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How it went down: Rebi declared she wanted to be a ghost the minute she understood what Spooooooky Day was (you have to shiver when you say it if you want her to giggle). Q pulled up his notes doc with a running list of family costume ideas and decided the Scooby Doo theme would be perfect with the addition of a tiny ghost. Bailey and Lyric got to work on the looks and choreography. Q and Legend were in charge of production, camera work and dog training.

On the day of the shoot, B might have whispered the words baby and four loud enough for Rebi to hear and pull out her best "you all should be scared of me" performance. Q was too hyped about his blonde wig and proud of the commitment his squad showed. Lyree was stressed but ready for her directorial debut. Legz yelled Unique, ooops Action! and the rest was magic.

PJO SPOILERS!!!!!!!!

ALSO SHOUT OUT TO GROVER FOR BEING A CONNIVING AND SNEAKY LITTLE DETECTIVE THIS EPISODE AND BUTTERING UP ARES TO GET MORE INFORMATION OUTTA HIM!!!! YOU ARE THE GOAT; THE TRUE MVP OF OUR HEARTS, G-MAN!!!!!!!!🐐🐐🐐❤❤❤

Fanon caleb does not get enough credit for his 16 charisma like I know he's sad and haunted and offputting and he's obviously not arrogant golden boy bren charismatic anymore but that cha is still doing work. Like he's persuasive. He speaks well. He regularly launches into well-crafted and carefully delivered monologues. He knows the language of zealotry and he can use it. He's an ex-spy. Like he's sad and wet but he's not a shy blustering social idiot this man pulls off risky and confident gambits on the regular.

watched Grease the other night with my buddy and. well. obviously i Had To

Question - why did you pick Goldrun to be your starting cat?

I like writing pathetic men

yearning and grief or somthing . whatever .

loving how the series plays into the themes of destiny and fate and the sheer chance of how the entire campaign turned out

because many of the narrative choices we're going to see in this season and beyond came down to a literal roll of the dice. somebody died, and the cast had to live with consequences of that death. they played it beautifully, over and over again, and when they didn't get a chance to fix it, they let it sit.

and to see it play out as an overarching narrative where the events of characters' lives have so much more meaning is fascinating (and heartbreaking). because maybe you and your friends were always meant to do great things, to save the world. maybe you were always destined to lose your sister, and your sister was always destined to lose you. maybe this was the ending you were walking towards this entire time.

Thinking about Mesmer Jr.... How she must have felt.... The way foundation execs thought yeah were going to take this kind 12 year old and show her The Horrors, so that she will rat out her friends thinking she's saving them, but actually we need to know that just to let them die. Do you think she felt guilty of not trying to stop the other children from escaping herself. How she must have felt, keeping vigil by Vertin's bed during that whole crisis. Could she see Vertin relive their childhood trauma. And even though she says administering "therapy" to Vertin was an order from Constantine, and knows Constantine didn't order this out of goodness of her heart, I think she did have Vertin's wellbeing in mind. Why would she stay with her otherwise and show concern. And considering the suitcase team did end up getting partial rights by the end of ch4... I hope Vertin does seek out Mesmer if only to show that she's alright. Poor girl was so scared when Lilya burst in through the wall

Quick! Oneshot in a few minutes so here’s some old art from last year

Self-Injury in Teen Wolf

“A Hideous Torture on Himself”: Madness and Self-Mutilation in Victorian Literature by Sarah Chaney / Representing the Unrepresentable: Self-Harm as Affect by Laura Wilson / Damaging the Body Politic: Self-Mutilation as Spectacle by Alexandra Gray

Written for @teenwolf-meta‘s Meta May Monday theme: pain.

The idea of pain making you human was introduced into the show when Derek said "And that's what keeps you human- pain." to Scott in the season one episode The Tell. It's a concept which is repeatedly brought up throughout the show and might actually be one of the more consistent facets of werewolf lore seen within the show.

When lycanthropic characters are incapable of relying on their anchor to tether them to their human side, they can instead draw on their own pain, often self-inflicted, to avoid the consequences of shifting. Throughout the show the character shown to utilize this the most is Liam. He's often incapable of controlling his anger and as a result is incapable of keeping in touch with his humanity, meaning that he's pushed to the edge of self-injury more often than other characters.

Another instance where we see characters inflict injury on themselves, or others, is when they need to trigger their healing. As seen in the season four finale when Kira is unable to heal after being attacked by berserker-Scott, where she then has to cut up her hand with a shard of obsidian for the rest of her body to heal. This is interesting because it visualizes a clear disconnect between the body and the self, the self which needs to heal can only communicate this with the body through more pain and injury.

Lydia is also seen injuring herself in season two when she's being controlled by Peter. When she's awoken by her mother her sheets are covered in blood and it's then revealed that she punched her mirror with no recollection of it. This serves as a narrative red herring as it's revealed later in the same episode that the Kanima hates its own reflection, but on a personal level it also shows the viewer the disconnect Lydia is experiencing between herself and her mind.

I could do SO much with Kevin Day’s gender and his relationship to his mother you have no idea

I must point out at no point in these Umbrella Chronicles novel scenes did Chris actually meet or speak to Wesker. Hoe regularly talks to himself about Chris in canon.

Also need it known that Jill was there for the Tyrant Confrontation and is fighting alongside Chris the whole damn time.

I hope the remakes keep "Wesker ignores all women and refuses to speak to them for Chris" because it's funny and iconic.

Not knowing if Caleb is okay and where he is in campaign 3 is killing me, but I just try to ignore it and think of happier thoughts like Caleb, Essek and 100 cats all together 💜🧡 (Art by me ☺️)

Liam O'Brien has a particular brand of being able to just emotionally devastate me and leave me with a line that shakes me to my fucking core every time I think about it

I'm kinda curious about the period of time when Minato was Hokage, because there's so much you could say about Konoha depending on it. It could be that I don't remember what the manga says about it too, but anyway.

We know that before Minato was Hokage, the discrimination towards jinchuurikis was high. We know it from Kushina's story. After Minato, the jinchuurikis discrimination was not exactly as bad as it could have been (and the bar is soooo low) in physical terms, but the level of sheer isolation was ridiculous. Sure, Kushina had guards and she lived in a tower with a perimeter drawn around it, one that she couldn't surpass. The difference is that Kushina knew why she was being isolated, there was someone willing to teach her about it right from the start, a family member even if distant, someone with the same experience.

All Naruto knew is that he was unwanted. He had no family, no one was willing to guide him. No, not even Iruka. I'm talking about before in the manga, before Iruka realized how much Naruto needed him and did something about it.

If that was before and after, how was it during the time Minato was Hokage?

Did Minato push for Kushina to become Hokage? Was the idea rejected? Did he get angry? It was her dream after all. Or did they realize it would be impossible so they pushed Minato to go for it? Were they sad about the idea of Kushina having to live her dream through Minato, because they wouldn't let her go for it? When did Kushina give up and change her goal in life?

Did Minato tell anyone about his plan on how to get rid of the jinchuuriki discrimination? Did he talk about it with Kushina? We know that they planned Naruto's birth and tried to make it as safe as possible. When the time to seal Kurama within Naruto came, they both knew how Konoha would treat Naruto. Minato wanted Naruto to be viewed as the son of a hero, but his wishes were thrown aside as soon as his body was cold enough.

With no law to protect the jinchuuriki of the kyubi, I wonder how bold the people of Konoha were in their discrimination against Kushina while Minato was Hokage. Times were different, Minato was highly respected and feared, but how many times did he have to tell someone to mind their words? How many times did he catch Kushina avoiding a certain restaurant or a street? Did he ever feel a slight of resentment against his home for the way they treated his wife? His pregnant wife?

Were there rumors of the child being a monster for being the son of a jinchuuriki? It could be that some Konoha parents telling their kids to not play with the little Uzumaki/Namikaze was a thing before Naruto was even born?

From what I've seen, Konoha has no gentleness for kids of prestigious lineages. Being a child of a powerful shinobi makes your life worse, in fact. A million times over: it happened to Sasuke, to Neji, it happened to Kakashi in the generation before them, it happened to Itachi in the in-between.

I don't think that being the son of the hokage would have saved Naruto for being mistreated by the village. Not when his mother was a jinchuuriki.

It just makes me wonder, you know?

In the time he had, how did Minato try to change things to protect his family?

Was it a matter of needing more time? Or there wasn't a plan at all?

watching THE shadowghast monologue rn and im almost crying into my brekky holy shit liam orbien stop it???