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This blog is greatly welcoming everyone who isn't mean, homophobic, rassist or just basically an a*whole. Name's Franzi feel free to message me anytime! 😊 The amount of fandoms I'm in increases on a daily 🤡 Obey Me, Anime, Supernatural, Gotham, Taylor Swift to name a few 😅

So... how are we feeling about Nightbringer?

I personally feel a bit salty that we can’t convert our VIP membership and the cards we’ve collected, some of us for over 3 years. Still I really love the game. The story is intresting, the setup and phone design are very nice and the rythm game is far less horrible than I expected! :)

(I can’t hold a rythm if my life depended on it so I was afraid I’d fail every game but it is doable so far :) )

My favourite par of all tho: Unhinged Satan. We love a rouge cat.

Yeah yeah, Thirteen is a total cutie and I love her very much, she’s beautiful, but we NEED to talk more about Mephistopheles. My man is sexy as hell. His background with Diavolo and Lucifer? Interesing, dramatic and full of potential. I am surprised I haven’t seen angst of it yet, may as well do it myself. His design? Love it. I like that he is a nobleman. I like his oufit (I know he is wearing the RAD uniform, but his accesories are pretty. Also, I wanna see his demon form, if he has one) and I adore his personality, he is so funny and bold. He is a loving brother too, we stan. I need more Mephistopheles content in the fandom. Angst, fluff, smut, anything.

So it looks like there is some interest in the (crack) match ups!

So...

Crack Match Up Rules

STATUS: MATCH UPS OPEN

(Set to close at 12:00am of Februray 10th)

  1. Dont send me your horoscope. If you do it becomes mine and I will eat it.
  2. You know the 16 personalities? You can send it if you want but I know like...nothing about them so it will not factor into the match ups fbsjksm
  3. Send the most random shit you can come up with. Please. Tell me why your favourite animal is a platypus. Quote your favourite vine. Tell me about the time you embarrassed yourself in front of a family member. Your shoe size. If you woke up witj your hair dyed neon orange how would you react. What mythical creatire do you want to exist- or does exist but only you have seen it irl. What dinosaur would make an ideal pet for you? This is what Im looking for. 👁👁 Minimum three sentences please.
  4. If we're friends.....go on anon- please- I want to see how fucked I made your match up. Dbskskns love you

I wont be posting them til February 14th! So please be patient!!

Love y'all!

P.s. every reblog helps a ton!!!

solomon stop he's choking- (yes i did give simeon a cross earring and solomon star earrings)
(ignore the first panel i didn't know what to do for the background <3)

Luke: “Can you guys just TRY to see it from MY perspective.”

Mammon: *gets on knees*

Satan: *crouches down*

Luke: “I will kill you both in your sleep.”

Everyone: “…”

Simeon: “I think the devildom may be taking a toll on him…”

Raphael: “I don’t see anything wrong with what he said.”

Lucifer: *sigh*

Belphegor: “But if they’re asleep you won’t get to enjoy their screams.”

Leviathan: “Good point.”

Simeon: “STOP IT.”

Friends of Loki!

With the new Disney+ series coming soon, I think this would be a wonderful time to revive the Loki Tumblr community!

Please reblog this if you are a Loki- and/or Tom-positive blog, so that we might find one another, and so resurrect the fandom (let's face it, like Loki himself!)

What I liked about Bucky and Sam’s various conflicts in episode 2 was that no one was really the villain. They disagreed, and had somewhat dubious and irrational thought processes (particularly Bucky re: the shield and projecting his own issues onto Sam), but both of their feelings and actions were human, valid and understandable, and were portrayed as such. 

Bucky views the shield as the last part of Steve Rogers they have left; and in his eyes, Sam took Steve’s legacy and Steve’s last wishes and tossed them aside, letting it inadvertently fall into the hands of someone who is undeserving of it. He’s still mourning Steve, and trying to find his own self-worth beyond what Steve thought of him, and both the shield and Steve’s decisions being respected play a huge role in that. His perspective is largely understandable and very human.  

But what Bucky doesn’t really understand because of his background is the racial aspect that exists for Sam, which never existed for Steve. For Bucky, this whole argument is equivalent to whether you clear out your dead husband’s closet so you can move on, or preserve all his clothes out of respect for his memory. It’s whether you sell the business your family has had for generations when your parents die because you want to lead your own life and make your own choices, or you keep it running regardless because you don’t want to destroy their legacy. 

For Sam, it’s so much more than this. He has a deeply complex relationship with patriotism, the government, his own status as a hero, and everything the shield represents that is firmly based on race and his own experience as a black man. As a white man (from the 40′s no less), Bucky simply does not understand Sam’s dilemma. He’s come straight from the Jim Crow era of utterly pervasive, explicit, normalised racism; bypassed the entire Civil Right movement and decades of conversations about race; and landed in an era with a recent black president and nuanced conversation about microagressions, racial profiling and systemic racism. He’s going to need to put some work in to really understand the depths of Sam’s reservations of the shield; but if he does that, he will eventually recognise the true weight and consequences of the shield for Sam, and why he felt he had to give it up. Sam only ever made choices that were best for both himself and Steve’s legacy, and once Bucky gets out of his head he’ll see that too.

Moving onto Isaiah, again, both sides of their disagreement are completely understandable.

With the exception of a brief conversation with Rhodey, Sam is very much alone grappling with the concept of being a black superhero. And on top of that, they’re dealing with a group of mysteriously enhanced individuals, and a government owned Captain America. Why would Bucky not tell him about a black governmental super soldier, something highly relevant to all parts of their situation? Had he known of the existence of Isaiah, he likely would never have given the shield away, and he likely wouldn’t have been taking on contracts for the very government that treated Isaiah this way.

But at the same time, Bucky has lived the life Isaiah describes; constant fighting, control, capture, imprisonment, torture and experimentation. He knows that all he wants now, as an old soldier finally granted freedom, is peace and the chance to move on and rebuild his life. Why would he deny Isaiah that goal by making his existence known? Why would he put this man who has suffered so much in even more danger and turmoil? Why would he risk him being recaptured, or his family endangered, or his fragile peace shattered? Bucky didn’t tell Steve because he knew the knowledge that a man’s life had been ruined in the pursuit of a replacement him would break him. And if he didn’t tell Steve, why on earth would he tell Sam, a man he barely knows, and has little to no contact with, especially when he didn’t actually know that Sam was conflicted about the shield and thinking of giving it up? Why would he tell anyone when the result would undoubtedly by dire and dangerous for Isaiah, who has been through enough? 

Anyway, I guess my point is that this was a lesson in how to have your main characters disagree without actually pitting them against each other or vilifying one of them, and most importantly, without forcing the audience to chose sides or fight amongst themselves. You can portray conflicting perspectives of characters and overly emotional/irrational thought processes while still respecting those feelings as valid, and it was expertly done here. I think anyone vilifying one or the other or demanding apologies after this episode is really missing the point. This is not the show to watch if you want two-dimensional, morally flawless characters who always feel the “right” things - this is a show about profoundly human heroes.