AU Where They All Band Together To Kill The Rich Guys And Get Matching Hair Dyes To Celebrate Uwu

ive been wanting to make this joke for months

you got it wrong, genos

people on twitter kept saying that a lot of ex-dsmp fans moved on to f1

that post about BCS appealing more to women made me think, and it's interesting that Walter and Jimmy are both cringefail pathetic, and don't get me wrong Walter's whole self justifying toxic macho thing is fascinating, but Jimmy is almost more... accessibly pathetic? he's emotional, got big sad blue eyes, wanted his brother to like him, lbr a total bottom with Kim, and even the vanity is treated more sympathetic than in Breaking Bad where it was essentially flamboyance helps with the sleaze. This isn't even me saying he's better than Walter, there's a whole laundry list of flaws, it's just amusing that I can't think of anyone calling Heisenberg their pathetic bb girl

editing this to say i was writing back to you last night and didn't have time to finish it, so i saved this as a draft, and now i'm like 100000x more deranged about the contrasts between jimmy and walt than i was before, because jimmy was PREPARED TO DIE FOR HIS WIFE. walt presses on with his, "everything i do, i do for my family" (despite us knowing this becomes a falsehood of an excuse), but the pure act of selfless love jimmy exhibited for kim is true.

it definitely comes down to endearment - walt is a fascinating character, but innately unlikable from the start, whereas jimmy is lovable. walt's pathetic qualities curdle into cruelty and control, he's not cringefail in a way where we want to bring him in from the rain in a cardboard box lol but there's something about jimmy, some spark of heart or goodness, where we want better for him even though we KNOW where he's headed. accessible is a great word for it, there's something in him that we get, even when his actions are immoral or destructive.

i'm trying to remember if i just wrote about this recently or if i only thought about it in my head...there's a scene in salud when flynn comes over to see walt, and it's his birthday, and walt and jesse have just gotten into an ugly, brutal fight. walt is beat up and miserable and completely out of it, and accidentally calls flynn "jesse," and then the next day when he's a bit more clear, he talks about his experience seeing his father sick when he was a child. it's an amazing, haunting scene and i don't think it gets talked about enough. bryan's performance gets praised for the big meme moments - the "i am the one who knocks" speech, "you're goddamn right," "i suggest you tread lightly," even the breakdown in crawl space, but the monologue he has in salud is one of my favorite bits of his acting in the entire show. he's quiet. he's introspective. and he talks about these terrible memories of seeing his father wasting away from illness, the caustic smell of the hospital chemicals, the sound of his breath rattling like an empty spray paint can. and he tells flynn this formative memory, this huge, revealing part of himself, and it speaks so deeply to the response he's had to his cancer, his fear of his illness, his loathing of looking weak. his father wasn't there to, as gus once said, provide. he only remembers being afraid and seeing frailty. it's just a gutwrenchingly human scene. he says to his son that he doesn't want him to remember him like that. but then flynn says, "remembering you that way wouldn't be so bad. the bad way to remember you would be the way you've been this whole last year. at least last night you were...you were real." it's heartbreaking because all he WANTS is for his dad to let him in and be honest with him, even if that means ugly crying. the emotional vulnerability matters. but walt just...seals back up. walt cannot abide being seen in weakness. and that hubris destroys everything. the narrative knows walt is pathetic, but walt cannot face that himself.

by design, bcs recognizes jimmy's more pathetic qualities, but never needs the veneer of the power or masculinity. even when jimmy tries posturing, it's ineffective. the narrative knows, but SO DOES JIMMY. the "lightning bolts shoot from my fingertips!" scene has howard walking angrily away from him with zero reactions, and ends with jimmy panting and defeated because he's aware he was lashing out in guilt and fear after having to defend lalo, after seeing grieving family members in court. when jimmy gets mad at kim and kim says, "jimmy, you are always down," he doesn't respond with a counterargument, he just sort of collapses inwardly, and starts packing his things (in his metaphorical little rucksack) until she comes to him and softens and offers support. it's not bad to see jimmy weak or very emotional or afraid or frustrated or downtrodden because it's REAL. and we can empathize with those flaws when they're honest.

heisenberg and saul goodman are both grandiose personas, but used for very different reasons and ends. they're both their worst selves writ large, but where heisenberg feels like an extension of walt's obsessive ego, saul, even in his scumminess and vanity, is a shroud for the vulnerability of jimmy's heart - and because we know that exists in him, we respond to his faults more compassionately. in fandom parlance, jimmy's meow meowness, his lovable qualities, are possible because of that genuineness we've felt. we know he can do better, we wish he would. walt's metastatic decay doesn't allow for that. it allows for such great counterpoints between the themes of both their arcs.

Hello @havanillas I love your mer au! I wanted to sketch smth because it's so sad I love it

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Listen listen listen. The absolute POTENTIAL of Alejandro “only competent person on my team so now I’m stuck babysitting these idiots” Burromuerto during WT deserves some headcannons.

*picture this evil manipulative mastermind genuinely carrying around a first aid kit all season because Tyler is physically incapable of going five minutes without severely injuring himself and Alejandro just keeps giving him bandaids and sighing because ‘seriously chico?’ But he still patches him up no matter how many times it happens because he wants his teammates in “peak condition!” Lmao (it never really helps for long but Alejandro lies to himself and no one has the heart to tell him)

Then he also starts pocketing snacks to have on him at all times just in case because he hates the sound of Owens stomach rumbling, and also Alejandro gets hissy when Owen says pretty much anything, so he just starts throwing a bag of chips in Owens direction whenever he starts to open his mouth or do anything else to annoy him as a distraction (had about a 30% success rate)

He constantly had to steer Noah from running into anything because the nerd has this habit of reading while walking which he refuses to stop and insists he is actually watching where he’s going- but by the second day Alejandro had watched him nearly walk out of that one hole in the plane while 12,000 feet in the air, COMPLETELY OBLIVIOUS, and so he started just dragging Noah by the scuff of his collar like a kitten whenever he’s standing with his nose in the book lmao (Noah could not care less and Alejandro finds that infuriating)

Izzy is obviously concerning but Alejandro just looked at her and figured : y’know what? She’s more likely to injure someone else than herself’ and he was right she is canonically a menace to society but also started a game or dare or dare within Team Chris at the very beginning of the season that all besides Alejandro are participating in, and IT GOT CRAZY. Alejandro saved all of their lives from their stupid decisions at least four times each but zero appreciation because “you’re interfering with the game, man”

So by the time Duncan shows up Alejandro is just in full mama bird mode and all Duncan is thinking about is ; this is that same suave cool guy who had all the girls swooning back in Egypt. That same guy now has Owen on a child’s leash and is wrapping Tyler in bubble wrap and wants me to vote out a scrawny twerp because he’s genuinely furious he got called a slimy eel.

their relationship is the funniest and the best thing thats ever happened in opm (and to each other)

(the first four images are actual moments that has happened in the manga, in chapters 77 and 192)

Fucking menace

Cho Hyun-ju & Park Gyeong-seok - There is a Light that Never Goes Out 🌟

It’s not a bad ship, I rather like it myself, but why do you like Kingtama? Like hat about it appeals to you?

oh, anon.. what a question you have asked me. brace yourself

First off their interactions are funny (and if a ship can’t be funny I generally don’t care about it) but they’re not without the possibility for serious depth between them, like when they talked about Saitama’s loneliness and goals for the future

Also I find their history of Saitama saving King before either of them were pro heroes to be romantic..little did they know…….. 

I feel like King’s the character that understands Saitama best out of everyone (and obviously Sai is the same about King with knowing his secret) like he respects and admires Sai’s strength without putting him on a pedestal, and he recognizes Sai’s faults without losing respect for him. King knows where they both are in the world and what Saitama can do but they’re still able to be friends and have fun together

((this is reaching and I know it but I’d just like to say.. about this panel 

when I saw it I thought “what since when is he enthusiastic” and maybe it’s just an off translation but also.. maybe.. he’s enthusiastic when he’s around king so king’s impression of him is an upbeat guy.. cause   hes happy around king))

and while I know totally well none of this is like “so they MUST be dating” this is all stuff I really like in ships! I like characters who enjoy each others company and make each other better people by being together.. sai’s getting out of his comfort zone with king and king is becoming braver with sai’s support.. I love it

their canon relationship makes a really good setup for a slow burn thing yknow.. it’s not like it’ll happen but if it DID it could feel really natural. and for impatient people like me there’s always sudden friends w benefits developments for fic stuff.

Speaking of fic, I also just really like writing for king, and I’m a fandom bicycle type of person so saitama has to be there, so I naturally really like writing kingtama even if I wasn’t as into the ship as I am. lol

I could continue but I’ll end this here with one last important point: him      big