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Sep 18, 2015 - Flash Thompson's flinch (excuse the language)

CHIS ZYLKA’S ACTING IS ON POINT!! I didn’t even notice this when I watched it years ago in cinemas. Yeah, this is an 8-years-later reblog, don’t judge me

You wouldn't flinch if someone was going to throw a basketball at your head?

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I’m sure you think you’re being original, but I’ve literally (and I do mean literally) seen about a hundred people respond with nearly the exact same wording, and every single one of you seem to be missing the point.

My post:

Are we really not talking about this flinch?

Flash Thompson’s father, canonically, is an abusive drunk.

Are we really not talking about this flinch

About a HUNDRED people have responded with various versions of your snotty question. For the most part I’ve just sat back and watched other people explain to you smug whiner-babies why you’re being ignorant high-and-mighty fucks who are completely missing the point of the post, but you came directly to my ask box and you went on anon, so it’s my turn.

Usually I don’t get bitchy when people send me asks, but this is as much in response to the other hundred of you as it is to you personally, so be warned, I’m not going to be nice about this.

Of course he’s flinching because of the fucking basketball. Nearly everyone would flinch in this context. Literally no one is denying that???

However, most people wouldn’t react to a basketball coming at their face by turning their back to it, getting low to the ground, and bracing their entire body. Most people would flinch back, maybe take a step back, and try to block the ball with their arm and shoulder. Most people wouldn’t have that expression of shame and dawning comprehension afterward. 

Do you know the difference between a bad actor and a good actor?

A bad actor tells one story.

A good actor tells a multitude of stories.

Of fucking course he’s flinching because there’s a basketball coming at his fucking head, that’s story #1, that’s literally the scene, NO ONE is debating or disputing that. There is no other reason for him to be flinching in this moment. 

The WAY he flinches is what’s interesting, because that’s story #2.

He turns away and brings his forearms up to cover his face — children in physically abusive homes learn to protect their faces at all costs so that no one sees evidence of the abuse and asks about it.

He braces his whole body.

He gets low to the ground.

And after he registers what’s happened he looks ashamed, humiliated, angry at HIMSELF, not at Peter.

When you react to something involuntarily, because of a learned behavior, because of anxiety or fear, and you realize you’ve reacted incorrectly to the situation at hand? That you’re using the wrong social script, and your reaction was disproportionate to the situation? THAT is the fucking look on his face afterward.

Anyone with anxiety can relate to that expression. That expression says “fuck, I fucked up, now everyone knows.” It’s fear and shame and self loathing, and it has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with the fucking basketball.

Would I flinch if someone was going to throw a basketball at my head? Yes, of course I would. But I wouldn’t flinch like THAT. I’m going to go out on a limb here, since you’re being an asshole about this, and say neither would you.

I have so many WIPs that if only I knew how to work with myself, I’d have finished or at least made sm progress. I’m trying to actually plan my fanfic now but am struggling. Some of these WIPs will never see the light of day so I’m thinking of just posting them as prompts or headcanons

Shout out to my writers that don’t plan their fics at all. Readers be like “I can’t wait to find out what happens next!”

Babe me too

I can't get over the training montage in Willow 2022. I'm totally not obsessed with Willow

I've no idea where this is going

One of the first comments I've ever received on my work was that I should use 3rd POV because people usually don't read 1st POV fanfictions. Which, I agree. As a reader—especially of fanfictions—I didn't like reading from a 1st POV. For some reason, I wanted to keep that distinction between me and the character. I wanted to be separate. I want to exist only as an observer, not as a character in the story. At the time, when I was writing it, I did think I should probably go 3rd POV, and I did write some chapters in that POV, it was a POV changing fanfic. I read that comment and edited my fanfic as a whole to be strictly 3rd POV. And, I still write BL fanfics today. The thing is, to keep a distinction between the two characters, I would write the other as "them/their/they". But the problem arises that it's confusing if the "they/them/their" doesn't refer to the single character but to two or more characters. But I also do not want to write them both as "he/him" because then, that's even more confusing. Now, I'm writing something. And I honestly just said "eff it", I'm writing in 1st POV. I have been meaning to write in 1st POV for a long time now, too, sooo, that's good. I'm still thankful to that person for writing that comment, it was constructive criticism and as a writer who does want people to read, it was a good suggestion. But, where I am now, I'm trying to care less about it. That fanfic that I was talking about, the one they commented on, the first part of it has been in writing since 2020. THE FIRST PART, BRO TT

Xingqui: *posts a new chapter*

Beginning note: hey, guys! Sorry for the wait. I had some personal issues. My boyfriend finally got an evil spirit exorcised and then I met his hot aunt. Oh, then I talked to my cover illustrator and he apologised for the late product, apparently he was doing some experiment about or on some weird tentacle creature and then he lost his notes and then met a clone of himself and badabing badaboom, they're best friends now. Well after he stabs said clone, anyway. But anyhow, I hope you enjoy the chapter!!

JUST YOU PEOPLE WAIT UNTIL I CAN ART AND WRITE!! THE AMOUNT OF FANFICS AND FANARTS OF MY OTPS WILL MULTIPLY BY TENTHS, I WILL SINGLE HANDEDLY CARRY MY OTP FANDOMS; JUST YOU PEOPLE WAIT!! Art block and writers' block will not hinder me...In the future. But as of now, I will die by their hands.

Trust me. If I can art and write masterpieces, Dron would have so much more content than there is.

Reblog if you didn’t write My Immortal

We’re going to find the author by process of elimination.

So, everyone's headcanoning or theorizing that Kaeya was affected by the happenings in the Chasm. But, has anyone ever wondered if Childe/Tartaglia/Ajax was affected? I mean, he has abyss energy, right? So would it be safe to assume that it's possible for him to have been affected by it?