“bree has two hands! let’s make bree x nick x sel poly and end stupid cliche love triangles.” fandom loves to say this line when there’s a WoC particular a Black woman as the main love interest and they want to ship the two yt boys together w/o coming off as racist.
for example the witcher fandom with yennefer. despite yennefer having “two hands” as of now geralt x jaskier is the biggest ship with 13262 fics on ao3, geralt x yennefer has 1454 fic and the poly ship has 812.
bffr and just admit the real reason why y’all want that.
A very detailed and long Pac character analysis because he deserves it
(Also, sorry for the English mistakes, they will happen lol)
So, first things first. I'll focus on what happened yesterday, and especially on these two points:
Pac's conversation with Fit about Cell and the way he was feeling after it
Pac's change of mind regarding Cell at the conclusion of the stream
So, I find it fascinating that when Pac was telling Fit about his past with Cell, (besides talking about being pretty afraid), he mostly told him about the mistakes that he committed with Cell, not the opposite. He talked about leaving Cell alone on an island to die, but all he said about Cell's past behavior was that he was "different".
At first, I thought he just didn't want to discuss his trauma and wasn't ready for this conversation yet. I still think this is a part of the reason, but taking Pac's low self-esteem into consideration ... I think this is just one more of these moments where he thinks what happened to him isn't important enough. He really cares about Cellbit, so much so that his mind separates Cellbit and Cell as two different people. So much so that he doesn't want Fit to see Cellbit as a bad person. He thinks that saving Cellbit's reputation and helping him out are much more important than his fear and trauma will ever be.
And his reaction to Roier's plates just proves this. Intentionally or not, someone just broke a boundary of his, someone invaded a place that he built to be safe. And yet, his first thought is that he was in the wrong. He immediately felt bad, and besides still being afraid of Roier allowing Cellbit to enter, he just got rid of his boundary. He thought that Roier's feelings were more important than his fear. Instead of feeling bad because someone invaded his safe space, he felt bad for establishing a limit in the first place. (Obviously, CC Roier was just having some fun, lol).
Also, another interesting point: After Fit told Pac that he would protect him from Cell, Pac's first reaction was to wish that Cell actually hurt him, just to see Fit's reaction. It sounds kind of crazy, right? He's terrified of Cell, and yet he wants to be hurt just so he can be protected. I think this says A LOT about Pac.
He thinks he's so unimportant that the thought of someone caring so much about him —the thought of someone fighting for him— is so crazy, that he wants to actually see it. He wants to be hurt just to see someone worried about him. It's very clear that Mike was that person for Pac. Mike always protected him. Mike never cared if he had to do crazy things if that meant Pac was safe. He killed the federation guards, and he and Pac were this pair that fought together. They worked together, and Mike made Pac feel useful and important. But now, Mike is not here.
And I think that in Pac's mind, this is something that shows how much you actually care for someone. Seeing Fit actually do that just proves that he cares about him. That he is important to someone.
Now, the second point:
After this conversation, (and Roier's plates), Pac says that he's not scared anymore. That Fit will protect him in case anything happens, and that he should help Cellbit. They are a family, and Roier reminded him of that. He should just let go of his fear and concentrate on helping Cellbit. (Sorry if there's something incorrect, that's just what I remember.)
I mean, this sounds nice and all, I saw a lot of people really happy about it, but ... I think it's actually pretty sad. This just shows how much Pac disregards his own well-being. He still thinks that there's a possibility that Cell will hurt him, but that's okay because at least someone will care. He still thinks he should help Cellbit in the first place, not because he has to fight his fear or because the past still haunts him. Still because, Cellbit, his family, is more important than anything he feels. His fear, his trauma, and his wish to be safe aren't more important than Cellbit.
He again puts himself in this self-sacrifice job. He should sacrifice his well-being for Cellbit; he should sacrifice his safety for forever; he should sacrifice his security for Roier. Because they are more important than him.
I think Pac helping Cellbit is good, but the way he is going about it isn't. He clearly needs to focus on himself now. He needs to put his health first, and Cellbit would absolutely respect that. Still, he just won't, because he thinks it's his job to sacrifice himself for others, and honestly, one day this will end badly. He won't be able to help Cellbit if he doesn't help himself first, and this won't happen so soon.
If he keeps doing this to himself, there will be consequences, maybe permanent ones. I mean, he literally just jumped on the nether, and we have no idea what he will find.
Although sounding heroic, everything about Pac right now is extremely worrying. It just keeps getting worse. And I have a terrible feeling about how all of this will affect him in the future.
Pac is one of the best fighters on the server, but his low self-esteem just keeps him from becoming anything other than the Guinea Pig. Especially now that Mike is gone. Maybe that's why staying with Fit is so comfortable for him. He doesn't need to sacrifice anything, which is similar to his relationship with Mike. They fight for each other, and that's it.
Anyway, that's it, I think. I hope I was able to express myself. English isn't my first language, so writing all that was pretty hard, kkkk. You are free to disagree, and discuss if you want <3
I love watching Cellbits streams even if I don’t speak Portuguese(I’m learning tho) one thing I find hilarious about Cellbit streams is because of his music taste. It’s so similar to mine it’s actually funny. Cuz why are we listening to J Cole next song it’s Slipknot.
Hazel is at camp half blood one summer for a slightly more extended stay than usual. Frank had been extra busy with praetor duties ever since Reyna left to join the Hunters. Hazel had been getting a little bored and it would be nice to see the Greek side of the 7 again.
While she’s staying, the hunters happen to come through. Hazel just wanted to catch up with Reyna but she ends up getting along with most of the hunters really well. She spends a decent amount of time with them while they’re at camp.
Nico seems to get fidgety and agitated the moment the hunters arrive at camp half blood. He speaks with Reyna briefly, but the hunters keep to themselves mostly, especially regarding male campers. But he seems even more apprehensive when he notices Hazel spending time with them. Hazel isn’t sure why until she walks into their cabin one night.
It’s completely dark but she can see Nico is awake, sitting upright on his bed but facing the corner. “Nico?” She questions softly. She runs her hand over the wall and eventually finds a light switch. Nico seems to cringe at the light and rests his head into the corner wall. As Hazel walks over Nico seems to draw more into himself. “Nico?” She repeats, this time placing her hand on his shoulder. Nico turns a bit but doesn’t face her. His head is still down and his hair covers more of his face. Hazel noticed now that his breathing is heavy and uneven. “Are you going with them” he asks in a low even whisper. The one Hazel knows he uses when he’s holding back. “I know you said you and Frank don’t get much time together anymore. You’ve been spending a lot of time with the Hunters.” Hazel was a little taken back for a moment. “I mean, I guess I have been but..” she trailed off for a moment, looking for the right words to explain but she didn’t get the chance, Nico cracked. Suddenly he choked out a sob. His hair fell back and Hazel could see for the first time that he’d been crying. “Please don’t go with them” he pleaded “I can’t- I just-“ his words caught in his throat. They had fought monsters and titans. She’s heard him talk about Tartarus and the bronze jar. But here, in their cabin, He looked more scared and desperate that she’d ever seen him. “I can’t- I can’t loose you to them” he managed, even though his sobs were becoming stronger and more frequent. “Hey, hey” Hazel shushed him and took both his hands “I’m not joining the hunters. I got along with some of the girls but that’s all, I’m not leaving camp Jupiter, I’m not leaving Frank and I’m not leaving you, Nico.” His hands were still shaking as she held them. He made a noise somewhere between a laugh and a sob. “Promise?” Hazel made an X motion over her heart. “Promise.”
Nico pulled Hazel into him and held her tightly. Hazel was a little surprised, but she’d gotten to know this soft side of her brother. “Besides” she said “You still have to be the flower boy at my wedding, right?”
How are you, a complete stranger going to come on my post and tell me that I’m trivialising a black woman’s pain over a lighthearted joke that Shuri “won by having the hottest bf”?? Additionally, why do you think because I’m enjoying the nuanced connection Shuri and Namor shared I’m somehow trivialising her pain??
Firstly, let me set you lot who like to go on people’s posts and be unnecessarily rude without knowing the facts straight— I’m black (with mixed heritage as I’m from the Caribbean) and I’m very aware of the pain Shuri experienced as a black woman who’s also navigated complicated grief myself, and I’ve made several posts analysing this at length, let’s start there. Second of all, Namor is also a character of colour and he too experienced pain and grief which is what fuelled ALL of his actions. He is NOT a villain, he’s an antagonist, and yall who are painting him as a villain because you claim “he killed Ramonda!!!!!” clearly need to rewatch the movie because what you’re doing is marginalising indigenous voices and their historical trauma by solely vilifying him. Namor didn’t overtly kill Ramonda, he had a role in her death yes, but ultimately Ramonda made a choice to save Riri vs her own life. Erik very explicitly tells Shuri not to minimise her mother’s sacrifice, because that’s what it was, a sacrifice. Namor and Shuri both add to each other’s pain whether directly or indirectly throughout the movie. They’re both flawed characters, neither is better than the other and that was the point you lot are missing — their journeys and experiences mirror and parallel each other. Whenever two characters of colour are contrasted and oppose each other, some of you very clearly show your true colours and how singleminded and problematic you can be and it’s gross.
One of the major themes of this movie was that the enemy is never fellow marginalised groups, it’s colonialism — more specifically neo-colonialism and how it pits us as people of colour against each other, blinding us to the exploitation of our resources and people. If your key takeaway from this movie was to vilify Namor and infantilise Shuri reducing her only to a pained and grieving character, congratulations you missed the whole f*cking point of the movie. Good for you 🙂. Here’s a 🍪 for being vapid.
But let me make something abundantly clear, just because people are shipping a couple doesn’t mean they’re not also making analyses of how the coupling can be or is dysfunctional. Many namuri shippers have pointed out where Namor and Shuri (paired together) are flawed and how their pain and grief fuelled/debilitated them. Also, know your f*cking place and don’t come at people you don’t know so disrespectfully. Proximity is a hell of a thing and a lot of you forget you’re literally strangers on the internet and attack people without knowing the facts.
Don’t ever think you can come on MY page or respond to MY posts being disrespectful and not get blocked. My block button stays hot and ready. Who do some of you think you are lmao???
There is something so special about District 11. The love, and loyalty. The kindness passed on to other tributes. They are my Roman empire.
chapter 26, crooked kingdom
i wanna repost this from traffictwt because it's honestly something i've been thinking about a lot recently.
i've seen so many recent posts where people predict the results of wildlife, and even old ones from past series, and they always predict bigb going out close to first, never being a winner, never even being close to it. i don't understand why. or people excluding him from shipping, or blatantly ignoring his POVs...
i dunno. i just think it's odd. and also really sad - he's so fun to watch! these people miss out by being judgmental and prejudiced. but honestly, if that's why they're refusing to watch him, they don't deserve his top tier content anyway.
yk ive been seeing people say like "oh fyodor COULDVE predicted chuuya snapping out of the vampire control, hes smart" and im like okay yeah that makes sense...but also like...i genuinely think fyodor is in over his head atm. like his speech about "utilizing" chuuya seems so.. .gloaty? arrogant? like, chuuya being able to crush the underside of a door and swimming in a water where you cant really swim in is impressive, but this is chuuya. you know, the guy who can stop bullets and launch them back with greater force, the guy who learned how to control his gravity is a precise manner so that his punches hit twice as hard, THE GUY WHO FOUGHT VERLAINE AND THE DRAGON FROM DEAD APPLE? like my guy is made out of titanium, and the thing he pulled in mersault is honest to god just basic stuff for him compared to what he's used to doing. fyodor calling skk's bond shallow and telling dazai, THE DAZAI, that he doesn't know how to use a gravity user is. one loaded statement. that aint it chief, hes going to get his ass bitten sooner or later.
if i was fyodor, i'd be watching my back.
Hey anon!
Yeah, see the thing about Fyodor's argument that Dazai should've known that a gravity manipulator can get out of a flooded room honestly has very little to do with the utilization of Chuuya's ability. It has everything to do with the vampire guard situated in advance to warn them, otherwise it wouldn't have worked. That's... not something Dazai probably (?) knew. Fyodor choosing to make that oversight (?) about their bond is uh... definitely a targeted choice.
Fyodor's specialty is hitting people where it really hurts. Remember that he first went for Kunikida, right? Because he wanted to break his idealistic spirit. And Cannibalism only works based off of the Agency's and Mafia's respective loyalties to their leaders, Fukuzawa and Mori - he was counting on loyalty to the leaders overcoming loyalty to their orders. So, it really seems like Fyodor regards bonds and emotions and loyalty and ideals as, well, weaknesses to exploit.
But as far as amazing feats Chuuya has performed, you're right, this is really not all that notable. Like I was saying, it's more important that there was already someone positioned in advance. It is weirdly gloaty and arrogant of Fyodor, then, to taunt Dazai with the idea that skk's bond is shallow, but I'll be honest, that actually makes me more nervous.
One of the flashbacks in chapter 101 shows the moment Chuuya saved Dazai in Dead Apple. Fyodor was present for those events and likely saw everything. He was the one who had the intent of forming the singularity dragon, something that Shibusawa did not predict would occur. He clearly has knowledge of singularities, perhaps better than most. Chuuya's true form of his ability is a singularity lifeform. Stormbringer confirms there are ways to counter and defeat singularities.
Conclusion: I am deathly terrified that Fyodor has a means of countering Corruption, and is purposely egging Dazai and Chuuya on.
I have no proof but most of the partnerships we built up throughout the series have been destroyed or separated or rendered ineffective by events in this and the last arc; the only one left is the Dazai-Chuuya one. Yeah. Fear.
But see, here's the thing. I'm still counting on it being Sigma or Chuuya to turn events around. Fyodor does seem to underestimate most people who are not on the same intellectual level as himself and Dazai. Sigma seems to be close to a turning point in his character. Chuuya has a history of throwing powerful enemies and allies completely off their game. I think they can do it. Really, I do.
Moreover, Fyodor commenting on how Dazai "isn't fit to use a gravity manipulator" is dead wrong because... Dazai doesn't use Chuuya's ability at all. Chuuya uses Chuuya's ability. Dazai doesn't tell Chuuya exactly what to do and how to do it. He makes a general plan or hints at a general plan and Chuuya adapts and fills in the gaps on his own. That's why they work! I will continue to shout this as long as I need to!!!
Much as I focus on Chuuya though, I do think Fyodor successfully pissed Dazai off, and I suspect... that's not going to turn out to be a good thing for him. This is Dazai's expression (or rather, lack of) the panel after Fyodor tells him he's "unfit to use gravity manipulation":
His face is completely shadowed.
...haha. Yikes.
Anyways, I rambled a bit here but I hope this was a satisfying response anon! There's really a lot of ways this could go so it's fun to theorize.
Ughhhhh
Atp imma need Ponk to make a smp and have it just filled with black people because shit is just getting worse. Like imma need Ponk, Berleezy, Cory, Hixen, Jazzyguns, Jojo, black rose, the rest of eezygang, add some upcoming black YouTubers like Forever Nenaa and Ohnoitstusk. Add Fannita and Iyosias to that bitch too. Just black people because it’s always somethinggggggggg with non black content creators.
Like I love the qsmp but tbh this shit is tiring.
I'm very normal about Pac and Bad sharing the pain of losing so many people, they keep going away. Pac might fear and distrust Bad a lot, but that doesn't get in the way of his compassion and the fact he knows Bad is grieving too
It's the same compassion that made Pac forgive Cellbit even if he panics whenever Cellbit gets angry. Pac learned to separate the person from the monster, and it's what always makes him stay close to people he knows might hurt him, because often they're also the ones that bring him comfort
When Pac calls Bad his friend, he means it. When he says Bad's a monster, he means it. He was never good at staying away from the fire, anyways