#-character morals. but alas

[nagitosstolenhand]

hate when people feel the need to woobify and make akaza more of a 'moral' character so they feel less guilty about liking him and writing him as a complex character. he's a murderer. he has murdered and eaten innocent people. hes not a savior or genuine outseeking protector of woman, he just doesn't kill them and expresses some semblance of disgust at douma targeting woman to kill specifically. he does have a weird set of morals unlike most of the demons (ex: him refusing to turn people into demons without their consent) but him having some semblance of morals that he abides by does not make him a justifiable person. HES CANONICALLY AN ASSHOLE AND A BAD PERSON. STOP BEING A COWARD AND LET HIM BE AN ASSHOLE.

[cowboy-chronicles]

RDR Fans need to learn that you can like a character and acknowledge their immoral actions, simultaneously. I promise you, you do not need to gaslight yourself and say regrettable things as you reach for straws as to why they are supposedly not as bad as some may think. Like characters for how they are, flaws and all. It does not mean condonation.

[heirloommtomatoes]

the way kaladin is like. the only character who gets an arc relating to overcoming his prejudices but it’s…him overcoming his “prejudices” against lighteyes…like huh……?

[pyrosomatic-metamorphosis]

still so gucking delighted by how happy dapper was when they heard about all of bad’s killing. mad scientist baby loves loves loves to see his dad covered in other people’s blood. I can’t wait to see the other eggs’ reacts to what their parents did in purgatory. Will Richas be excited to hear all the tales of murder? Will Pomme be horrified? Is Chayanne gonna be delighted to hear about his dad and his mighty feat of saving tubbo? What about Leo? Ramon? Tallulah? their parents all went thru so much, and did so much. What will they think about it? (And will their parents even tell them?)

[shorthaltsjester]

i contain multitudes and can say that i am a little :( about vex and percy being teammates with benefits because i think there’s something particularly heartbreaking about the dynamic that was neither of them ever said a thing even though they both were aware of it and it took losing percy for vex to finally admit it and Even Then, she couldn’t say it to percy’s face when they got him back, percy was the one who had to make the first move (that they were both alive for at least) and he was only able to do that because he’d heard her confession, because he never would’ve thought otherwise. to be clear, i also very much enjoy the story being told, i think i just wish they’d maybe committed more significantly to This Is A Campaign-Inspired Story Rather Than A Retelling sooner in the show so that maybe there would be a bit more grounding or set-up for the storylines the narrative is focusing on (and i understand why they wouldn’t), because i think they’re doing very well with percy’s arc for example, because they started with focusing on his and keeping his beats mostly the same and that seems to be much the same case as some of his second wave of meaty character stuff has arrived. but with vex they’ve aimed for the same character beats but it doesn’t always feel as earned or really feel like much character at all; i think saundor particularly was a bit of an :/, since in the campaign it was really a catalyst for vex interrogating her role in the party and her morality and something she struggled to get over and that haunted her far beyond the walls of that tree, but in the show it hasn’t really had a clear impact on vex beyond the scope of the episode itself — syldor certainly has, but the challenge that saundor presented didn’t really have much weight beyond its moment. and obviously a large part of that’s also probably just, 7 protagonists and wanting to expand the perspectives to antagonists and give more room for side characters is a lot of things to cover. and, i say with love, perhaps a bit too ambitious for a 12 episode per season, ~22 minute runtime show if they want their characters to have the kind of depth that really makes campaign 1 shine the way it does.

[fiona-fififi]

Anti bucktommy under the cut. Look away if you don't want to see it.

Truly, I think the funniest thing about buddie antis who are obsessed with bucktommy is that they'll make a post calling buddie fans stupid for reading too much into a scene, and then the next post is a 10 page meta about bucktommy endgame that completely hinges on a made up personality and backstory for a poorly developed side character that just does not actually exist anywhere in canon. Like, the hypocrisy is staggering. I mean, no one has to buy into the buddie meta, but at least recognize when you are literally doing the exact same thing playing fast and loose with canon and stop making fun of people for doing the exact same thing y'all do every goddamn day.

[reiganssillyankles]

So im very sleep deprived but i need to write this real quick. I know there’s a bunch of talk about Mel using Jayce after he called her out in that one scene and while I don’t deny that, I think some people are being too harsh on Mel (where they prob wouldn’t be if it was Viktor or Cait who did it.) I’m not gonna say hell yeah gaslight girlboss, she herself admitted she saw them as investments, and she tried to push her agenda through her connection with Jayce. I mean she is a politician ofc she would lol. Clearly she still cares for Jayce, she subconsciously protected him from the blast. But I haven’t seen many people point out this.

In this scene whenever Viktor speaks up, she completely ignored him and speaks to Jayce instead. She’s quite literally looking down at him. This may be her classism popping through, or maybe that she knows she could get her way faster through Jayce since let’s be honest s1 Jayce is very moldable. But as someone who likes Mel and her journey, this is one of the weakest links for me. Excluding Viktor from the conversation is kind of weird. I feel like canonically they don’t get along. But fanon they should all kiss fr.

[technofinch]

Vampire may in fact be real. At some point. Watch this space

[artsyaprilmr]

made Ashxen in veilguard, she's the protagonist now instead of her brother 🥰

[b0kksu]

as a proud bibliophile who predominantly reads more intense horror or dystopian, gothic lit, I need booktok to actually perish.

[magistralucis]

Still can't get over Djoseras's character arc. Heroically tragic, morally invalidated - structurally genius, since we rediscover him at the same speed Oltyx does, layer by layer as he peels his deceptions away. There is something deeply unhinged about the way Djoseras saw life while he himself was alive, in a way the standard necron contempt towards organics can't match.

He's merciless. He's loving. He's a rival, he's a mentor, he's untrustworthy. He's the best brother Oltyx could have had. He's a mirror for princes. Most of what he says is wrong, because he does not know better, or a lie, because his princehood is an unwilling burden and has become a fundamental dishonesty. He's a terrible DJ. His best friend was his enemy. Spiritually he has joined his brother in exile, setting himself apart in the landscape closest to Sedh their crownworld has to offer. His malice is almost entirely in Oltyx's imagination. He wasn't thinking about how wrong he was about everything 'since [he and Oltyx] spoke in the desert'. He's actually been thinking about it since Oltyx got exiled, spending hundreds of years carving apologies upon his own soldiers. They're even less capable of protesting whatever he brings upon them than they would have as necrontyr. They're not the people he destroyed, and not the people who can grant him forgiveness. If they could throw aside their hierachies and see one another person-to-person, they wouldn't owe him a damn thing, and he knows that and it kills him which is just as well because Oltyx killed him too.

His best-lived self belonged entirely to Oltyx. And Oltyx forgot about him, twisted the memories into something he was not, and he locked Djoseras away where neither he nor his elder brother could reach until it was too late. (Though the moral teachings kept leaking out, like pus from a wound.) Djoseras was already dead from the moment we saw him in the desert. In a way, he too is a 'twice-dead king', except he never wished to be a king and so he just keeps dying and dying until there's nothing more of him left to die. But they're necrons. They're all dead. They don't change, they never come back, only Oltyx can come back and not in a form commonly acknowledged as necron. Djoseras would've had a hard time without being as inflexible as he was, but that was the path he chose and broke like iron he did. There are not enough tears in the world

[angelicsentinel]

Not to yuck anyone's yum here, but I don't see how someone can do meta if they don't even have basic reading comprehension, much less do surface level critical analysis that says anything of substance.

[bunnightwing]

New abysmal take I've seen on bsd tiktok:

it's okay to compare the real authors to the characters only if they are on the "good" side and it is disrespectful to do it with authors like Nikolai Gogol and Fyodor Dostoevsky because those characters are "terrorists"

[torchickentacos]

Ok so far my experience with House MD is "everyone here sucks on pretty much every level possible. why do I love them so much"

[beeapocalypse]

orphanage party talk. a single contained shriek over this

[boatswainscall]

Nothing makes me feel immediate overpowering resentment and envy like hearing about people who have D&D campaigns that last years. Meanwhile every campaign I've ever done with my friends has choked and died four sessions in due to schedules getting too fucked and tangled to maintain ANY kind of consistent play schedule