So I've been thinking.

Icarus and Arachne clearly have some situationships going on (Arachne's is triggered when Mel gives her ambrosia and it looks to be mutual unless something else changes). They are both shades LIs (2)

Eris and Nemesis both clearly also have situationships with Melinoe. They are both female god LIs and daughters of Nyx (2).

Moros is highly implied (like the foreshadowing is very thick) to be a potential LI for Melinoe. He is a male god and son of Nyx (1). If we look at the pattern going on so far, we're missing one male god love interest. Who could that be?

Now, it's entirely possible that it's a god not yet included in Early Access and has to be patched in with development. But also. Melinoe has had a parasocial relationship with Hypnos going on since forever. She gives him great reverence/interest with him. She clearly is into babygirl" men. It would be wild, and I say wild, if the final male LI established is Hypnos. Once you wake him that is.

Did u see these posts: https://linkspooky.tumblr.com/post/744136721881530368/hello-friend-i-thought-id-use-your-post-as-a . https://linkspooky.tumblr.com/post/744086250489774080/so-i-was-genuinely-surprised-last-week-when-we ? Honestly, I think am starting to dislike the Megumi & Killua comparisons more than I ever maybe did the Killua & Gojo ones (like I also saw a comment saying Megumi is smarter than Killua, and I don't think Megumi is dumb, but like how?). I'm not saying Megumi is a bad character, but he is not (imo) better-written or have a better arc than Killua (who has one of the best arcs ever).

P.S: Off topic from me complaining about Killua getting compared to JJK characters (which I was mostly neutral towards doing, but now, I might be becoming a bit less neutral). Great and pretty Palm, LeoPika, and Illumi's art u just reblogged!

The biggest problem with what that person writes is the value judgement. I don’t necessarily disagree with the stuff they say about Megumi, at least they see that Gojou forced Megumi into being a sorcerer and that’s rare. They also seem to acknowledge Megumi’s character flaws, even if I don’t exactly agree with every argument they make about him. And I especially don’t agree with how they compare Tsumiki to Alluka. 

They are right that Megumi tries to use others, Tsumiki and then Yuuji as justifications for his existence. And it’s true Killua uses the people he loves as a crutch because he has no goals of his own, because all his life the goals of others were forced onto him and he’s really lost at the beginning of HxH. 

The difference is that Killua’s relationships with Gon, Alluka and Nanika are very deep, he also grows close with others: Ikalgo, Palm, Bisky and Leorio, there’s clear potential for him developing a friendship with Canary. Killua also projects to some extent onto Gon, and onto Alluka too. But that’s something everyone does. Killua does it to a normal extent, the Gon in Killua’s mind is partially imagined and greatly coloured by Killua’s crush, but Killua quite often actually understands how Gon feels, or accurately reads the situation between them. The things he tells Gon don’t make Gon worse because they feed into Gon’s issues.

He does enable Gon, and he doesn't know how to help Gon after Kite's death, but his presence still helps Gon in those moments. He doesn't make gon better but he doesn't make him worse either, they are just two kids who are in a situation that's just too much for them to handle.

When Killua tries to enforce what he thinks is best onto Alluka and Nanika, Alluka puts him in his fucking place and he very clearly understands what he did wrong. Because he’s capable of seeing Alluka as a real person, he can see past the image of Alluka that exists in his head. 

Megumi’s relationships with Tsumiki and Yuuji are superficial, bordering on parasocial. The things Megumi tells Yuuji make Yuuji contract Megumi’s cog mentality. Megumi acts like he knows shit, how he's very smart and Yuuji buys into that, because Megumi reads a lot and knows long words. And Megumi also buys into that, and thinks he can talk with authority about who's to blame for what. Or which people deserve to be saved.

Megumi barely spends time with Yuuji in an active way, he just passively tags along and frowns and sighs, and he downright rejects Tsumiki and everything she stood for when she was conscious. He’s upset that Yuuji lashes out at Hana because Yuuji is mourning Nobara so fucking deeply. Megumi is taken aback because he never mourned Nobara, he never tried to get close to her, but more importantly, despite him thinking he cares about Yuuji, he has absolutely no clue how Yuuji is feeling. He projects his own idea as to who Yuuji is onto Yuuji. Yuuji the good selfless person who needs to be protected by Megumi but not engaged with, not reached out to. He has no idea who Yuuji really is or how he feels, nor does Megumi care. He never cared what Tsumiki felt or who she really was, and the whole situation with the bridge showed very clearly that Tsumiki led a life of her own and Megumi didn’t even know, and likely it wasn’t a completely pure and uwu life. But to Megumi what matters are his own made up versions of these two people. 

And this is actually okay, these are flaws and they are a consistent characterisation. I don’t like Megumi much but I will defend his right to be flawed, I will defend him from all the Gojou fans who pretend Gojou didn’t make a child soldier out of a little kid. Or who pretend that it isn’t clear that Gojou left Tsumiki and Megumi to fend for themselves in their daily life and just borrowed Megumi to force him to work so the two kids had a place to live and other necessities. And I will defend Megumi from anyone who tries to deny him his right to a fucking mental breakdow.

But what they write about Killua is extremely shallow, the mentions of Gon and Yuuji, and the paragraph about Maki, those are downright upsetting. They show very clearly that they will write whatever needed to prop up their fav. And I really don’t get what drives people to do this kinda stuff.

They honestly undermine their arguments (some very solid) about how nice Megumi’s arc is, because they can’t just argue their case. No, they need to bring another character into it and attack that character. It’s always a foolish thing to do. I get that they might not like Killua as much or think he’s overrated. But Killua was not needed for their argument. Everything they get wrong about Killua weakens their arguments about Megumi. And Killua’s relationships with his close ones really highlight the issue with Megumi’s. And the person never addresses that. 

I think I’ve seen maybe their posts or similar posts about Megumi, not exactly comparing him to Killua, but for example posts about how he’s the true MC of JJK, where Megumi’s fans argued about how complex Megumi is and how there’s nothing to Yuuji. And this person’s posts are just written to prop up Megumi by dismissing and discrediting other characters. 

The JJK fandom is vicious to most characters that aren’t sexymen. Megumi is much more liked in the fandom than Yuuji, but yeah, one can consider him disliked if one compares him to how people are about Gojou, Getou, Nanami, Touji, Chousou, Higuruma, Sukuna or even Kusakane, Shu and Ino. Also as they rightly notice Megumi isn’t overpowered so he gets a lot of shit, something Yuuta never gets. As to Maki, this person clearly doesn’t give a shit about her, so not only they very clearly didn’t pay attention to Maki post Mai’s death, they also have no idea what the fandom says about Maki. 

They also write as if the way the fandom treats Megumi is unique, when Yuuji gets that far more and over everything. Even Sukuna got that just because in the battle of JJK sexymen, Gojou truly is the strongest and his fans are fucking rabid and allergic to canon and the text of JJK. 

Gege’s love for HxH somehow creates the need in the JJK fans to compare the two stories and their respective characters, and I’ve never seen it done right. In this case it really just cheapens what they were trying to say.

I’ll never understand the appeal of fanservice.

Like, am I alone in absolutely not caring about celebrities real lives at all? I love the things they make (like the characters they play or the music they make) but I usually know next to nothing about who the actor/musician/artist etc. is behind it and I don’t want to. Those are real people, not content for me to consume. I want them to have privacy and I regard them as completely separate entities from the things they make.

Sometimes I feel like I’m the only one with this hard line separating fiction and reality.

not enough lust for hosea matthews tbh. this is supposed to be the old man fucking website, why do I not see any posts about sucking HOSEA's dick until his stomach caves in like a capri sun

the way the blue lions love felix so – the way they want to reach him but he’s always just beyond their grasp – felix who went away from himself after his brother’s death, after being told it was something honourable and true, after seeing his best friend relish in killing – severing all string to everyone and everything, screaming abuse, almost begging them to leave him, all so they won’t have to die like glenn did – and yet they still reach, and still love

Celebrity blockout 2024

After the tone deaf met gala, a lot of people are starting a movement where we block and unfollow all celebrities and influencers on social media.

These celebrities become irrelevant without our following and blocking prevents them from gaining any ad revenue from us.

This is the start of the awakening process where celebrities are exposed and class consciousness arises. Celebrity worship and the gap between the rich and the poor is being brought to light.

Kim Kardashian has already lost 3 million followers on insta. It's working.

TLDR:

1. Block all celebrities and influencers on social media, including their products and companies. (Taylor Swift, the Kardashians, Haley Baylee, Bill Gates, JLo)

To go even further: 2. Block all news & media sites that promote celebrities like SNL, Vogue, TMZ, Enews, etc.

3. Block major corporations like Amazon and especially the fast food corporations that profit off of making us sick. No more Taco Bell or Chick-fil-A ads. We can't let them advertise to us anymore. Enough is enough.

4. Find ways to support your local businesses (like farmer's markets) and promote platforms that are doing good for people. Start a garden this summer, boycott processed food and corrupt food brands like Kelloggs. Find ways to be more self-sufficient.

If you have any more ideas to add about how we can continue making change please comment them! This just the start

YES! All of this is crucial, but I want to put emphasis on blocking.

It's so important. I've been saying this since Andrew Tate.

It didn't matter if he meant what he was saying, it didn't matter if it was all real or a persona, your attention served his pockets.

Stop giving these ridiculous people your attention when it's so clearly what they want.

Your attention is how they profit. It's the new currency.

Your attention means views means likes means reposts means engagement means money.

Even when you comment to criticize, even when you share a video to discuss their problematic behaviour with friends, you're boosting them.

Influencers and celebrities need people's eyes on their platforms, this is how they make their cash and how they ensure that their presence reaches new audiences with every minute.

Your very gaze drawn to them through the screen is what allows them to remain so comfortable in their position that they're tone deaf.

Block them.

"lolol i know the set's gonna be awkward because of #him 🥴" or maybe you should just stop assuming about what celebrities think or feel

blocked anon get off your self-righteous high horse

also my therapist said I could say kill yourself a long time ago so

i love letting random people on the internet assume that they know anything about my life while also assuming that their input has any value to me

I love that living in your 20s just means rediscovering the things that brought you joy as a young person! I was on Tumblr in 2015, obsessed with Destiel, Supernatural, Sherlock, Johnlock, then took a long hiatus until about a year ago. I did not ever have realistic hopes that my ships would become cannon, but I was a gay teen and clung to them happily! It is making me extremely happy to see destiel still relevant because of a bi character on a completely different show. I'm very happy for you guys. Here's to the bisexuals who never got to be bi, and this 911 dude carrying the torch. :))))

Thinking about David talking in that podcast about how he didn’t want to be just “the Latino superhero”, but then starting to realise what that representation meant to people and especially to young people and just.. the stark difference between s1&2 Diego where his race was never even remotely touched upon vs s3 Diego who speaks Spanish to his kid and gets to have a conversation about his experiences as a moc. I remember after s2 came out somebody asked him about Allison’s storyline revolving around the racism in the 60s she experienced as a Black woman while for Diego is was never touched upon and I can’t remember exactly what he said but it was kinda just brushed off as “I don’t think Diego would really let that stuff affect him” and idk I just think it’s really cool, with the input the actors get to have into their characters in the show, how we get to see David’s personal growth through Diego as he realises the impact he has and starts to incorporate more of his culture into the character. Like yeah there’s SO much more to Diego than just being the Latino superhero, but he IS a Latino superhero and that is so so important.

sorry i just need suit doug on my dash

Hii there's a video about parasocial relationships that you've talked about before, but i can't find it anywhere. Can you please link it here?

Thank you!!

The paper I reference all the time is:

The Development and Influence of Parasocial Relationships With Television Characters: A Longitudinal Experimental Test of Prejudice Reduction Through Parasocial Contact by Bradley J. Bond

The video is:

Imaginary friends and real-world consequences: parasocial relationships by Jennifer Barnes for TEDxOU

taylor swift has too much of a connection with her audience I think a wall would actually help her

One thing that is very apparent in today's chapter is how Adam's feelings of loneliness, and longing dictate his self taught education through the family. In regards of language Adam is learning quickly, he is also learning about emotions, and the huge importance of materials to survive. However, in regards of manners, and social interactions Adam is completely lost by having no one to teach him.

Adam doesn't understand that (from the perspective of the readers, and the family) what he is doing is creepy. Observing a family who don't know that you are there, and obsessing over them to the point that you imagine that they would react with companionship if you, a stranger, inserted themselves in their lives are really unhealthy thoughts to have. But we can't think of these actions as malicious, nor intentional because Adam doesn't have any type of base knowledge that tells him "spying on strangers is unsettling."

So Adam just keeps longing a life that he maybe will never have at the expense of the daily life of this family. Nothing cruel, but i's quite tragic to think about.