TRAINING ARC: START!! BOTHER YOUR GUARDIAN AND EXHIBIT ISSUES. NOW SOLVE THOSE ISSUES BY BOTHERING GUARDIANS. I HAVE FULL FAITH IN OUR HEROS!

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They say that isolation is one of the worst forms of torture...

took me forever but i finally finished this couple thing for mattodore! @wldestluv-rs thank you for sending it to me 🫂

He is in fact not cool with his friends killing people he just can’t do shit about it and the fact that he thinks he can do smth about (and does!) when it comes to his kids is like a major point

Hmmmmmmmmmmm not to sound like most of my fandom mutuals, but someone put that blonde man on a leash.

More personal headcanons: volo struggles a lot with physical intimacy, specifically physical intimacy directed towards him. He definitely enjoys giving little touches and just being tender at other people, but the moment someone tries to do the same for him, every muscle in his body turns to stone and god he can’t move, this is so uncomfortable, please stop.

Hisui is a harsh place, and Hisui has been nothing but harsh to him, and in combination with his plans for Arceus, it’s so so difficult and so terrifying to him to let his defenses down and be vulnerable around people. Being vulnerable means someone could use him, hurt him again, even more than he already is hurting. No one wants likes people seeing them upset but especially not Volo. 

But he’s genuinely touch starved and craves that kind of bond with someone so bad, he just can’t let anyone know how badly he needs it. He knows if he let himself be honest about his feelings even a little, the floodgates would open and he probably wouldn’t be able to stop himself from breaking down completely.

He’s been wearing his friendly but distant mask for so long, and he tries So hard to pretend that that’s what he Is and change himself, but alas. His heart is soft and he cares too much, always. And being eaten up with guilt over everything he’s doing, what he’s planning for the few people that do care for him so dearly, he can’t afford to bear anything but a customer service smile to anyone, ever.

The only things he can ever accept comfort from is his pokemon, I think. If anyone ever wanted to be that close with him I think it’d take. A long time. And a lot of building up trust with him.

(Only slightly connected, but I do also like the idea of in the present day, volo’s name has been lost to time, but ironically, his actions have become a bit of folklore in sinnoh. A fairytale bedtime story for kids, the moral and tone changing depending on who tells it.

And Cyrus, studying this legend himself, does not look to volo as inspiration, as some may believe, but as someone who failed in such an obvious way that he will not. That volo was done in by the fatal flaw prevalent in ever retelling of his story: his own human compassion.)

Sometimes I find myself thinking back on my first stint of work as a camp supervisor for summer camp geared towards autistic and psychotic kids when I was 21 and just like. Hoping M. is doing fine. I'm sad that I didn't have the experience then that I have now because the way I handled conflict with him was not great, and I wish I'd thought to apologize for it in the brief time we saw each other afterwards

The idea of 'The Sovereign' and this storyline in Wonder Woman by Tom King reminds me of Hydra Captain America and the Secret Empire by Nick Spencer.

ok but here lies the abyss still drives me absolutely bonkers, it’s so good!

reminiscing on the period where i didnt know sawashiro was modeled after ttm and the second i learned and embraced that it 1000% altered the way i drew him These Are Not The Same Bitch

Y'all are aware of that 10 hour Harry Potter retrospective but the thing that gets me the most out of that whole thing that I never considered when reading the series is that wizards can obviously chose to adhere to the Statute of Secrecy but like... Magical creatures can't make that choice and Fantastic Beasts literally starts with Newt chasing down a rogue niffler, meaning that muggles probably frequently encounter magical creatures. There's no way that muggles and magical creatures could reasonably be segregated- Hermione's cat is half magical creature so how many muggle cats are also half neasel?

Like why on earth would you invent a world in which you have scores of animals, and also plants, that cannot reasonably consent to secrecy from muggles and the excuse of witch trials falls flat when actual magic exists that should factor into how those witch trials play out but never seems to come up. Anyway, the most unrealistic thing about a universe with magic and dragons and shit is that muggles would somehow never run into and remember a magical creature, there's zero way the wizards could catch every muggle who has seen something and obliviate them that's a herculean task designed to fail I refuse to believe no nifflers have ever stolen some muggles shit enough that they'd know what them little bastards were.

okay but how do you ask for help when your childhood makes you feel guilty for needing help and the help that you need feels rude to ask for

me: i will let my past die and leave it behind me

me: *see’s the people I thought who were my friends, but stopped talking to me after high school ended, no closure or anything. All hanging out together having fun on snapchat, especially two of them who moved out of this city*

me: :( 

In light of that ask, someone should make a cowboy/samurai love story

AND THEY WERE LOVERS

@510snake this is us except we r both autistic