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chtoyalt · 1 day

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i wish this just never happened. ugh it was so stupid, why did they think it would work?? and like, fine, they apologized, and i’m thankful for that, genuinely, but this whole situation could’ve been avoided so easily! the damage is already done, they can’t take it back! the stupidest decision ever

the way they handled it initially - they tried fucking gaslighting their audience. that’s not a "learning experience", usually people don’t need to have a "learning experience" to realise that gaslighting and lying is a big no-no. and steven's ig post, hoo boy, it was something

ugh im just. i’m glad this is over, i’m happy they listened, i’m thankful for the apology and for the thank you’s. i hope they actually learned something and not just pretending to in order to repair their public image. i hope their audience learned something, too. we probably needed this as much as they did

#watcher

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freya-fallen · 2 days

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Little Dove 5/?

You're Pro Hero Hawks' little sister. Dabi finds out and everything devolves from there.

HawksxReaderxDabi

TW: none for this chapter, but future parts may include, but are not limited to, noncon, dubcon, drugging, forced incest, yandere hawks, yandere dabi, coercion, lying, manipulation, grooming (of an 18 year old character), obsession, gaslighting...

Part 1

Keigo is still home when you wake up, a rare occurrence given his hours. You stare down at your phone to read through a few texts from Dabi and look up when you hear an abrupt sound. Your brother is making scrambled eggs wearing your frilly apron and a pair of boxers. You can’t help but giggle at the sight of him whistling a little flourish while he flips the spatula through the air.

“‘Morning, Dove. Sleep well?”

You blush, remembering that you fell asleep while Keigo was preening your wings. You’d woken, tangled in sheets and diagonal across the mattress. “Did I steal the covers last night?”

He grins that heartbreaking grin of his that comes so naturally when he’s around you. “Only a little. I kept plenty warm, considering you were half on top of me.

“I’m sorry.”

He bats away the apology. “If it bothered me, we’d have separate beds. You’ve always been clingy in your sleep.”

To be fair, so is he. It’s a remnant of your childhood, when you were each other’s only real family. You still are, but now you have a stable life to go along with your relationship.

There was a time Keigo left. It was sometime after your father was finally arrested, when your memories become a blur for a while. You know you were hungry and cold and sad. Your mother was annoyed at your complaints, but there was nothing she could do about them. She yelled at Keigo, called him useless, and he took off.

You think you saw him once after that, then nothing.

For a little while, you stayed alone with your mother. She rarely helped you with clothes or food or anything, really, so you quickly became a mess of a child. By the time the HPSC dropped in to pluck you from Tomie’s grasp, you were in such deplorable state that Keigo became furious when you saw him.

It was in the penthouse, your now-home. He’d fought with the commission to get a place for you, and a separate one for your mother. When you asked why, he always shrugged and muttered something about everyone being happier this way.

Keigo had run across the bare floor and dropped to his knees to look at you. “Did mom hurt you?” His hands were warm on your shoulders, his eyes boring into your own. You shook your head. “Did she feed you?” he asked next, to which you shrugged. Keigo sighed, glanced up at an adult and said, “Go get her something to eat.”

It was the first time you ever heard Keigo give a command.

Your brother guides you to the table, snapping you from your memories. He has a full plate and orange juice all laid out.

“Thank you, Keigo.”

He beams. “You’re welcome.” He has made himself a plate with more food than yours. He spends all day most days out on patrol and apparently flying takes a lot of energy, so he keeps fueled. You’ve always marveled at how much he can scarf down per meal.

Your phone buzzes and he frowns at it. “Just a friend from school,” you explain, though you have the phone upside down, so it’s not like you can see the screen. He hums in response.

“Do you have the day off?” Hope lays thick in your voice. You’d promised to see Dabi later, but he’d understand that Keigo is home.

He shakes his head. “No, I just had a little time this morning. Sorry, Dove. I know I owe you some one-on-one time, but things are hectic at work right now.”

You know what that’s code for. “The commission has you on a special mission, huh?” You hate when this happens. They suck the life out of your brother, promising him the moon for one more little favor. It never ends; you know they’ve sent him to do things he shouldn’t, things he won’t talk about to anyone, but especially you. He could never ruin your image of him; it would break him.

You tell him you’ll love him anyway, but he just shakes his and smiles sadly.

“Yeah. It’s a really important one, though. It might stop a war.”

“Does it have to do with that guy who fought All Might?” you ask. He’s behind bars, but maybe he has some sort of team who can take over his evil plans.

Keigo bites his lip. “You know I can’t tell you anything about it.”

“Yeah, yeah, secret squirrel stuff.” You raise a hand in defeat. “I know.”

“The secretest.” He puts your plates in the dishwasher after you’ve both cleared them, then pulls you into his arms for a hug. “I told them I’m taking a break after this one. I need it. We’ve all been working our asses off since All Might retired, but the flame man and I most of all.”

His heart is a steady beat against your ear. You wrap your arms around your brother and take in how much stronger he is than you. Even without him feathers, he could throw you over his shoulder. He takes his work seriously, despite his carefree appearance. You squeeze him, aware of how strong some villains are and how small your brother is compared to some. “You promise?”

Keigo rubs your back. “I promise. They won’t get anything outta me for at least a month.”

“A month?” The idea thrills you; you’ve never gotten to spend that much time free with him.

“Yep, just you and me. We can do anything, go anywhere.”

You grin up at him. “I can’t wait.”

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animatedtext · 2 years

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#That's not gaslighting. That's just lying.#gif #animatedtext #wordart #transparent

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dolybun · 20 days

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do you get it now?

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maounteighn · 1 month

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the bride and the ugly ass groom

*derogatory*

*lovingly*

#moral orel #more like 'the bride and the cheating lying gaslighting scum on earth ugly rat ass groom'#and 'the bride and the receding hairline in his 20s immature emotionally absent prone to addictions ugly ass groom'#principal fakey #millie spraybooth #clay puppington #bloberta hymentact #and in case of ms sculptham and mary plotwhist it would be just the bride and the bride both stunning and beautiful #the bride and the ugly ass groom

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autism-alley · 26 days

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ik it’s been forever in internet time but i’m gonna die mad abt the way the live action atla show got a good amount of backlash and criticism from the fanbase meanwhile the pjo show was THAT horrendous and the fanbase treats critics like they’re out to kill their mother. as someone in both fandoms am i crazy bc i keep fucking seeing people say yes 💀 like!! these shows, whose original series were both about a 12 year old boy born with godlike powers going on quests with his friends to save the world, released in the 2000s, and had a shitty movie adaptation, now reboots released within weeks of each other, both committed nearly identical crimes of character assassination, exposition dumping, dumbing down their source material, sanitizing “problematic” elements (that the characters originally had to overcome), and wasting actor potential (also at least live action atla had good action scenes CANNOT say the same for the pjo show)—and i’m seeing like mainstream(ish) social media coverage of new atla show critique by people with millions of followers all across different sites, but nothing even close to that for the pjo show?? if that coverage exists for the pjo show somebody fucken send it to me bc like!! the pjo series is Not an unpopular series, i get it’s a book series and not a tv series so i didn’t expect the popularity to be exactly the same, but Damn! i feel like i need an hours long video essay comparing the two audience reactions to these series’ first season releases bc they were WIDLY different

#i need a full blown analysis someone pls scratch the itch in my brain i can’t put it all into words #like atla remake had the og creators packing their bags meanwhile author of pjo out here lying to his fans abt the show #what the fuck is that about #anyways this is a petty post and not my best put #not directed at the atla fanbase at all!! none of the pettiness for y’all #i am looking the pjo fandom dead in the eyes like just??#why the fuck pjo fans gaslighting the hell out of anybody who breathes wrong on the show??#like actual gaslighting. that term gets thrown around a lot but i mean gaslighting for real even from people in my personal life #the atla fandom has its Moments don’t get me wrong i’m in both but can we have a little bit of sanity in the pjo show fandom #pjo show crit #pjo tv crit #anti pjo show #and i guess #natla show crit #anti natla #natla criticism

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thatonedudeinthecorner · 10 months

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Arthur: so what do you do for work?

Merlin: I’m an actor

Arthur: I haven’t seen you in anything. What’ve you acted in? Shows? Movies?

Merlin: well, I’m acting right now as if there isn’t insane sexual tension between us

Arthur: what???

Merlin: what.

#merlin bbc #merlin #merlin memes #arthur pendragon #merlin emrys #modern merlin #modern merthur #merthur #memes #merlin is trending??????#merlin flirts but like takes it very seriously #his job is actually to flirt with Arthur #camelot #maybe a modern au #idk what this is #i thought it was funny #I just imagine this is like some coffee shop au or something dumb #arthur knows what Merlin does for work and he’s just lying #merlin is a gaslighter at heart

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jealousdoll · 5 months

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hhhhhhfuck. want to be in a group lobby with a bunch of boys playing all sorts of different co-op and they're all happily bantering over mic. when one of the more 'polite' boys asks why you're only typing and use so many cutesy emojis/emoticons as they're casually discussing the next game, you suddenly get shy. oh. it finally came up. all's been lighthearted, maybe even playfully flirty at most sometimes. they start to notice other nuances, such as the way you get "flustered" and are way more expressive than typical dudes who are chronically online. unless you're a total fruitcake, who unironically in chat says "petite and breedable? no- petite, breedable and kidnappable! ~ ଘ꒰⑅ ´ ˘ ` ⑅ ꒱♡" ... least to say it caught some of the boy's attention. just being put on the spot is almost enough to elicit a confession or reveal, but you kept your wits even if your brain is so damn fuzzy.

until they suddenly put two and two together with all the damning clues to realize: ...... you're a girl. a female.

not just a random from a public group's link getting found through some obscure tag online, but a girl that was from a group chat and had been concealing this info, and other now-desired details, for at least a few months. the tension over the collective call would be intoxicating. the emotional charge, the lowkey intimidation, the bated hesitation in replies, the private groups created just to have disgusting side chats, all occurring without her even knowing that every message has nothing but raunchy barely legal claims from each member after hearing the "news". no shame. boundaries? never heard of them. dick's hard, don't care.

something shifts and it gets... weird. one or two of the boys suddenly "have to go", but are just too embarrassed to admit they're so excited just as the concept there's been a girl in the group the entire time (what does she look and sound like? what is she into besides games? what does she look like when you pull her cute stupid hair and act like she's your little si-), while some suddenly got quiet or had a supposed 'mood shift'. just a simple piece of somehow-crucial knowledge caused a fat fucking stir and its apparently such a spectacle she suddenly worries they're talking separately without her.

she's late, but she's right.

eventually the one boy who ever introduced her to this hormonal gaggle of imps caves into his supposed "friend's" requests to see this mystery girls face. and he may or may not have gotten a a photo of her adorable tits months ago when she was drunk and lonely. god forbid you have a moment of weakness, huh? well, that weakness and vulnerability is what gets your no-longer friends (try fuckbuddies and new stalkers, honey) off. not that you'll ever know, dumbass.

he betrays your false sense of trust and security and before you know it, multiple dudes are posting cum tributes to the newly-created smutty general chat, sharing increasingly fucked up fantasies as time goes on. all while you flounder, almost alone with barely any context. but don't worry, your scumbag discord bestie is dick in sweaty hand as he halfassedly 'reassures' you how you're still safe, anonymous, good with him. yeah... good with him. for him. all of them would agree. he kind of likes how desperate and so damn stupid you are. makes you out to be like some ditzy little sister. fuck. he could get used to that. not like you have a choice. him and his friends own your pathetic clueless ass. they want nothing more than to see you drooling on their dicks like a thoughtless puppy, mind broken and muddled only for sex- only for them. don't hurt yourself thinking so hard, you won't have time to with them beating a path to your shithole apartment's door to violate you day after day anyways. some are already trying to find your other socials, any hint to where your sweet brainless fuckholes might live.

aren't you so lucky? what cool friends you have, sweetheart.

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emberglowfox · 6 months

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i hate having memory issues

#“if you cared you would remember” / people thinking youre lying to them about things you did/didn't do / i am incredibly easy to gaslight #entire chunks of my recent life just. gone without warning #people who know more about me than i do myself #why cant i have a functioning brain #vent #sparks speaks #re the gaslight thing my psychosis + memory issues + regular weird realistic and/or semi-prophetic timeline dreams make me #incredibly prone to questioning reality and manipulable all the time. and i hate it #i wish i could believe in my own senses #unreality mention

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sollucets · 7 months

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wrote a whole long post that didn't make sense because i'm a fic writer not a meta writer and the point comes down to this: sand and ray are both Such Bad Liars

they have honest faces. nobody, in-universe or in the audience, is ever really fooled when they pretend things are other than they are.

when sand is hurt you can tell, it's in every line of his body. ray is expressive and straightforward but hides his hurt a little better, not because he's better at lying but because the hurt hardly ever goes away.

ray can see sand freezing up and looking upset when he's called a friend or not prioritized, he can see the lie, but it doesn't matter compared to what sand's actually saying and what it'll mean if it's (not) true. he's gotten a lesson recently about pushing. and sand, i think, can see ray caring but he can't imagine it could be enough, that he could matter the most or be a priority. when ray calls sand a whore it's the only lie he told that night and sand knows it

when they hurt each other sand lies and pulls away and ray can tell, and similarly ray lies and pulls away and sand can tell, and theyre stuck in limbo because of it. awful. hate it. 10000 more just like it please

#again as always there are other layers #ray pulls back out of self-loathing (less of me will always be better for the other person) and a sort of clumsy kindness and fear #sand lies out of wounded pride and longing for something he can only get through pretending and out of self-preservation and out of fear #sand is sometimes so honest it hurts (and when he is you can see ray falling in real time)#and ray lies too now and again to try to keep people from seeing just how bad it's got #also to be clear this applies to sand's girlboss gaslight manipulation moment too #like he's better at it than regular lying because he's had time to prepare but ray still sees straight through it #just bc ray ends up telling mew anyway doesn't mean he can't see sand's ulterior motives from a mile off #this is very melodramatic of me i know but like. this is how i have to get my shit out they are rotating in my brain 24/7 #i am actually also writing fic in another tab as we speak im literally overflowing constantly thinking about them #rowan chatter #re: only friends

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fathervalley · 1 year

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here’s a tip! before you use the word “gaslight” in any context, ask yourself: could what you’re talking about also be described as both “abusive” and “manipulative?”

if the answer was “yes,” good news! odds are, you know what words mean!

if the answer was “no,” please google what gaslighting means, because you probably need a reminder.

#jg og #gaslighting mention #ohhh my god ITS A TYPE OF ABUSE. ITS A TYPE OF ABUSE #a writer cannot gaslight you through a story thats just called lying to the audience #literally. shut the fuck up for a million years

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fallowtail · 9 months

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#cbs ghosts #ghosts cbs #hetty woodstone #she's doing her best okay #her best just happens to be not good at all #woman can gaslight like a champ but when it comes to lying she flops and i love that for her #she said >:3 #mine #you clunk hetty and trevors head together and can hear their singular walnut rattle around #h-money

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lazyveran · 2 months

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i think my strangest azula characterisation is that she doesnt remember her and zuko's agni kai duel. like at all. apart from the end with katara and zuko she just has entire chunks of her memory missing from that day and the previous two weeks too

#azula #atla #veran speaks #this is mostly because schizophrenia induces memory loss and a severe psychotic break like azulas. yeah #also shes a child so she'd blank out one of the most traumatic memories of her life probably #potential for azula to panic bc she doesnt remember and zukos trying to talk to her so she just starts gaslighting. badly #and katara can just make shit up abt the agni kai and azula doesnt know. is she lying. is it true. is her humiliation for all time.#as a treat. for katara.

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15-lizards · 3 months

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#asoiaf shitposting #nights watch last bc they barely qualify #just a bunch of dls and stealths who have never once spoken to their roommates of seven months #dragonstone polycule sweep #communally raising/traumatizing a child together while gaslighting eachother #shy maid dark horse winner?#includes tyrion who probably shouldn’t be around children and griff whos lying about his age to live there

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p3talll · 5 months

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#girl boss fr #emergency intercom #drew phillips #drew and enya #enya umanzor #i’m just a girl #girlhood #gaslight gatekeep girlboss #lying #peeta mellark #girlblogging #girlblog

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magpie-trove · 7 days

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Time to remind you all of my bad taste (absolutely devastated over the way Ward AoS’s arc went)

#I know he was awful that’s the point! there was a little bit of good there and I wanted it to come out so bad!!#and I HATED when he did start telling the truth and it was proven time and again and then they were like lol stop begging us not to send yo #to your abuser we’re gonna do it anyways #like listen you could see him teetering and you can SEE how they become opportunities of sin instead of grace for him #like if somebody had just showed him grace!!#ok anyways it was just a lot for me ok #but the whole opportunities of sin and grace for each other thing was FORMATIVE to me #still a foundation of my worldview #also just remembered the Framework arc my beloved #weird thing to be beloved but here we are #also foundational to me #also shoutout (negative) to Wards brother that guy is still the scariest villain I’ve seen #cause I 100% knew he was lying and still started to go is he though??#I don’t like being gaslighted in my own home

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