finally ive read venom inc. and finally i completely understand symbiot3

bro

bro litterly just kiss man

something I’ve been thinking abt is how many people think Makoto is immune to despair. I don’t think he is. I think becoming the ultimate Hope was BECAUSE he felt despair. He wouldn’t have fully reached that point without Junko. Makoto becoming such a beacon was his last attempt to avoid completely falling and it wasn’t because he didn’t feel despair, it was because he was too damn stubborn to allow everything to go to waste and he refused to sacrifice his beliefs for someone else’s. His inner monologue tells me he DID experience the same new low the other suvivors did in the final trial, but at the point where he had the choice to give up and die, he looked at the others and he looked at Junko and he couldn’t allow it to happen, not out of self preservation, but because the idea that Junko would have control over their lives made him FURIOUS. and that utter refusal to die kicked in, wether luck or otherwise, and he made the concious effort for one last push while something in him was breaking. He had to be broken in order for the Ultimate Hope to come through so aggressively, bc it could only exist in the face of the Ultimate Despair. He snapped the same way she did, but in the other direction. In what could have been his final moments he chose to embody everything Junko wasn’t, and every single optimistic and luck fueled ideal in him suddenly charged forward and pushed him. It was a combination of the final straw and a choice. Makoto isn’t immune to feeling despair, he’s just too stubborn to fall into it of his own volition. I think that’s why I like that scene in DR3 so much. People were SO SHOCKED Makoto actually fell for the tape, that he actually became despair for a moment. I saw people getting mad or disappointed, saying it was pathetic and Makoto seemed to fall from some sort of pedestal for them. Honestly part of me wonders if that sort of mentality, which clearly people had in universe, affected Makoto a bit. Like he started to see himself as less of a person, subconsciously. Prompting him to take more risks, less self preservation, act way more bold. It seems he has to be reminded a lot not to put himself in danger by his friends, to not do something too reckless. All over the place I would see in regards to that scene either this frivolous ‘oh this was just angst drama with no meaning behind it’ or ‘he can do better than that. he’s so weak’ or ‘come on, there’s no way he’d fall into despair, he’s the Ultimate Hope!’ This kind of mentality, which was kind of ironic considering Ryota was there the entire time saying the same thing and treating Makoto the same way. Like Makoto was superhuman. Like Makoto didn’t feel despair the same way ‘normal people’ did. In a way that was also how Munakata saw Makoto. Makoto stopped being a PERSON to the world when he became Ultimate Hope, he became a concept, a belief system, much the same way Junko ascended beyond herself. But the difference is that treating Makoto that way is the opposite of the reason Makoto became such a representative for hope. He wasn’t doing something no one else could. He was doing something everyone had the chance to, he just… was a little more optimistic, a little more stubborn, a little more ‘gung-ho’ about things. He just took the lead where no one else did, where no one else knew they even COULD in the face of Junko’s unstoppable force. She had overcome the biggest threats and obstacles in the world, what could one person do? And the answer Makoto found was, anything. Everything. It doesn’t all rest on Makoto, he’s just the one that was inspired to try to do what seemed like the impossible. But as evidenced by the change in his friends after that trial, it’s clearly not something only Makoto is capable of. The others pulled out of despair thanks to Makoto, but it was their choice to do so.

“But… this world is so huge, and we’re so small. What can we do…? No, we can probably do anything. Yeah! We can do anything!”

i'm gonna be honest, i actually really hate the webtoon format for the singular reason that it's possible and even common to be unable to fit a single panel onto one screen. like i understand the design philosophy of making it easily phone-scrollable but it still sucks and takes away from the often-times excellent art.

Anko looking to orochimaru like “get your fucking dog bitch” and him just nodding sagely.

Oro: well I didn’t know how to tell you dear, but your hisses are a bit…sloppy.

Naruto: Yesterday you told me to “walk a lavender in the pool” and I wanted to bleach my ears. That means nothing.

Anko: …I’m moving out. Nothing is worth this.

Sobbing Oro is the “play stupid games win stupid prizes” mom so if Anko wants to pick fights with her little brothers she better be able to back it up if she wants him to step in.

Smash cut to Anko face to face with one of her summons until she can call Naruto a flea bitten mongrel flawlessly.

millia top fictional character i can not comprehend how people read her as cis or het at all

Genuinely don't get people who keep cobras as pets. Private venomous snakekeeping is stupid to begin with if you aren't rich enough to afford the years of training and the antivenom, but out of all the deadly snakes that can kill you, why the neurotic anxiety ropes with the potent neurotoxin that is constantly on edge. Just go to the zoo and hang out in the reptile room for hours like what normal people do

(This goes triple for mambas, especially black mambas, which are even Worse)

Tossing and turning in bed plagued by visions (Ed Edgar headcanons that are definitely just me projecting my cowboy ass autistic interest in strange animals onto him bc he too is a strange southern man with autistic swag)

im so unwell about vkaz

People like this are fucking disgusting

Hey guys look at me i think killing completely harmless animal because they look "weird" is an ok thing to do look at how funny I am

I totally understand why a lot of people prefer american venom over the general red dead/john marston theme bc yeah!! It's super epic! It was used really well! But the SLOWNESS and the steady way that the original goes is so HIM that I can't help but love it more. It's not righteous, it's tired.

If you wish death upon my reptiles/snakes or make comments about turning them into shoes/purses. I'll say the same about your dog or cat. 🙃

me deciding to build an agent venom cosplay

OH!!! And the kikaichū growing more venous the more they feed on Naruto’s chakra because it’s a very deadly mix of Kurama’s corrosive malice + sea serpent Uzumaki venom

Shino is already terrifying but Shino with Super Bugs™️ is a whole new meaning to the word fear.

googling bee anatomy shit for monstery yarrow purposes and sitting here like. yeah this ain't gonna work i gotta make this up on my own or just straight up not go with that idea