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This fight still rots my brain
Zorooooo u're missing out
only true allies kiss their best friend at a concert, drops so many hairpins about her, and then write multiple albums about her over the span of like 10 yrs, obviously.
Taylor Swift planting the seeds of allyship in 2014
Thinking about rare quirk mutations.
Like... there are so many characters (especially villains omg) where if they had just. developed a normal quirk/their family quirk/were quirkless they wouldn't have been plot relevant at all really.
You have Shigaraki, and Toga, and Eri (plus some that I feel are maybe implied but I'm not 100% on) and the only reason why they are here and important is because they developed a powerful quirk at a sucky time and doomed themselves at least a little.
Shigaraki obviously (and I may be missing some lore here but wtv) who just so happens to develop a devastating quirk immediately after a terrible fight with his family so it's the perrrrfect time to just disintegrate all of them
Eri who develops her quirk and of course the first thing she rewinds is her dad and then she gets sent away/experimented on.
I almost want to say "quirk singularity" but these aren't powers that increased in strength over generations and generations. These are just random mutations that are powerful AF and fate these kids to crappy lives because how are you supposed to live normally with power that immense??
Something something, "If you put the power of a God into the hands of a child, something's going to go awry."
What's a little murder without homoeroticism, and what's a little homoeroticism without murder?
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sometimes i pronounce ASMR the same way that kid from lord of the flies pronounces asthma
LOTF Characters and Email Sign-Offs:
Jack - ‘Regards,’
Maurice - ‘Ciao,’
Sam - ‘Thanks,’
Simon - ‘Best wishes,’
Roger - no sign-off
Ralph - ‘Kisses,’
Eric - ‘Peace ✌️,’
Piggy - ‘Sincerely,’
(Yes, these include emails to companies like Amazon.)
This is now canon in my head k
What headcanons do you guys have for LOTF characters and the subjects they’d study at university? I’m curious.
Mine are:
Jack - law (Jack is just peak law-student vibes. Typical overachieving head boy, head chorister, likes to pick arguments with everyone, theatrical enough to appreciate the showmanship of being a lawyer.)
Maurice - chemistry (okay, hear me out, I just feel like Maurice could be that guy who seems like just a memer on the surface but is actually really smart. Plus bad chemistry puns.)
Ralph - Either French or English Lit (Ralph’s a fairly emotional person, so either studying a Romance language like French, which is a fairly passionate, emotional language, or English Lit, with all the romanticism it involves, would probably suit him.)
Roger - geology (The boy likes rocks, okay?)
Simon - Philosophy (I was really torn between this and Religious Studies, but between his whole ‘the beast is inside of us’ revelation, and the fact that I really want him to be a mini Chidi Anagonye, it checks out.)
Sam - Chemistry (It would just highly amuse me if one twin were really nerdy and academically inclined, and the other...Less so. Plus, all the chemistry puns with Maurice.)
Eric - Film Studies (Eric is 100% that annoying sibling who talks during films, so if he did film studies, he could interject with stuff he’d learned in class. Plus, Ralric book vs movie debates.)
Piggy - Sociology (Very interested in the workings of society, probably enjoys bringing up and debating various points. Loudly remarks that the likes of Jack and Roger are what’s causing societal breakdown.)
Famous last words (if they were realistic)
cannot stop thinking about this skit from the new i think you should leave season
The core of Catra and Adria’s relationship is that they value each other more than any mistake the other could or did make. Something about seeing that kind of forgiveness and grace in a context that very clearly parallels ex Christian experiences rewires my brain.
(rigging is a work in progress) sorry for the lack of art lately, i’ve been…. working on something.
….please, take a look. thank You
Isn't Jay like... canonically really pretty? I mean his dad was an actor and his mum was LIBBER, guys. LIBBER.
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rocks
i was at the beach with my family yesterday. we picked up pretty rocks that we liked, by ourselves. my cousin showed me one that he liked, and i got my uncle to wash off one that i liked in the ocean. my rocks are different from my brother’s rocks, which are different from my aunt’s rocks, and on and on through my family. but we all picked up rocks.
the thing is, that beach isn’t particularly lonely. it wasn’t crowded, but we certainly weren’t the only ones picking stones.
it got me thinking about how so many people have done the same thing: picked up pretty rocks at that beach. but i saw my pretty rocks, and i didn’t really look at the rocks that my dad did, or that my cousin did. and so many people have picked up their pretty rocks but ignored the ones i found, the ones i have now.
there’s a metaphor in there somewhere, i know it.
“what kind of things did you do?”
and it’s regulus listing all the horrible things he’s done since getting the mark to killing the dark lord
“only my husband knew that / so i guess that makes him you”
and it’s james still accepting him despite despite despite because he did it to keep them safe and made his way back to him in the end
the paul simon - funny moments video is a pillar of our society i think
your mother wouldn't approve how my mother raised me, but i do, i finally do.
...and it's exceedingly short, his galloping life. Dogs die so soon. I have my stories about that grief, no doubt many of you do also. It is almost a failure of will, a failure of love, to let them grow old - or so it feels. We would do anything to keep them with us, and keep them young. The one gift we cannot give.
from Dog Songs by Mary Oliver
Do you guys ever feel AI generated?
Like, you feel vaguely out of place, like you're human enough but not quite there, your reaction time is a little slow and you can't really keep up with complex thoughts? Like you just regurgitate what you've heard before, everything that's good about you isn't original and everything that's original about you isn't good? Like you imitate the emotions of the people around you but can't seem to reach that point where you don't have to think about what you're feeling? Like you're where you're supposed to be when you're supposed to be there but something just under your skin feels wrong?
Because yeah, I feel pretty AI generated.