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Welcome to parenting, Bruce

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Dick: …

Dick: Are you awa—

Bruce: Yes.

Dick: Ok good I wasn’t sure because of how you were snoring but it’s already 6:13am and I’m kinda hungry and I was gonna make my own breakfast but then I remembered what happened last time with the bacon and I thought I probably shouldn’t use the stove without adult supervision so I tried to do a bowl of cereal but well long story short I thought it would be super easy to pour the cereal while in a handstand but actually it was pretty hard and now there’s milk all over the floor and I can’t find the mop and I didn’t want to bother Alfred but you said it was okay to talk—]

pov you just came back from recess and ur still feeling that high. you sit down and the first thing you see is this

categorized the two different responses i got on this post

The way Iida gently but surely breaks apart both Midoriya's and Todoroki's "I'm fine" BS by citing back their own words into their faces, until the tears come out.

I think Iida understood that he spiralled so badly after his brother was hurt because he closed himself off from any help and tried to carry it all alone. It impacted his decision-making for the worse. I'm glad that he truly internalized the importance of open emotional support and he's able to push through the initial resistance.

Reassuring hero...

Dabi being such a stubborn batshit dramatic bitch that he'd literally rather blow himself up than not punch his dad in the face while his siblings are like "god fuck okay somebody go get him he's upsetting mom" is so. Like Horikoshi just gets family dynamics, doesn't he?

brb gonna go on a spiral thinking abt this all weekend (bc i think its insanely true)

no bc these people literally treat others as two-dimensional figures in their self-centered universe, affording them no agency, no recognition of their inner lives and emotions. it is always things like "this isn't beneficial to me" "i am caring for my inner child" "i am focusing on myself during this particular time in my life" "i owe nothing to other people" "my boundaries" "my feelings" me me me......there is no mention of other people's boundaries and emotions, because to them other people are npcs that are either useful to their "personal journey" or easily disposable nuiances that they can get rid of with a stock phrase plucked from a leaflet at a therapist's office

Boundaries are not about forcing other people to change their behavior to suit your needs. Boundaries are a statement and promise to yourself and others of how you will handle certain situations should they arise.

Because after all, the only person's actions/reactions you can control are your own. And that self responsibility is the essence of self care.

Artist fae.

doing important research

Sherlock Holmes having a universal ace experience -- expressing disinterest and immediately getting called an inhuman robot.

#images#sherlock holmes#sorry i don't turn rabid and marry the prettiest girl in sight at the push of a button my dear watson

Watson is like "of course I proposed marriage to a girl I met two days ago, I'm normal and make rational decisions"

#I read this part just the other day#He literally proposes within two days it’s crazy

Every Sherlock Holmes remake that tries to make Watson the straight man does him a great injustice. Mfer is a total madlad. Everyone's like "oh he's not addicted to hard drugs and doesn't do chemistry experiments in his bedroom for fun" there are subtler ways to be completely unhinged.

The thing is, Watson may or may not instigate the Situations & Shenanigans, but he voluntarily spends most of his Sherlock Holmes, who DOES!

““Normal”“ people do not do that.

Watson will show up at Holmes' place and be like "are you doing any investigations of super weird shit today" and Holmes will be like "yes I am cornering this dangerous mass murderer, you should come and bring your gun in case anyone tries to shoot us" and Watson will do it without question, thinking "I'm so glad he's got something wholesome to distract himself with so he doesn't take more cocaine".

a kind caring character being kind and caring because they actively choose to be despite their anger and trauma will always be infinitely more compelling and relatable than them just being a pure innocent baby uwu

show compassionate, soft characters who are not “innocent”/naive but who fought bitterly to be and remain compassionate and soft

Edward Elric, my beloved

Shoto Todoroki, my precious bean

Dick: Hey guys what’s up?

Damian: Silence! this is a debate I intend to win.

Dick: huh?

Jason *eating popcorn* : You’re gonna wanna see this

Tim: BY FAR IT IS ONLY LOGICAL TO ASSUME-

Steph: LOGIC HAS NO PART YOU’RE JUST BIASED

Jason: They’re fighting over who was the loosest cannon Robin which caused the most chaos

Dick:

Dick *reaches for popcorn*

Jason *slaps his hand* : Nuh-uh Goldie only the one with the title of MOST CHAOTIC ROBIN gets to eat popcorn

Tim: YOU ARE A LITERAL ASSASSIN WHOS TRIED TO MURDER SEVERAL PEOPLE

Damian: REMIND ME OF YOUR BODYCOUNT?!

Dick: what now-

Drake: THAT WAS BARELY ANY AS ROBIN

Steph: Dudes I was literally Robin to piss off my dad and became friends with poison ivy and Harley

Jason: You’re all just competing for second place

Dick: .. wait what about me?

Everyone *stops and stares*

Damian: Nightwing, this is serious

Tim: Yeah dude I remember your reputation as Robin and you haven’t changed

Batman: .. are you all done with the bust?

Steph: BATSY! Just who we want to see! So.. tell us, who was the most chaotic robin ever

Batman *without hesitation* : Nightwing

Penguin *tied up after the bust* : Yeah it was blue

Damian:

Tim:

Steph:

Jason:

Dick *steals popcorn* : Y’all better start putting respect on my damn name

Okay, but real talk for a second… Journey’s End is not a happy ending.

Like… We can talk about Ed realizing he doesn’t need alchemy and all that jazz, but seriously?

Let’s take this step by step, because lawdy but I have been stewing about this since I finished the show two months ago.

Firstly… Everyone else gets their happy ending. Al gets his body back, gets the girl. Winry gets the guy, and gets to keep making at least one automail limb for said guy. Roy gets his eyesight back, and (presumably) becomes Fuhrer. Hohenheim gets to die and abandon his kids again so he can be with his dead wife. Ling gets a philosopher stone, and becomes emperor. May Chang gets her knight in shining armor, and the safety of her clan.

But Ed? He got his brother back… Still has an automail leg. Lost his alchemy. Most likely either had to amputate his arm, or lose a lot of functionality, because Truth is a goddamn asshole, and just shoved that arm back on over top of the STEEL PORT.

And he was a prodigy. Not that I give a shit about how Amestris feels about losing their prodigy, but… Personal story time, when I was a kid, I was a piano ‘prodigy’. One of those kids who could just sit down and play anything. If I heard it, I could play it. And then, through a rather depressing chain of events that are irrelevant to this post, all of the fingers, and many of the smaller bones on my left hand were shattered. Even after months of rehab, I still couldn’t play like I used to. I could barely play for more than five or ten minutes before my hand began to cramp up and stop moving.

And this thing… This thing that I did better than anyone else I knew… It was gone. Just gone. This one thing that made me stand out, that made me special, that made me feel good about myself… and it was just gone. I could still pick apart any music I heard, I still knew exactly how I would play it… If I could. But I couldn’t.

And for Ed… Alchemy was who he was. It was what he did. It was an integral part of both himself, and how he viewed the world. And it’s just… gone. Boop. No more alchemy. All gone now, thanks for playing, kid. You’re no longer unique, you’re no longer special, you now have nothing that sets you apart from everyone else. You dragged yourself to the top of that pillar, and enjoyed the view, until a squiggly outline asshole Sparta kicked you off it, and then ground your face in the mud for good measure.

But, Nightmares, you say! He got his brother back! He still had Al!

Ah, but he didn’t, dear reader! That’s the thing! No Al hate here, because I love Al as much… well, nearly as much as I do Ed, but like… Al got better -and we all know who helped him through the months of recovery -and then bounced right the hell off to Xing. “Haha, yes, Brother! I shall go a thousand miles this way, you go a thousand miles that way, and we shall research this thing that you used to be able to do, that you used to be a prodigy at, that you can no longer do! Don’t forget to write, dear brother!”

…

Okay. I’m slightly less angry now. But seriously, that ending was just… ugh, utterly heart-breaking. Watching Ed trying to transmute the roof, and then just sigh, and say, “Well, at least the view’s nice.” was just… painful as hell.

I think that depends entirely on what Ed values.

The entire finale, nay, the entire series, was about stopping someone who used Alchemy to make themselves into the most special, uber-god-like-being there is. Father climbed that ladder, and didn’t even enjoy the view, because Father was so obsessed with getting even higher up that ladder that he eventually fall down into nothing, rotting among the corpses he’d shoved off the ladder in his mad climb. Father loved Alchemy and Father loved being the best and had absolutely no regard for human life.

Yes, alchemy was a LOT to Ed. But it wasn’t EVERYTHING. Ed got the prodigy view, got the money, prestige and power, and didn’t give a single shit about it at any point in the story.

Ed values family. Genuinely. The entire time. He stays mad at Hohenheim for leaving for years. He sets out to fix Al’s body because he genuinely cares about Al. He loves the Rockbells. He respects Shou Tucker as an alchemist and a father, and loses all respect for the man’s alchemical achievements as soon as he finds out that Shou Tucker doesn’t value his own family. Ed is livid that Tucker values alchemy over family.

So Ed looked at Father, killing people to feel special, looked at Shou Tucker, killing people for scientific achivement, and decided: Fuck this shit. Ed didn’t want to live in a world without Al because his brother, his family, will always be more important to him than Alchemy.

Also. That part about not being special. That’s the point. Alchemy is all about the circle of life. Ed and Al are stuck on the island during their training and realize, compared to the whole universe, how insanely small they are. Just insignificant ants, really. But they also realize - these ants are important.

Ed practically tells truth outright: He never was special. Being good at alchemy didn’t make him any more special or important than anyone else he’s met. He’s met so many people over the course of the show, many of them alchemists with greater or equal skill than Ed, many of them decidedly not alchemists with their own passions, their own lifes, and every single one of them is not any more or less special than Ed.

Ed values every single person he’s met on this journey, values family and community. Yes, he loves alchemy, and he will miss it, as he said, but he doesn’t need it to ‘feel special’, he can still research it, and he’d much rather have his brother back by his side.

That’s why giving up alchemy is almost a no-brainer to Ed. No one is special. Everyone is a perfectly average small ant in the grand scheme of things. But these ants matter, and not a single one of the villains realizes that.

Re: Al ultimately leaving Ed: they were already seperated on their journey for a good chunk of the manga as well, and yes they missed each other, but they were fine with that. There is no timeline for anything happening post canon, whether Al permanently moved to Xing, how long they all travelled for etc. The only thing we have is a family picture presumably taken in Amestris of Ed and Winry with kids and Al and May in the background, and a picture of Ed with a suitcase and jacket.

Personally, I’d think the notion cruel that Al would have to stay at home to make Ed happy. Just because Ed wanted to settle down didn’t mean that Al shouldn’t get to decide differently. And again, we don’t even know how long or how frequently Al stayed in Xing.

And a lot of the other characters also had to make great sacrifices or suffered great losses during their journeys. Yes, they largely get what they wanted in the end, but not without sacrifices, because that’s how life/stories/alchemy itself work. Ling becomes Emperor but loses Fu and Greed. Mustang regains the sight (eventually) he lost in the finale in the first place, and then continues working for his redemption (we don’t actually know if he ever becomes Fuhrer, and lets remind ourselves that his ultimate goal was to abolish the military state, so to abolish the Fuhrer-position, and to get all the war criminals of Ishval, including himself, on trial for their war crimes). Most characters got some, lost some during the series. It ends mostly well for all of them. And it does end mostly well for Ed too. He got Al’s body back. Maybe his arm is impacted/needs surgery/therapy but that is not implied or discussed during the finale (it looks fine when he’s on the roof). He met a lot of great people. He lost some of them too. He eventually settles down with his loving wife and kids, which is presumably what he wants and which definitely makes him happy (he’s smiling wide in that picture with his family).

I’m not saying Ed didn’t go through hell and back during the show, and I’m not saying Alchemy is not a loss on some level. But calling Ed’s last transmutation a tragedy practically misses the point of the story.

Hello there, welcome.

Due to Tumblr adding polls, lots of people decided to make tournaments where characters face each other to get the title of "bestest *insert topic here*", and since I want an easy way to keep track of all of them, I decided to make this list to help myself and everyone else who sees it.

There are even some categories:

Now let's see the proper list:

If you want to get in or out the list just tell me.

Since Tumblr has a limit on how many @ I can have in a single post this is part 2