Hot take, I really don’t think we should assign human morals onto animals and call them bad or evil. Fishblr has internalised this idea really well with sharks, and I think that’s good! Sharks don’t deserve all the fearmongering they suffer from in media. But… can we please remember to extend this to other animals too? Even to intelligent animals like dolphins (most commonly bottlenose dolphins) and orcas. It seems to be a counter to pop culture’s tendency to show dolphins as complete angels when they partake in some messed up things, but like…. Dolphins are still animals? They may be able to recognize themselves in mirrors and they may have language and culture and know how to use tools but their intelligence is still on the level of a human child (and how empathetic are those!!??). I see people talk about how evil dolphins are but I never see people talking about other animals the same way, like, why aren’t sea otters and their “evilness” the topic of discussion? :/
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what if i gave rise leo BPD...
his anger manifests in the form of self-sabotage and self harm. he asks donnie to sound proof his room when they get to the new lair so he can wreck it without concerning everyone else. before that he'd sneak to the surface and wreck an already messy alleyway
his self harm is recklessness. he gets hurt in fights as much as he can and still get away with just a "please be more careful" lecture from raph
speaking of raph, his oldest brother is his favorite person. so when raph starts to brush him to the side and distrust him, he doesnt take it well. when he does something to impress raph and all he gets is "finally..." thats when he disappears for hours and comes back home with sore arms and usually some scrapes and many bruises
he becomes a medic because they can't ignore him if he helps them. plus he can get better at hiding his breakdowns if he can take care of his own injuries
he wants to be in the spotlight so bad until the spotlight shines on him and suddenly his skin fits wrong
splinter and raph brush it off as teenage hormones. donnie shuts it out. mikey is the first person to realize leo's moods aren't normal, but he doesnt want to confront the fact the bpd comes from trauma, so he tries to support leo as best he can
april doesnt realize how much leo's mood shifts until she spends a night in the lair and realizes that leo isn't as hyper as he presents himself. he tries to mask, but he's too tired and the sudden silence from leo throws april off. it creates a rift between them. even when leo is happier around april, she knows somethings wrong- knows its not quite as genuine as she thought.
she spends more time around donnie than leo and leo thinks its for the best. eventually all his brothers- all his family prefer spending time with someone thats not him. he tells himself its for the better- the less time they spend around him, the less likely he'll be upset around them and end up making them upset
leo convinces himself he's meant to be alone and puts his all into being the team medic and spends the rest of his time alone and dissociating. he hates being the leader- having everyones eyes on him all the time. watching him. waiting for him to mess up- to act out- to prove they were right not to trust him
.... idk.. just a thought
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So I always just kinda went with this scene, knowing that there was time spent traveling that we haven't seen (Orange give us filler OVAs I am begging), and thinking it was friendly banter. But I saw someone point at Vash's reply as being a little odd, and. Yeah.
He seems sad. We know it's partly about Rollo, but we've also seen his self-induced hunger strike. We've seen him refusing to let himself cry because he doesn't think he deserves it. Hell, I'm pretty sure half the time he's only pretending to sleep in the back of the car.
Vash laughs it off, but I don't think he really disagrees with Wolfwood, either.
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the people who have read the book would know how much two dimensional tom's character is and how we only get to know him through marion and patrick, both unreliable narrators because of their skewed perspective of love. neither of them are in love with tom, they're in love with the idea of tom. they're in love with this ideal, this fantasy and because of that, there's no layers to tom's character. however, the movie does a brilliant job of giving us those layers, in tiny increments, but significant nevertheless. it's in the way they show us tom heading towards patrick's house for the first time, the little nervous excitedness; in the way there's a clear contrast in the sex scenes; in the way the anxiety and fear and overwhelm that's shown when patrick and tom get intimate for the first time; in the way a drunk tom returns to patrick right after he had a brush with policemen and almost got caught; in the way he burns the uniform after patrick is arrested — the very thing he was proud of and wanted to keep ended up taking away this all encompassing feeling that he cherished even more; the way older tom sees a gay couple in public and completely crumples because he's reminiscing of the love that he lost and the helplessness of it (and to think that the it's only a matter of couple decades and how if it weren't for the choices they all made and the circumstances thrown their way, he and patrick could have been like the gay couple at the store, just older, but still ever in love); in the way he finally returns to patrick, puts his fear and guilt aside, and caresses him the same way as the first time and just feels it all. and all of this amounted to tom being a key character, a real person, rather than a culmination of other people's projection, completely changing the narrative of the story and both harry and linus roache did a brilliant, brilliant job of encapsulating this and in a way bringing tom to life.
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beauty and the beast dca au where WE are the beast because we are human and therefore imperfect. there are not many humans left because of environmental problems and robots' population dominates humans, most people escaping to what's left of forests and nature in general, fearing the peace between two will be broken. we live in a mansion left from our granfather, who worked to build animatronics so we know the stuff. all our efforts to forget what's going on the world outside of our forest is in vain when a night themed animatronic shows up on our door, looking worn out and holding a barely functioning sun themed animatronic.
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just wanted to point out something i only noticed from a comment section, but the fact that etho probably figured out where exactly grian was hiding and didn't let on at all? chef's kiss. near the end where etho suggests bringing the warden to the button he takes a pretty long glance at the tower and, just personally, I'm pretty sure he connected the dots! plus, obviously, the whole saving Cleo's life from impulse and not telling the other zombies he'd seen them! he's a team player!!
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