I AM NOT OKAY!!!!!
WE WERE FED BUT AT WHAT COST???!?!?!!
Watching the Finland - Sweden ice hockey match and the Swedes having a lead stings after Eurovision :')
I'm like 8 parts in and this is already golden šš»
This is your brain on too much stress.
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started Chicago Med last week and ofc my gay ass would be obsessed with Rhodestead. Iām kinda mad I started this late and Colinās only in 5 seasons like all the potential they couldāve hadā¦anyway let me dive in AO3
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Patton, running into Romanās room very panicked: ROMAN, LOGAN MADE THE WINDOWS ERROR NOISE BEFORE COLLAPSING ON THE FLOOR
Roman, utterly confused: Iā¦what??
Patton: HOW DO YOU RESTART A HUMAN
Roman: Patton you need to calm down and tell me what happened
Patton, taking deep breaths: Virgil giggled
Patton: and I think it killed Logan
Patton: and we need to restart him so Virgil doesnāt go to trial for murder
Roman, blinking slowly: did you try replacing the batteries
I think we all need a friend like himā¤
shut the fuck up!!! i love phoenix wright so much!!!!!!! he is such a good man!!!!!!!!!!! he loves his friends with all of his being!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! heās willing to eat glass and run across burning bridges for them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! this man has one brain cell and he uses its full capacity to care about others and i love that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Roman, Virgil, and Boundary Issues š„ (Audio: Stepbrothers)
(I could be wrong about some things since the book is fresh, feel free to expand this post or correct me! May be a little edited as well!)
To start things off: William Mischief Cipher, (yes thats his actual name) is a dream demon from another dimension. To be specific, the second dimension.
Despite Bill being a literal shapeā and also a demigodā itās implied that Bill had a human-like childhood. He had a normal mother and father, he went to school, and overall seemed to have a normal life. The problem, however, was that he was born with powers completely unknown to his dimension.
Bills world was 2D, meaning there was no up or down. Itās hard for us to grasp the concept of his world, and its implied Bills dimension felt the same way about us. They couldnāt grasp the idea of other, less flat dimensionsā but Bill could. Not only did he understand the concept, he could physically SEE the other dimensionsā which drove him crazy with confusion and frustration.
Itās also implied that Bill was born with physical powers others in his dimension didnāt haveā for example, thereās a line in the book where he remembers being bullied in school for having the ability to conjure fire.
Itās implied that Bill tried to tell everyone about the other dimensions, but they didnāt understand. The other people of his homeworld considered him troubled and insane. Thereās a poem written in code on the silly straw page of his book detailing how he was fed medicine to keep his āvisionsā away, but would only drink it out of a silly straw. This poem implies he was a baby at the time of taking his medicine, implying further that his powers were terrifyingly strong even from an early age. Thisā paired with the fact he could shoot fire from his fuckin handsā made him dangerous as a child, because (at least from what it seems) any childish outburst or tantrum could accidentally turn dangerous from his lack of understanding or being able to control the powers he was born with. He was a walking time bomb.
āEye doctor of a different kind who wants to make his patient blind / The doctor says three sips a day will make the visions go away / Fussy eater, baby billy, wouldnāt drink unless its silly.ā
(((The doctor was taking away Bills ability to see the other dimensions, rendering him somewhat blind. Bill fussed about his medicine as a child and would only drink it out of a silly straw.)))
Eventually, Bill tried to bring his world into the third dimensionā or at the very least, show them it exists to prove that he wasnāt insane. Itās unclear what exactly he did to try and accomplish thisā but it went wrong and started a terrible fire that left only him alive.
Itās unclear whether or not he started the fire itself on purpose or on accident, but either way its implied that he absolutely didnāt understand the permanent consequences. Itās something that deeply traumatized him. Itās blurred out of his memory, and in denial, he pretends everyone is still alive. Itās up to the reader to determine whether or not he can be forgiven for this, but out of everything Bill has done on purpose and out of malice, this doesnāt seem to be one of those things. It seems he genuinely wanted to free his family from the confinements of his dimension and to this day he still pretends thatās what he did, even if thatās not the case. The regret of his actions is something that goes on to shape his character today.
āTwisted out of shape after the killā the ghost of his family haunting him stillā (((Silly straw page)))
Bill has lied about this day on multiple occasions, and has also lied about how he feels towards it. Heās terrified to face the guiltā so he either pretends he did it on purpose and doesnāt care, pretends something or someone else did it, or pretends it didnāt happen all together.
While talking to Stanford, he calls himself a monster. This is what he truly thinks of himself. However, he pretends to be a different person than himself. His entire life past the day of his dimensions burning has been a lie of pure denial.
On top of denial, he refused and still refuses to grow up. After running off into a crumbling dimension with his āhenchmaniacā friends, he started acting like a rebellious teenager. Unlike most villains with a specific intent to hurt, he went throughout the universe with the sole intention of having as much fun as possible. However, with his terrifying power and uncaring nature many casualties happened on the side. Heās guilty for them, and even finds some of them funny, but hurting people wasnāt and isnāt his MAIN intent. (At least not most of the time. He IS known to hold grudges, or dismantle someoneās face for fun, but those things arenāt part of his overall goal. Not saying they arenāt shitty, but his main intent is important to understanding his character and complexity.)
His main goal is to distract himself from his past with as much chaos as possible while also seeking attention from anyone he can get it from. He talks about Stanford and says he needs Bill to boost his ego, but really itās the other way around. Bill considers himself a product to sell, he caters to people by using false charisma, pretending theyāre the ones that need him when in reality heās starving for their praise. He is desperate for someone to speak highly of him because his mind has nothing good to say, all the words he says out loud are compensation. He believes deep down that nobody will love him if they know who he truly is and what heās doneā and heās not really wrong. And look! He couldnāt even admit thatās how he feels about himself so he pretends heās giving advice! (He does this SO MANY fuckin times in the book..)
It appears in the book that the more he regrets or suffers from his past actions and traumasā the more he hurts and destroys the things and people around him as a distractionā all under the ruse of āpartyingā. So, in an immature attempt to absolve himself of guilt, he stacks more guilt onto his endless cycle by continuing to hurt those he loves again and againā pretending not to care but truthfully caring so much that heād do ANYTHING to drown out the feeling. Ironically, his way of drowning out his feelings is by causing more harm. He is an endless, pitiful paradox.
Itās often misunderstood that he is a uncaring, but thatās what he WANTS you to think. Thatās what he WISHES he was. His guilt and remorse doesnāt absolve him from the things heās done, but the fact that itās there is a GIANT and IMPORTANT part of his character. He CAN feel empathy, sympathy, sentimentality, and ESPECIALLY regret. He may be a considered a sociopath, but this doesnāt mean heās not a person with feelings as well.
Heās so distraught over losing Stanford that he drinks himself into a state of temporary amnesia that made him fall into a ptsd episodeā his memory is so bad he ends up thinking heās talking to his mother whoās been dead for probably millions of years.
This doesnāt excuse what he did to Ford AT ALL (I felt a little sick looking at the knuckles page..) but you canāt truly understand his character without understanding that he is LYING when he is cruel to Ford. And no, just because itās a lie/front doesnāt mean heās absolved from saying or doing something horrible, but it DOES mean he is unique and complex.
Itās perfectly reasonable to not forgive Bill for what he did to Ford, because itās not really forgivableā but I also think itās fair to explore the complexities of āevilā characters. SAYING A CHARACTER REGRETS THEIR ACTIONS DOESNāT MEAN I THINK THEY DESERVE FORGIVENESS!!! Especially in Billās case, considering that he PRETENDS to not be sorry, which makes him terrible even if he doesnāt mean what heās saying. He might as well not be sorry at all HOWEVER!! Itās still important to distinguish him from a sociopathic stereotypeā so I have to acknowledge that heās a little sorry anyway, even if that regret is hidden away and doesnāt help literally anyone.
He values his own comfortability over the people he loves. Meaning heāll always be cruel instead of apologizing because even if heās truly sorry, he canāt handle the fact that he did something wrong in the first placeā Heāll just play dumb.
At the end of the day, thoughā Bill is much more complicated than āGuy that just wants to explode people with his mind and take over the worldāā I mean yes, heās also thatā but he also has hella bad ptsd and possible other mental issues that Iām not qualified to diagnose. He has a mother who he misses and a pain he carries with him.
None of the pain he harbors will ever justify the pain heās causedā So no, I donāt think heās ACTUALLY forgivable (though I may joke). However, in my opinion, I do think heās redeemable! Heās going to live (or at least be in purgatory?) for millions of more years. He already got a punishment of literal death and has the empathy (somewhere) to continue forward and start fresh. He has thousands of years to heal from his trauma and wallow in what heās done.
The Pines family may never forgive him, but out of the child-cartoony love in their hearts they offer him not forgivenessā but live and let live. (Well, at least Mabel does.. love you sweet girl.) If he goes around them theyāll beat his ass like in weirdmaggedon, but if he stays away, they will too. At the end of the day, heās been stopped and theyāre happy. If he is alive, (((or is going to be??))) he might as well heal.
And, well.. even if you think he doesnāt deserve that somewhat happy(?) ending, a redemption arc for him has been hinted at for years. Sorry, man. Respect to you and all but like⦠friendship is magic and the evil demigod is gonna start working at your local wendys once heās outa space arkham. Itās just the way kids shows go, man.
(((Edited note: I apologize for my original wording when it came to āsociopathāā I wasnāt aware of its actual medical use and I shouldāve done my research on that! Iāve changed this post to be more accurate in that regard, so if old reblogs look different itās because theyāre the original version.)))
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Dammit Martin, where the hell are we?!?!
For Day 9: AU
@jonmartinweek
Was listening to the first live-action Monster High movie songs again and I can't believe that it took me this long to realise that the Mr. Hyde they talk about throughout the movie is a reference to the book Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde.
And bOtH titular cHaRactErs are mentioned in the song True Monster Heart
It's RIGHT THERE!!!! I feel so dumb :')