#and it's not just physical violence
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Watching the Carnival Job and had a revelation about why I connect with Eliot so much in particular, particularly after seeing that post about Eliot and children.
It's the way he chooses violence as a way to protect the weak, about how he'll do anything to keep the people he cares about safe. It's being the hitter and taking all the hits, of being a meat shield not only because it's his job but because it HAS to be his job because nobody else can take it. It's about the physicality of it all, of breaking his own rules because he, the things he believes in, the things that make him him, all of these things are less important than the people he loves.
It's Andy choosing violence and dying over and over again but she has to do it until she can't anymore. It's Dean soaking up all of John's abuse and turning himself into a weapon because he has to protect his little brother.
It's me, standing myself between my parents and my brother because I know I can take whatever they throw at me, I have before, but by everything that matters in this world HE will not, not because he can't, but because he shouldn't. No one should.
#actually shaking from the emotions of writing this#I just cracked the code on another one of my foundational archetypes I go back to over and over again#and it's not just physical violence#it's verbal racial economic you name it there will always be people who endured it and said never again on my watch#dammit I have work to do today I can't afford to be a mess right now#leverage#eliot spencer#the old guard#not tagging this spn cuz reasons but you know it's there#the hands of the emperor#yinning#my post#abuse tw
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“In the war film, a soldier can hold his buddy—as long as his buddy is dying on the battlefield. In the western, Butch Cassidy can wash the Sundance Kid’s naked flesh—as long as it is wounded. In the boxing film, a trainer can rub the well-developed torso and sinewy back of his protege—as long as it is bruised. In the crime film, a mob lieutenant can embrace his boss like a lover—as long as he is riddled with bullets.
Violence makes the homo-eroticism of many “male” genres invisible; it is a structural mechanism of plausible deniability.”
–Tarantino’s Incarnational Theology: Reservoir Dogs, Crucifixions, and Spectacular Violence. Kent L. Brintnall.
#Another day another quote that's been rattling around in my head for an age#Which again sums things up better than I ever could#And of course it's not just about the physical deterioration at the end of the story allowing for intimacy#The idea permeates the whole show#Tozer holding Heather as his exposed brain freezes on the deck#Crozier and Hickey reaching a state of psychological intimacy but only through the violence of the lash#You could argue a link between Hickey and Goodsir too through the intimacy and violence inflicted on Irving#Both his killing and his autopsy#The Terror#The Terror AMC#Meta
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Prompt 352
“Mother, I crave violence,” a small child interrupts the video call, practically clambering up into Nightingale’s chair. They look around five or so, with white hair and red eyes. Albino perhaps?
“Ah, apologies, let me take care of this real quick,” Nightingale turns the microphone off when he gets a few acknowledging noises, picking the small child up and moving them from the room.
“Cute kid,” Barry acknowledged from behind his coworker’s head, having been helping move things. Actually, the kid looked kind of familiar, though from where, who knew. Hard to remember everything with how fast his thoughts usually went. “I didn’t know Nightingale was a father…”
Then again the specialist was notoriously private, and set most meetings online thanks to some sort of medical conditions. So he supposed it would make it easier to be a stay at home dad if he was there already…
#Prompts#DCxDP#DPxDC#Mom Danny#Dad Danny#De Aged Dan#Well at least physically and using it to be a lil shit on purpose#Eternal Trio#Danny goes by Nightingale instead of the extra long combined name for work#You can’t tell me specialists wouldn’t exist in DC where there’s a bunch of supernatural & alien stuff everywhere#Danny specializes in scenes that have ecto or other realms energy/goops/etc#He’s not lying when he says medical conditions either what with the whole heartbeat/scars/etc#Ellie is also around she’s just out with Sam#Valerie is Ellie’s Godmother#Tucker professionally tests firewalls and similar & has a side streaming job#The people think Jordan is joking when he says he craves violence but he’s dead serious#He’s never been so annoyed than when he found out his ghost form has also been de-aged and he’s Tiny
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Part 2 of this:
Once it becomes increasingly clear to Eddie that Steve is probably not staying with them, Wayne starves off a fit by asking, “Hey, Ed. Why don’t we go see if your caterpillars have cocooned yet?”
The impending tantrum deflates with his little shoulders, “Fine.”
Wayne leads the barefoot boy out into the dewy morning, giving Hopper a brief reprieve to figure this whole thing out.
Wayne lights a cigarette, leans back against the side of the house, and watches as Eddie kicks at the grass, “Ya done?”
“It’s not fair,” He grouses out, kicking again.
“You said your word is everything, Uncle Wayne,” Eddie accuses. “You said no take backs an’ you’re taking back! You’re takin’ back an’ you’re givin’ away, and - and you’re going back on your word!”
Eddie stomps his foot, hands working everywhere as he sputters, “You - you’re a-a-a hippo-crite!”
Wayne stubs out his cigarette, lights another one to give Eddie a second to collect hisself before he drawls out, “I think you were fixin’ to mislead me when you ask me that question last night.”
“No, I wasn’t.”
“I think that’s why you had that crawler with ya,” Wayne continues. “You wanted me to think you were askin’ if you could keep that caterpillar, not your buddy in the tent. That’s mighty deceptive, Ed. Almost lying.”
Eddie responds like he’s been shocked, “Nun-uh! I don’t lie, Uncle Wayne.”
Wayne raises an eyebrow at him and Eddie explodes in all his tiny dramatics, “You were gonna say no!”
“It’s not fair,” He laments. “I found him all by myself and I’ll take care of him! I promise. You ain’t got to do nothing.”
“Ed, that boy ain’t an uncollared dog you found,” Wayne replies. “He’s got a family.”
“Then where are they?”
Good question, Wayne thinks privately but doesn’t vocalize that. Instead he asks, “Wouldn’t you be sad if I kept you forever and you couldn’t see your daddy?”
“No.”
Well…
“I think Steve might think different,” Wayne concludes, snubbing out this cigarette too. “Why don’t we see if him and Hopper want to set up a play date sometime.”
“Wayne, I can’t date people. I’ll get cooties.”
“Oh, of course. A hangout then.”
Eddie sighs, turning around to look at their caterpillars, “No butterflies yet.”
#while this convo is happening Hopper is struggling to get inside a blanket fort fyi#Eddie is five seconds away from asking Wayne for a dog and they both know it#Wayne goes to the ‘treat kids like people’ school of parenting so Eddie gets to talk out his feelings#meanwhile Hopper went to the physical violence school of policing and is debating beating the director of the babysitting agency#the Harringtons’ employed to death after talking to them on the phone this morning#(he still might punch Richard Harrington just for the hell of it. who knows)#steve harrington#eddie munson#wayne munson#jim hopper
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GET XEM @askoverkill
#jackartyayyy#fanfanart#animated#overkill au#violence cw#I guess???#cartoon hammer physics#I know I could just send this in the server but like... shy
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Fascinating how Edward's response to distressing events is to immediately get a hand on his nearest fellow lieutenant. Almost like he's afraid they'll be taken away from him or something.
#Terror Lieutenants#The Terror#And then they were taken away from him! :)#hodglittle#nedving#Edward Little#hi everybody here's your weekly Lieutenant Throuple propaganda#Starky's Original Posts#We should make this more of a thing in fics. I know we write George as physically affectionate based on vibes and I always support that.#But we should also acknowledge The Handsy Groper over here.#Hodge gives the other two a billion cutesy pet names and tells them he loves them a trillion times a day.#Meanwhile Edward only ever calls them John and George but has a hand on at least one of them at all times.#John does neither of these things but they will each find a little drawing in their pockets later when they're alone#or they'll discover he did some task for them without them knowing.#did u know that um. love is real. just for these 3 weirdos though specifically.#OKAY thank you for suffering through my infantile loveydovey nonsense we can all get back to the usual violence and gore now
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some recent bazzes from twitter
i like to think that Bazz is, rather uncharacteristically for a Zora, very competent with a sword
#botw#totk#bazz botw#zora#bazzlink#ive been Zora Thinking (TM) a lot over the past few days#made so many drawings... maybe i'll even show you some...#its mostly bazz being just a little bit too excited about physical violence tbh i'm on a dangerous bazz kick
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love that argument about "well Remus says Levicorpus was popular so it was okay to use it", Mudblood word was also pretty popular, why would you ever think it wasn't normal to use it then?
#listen Remus i don't care that your precious friends and probably some other groups of entitied bullies used it#might as well say “well it was very popular for a couple of month during my 5th year to punch others in the face!”#and it would cease to classify as physical violence then#so you can recall how you humiliated and tied up and choked and undressed people “reminiscently”#also the Muggle family during the Quidditch tournament must've thought that was just a silly prank and innocent pantsing i bet#and as a preventative measure – we are NEVER told Snape bullied anyone or used Levicorpus on people who didn't consent#even when Harry says “my father used it on Snape” Lupin says “he wasn't the only one”#not “well SNAPE used it too”#and frankly i can see traumatic shit like that being overlooked in the school where people use illegal hexes to double one's head size#and try to feed you to the werewolf#doesn't make it normal and not traumatic#severus snape#pro severus snape#anti marauders
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could you draw Cobalt actually...id love to see her in your style
thing yes thing here is your creature
#myart#the thing i love the absolute MOST about cobalt is that she comes across so aggressive cause she cant control what she says#but when shes in an actual situation where physical violence is involved & shes scared she just freezes and goes “WOOP WOOP WOOP!!!!!!!!”#fun fact in my game her name is actually Copper Saccharine and she goes by he/him LOL#Cobalt Ootkins#fortuna#cosmosdex
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INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE ❧ i bet on losing dogs.
#interview with the vampire#iwtvedit#iwtv#louis de pointe du lac#claudia de pointe du lac#lestat de lioncourt#the vampire armand#daniel molloy#madeline eparvier#tusermich#edits#please no one point out the fact that these are not symmetric in numbers#it's taking all of me not to redo this from scratch cause of this i'm in physical pain#but it took too much time and i need to let go of perfectionism lmao#this came to me in a vision...#the idea of louis' life being this constant maelstrom of love and betrayal#a circle of violence and lost causes#as a victim and then as a perpetrator when he finds himself letting claudia down#claudia who left but then came back and stayed and then tried to leave again but was sacrificed in his name#lestat not knowing how to let go but then doing it in the worst of ways and armand lying through his teeth for decades just to not be alone#i love them all so dearly#beloved complex characters
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The True Face Deconstruction (1/2)
I'm seeing a lot of people jump to Mizi's defense after the latest comic (good), but then continue to criticize the other characters at face value. Everyone is acting out of character, and the entire comic contradicts all the existing lore we have so far.
I'm skeptical these are actual memories. People recognize how her perception of herself is distorted but don't seem to be considering that her perception of others is distorted as well.
We're not seeing the true face of herself or any of the other characters, but rather her resentment toward everyone including herself. The comic makes sense as a mental breakdown and her warping reality to both blame and pity herself. It makes no sense to be taken as fact on any level.
Sua would not act like this. Mizi would not act like this. Till would not act like this. There's a difference between revealing a darker side to characters and completely contradicting who the characters are.
Before jumping in, I will point out there are many fascinating themes present in this: the burden of being loved because she has what others do not; the extent to which she recognizes the suffering of those around her; how everyone enabling her as their form of "love" led to this intense suffering; her feelings toward her situation and everyone retroactively; etc. I'll leave that analysis to those more versed in Mizi's character.
The comic starts where we left off: Mizi despairing at the deaths of all her friends.
The first "event" to happen is Sua leaning down next to her, asking if she finds it regrettable and describing her as "cunning." This seems to be her survivor's guilt accusing her of letting this happen and tells us right from the start that this is all happening in Mizi's mind.
The next event is an unknown boy asking her if she and Till are an item.
His uncanny resemblance to Luka could mean he's a representation of her experience in Round 5. He could be a culmination of all the men who have confessed to Mizi before (though it was Sua being confessed to, not Mizi). He could be a real person, and this is a conversation that actually happened. I have no idea. I do not think that slap actually happened though, because of everyone's underwhelming response.
The segyein teachers closely watch the children, record events happening, and report back to each child's guardian. The art book confirms the flowers have cameras in them (pg. 74), leaving the children with little to no privacy.
It doesn't show on the Field Day page available on Twitter or the Patreon, but Shine has signed every single one of Mizi's notes.

Till's entries show us that any children who act out are reprimanded and recommended regular education at home. The segyein teachers promise to do their best to prevent future incidents. In regards to Till getting into a fight with Ivan, it's written "Ivan has generously forgiven him" suggesting the segyein teachers intervene and facilitate the aftermath.
By extension, the unknown boy's tirade could not have happened without intervention either. These are Mizi's own thoughts about herself.
Now we get to Sua. Sua was possessive of Mizi in subtle and unobtrusive ways. She didn't like others being around her and would get jealous when Mizi was equally kind to everyone.
She wouldn't have just brushed over someone slapping Mizi.
She is also nothing but affectionate with Mizi in every official art we see of them together. There's too many to even list. If you're splitting hairs, this is the only image I noticed that could be construed otherwise, and here Mizi is resting on her shoulder. Sua's just not happy in whatever she's thinking about.
Sua harbored intense guilt for keeping Mizi in the dark:
In Heart, she calls the "dream [she holds ...] filthy as hell." We can infer that is most likely referring to these feelings.
Sua is described as a character who is "fragile" and "soft-hearted". She "kept her feelings tightly hidden" and only confided in her sister and Mizi. Mizi considered "her heart [...] cleaner and finer than any other friend".
Sua was always focused on Mizi who allowed her to turn a blind eye to the cruel facts of their world. It was her only way of survival (pg 41). It was her only escape (pg 44). She just wanted to stay in the happy moments with Mizi (pg 39).
Sua didn't reveal her emotions to the very end. She never would have hinted at anything.
She "doesn't even have the courage to blame others or express herself." Sua wouldn't have said "I told you so" or shown resentment toward Mizi. She didn't resent Mizi, if anything Mizi resents her.
She has every right to. Sua led Mizi to dream of and believe in a happy ending. She left Mizi completely unprepared for her death (pg 44).
Vivinos says Mizi "is still like a child. She can't control her emotions very well, and she has trouble dealing with many of the events she has to face." She was left confused and became defensive (pg 143).
A hallmark of Mizi's character is her pureness of heart. She is a character who is the same on the outside and inside (pg. 29). Her enthusiasm and naivety prior to Round 1 are both genuine. Even the segyein audience was "struck [...] with a sense of sincerity" during My Clematis.
Part 2
#alien stage#alnst#alien stage mizi#alien stage sua#alien stage till#alnst mizi#alnst sua#alnst till#alien stage analysis#alnst analysis#mizisua#ig a lot of this info is behind a pay wall or hard to come by#so I can't be too upset about people not realizing this#still I think the free content conveys this well enough just less thoroughly#I tore my art book trying to get the info for Mizi and Sua 😭#so you all better be grateful /lh#seriously tho now I need to go buy another#ৎ𝄢ꪑ𝒊ꪀꫀ#tw: long post#tw: physical violence#tw: verbal abuse
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Puns. It's silly time with Mr. Plant + another one of my OCs, but we don't need to worry about him!
He is being pulled apart like a gooey mozzarella stick.
I completely forgot i wanted to add vines to this but its almost 5am as i type this and im too lazy. maybe i'll add later i dunno. = v=
#twomp#the world of mr plant#mr plant twomp#cw blood#his name is spectre btw#ashur gharavi#its been a while i need mr plant violence 🥺#silly murder man#horror#horror art#mr plant fanart#vbeau art#small artist#digital art#if i have a nickle for every time i drew mr plant in this angle#id probably have at least four or five nickles?#and thats more than two#anyway out here doing weird blood physics#but also i feel like that works just fine for spectre knowing what i know about him
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gaddison my beloved...
#botw#zora#gaddison#loz#totk#laflat#link#the last image is from a comic about bazz's shameful backstory#and she is just making sure her friend's secrets remain secret yknow#also for the record she is probably one of the smartest characters in my complicated zora canon#she -perceives- things#draws the correct conclusion (usually)#and then does not use this knowledge to solve the problem because punching it is just more fun and usually as effective#also i like this top drawing of her so much agh#and yes it totally is about her being Bazz's borderline henchwoman when it comes to exerting some necessary physical violence#wouldn't be a good look for him#and she already has the Reputation(tm) anyway
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After seeing Lukas Gage playing cocky, swaggering characters like The Cat King, I was not prepared for how completely protective I am over him in Companion, where he plays the sweetest, goodest robot boy who did not deserve all of that suffering my poor boyyyy
#companion#lukas gage#cat king#patrick x eli#eli x patrick#sophie thatcher#jack quaid#harvey guillen#i feel like there's probably some interesting subtext in how he's treated versus Iris#where he may not be physically abused but he's still mistreated#just in different ways and ESPECIALLY by Josh#who immediately uses him for violence#this is something i thought Blink Twice was going to get into with that one younger guy but then didn't#anyway i want an ending where Iris and Patrick both survive as robot besties#spoilers#companion spoilers
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was thinking about this post again. mainly because it’s really bothering me that i didn’t include riko. he’s the center of the perfect court and not in my post about them. but that boy never really had a chance at escaping the nest. it’s literally his own personal prison. built just for him to grow up in and (presumably) take over later in his career. we talk about hating tetsuji a lot for the things he did to neil and jean in the nest, but i just want to know what he did to RIKO behind closed doors. do you think riko is also hiding scars under his jerseys? or do we think maybe it’s like kevin where most of his ouchies were just mental
#it’s a riko sympathy day don’t talk to me#SYMPATHY not DEFENCE#NOT defending his actions in canon#but there’s no way you’re raised by someone as cruel as tetsuji and that violence is never turned against you#i think when/if tetsuji harmed him physically it was things that would fade#which would honestly be just as bad. all this pain and no marks to prove you survived it?#if he ever got out he would go insane#all for the game#aftg#riko moriyama#tetsuji moriyama#tetsuji moriyama’s a+ coaching
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it's actually really funny to me that style is a pacifist. like of fucking course you are, you're the most annoying person on the planet, of course you have to be against senseless violence cause everyone wants to commit that against you all the time
#i'm just thinking about how many times style has definitely been threatened with physical violence for being Annoying#and his response being 'but im a pacifist 🥺'#the heart killers#style sattawat
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