When You Read Something So Perfect In AO3 And You Have To Give Kudos And You Know You Can Only Give Once

Being a fangirl means you love fictional characters but you love them with someone else more.

To all the fanfiction writers out there!

THANK YOU FOR YOUR HARD WORK!!!

I can complain, whine, bitch and moan but in the end you are-

MAGNIFICENT! YOU ARE A LIFE SAVER!!

Red velvet cupcake: why do you like Gray Fullbuster so much? All he does is strip and make ice sculptures lol

Gray Fullbuster. Love of my life. The only anime/manga dude I fell for the first time I saw him until now. Like, I know there are other good looking anime dudes out there but seriously, the resident Ice Mage from Fairy Tail still has my heart. 

Here are the reasons why:

1. He’s probably one of the most normal members from Fairy TailOkay he does strip from time to time (but come on, it was part of his training with Ur), but if you overlook that, he’s one of the sane people in their guild (like hello, even their Master Makarov can be wack at times lol)

He’s also a kind af guy, in general. He may not look it, Gray is a gentleman, is pretty sensitive to emotions (especially to his closest friends), and knows how to swallow his pride and freaking apologize. 

2. He’s so coolLiterally and figuratively. If he’s not fighting with Natsu or anyone in the guild, he just radiates c a l m. 

Also, unlike Natsu who speaks his mind out, Gray is relatively laidback, reserved, and thinks first before he acts. And me likey *swoon*

3. Fashion sense on point

Yo, have you seen him when he’s got clothes on? The man’s got style, let’s be real here

4. Character Development MVP

If there’s one character in Fairy Tail who had the best character development, I’ll give the trophy to Gray. He went from someone willing to sacrifice himself just to end the ghosts of his past that were haunting him (poor man was so caught up in his past that his guilt messed him up), to someone who now looks into the future, values his life, and never gives up for his friends and family aka the guild. 

5. The way he babies Lucy and Wendy

JUST LOOK AT HIM

AND LOOK AT HIM DANCING WITH WENDY SKSKSKSKSKS

6. His beautiful ice-make magic

His weapons are honestly beautiful and aesthetic. And they’re made of ice too, so the pretty factor just went up to 100. 

Also when he upgraded from Ice Make Wizard to Ice Demon Slayer? GIIIIIIIIRRRRRRLLLL 

7. Sometimes a dork

The way he called Frosch cute sksksksksksksks tell me that is adorable or I will throw hands (lol jk)

8. (BONUS) He’s also hot when he’s mad

Nuff said.

ugh wreak me, Daddy sksksksks

Send me dessert asks!

It is DONE. I am SAD but fulfilled. If this doesn’t make anyone but me cry I’m going to yeet myself into the void.

TMA has kept me company through the entirety of lockdown and I couldn’t be more thankful for it. Please enjoy my collection of sad faces as a tribute to episode 200. :’^)

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So the footage of Owen training the tiny raptors in the new Jurassic World kind of (inadvertently, I think) confirmed something that always bugged me about the social dynamics mentioned in the first film.

Owen’s using the term ‘alpha’ wrong.

Of course, the concept of pack alphas is rooted in a lot of erroneous studies anyway. But if we take his actual assertions about it and Blue’s behaviour at face value, then Owen is wrong. He’s not the alpha. Blue is the alpha. The pack follows her cues, that’s why they go with her when she decides to follow the Indominous, and it’s also why they listen to Owen - because Blue does. If Blue stops, so do the other raptors. They’d don’t just wait it out to see who’ll win, they immediately follow Blue’s lead.

Blue’s the leader. 

Owen is, actually, the mediator.

He is the one who stops disputes between the raptors and defuses tense situations. He is permitted this status precisely because he’s physically weak (compared to raptors) but socially important. His social importance was created by rearing the raptors and forming emotional bonds with them. But they know full well that he’s squishy and beatable (though they probably don’t realize just how lethal some behaviours might be for him, comparatively). Blue knows she can kill Owen and that Owen is not strong or very useful at leadership decisions for a velociraptor pack. She accepts his input because he’s dad.

So since Owen actually isn’t even in the running for pack leader, and challenging him would be pointless because then you’d just hurt him and cost the pack a socially important member, and also probably get beaten up by Blue, he is the ideal mediator of disputes. His intervention de-escalates situations by reducing the amount of violence that’s permissible. 

But because he was using so much containment and physical force (even if it was through equipment, obviously) to keep the raptors in check, I think Owen misjudged his placement in the raptor social group. Especially since he actually was tougher than them when they were babies. He thought they listened to him because they believed he was stronger than them, and that this was an illusion he had to maintain.

That was never actually the case, though. Blue knew Owen was way weaker than her the whole time. She just valued him anyway.

There’s probably a metaphor about toxic masculinity in there somewhere.

Daddy by pencilHead7

I don’t know much about Voltron, but after seeing Lotor everywhere on my dash I absolutely need an animated series for Drizzt Do’Urden. Just putting this out there in case the universe is listening.