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I want to know how the hell my father beat me out of a 150 million dollar contract that you assured me was a done deal. The only way they would have known the exact dollar amount was if they had inside information. And since you and I were the only ones who knew about it, and I certainly didn't tell my father, that leaves you in a very uncomfortable position. If I no longer have your confidence, I'll tender my resignation in the morning.

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if Clark’s parents taught him about abuse dynamics he and Lex could have been the greatest of friends. A lot of their issues come down to communication difficulties because of how different their childhood environments are, they live in different worlds. And if Jonathan wasn’t blaming the son for the sins of the father he and Martha could have created a safe environment for Lex which could have been really good for him. Lionel gets so many breaks from people cause he’s better at manipulating his image but what if those breaks were given to Lex instead? Who would he have become?

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Head empty of everything except the fact that Lex Luthor in Smallville could have been such an interesting villain if they’d actually made the effort to give him a “journey to darkness” rather than a simple “light switch”.

Like here you have this character who’s main goal in everything is always to help people. There isn’t an innocent he wouldn’t protect, a person-in-need he wouldn’t help. It’s what, in my mind, makes it so impossible to see him as truly evil as the show is now. Bc they completely ignore this fundamental aspect of his character.

If you really want to make Lex Luthor a villain but want to keep true to his character. Make him overprotective. Make him violently, ruthlessly protective. Make him prioritize his loved ones over what’s right. Make him selfish and loving at the same time. Make him so desperate to hold on to what little love he has that he goes too far, that he does too much. Have him be loyal to the wrong people. Have him blinded by trying to save everyone that he ends up saving no one bc all he’s ever done is try. Have him be controlling and paranoid and manipulative and yes even evil but do it all knowing that the real tragedy is he only ever wanted to be safe and loved.

The key to a good villain is establishing a motive and Lex Luthor’s has always been about caring for others. It’s just a shame that he’s always been alone.

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I’ll say this right now. I don’t think the world should try me. I am not God’s strongest soldier. Sometimes I watch a piece of media and see the way a character experiences trauma after trauma, falling down an irreversible path of evil and possibly even straight up insanity and think… wow they’re handling this way better than I would.

Like I’m not saying I would jump to murder or anything but I think I would become the most unhinged version of not okay you’ve ever seen.

(This post is about Lex Luthor from Smallville. Literally it’s season one and this guy is just out here, living his life, trying to improve the lives of everyone around him with charity and kindness and the entire town just fucking hates him. Not even because of anything he did but because of his father. Like everyone is allowed to be an A-grade asshole because they’ve been personally victimized by Lionel Luthor but when Lex tries to do anything he’s “a manipulative son of a bitch” and “just like his father”. Like god forbid a child try to escape the shadow of their abusive parent. I mean does no one in this town have any sense of compassion? He feels like a more tragic version of Candice from Phineas and Ferb. Forced to never be believed in and slowly driven insane bc of it.)

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Cannot get over the duality of Smallville. In my mind, Clark and Lex are the leads of two very different shows. I’m only on season one right now but it’s so fascinating how everything that comes later is already baked in from the beginning. You can see the tragedy of their friendship even before the first crack forms because at the heart of it all, there’s always going to be a lack of understanding between Clark and Lex. It’s just who they are, how the both of them were raised.

Because on one side you have Clark. He’s an alien. He feels alone in the world, like he has to hide himself. This feeling becomes an instinct where even though he is an open and honest person there’s a part of himself that never really gets to see the light of day.

And then you have Lex who barely even knows the meaning of the word trust. He was raised in business and politics (most of it not even above board). And that’s not even mentioning the influence his father specifically had on him. He’s been taught to lie and keep secrets and ultimately restrain from divulging any part of himself without some serious teeth pulling. In fact, Lex usually won’t give up a lie until he’s been caught outright. He’s always dealing in half-truths and lying by omission so that he can stay ten steps ahead of everyone else because he was taught by his dad and has learned over and over again through experience until it was practically hardwired into his brain that sharing information with other people is a losing move and usually just puts another bullet in the gun someone’s already got aimed at your chest.

So what do you get out of that? Well, you get two people from two complete different spheres (two houses both alike in dignity and all that) who make the choice to be friends, not knowing that the choice is an impossible one. Because neither can ever be fully honest with the other (they don’t know how to be fully honest with anyone) and eventually the lies pile up between them. The misunderstandings become more than just circumstantial. They become delusion and obsession and mistrust and bad faith. They can talk and try to fight it all they want but at the end of the day their constant miscommunication leads to what was always their ultimate destiny—the end of their friendship and the start of something worse.

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Just so y'all know (it's just me here but let's pretend), I have gone mentally insane over Smallville and I can't keep it in anymore so I will be releasing the drafts that I have saved up over the last few weeks while watching the show.

Currently, I just finished Shattered and Asylum just in case you were wondering what my mental state is like <3333

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Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005) dir. George Lucas

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i really just want an adaptation that follows the entirety of holmes and watsons lives. since childhood, in parallel worlds, seeminly never to cross. the loneliness of holmes' adolescence. the brightness of watson's youth. the shared despairs both expereinced, but in different ways. holmes with the struggles of fitting into a society that seemingly has no place for him. watson with the sinking feeling that perhaps he has failed at everything, despite being seen as a succes by his peers. then to find that perhaps, not all is lost. they find one another. and from there, they are able to help heal wounds that they didn't inflict. it just.... yeah.

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Foaming at the mouth over this CBR article about Lex. Usually their takes are pretty bad, but this is essentially everything we all scream about all day.

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why would you like media that is good if you can like media that is bad instead and pace around your room like an insane person thinking about What If It Was Good

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tumblr: on languages

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A Study in Scarlet illustration by Полина Граф (2024)

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shorthands for dumbassery that i have grown to love deeply

"how dare you say we piss on the poor" in response to someone misinterpreting your post

"_ isnt gonna fuck you" for suck up behavior

"woah. should we tell everyone? should we throw a party?" for who the fuck cares

"and what if the world was made of pudding" for when would this ever matter.

"and sharks are smooth both ways" for a group of people heatedly arguing with 1 guy who is fucking with them all

".. but its about a witch in the alps finding her lost cat" for someone trying to sanitize something to the point of absurdity

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Taking fire, ducking for cover, hiding in the trenches, waiting it out, holding my breath, praying, screaming, crying, throwing up—another day with my extended family talking politics during the holidays 😭😭