm Tucker that got him noticed in 2005, it ran for 4 series and a film spin-off from The Thick of It, entitled In the Loop, was released in 2009.

In 2010 he won the BAFTA Television Award for Best Male Performance in a Comedy Role and the BPG Best Actor Award. In both 2010 and 2012 he also won British Comedy Award for Best TV Comedy Actor.

As well as appearing in front of the camera, Peter is an award winning film maker. Not a lot of people know that in 1995, he won the Oscar for Best Short Film (Live Action) for Franz Kafka’s It’s a Wonderful Life.

He also wrote the decent comedy drama film, Soft Top, Hard Shoulder, which won the audience award at the London Film Festival, and wrote and directed Strictly Sinatra, which stars Kelly Macdonald and Brian Cox

Peter’s stage credits include Professor Marcus in The Ladykillers at the Liverpool Playhouse, which saw the play transfer to the Gielgud Theatre in London. I was thrilled when he became the 12th Doctor Who in 2013, he since passed the mantle on to Jodie Whittaker in 2017. He since played the part of Mr Micawber in The Personal history of David Copperfield as well as voicing Kehaar in an adaptation of Watership Down. In 2019 we saw Peter in a music video of Lewis Capaldi, a distant second or third cousin.

Peter recently appeared in the DC superhero movie Suicide Squad, with Hollywood stars Maggie Robbie, Sylvester Stallone and Idris Elba, to name a few and Benediction, in which he plays the war poet, writer and soldier Siegfried Sassoon. He is in the upcoming series The Devil's Hour, for Amazon Prime which follows the story of Lucy, who is woken at exactly 3.33am every night by terrifying visions.

Peter Capaldi is a patron of the Association for International Cancer Research and of the Scottish children’s charity, the Aberlour Child Care Trust., he has also been involved with work for Oxfam and Operation Smile, which provides free, safe reconstructive surgery to children born with cleft lip, cleft palate and other facial deformities in the developing world.

#Scotland #scottish #actor #happy birhtday

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docgold13 · 3 years

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365 DC Comics Paper Cut-Out SuperHeroes - One Hero, Every Day, All Year…

September 29th - Arsenal

Roy Harper was just an infant when his park ranger father was killed in a terrible forest fire. Roy would have perished as well, but he was saved by a man named Brave Bow. With no one available to care for the child, Brave Bow took Roy back to his tribe where Roy was raised in the traditions of the Navajo people. Roy particularly excelled at archery and went on to win numerous contests.

In his early adolescence, Roy learned about the super hero Green Arrow and he came to idolized him greatly. Not long thereafter, Brave Bow was diagnosed with a terminal illness and he reached out to Green Arrow asking the hero to take guardianship of young Roy after his passing. Oliver Queen (Green Arrow’s civilian identity) took interest in the matter and ultimately agreed to take on Roy as his ward.

It wasn’t long before Roy discovered his new guardian’s secret and the lad was able to convince the hero to allow him to act as his sidekick. Roy earned the nickname ‘Speedy’ after his quick draw enabled him to ensnare a couple of criminals before Green Arrow had the chance to. This nickname would go on to become Roy’s official super hero alias.

Following many adventures alongside Green Arrow, Speedy would help establish the first iteration of The Teen Titans, banding together with other sidekicks, including Robin, Wonder Girl, Kid Flash and Aqualad. It was a terrific time in Roy’s life. The Titans would have many exciting adventures and Roy had a romance with his fellow Titan Wonder Girl. Sadly, the good times did not last. The Titans ultimately broke up and Green Arrow left Star City to go on adventures abroad, leaving Roy on his own. In his loneliness, Roy turned to drugs and he ended up forming a crippling addiction to heroin.

Black Canary helped Roy kick the habit and beat his addiction. Following this harrowing experience, Roy went to work with the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), acting as a counselor in various anti-drug programs as well as helping to take down drug operations and cartels. His work with the DEA led to Roy’s joining the Central Bureau of Intelligence (CBI). While on an undercover assignment with this organization in Japan, Roy was assigned to capture the assassin Cheshire, yet the two ended up falling in love with each other.

Roy allowed Cheshire to escape, not realizing that their brief affair would ultimately produce a daughter whom Cheshire named Lian. Roy learned of his daughter’s existence a bout a year later. Teaming up with Nightwing, Roy was able to finally track Cheshire down so that he could see Lian. Cheshire ultimately decided that Lian would likely be safer with her father and allowed Roy full custody of the their daughter.

Roy raised Liam as best he could. In order to provide for her, Roy accepted work from the spy agency known as Checkmate. At this point, Roy came to retire his alias of Speedy and took to calling himself ‘Arsenal,’ emphasizing the fact that he had become extraordinarily proficient with numerous types of weapons alongside the bow and arrow. As Arsenal, Roy would have numerous adventures. He returned to a reformed version of The Titans and later helped to form a new iteration of The Outsiders. Some time thereafter, Roy took on the name ‘Red Arrow’ when he was recruited to join The Justice League of America.

Red Arrow proved a valued member of the League. Then disaster struck. The villain known as Prometheus caused an earthquake that devastated Star City and young Lian perished in the cataclysm. Unhinged over the loss of his daughter, Roy became callus and bloodthirsty. Roy joined Deathstroke’s new, deadly version of the Titans. He ultimately discovered that Deathstroke was drugging him to make him compliant to his wishes. Roy ultimately defeated Deathstroke and vowed to reform a new and heroic version of the Titans to honor his daughter’s legacy.

During The Convergence event, Roy was offered a devil’s bargain from the powerful entity known as The Dreamslayer. This villain offered to resurrect Roy’s daughter in exchange for his betraying his friends. Roy is able to outsmart The Dreamslayer and his Lian is resurrected without the betrayal.

Aspects of Roy’s backstory were altered following the Nu52 reboot. Here Roy has resumed the mantle of Arsenal and is a member of The Red Hood’s covert team called The Outlaws. Liam’s fate had been left a mystery for a while, but it was ultimately revealed that she is now the adolescent associate of Catwoman known as Cheshire Cat who, suffering from a type of amnesia, does not know who her parents are.

Arsenal was believed to have perished during the Death Metal event. He actually survived but decided to keep the matter a secret needed a break from his life as a super hero. Roy’s retirement proved short lived as he was pulled into action, now wielding a black power ring; and soon there after he was recruited into the ranks of The Justice League Incarnate.

Actor Colton Haynes portrayed a version of Roy Harper in the television series Arrow. The hero first appeared in the pages of More Fun Comics #73 (1941).

#365 DC Comics Heroes #DC Comics #Arsenal #Green Arrow #Teen Titans #Outsiders #Justice League #Outlaws #Speedy #Red Arrow #Arrow #Colton Haynes #cut-out #paper art

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AYE requests briefly open you say? Then here ya go: MC (female or gn) turns into a child for a day courtsey of Solomon (maybe around 5) with the Brothers. I think it'd be adorable, what with finger painting on spell books and things, but there ya go!

The MC is Now Five Years Old, Thanks Solomon...

Oh boy…. A little kid in Hell sounds like a train wreck admittedly, but at least they'll have some pretty strong guardians right? I heard It'll Be Okay by SMLE & Helen Tess and decided that was JUST the feel this sort of request needed.

Intro:

Solomon really doesn't mess up spells often. He's been doing this for a while (at least as far as my headcanon is concerned) so he's gotten pretty damn good at magic over the years. It takes a looot to make him mess up. Like say, a natural disaster, an unexpected surprise… or a whole-ass MC getting knocked into what sigil he's using at just the wrong time. Yeah. That'll do it.

How in the world is he going to explain this to the brothers…?

Lucifer

His anger toward Solomon is quite severe… tempered only slightly by how utterly adorable kid!MC is. (Well all know he's got that soft spot for cute things 🤭) It reminds him so much of his brothers at that age…

The man basically reverts back to being Dad!Lucifer sooo fast.

He's the one tying their shoes, checking on them throughout the day, making sure they're not running with scissors… that sort of thing.

Weirdly enough he's not that bothered by it… In fact, his brothers find it a little unnerving just how at peace he seems when he's keeping track of kid!MC doing this or that… It's like he's just put on an old pair of gloves and found out they still fit.

Speaking of his brothers, Lucifer can't turn off "Parent Mode" so it starts spilling over to them too...

When he started telling Levi "It's bedtime" and used a napkin to wipe Beel's face for him in public, they decided to hold an informal intervention. They're grown demons now, damnit!! 😖

Mammon

The first thing kid!MC did when they saw Mammon was fling themselves at him while screaming "MAMMIE!!!" at the top of their lungs… Regardless of his confusion, the man could probably die happy now.

He only gripes a little bit about being saddled with babysitting duty… Because everybody knows he's not the babysitter now. He's the playmate.

"Mammie, I wanna play House!!" "I ain't playing House with ya, kid. How 'bout Tag?" "No way, you're too fast!" "Hide'n Seek?" "Luci said we can't play that no more…" "Well don't hide in the oven again!" "You didn't find me!!" "That was the problem!!!"

Pretty much the Man-Child/Actual Child Duo. He's perfect for keeping up with them and they'll whine incessantly when they can't find him for too long...

Totally the brother to take them to the amusement park or really any of those super fun places kids love. He will be just as excited as they are to be there, too.

It's not uncommon to find Mammon passed out on a couch or something with an equally exhausted kid!MC sleeping on his back. The two can really wear each other out…

Leviathan

He's probably the least perturbed by this change. Sudden de-aging of characters is a pretty popular anime trope, after all...

He's not all that taken with kid!MC though to be honest… Largely because he's too worried about keeping his stuff out of their grubby mitts. 😖

"Levi, what's this?" "GAH! Don't touch that!! That's my limited edition Ultra☆Rainbow Witch figurine!!" "I wanna play with it, though!" "It's not a toy!!" "That's not fair! You have nothing but toys, Levi!! You need to share!!" "NO I DON'T!!!"

In those times where Lucifer forces him to share, Levi goes full neat-freak. He handles all the discs and games himself, everything gets practically sterilized, and kid!MC HAS to wash their hands before they touch ANYTHING (especially the game controllers). He ain't risking any random kid-gunk getting on his precious possessions… 😰

He does enjoy playing games with them well enough, at least. No one's going to pass up a game of Devil Kart after all!

Sometimes he'll let them win just to see how happy they get… Though, then they start getting a big head about it so he has to remind him who the actual gamer is with another string of losses... Sucks to suck, kid! 😌😏

Satan

… You know, five year-olds ask a lot of questions… A looot of questions…

"Satan, what's that?" "An umbrella. You use it so that rain doesn't get on you." "Where does rain come from?" "Evaporated water collects in the atmosphere and-" "Is rain like the sky peeing?" "...." "Satan? Does your face hurt?... Satan?"

Please Lord, they may not be on speaking terms, but someone has to have mercy on his patience...

In truth, Satan's kind of charmed by how curious kid!MC is, he just wished they'd listen more to his boring explanations…

"Satan? Why does everyone listen to Diavolo?" "Lord Diavolo is like a king to us demons." "Where's his crown?" "He doesn't wear a crown." "Oh… You don't wear a crown and people listen to you. Are you a king too?" "I mean, you're not wrong… 😏" "Satan, get back to work."

Eh, maybe having a little MC isn't all that bad. They don't lie, after all. 😌

Asmodeus

OMG he hasn't seen a child this cute since the twins were in diapers!!!!

If Mammon isn't around then Asmo takes over babysitting duties (like an actual babysitter) and he's more than happy to do it. It reminds of him of taking care of baby Belphie!

If kid!MC has any interest at all in makeup then he's happy to foster it. He won't give them the good stuff of course, but he'll show them how to do blush, eyes, lipstick, nail polish, whatever!

He also dabbles in a bit of facepaint so do they want to look like a kitty, panda, or dragon? He's got them covered.

Asmo just likes to let them be creative in all forms, really. He's going to be the one to break out the paint and markers and just the kid!MC go to town! (hopefully not on the walls…)

Takes pictures of whatever they draw, good or bad, and happily displays them to everyone. There's not a big enough fridge to hold all the art he's going to collect (and zealously protect).

Beelzebub

Playmate #2 right after Mammon, but he's the less excitable, more responsible one.

"Beel! Beel! Watch me jump off this slide!!" 😰 "Please don't… You could hurt yourself… You slide down slides. That's why they're called that." "*GASP*... That's right! You're a genius!!" *sits back down* "Not really, but thank you." 😊 *waits for them at the bottom*

If the MC is with Beel, they're doing one of two things. Either they're playing together or gorging themselves on junk food.

Beel actually likes "domestic" games like House and Tea Party because it's an excuse to raid the kitchen. He'll play "house-husband" all day as long as he gets to actually eat at every imaginary dinnertime.

He'll play active games too, of course. Especially action-oriented ones like "Cops and Robbers" or Superheros. No one's better at roughhousing than Beel! Though he'll go easy on them, cause they're small and all… 😅

Everyone can always tell when Beel's in charge of them because he carries them around on his shoulders. He's the tallest one of the family so it's like getting to be a giant!

Belphegor

Belphie was introduced to kid!MC when they started crying during one of his naps. They couldn't wake him and they thought he was dead… Followed directly by them declaring their tears were magic when they noticed his eyes opened.

He proceeded to close his eyes again and purposely play dead just to get them all worried again. It was the smile creeping up onto his face that eventually gave him away… 😏

He likes to play with kid!MC and Beel but he's not going to let it get in the way of his nap schedule or anything. When they play "Knights" he gets to take the role of the world's laziest dragon… Rawr.

Kid!MC will only settle down for naptime if Belphie joins too since he'll read them a book like he used to do with Lilith.

Satan's usually the go-to guy for storytime, but Belphie's a close second (largely because he just imitates what he remembers Lucifer doing for him, voices and all 🤭).

He deals with their myriad of questions by just making shit up and pretending he knows what he's talking about. It's around the time that he told them that little men live inside the freezer and shave ice cubes to keep things cold that Lucifer started getting on his case about it… Killjoy. 🙄

#obey me #obey me shall we date #shall-we-date-obey-me #obey me lucifer #obey me mammon #obey me leviathan #obey me satan #obey me asmodeus #obey me beelzebub #obey me belphegor #obey me headcanons #obey me scenarios

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godofsexdrugsandrocknroll · 3 years

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Green Lantern Jaune!AU

*In the middle of the Fall of Beacon*

Jaune: *To Cinder* In Brightest Day, In Blackest Night--

Cinder: *Hopped up on her ego* Really? This is the best you have, Nikos? A cheat who’s read too much manga?

Pyrrha: *Staring in horror*

Jaune: --No Evil Shall Escape My Sight!

Cinder: *Rolls her eyes, aims arrow at Jaune instead*

Jaune: Let Those Who Worship Evil’s Might, Beware My Power--

Cinder: *Shoots arrow*

Jaune: Green Lantern’s Light!

*A flash of green and Jaune’s wearing Alan Scott’s Kingdom Come Green Lantern suit*

Cinder: What!?

Pyrrha: *Gapes*

Cinder’s Arrow: *Disintegrates*

Jaune: Don’t worry Pyrrha, I got this!

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Jacques Schnee: *Blinded by Jaune’s transformation* What the devil!?

Weiss: *Sees her chance, kicks her father in the groin* That dolt, what does he think he’s doing? *Worriedly, poorly mimicking Jaune’s voice* ‘Oh no, I can’t do that Snow Angel, it’s bad enough I let you know but Remnant’s nowhere near ready for the attention of the rest of the galaxy!’ How is transforming in front of all of Vale supposed to be keeping that a secret!? *Stalks off worriedly in Jaune’s direction*

Jacques Schnee: *Rolls on the ground in agony*

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Blake: *Stemming Yang’s bleeding* I’m so sorry, I’m so sorry, I’m so--

*Jaune transforms, Blake yelps*

Blake: *Gapes at the barely visible figure of Jaune* W-what!? Jaune’s the Emerald Knight!?

Yang: *Waking, weakly* B-Blake?

Blake: *Still stunned but realizes she can’t run now, not with Yang looking like at her like that*

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Adam Taurus: *Seething in apocalyptic fury* You again. You bastard, you just won’t stop interfering where you don’t belong!

White Fang Grunt: *Terrified of the emerald glow* Sir? What do we do? The last time we fought the Emerald Knight he nearly killed you.

Adam Taurus: *Audibly grinds teeth* We retreat.

White Fang Grunt: Sir!?

Adam Taurus: Don't make me repeat myself. We retreat. The only way we live to fight another day is if we live and that accursed blight on faunuskind won’t hesitate to kill our brothers and sisters in droves if we fight him now!

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Nora: --EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ren: *Sighs in defeat*

Nora: *Stops, cackling maniacally* If fearless leader’s a superhero then that means we are too, Renny! *Pink electricity crackles, Nora’s eyes begin glowing pink* Call me Thundermaiden! *Lifts Magnhild*

Worried Beowolf: Aroo?

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Velvet: *Breathes* Bloody rippa.

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Coco: *Lips pressed together, exhales explosively* Nine out of ten. That armor is sleek, aesthetically pleasing from any angle, those pauldrons are just muah and if Arc had been born with just one more X chromosome I’d have my head buried in his thighs and he’d be screaming my name for that fucking cape. *Sighs wistfully*

Neptune: *To himself* Oh yeah, because now’s the time for a boner.

Reese Chloris: *Zipping about* Maybe focus on the badass armor later, cause if you haven’t noticed-- *Is cut off by the roar of Coco’s minigun*

Coco: Yeah, yeah.

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Emerald: Get back here you traitorous coward!

Mercury: *Running away* Nope, fuck that! My old man fought the Emerald Knight last year, got his ass whooped up and down the Purple River and the Emerald Knight just straight up disappeared the fucker! Not only is fighting that dude suicide but I owe him one!

Emerald: You traitor! How dare you turn your back on Cinder, after all she’s done for you!

Mercury: *Rolls his eyes, kicks a Beringel at a now shrieking Emerald* Cinder offers me the chance to kill my old man. Emerald Knight wipes him off the face of Remnant. And these are the people I worked with.

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Ruby: Pyrrha, don’t worry, I’m holy guacamole with a side of chips. *Stares at Jaune in awe* OMIGOSH YOUR ARMOR IS SO COOL!

Cinder: *Incoherent screaming*

Ruby: *Gasps at Jaune’s massive emerald longsword* Th-th-th-th-- *Goes into a pitch only dogs can hear*

Jaune: *Cuts through two more of Cinder’s swords, creates a massive riot shield to block fire* Like Crocea Mors, Rubes? *Ruby shatters glass with her voice* Just a bit of my power. Alright, enough of you.

Cinder: You dare!? I am the Fall Maiden and I will have your girlfriend’s soul!

Jaune: Uh, Weiss is nowhere near--

Pyrrha: *Slumps, mutters* Thank you for reminding me Jaune, I had almost forgotten.

Jaune: You say something Pyr?

Cinder: *Flabbergasted* Then why!? Why stand in my path!? This will only end one way, you cheat! You’re a nobody! Nothing you have can stand before the powers of the Maidens! Not your strange aura or your paltry armor!

Jaune: Because. Pyrrha’s my friend. *Pyrrha gets teary eyed* It's not about where you were born or the powers you have or what you wear on your chest; it's about what you do. It’s about your actions. And I refuse to let innocent people be hurt in your lust for power! *Disappears Crocea Mors, creates heavy shackle constructs on Cinder and a muzzle construct over her mouth* And you’re right. The Guardians of Oa will be your judgment.

Cinder: *Wide eyed, stunned at her immediate defeat*

Ruby: *Gapes, is inspired by his words*

Pyrrha: *Stunned, happy to be alive, touched*

Weiss: *Arrives* Our hero. *Smiles* So much for secrecy, huh?

Jaune: *Sheepishly* Heh, yeah. Not sure Remnant’s really ready for the Corps. and all that comes with it but no way could I call myself a Lantern if I let Pyro Lady here get her way.

Weiss: *Haughtily* Yes, quite. *Smiles cheerfully* Well the good news is you seem to have given the others a second wind. *Gestures, strokes Jaune’s cheek*

Jaune: *Stares blankly as Huntsmen and Huntress tear through Grimm like they’re barely there, sees retreating White Fang and Atlas making arrests, mowing down Grimm; Grins* All in a--

Grimm Dragon: *Roars*

Cinder: *Eyes widen in glee*

Weiss: *Clutches Jaune’s side, aims Myrtenaster*

Jaune: AAAHHH! DRAGON! Trust in instincts!

*Giant green penis construct forms above the Dragon and slams down onto it, crushing the body*

Cinder: *Goes into catatonic shock*

Jaune: *Ignores Weiss pounding on his chest as she blushes furiously* Instincts bad!

Grimm Dragon: *Dies feeling oddly humiliated*

Weiss: Why!? Of all the things, why t-t-t-t-t-t-t-that!

Jaune: *Embarrassed, not making eye contact with a stunned Ruby or Pyrrha, defends himself* I didn’t hear you complaining last night when I made to-scale copies of Jaune Jr. so you could get spitroasted by your boyfriend! I *realizes what he just said* Oops.

Weiss: *Mortified beyond belief* I-I, you, n-no... *Sees gaping Ruby and Pyrrha, buries her face in his cape* H-he’s lying! I-I, noooo, I hate yoooooouuu!!!!!!

Jaune: I love you too, Snow Angel. *Blushes* Well, as far as official debuts go that could have been worse.

Winter: *Sounding angry and embarrassed as she stomps up the CCT stairs* W-Weiss, I’m well aware of how happy you are in your relationship but that is no reason to allow your boyfriend to advertise to the world in s-s-such lewd detail his p-p-p-his dingaling!

Yang: *Further down the stairs, sounding pained* BAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!

Weiss: *Face is a tomato and she starts kicking an embarrassed Jaune’s armored shin*

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One: Look my Homelander avatar in the eyes and tell me Alan Scott’s armor in Kingdom Come wasn’t just made for a GL!Jaune story.

Two: Yes, that is a (very lightly) paraphrased Superman quote Jaune used.

Three: Instincts bad is a reference to a Spider-Man panel.

Four: Velvet is terribly accurate. My girlfriend is Australian and she uses ‘ripper’ regularly. It’s basically Australian for awesome.

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