I seriously love LL sm but I hate half of the main characters

I hate Malcolm, Sam, Caleb, John and sometimes Daniela (depends on the book) they all infuriate me😭

ok but think about it,, minho ran three years in the maze.

meaning he had a first day of running. a first week. a first month. a first year.

so,, imagine:

he runs the inner sections first. then gradually, he runs the outer sections. mostly alone at first, until alby decides they need partners.

each day his legs becoming more tired. more sore.

he hides it. he hides the pains in his sides as he runs. he hides the pain that shoots up and down his legs from overuse. he hides the fact that his lungs feel like they could explode if he runs anymore.

he hides all of that bc he’s the fastest runner,, which eventually leads to him being named keeper.

none of the gladers know that he spends the rest of his day/night massaging his legs and stretching. none of them notice how his face twitches in pain when he sits down or stands up after sitting for too long. none of them see how hard it is for him to hide his pain not only physically but mentally as well.

one of the interesting things i thought about while brainrotting over afo and yoichis dynamic is their different way of convincing others despite how seemingly similar their methods were, how they embody the way of manipulation and persuasion. and this came up cus i was like lol kudou folded soo quick when yoichi started talking to him about helping izuku, and i was like, wait isnt that kinda like, afos tactics?? until my dumbass remembered there were actual terms for this online and searched it up

and well, the basic definiton of it both is that: manipulation is done for the manipulators own selfish benefit, while on the other hand persuasion is not for the persuaders benefit but for everyone elses, and if that doesnt represent the huge aspect on what ofa and afo is about .........

Don't know how to explain it but there's much tboy swag in this image

cant describe how nice it feels 2 see canon!vash again after bejng surrounded by fanon for days. its like waking uo from a nightmare . trimax vash my fresh glass of water

y’all will never understand how much i love him.

(HANDSOME YOU’RE A MANSION WITH A VIEW </3 !!!!)

Trying to find any fic or art of Lloyd and Nya being siblings instead of Lloyd and Kai 🤝 Trying to find Garmadon fics without Lloyd: LITERALLY FUCKING IMPOSSIBLE

Can we talk about that issue? Let's talk about that issue, I wanna talk about that issue. (Btw I love u @tiptapricot​ thank you for screaming back at me 💋❤️)

This is an analysis but before that, it fucking sent me. Incredible, amazing issue. Imo, the best of this run so far. The art is amazing as always, the writing is peak, and Mr Mackay understands the characters so well I want to ARGHH.Anyway, analysis

I wanna talk about Marc's need to be 'normal'.

Smells like internalized ableism and self hatred and guilt to me. A lot of it too, bottled up from years of serving a manipulative asshole god who takes advantage of him (among other things) that Marc absolutely refuses to acknowledge.

No one trusts him because they think he's 'crazy', he can't trust himself because he has to be in control of everything 24/7 and that's kind of not possible when Jake or Steven are fronting, he can't trust anyone else because he doesn't believe he's capable of anything more than violence. This is the guy who was a mercenary, a war criminal for years until he ‘spontaneously grew a conscious’. It took him dying in a desert at the foot of a moon god and being resurrected to flip a switch for the semi-better. How the hell is someone like that capable of anything remotely good?

But instead of acknowledging that guilt and resentment he has for himself, Marc redirects it into blaming everything on having D.I.D. No one trusts him because they think he's 'crazy', he can't trust himself because he has to be in control of everything 24/7 and that's kind of not possible when Jake or Steven are fronting, he can't trust anyone else because he doesn't believe he's capable of anything more than violence.

Which, back to pushing people away. Marc doesn't believe he's capable of love or being loved. So, he does what he does often, deny deny deny. He ‘never wanted to be loved’ and that makes him a winner, because he never had anything to lose. But like Jake correctly calls out (god his and Steven's fucking call outs were so on point I want to kiss them), Marc's a liar.

“Everyone wants to be loved. Even you.”

They're a system, a team, parts of a whole. Jake loved Marlene, Steven loved Marlene, Marc loved Marlene. They all love Diatrice,  they all love Frenchie, they all love everyone they've brought into their lives as friends and lovers and teammates. Marc has loved people and has always wanted to be loved but he can't imagine the same ever happening to him because in his mind, Marc Spector is unlovable. Marc Spector is a bundle of contradictions who his father was ashamed of and sent away to a psychiatric hospital to try to fix. Marc Spector is the guy who punched his dad and killed his brother and cut off people's faces and puts everyone in danger all the time.

He’s scared of getting close to people, letting people in, but then is just as terrified of losing it all, of Steven or Jake swooping in and being ‘better’ than him, of taking it from him because they somehow deserve it more. He perpetuates his own endless cycle of violence by never allowing himself to think he can be better, think he already is better. He wants to reinvent himself rather than change. He continues to want to be anyone but Marc Spector (hence his insistence on always being referred to as Mr. Knight, hence why we rarely see him out of the mask in this run aside from when he’s at his most vulnerable. Spilling his heart out to Greer or recovering from almost dying. And the most interesting thing is, the first thing Steven does once he fronts aside from, you know, not killing Zodiac, is turn around to face Reese and take off the mask. And what do you know, the first time Reese sees their face, the first time he’s completely vulnerable, is when Marc isn’t in control.)

So surely, anyone who's ever seen anything remotely good in him must be lying, anyone who's ever loved him back must be delusional or just as 'crazy' as him and they’d come to their senses soon enough. It’s an endless cycle that Marc has no control over because he’ll always find a way to fuck up and drive them away. So he pushes everyone away and tries as hard as he can to be normal because that's the only thing left for Marc to be the one thing he wishes he was. He wishes he was likable like Jake and charismatic like Steven, he wishes he was a decent human being, someone worth anyone’s time of day, but he'll always be Marc Spector 'who makes the wrong choice every time.'

Buuuut, he isn't alone, he isn’t unlovable. Yes he’s made mistakes, done terrible things, and he’ll continue to make mistakes and be flawed. But. He isn’t the worst version of himself and Jake and Steven aren’t better versions of him. They aren’t anything but themselves, no worse or better than the others because they all exist for each other.

He's never been alone and never will be, which is the beauty of it. He had Marlene and Frenchie and Crawley and Gena before, and he's got Reese and Soldier and Greer and Dr. Badr now. And of course, ✨urbane, sophisticated, charming and avuncular scoundrel my beloveds✨

Marc is so busy trying to fit into the archetypal role of stoic antihero, the guy who doesn't work well with others or need anyone else and gets shit done on his own, he's so busy trying to cast off the old image of 'crazy, unpredictable, uncontrollable, violent' vigilante that he forgets he doesn't have to fit into anything. It's like that thing he said earlier in the run, he's not Spider-Man or The Punisher. He doesn't have to be anything except who Marc Spector is, they don't have to be anything but Moon Knight, together. Which means giving up some control, letting himself be loved.

“…We’re going to have to do it together.”

When he says that at the end, yea, fuck yea. Because there's no other way he— they could do it but together.

i need every wwdits watcher to accept that what we had in s3 is forever gone and that we must move on now. instead can we please discuss how we feel about guillermo's entire existence (within the story) being about wanting to become a vampire and him suddenly deciding he didnt want to be one anymore after about *checks watch* five minutes of being properly turned. all because he (a serial killer) felt bad about having to kill people

you guys never adam parrish post anymore... remember when you guys used to adam parrish post ...

I was doing another rewatch bc of the announcement Yadda Yadda and I just realized that

In Episode 2, AB has his eyes shut until Reagan introduces him, at which point he immediately opens his eyes. Which suggests he was awake and listening,,,,,

This man sat there, pretending to be asleep for an undisclosed amount of time instead of just. saying hi. maybe doing some small talk. AB you absolute dork I want to push you down the stairs <3

like i think every time rome would start to think ab it he’d be like ‘dad wouldn’t care if i called him a cunt are you kidding me it’s dad i’m me’ and i think logically he’d know how unlikely it is. but knowing something does not always mean feeling it and in this case it’s really hard for me to imagine roman not being haunted by it

its liketalking to. wa ll. 

edit: person i was arguing w talked it out w me & we had a convo ab scara in the notes tht i really liked. sooo... u shld read it if u like my other scara analysis posts !!:3 

i know i give abe insane amounts of shit for worrying and fretting to an unhinged degree but i actually think him speaking up about pitch count to momoe’s dad was admirable. Like he saw what happened to haruna after he got overworked, of course he isn’t going to immediately trust an adult in this scenario and also doesn’t want to see that happen again. And I think he does have a bit of a point that mihashi loves pitching so much that it could be possible he would pitch through pain, or not notice he’s overdoing it, and with mihashi’s personality, it’s unlilkely he’d be able to properly speak up for himself if that were to happen anyway. it’s not hard to imagine an alternate version of events where he DID have too high of a pitch count, and abe didn’t speak up about his unease, and mihashi tried to hide any issues from him or didnt notice them until it was too late or etc etc etc, and ended up in a bad spot. idk abe trying to take a stand on his behalf for his sake is sweet lol and it takes guts to stand up to a much older adult coach like that (not that abe has ever been lacking in guts). im glad that mr momoe assauged his fears and also that he fully explained to them that he truly and earnestly won’t let them get hurt, and that he has their best interests in mind, and explained how everything he wants them to do will benefit them. idk, i like this part of the manga

wu ninjago... I love you...

I read the cutest little ficdrabblething ab Hobie having a crush on you and out of curiosity I decided to take a scroll through op's blog and saw the most god awful fucking take about him BEING IN THE PORN INDUSTRY.

WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT