#I WOULDVE DIED FOR YOUR SINS

[andvys]

I will forever cry to this song now

I definitely won't write fics based on this because THIS IS TORTURE. but... some of the lines.... are very very inspiring

[tinkcrfluff]

the smallest man who ever lived is actually about peter quint

[ellies-enrichment]

gracie is real because when the crispy mic eating bridge happens i also wanna lay in the floor

[robertsbarbie]

the smallest man that ever lived sure is playing loud this season

[uncertainturquoise]

my red flag is that i don't go to therapy for my trauma instead I listen to taylor's new songs and project onto them

[heystephen]

i wouldve died for your sins. instead i just died inside.

[snickerdoodlles]

#I think a lot of my dislike of the movie might have been just differences in taste #That movie was NOT my sense of humor and I disliked how they handled some things #Like...it kinda bugged me how they went about Ballister's prosthetic limb I won't lie. #I also don't know if Nimona ''not wanting to be a monster'' yet also wanting to cause so much destruction around her worked for me #Or at least not the way it was done #Like. I'm ALL for a character that wants to hurt others because of the way they've been hurt. That's based. #But that's not...really what they did? Or at least I don't think so #Like she's not REALLY a villain but she did sincerely want Ballister to be. #She values life. But she also wants to murder people? She wants violence??? Idk. It was a weird mix #She's SO sad that child was scared of her but earlier she like. Completely fucks up another kid's game. For no reason. #God and Nimona being 1000 years old makes a lot of her actions kinda weird. She feels so 14 to me yet she's immortal afssf #Also just not that big a fan of the trope where it's revealed ''this ancient legend was actually kids the whole time!!!'' #but I know that's just my tastes #HOWEVER. I also think it made the movie weaker in certain aspects. #Prejudice is learned. So making it feel SO ingrained into the very beings of this world's people #IDK man did not hit it's mark for me #the queer allegory was legitimately very good though. loved that (op's tags)

Nimoma has good emotional payoff and animation but nothing else to really write home about TBH

It's very SPOP in that way, where the arcs and scenes are solid when viewed outside of the media in gifset or clip form but don't work as well when actually watching what they're from

For sure! I think that's a problem she-ra and toh both share with Nimona—they struggle with setup but then go ham on the payoff, which leaves everything feeling somewhat unearned.

The end of the movie bugged me in particular—Ballister's 180 with calling Nimona a monster (something he KNOWS pushes her to the brink) after one conversation with his ex-boyfriend was...I think out of place?

Normally if you have a character make a wrong choice like that you, as the audience, would be questioning the whole movie if they had ever REALLY changed. Was Ballister's loyalty truly to Nimona or to the Institute/Goldenloin? But, by that point in the movie they had really sold me on Ballister's complete acceptance of Nimona and disregard of the institute, so....why would he turn on Nimona then? I'm surprised they didn't do this plot the other way, which would instead have only made it seem like Ballister betrayed Nimona, you know? Like they did in Tangled. That way you don't undo Ballister's movie long arc with one scene, but you can still have Nimona go berserk and make her way into the heart of the city.

There were also a couple of other things that felt kinda dropped by the end. Ballister being the first commoner to become a knight? The Queen's important role in this society? This kingdom's prejudice going SO deep that not even a child would give Nimona a chance after saving their life, yet blowing up the wall changed everyone's minds in the end?

There were a lot of good pieces, but they weren't quite put together in the right ways.

[with-my-calamitous-love]

MORE REASONS NOT TO END IT ALL:

1) the smell of the grass after it rains

2) sharp eyeliner wings

3) coffins are hella expensive

4) trust me guys i had an attempt and being in the hospital really sucks ☹️ rzn why im writing this

5) laughing so hard you grow a 6 pack

6) finding a new micro-obsession

7) talking to someone about said micro-obsession

8) so american by olivia rodrigo

9) the rush in your heart when someone tells you they love you

10) theres people who still need you around

11) gotta outlive the haters

12) the smell of garlic

13) WERE YOU SENT BY SOMEONE WHO WANTED ME DEAD DID YOU SLEEP WITH A GUN UNDERNEATH OUR BED WERE YOU WRITING A BOOK WERE YOU A SLEEPER CELL SPY IN FIFTY YEARS WILL ALL THIS BE DECLASSIFIED AND YOU’LL CONFESS WHY YOU DID IT AND I’LL SAY GOOD RIDDANCE CUZ IT WASNT SEXY ONCE IT WASNT FORBIDDEN I WOULDVE DIED FOR YOUR SINS INSTEAD I JUST DIED INSIDE AND YOU DESERVE PRISON BUT YOU WONT SERVE TIME YOU’LL SLIDE INTO INBOXES AND SLIP THROUGH THE BARS YOU CRASHED MY PARTY AND YOUR RENTAL CAR YOU SAID NORMAL GIRLS WERE BORING BUT YOU WERE GONE BY THE MORNING YOU KICKED OUT THE STAGE LIGHT BUT YOU’RE STILL PERFORMING AND IN PLAIN SIGHT YOU HID BUT YOU ARE WHAT YOU DID AND I’LL FORGET YOU BUT I’LL NEVER FORGIVE (if you know, you know)

14) all your birthdays to come and all the cake to be eaten

15) birds chirping on a crisp spring morning

16) taking cool live photos and pressing them to watch them play out

17) garlic bread

18) those weird and really funny x listener audios click for a surprise

19) drinking cold water at 3am

20) just not today. don’t do it today and keep it up.

please, REBLOG + ADD MORE REASONS!

[vampirel00rd]

Could someone give a message to the smallest man who ever lived?

WHERE YOU SENT BY SOMEONE WHO WANTED ME DEAD?

DID YOU SLEEP WITH A GUN UNDERNEATH OUR BED?

WERE YOU WRITING A BOOK?

WERE YOU SOME SLEEPER CELL SPY?

IN FIFTY YEARS WILL ALL THIS BE DECLASSIFIED?

AND YOULL CONFESS WHY YOU DID IT

AND ILL SAY GOOD RIDANCE

COZ IT WASNT SEXY ONCE IT WASNT FORBIDDEN

I WOULDVE DIED FOR YOUR SINS

INSTEAD I JUST DIED INSIDE

AND YOU DESERVE PRISON BUT YOU WONT GET TIME

YOULL SLIDE INTO INBOXES AND SLIP THROUGH THE BARS

YOU CRASHED MY PARTY AND YOUR RENTAL CAR

YOU SAID NORMAL GIRLS WERE BORING

BUT YOU WERE GONE BY MORNING

YOU KICKED OUT THE STAGE LIGHTS BIT YOURE STILL PERFORMING

lala.

[selenastaylors]

WERE YOU SENT BY SOMEONE WHO WANTED ME DEAD?? DID YOU SLEEP WITH A GUN UNDERNEATH OUR BED???? WERE YOU WRITING A BOOK? ???WERE YOU A SLEEPER CELL SPY???? IN 50 YEARS WILL ALL THIS BE DECLASSIFIED??? AND YOULL CONFESS WHY YOU DID IT AND ILL SAY GOOD RIDDANCE CAUSE IT WAS SEXY ONCE IT WASNT FORBIDDEN. I WOULDVE DIED FOR YOUR SINS INSTEAD I JUST DIED INSIDE. AND YOU DESERVE PRISON BUT YOU WONT GET TIME. YOULL SLIDE INTO INBOXES AND SLIP THRU THE BARS. YOU CRASHED MY PARTY AND YOUR RENTAL CALL. YOU SAID NORMAL GIRLS WERE BORING BUT YOU WERE GONE BY THE MORNING!! YOU KICKED OUT THE STAGE LIGHTS BUT YOURE STILL PERFORMING!!!!!! AND IN PLAIN SIGHT YOU HID. YOU ARE WHAT YOU DID. AND ILL FORGET YOU, BUT ILL NEVER FORGIVE!!!!

[akascow]

Dead Boy Detectives and The Divine Comedy

Dante's Inferno (hell), Purgatorio (purgatory), and Paradiso (heaven/paradise)

its not a complete one-to-one but its a neat thing to think about in regards to dbd

it kinda makes sense because the levels of hell in the show are based off the depiction we see in Dantes Inferno, and the next in the trilogy of the divine is where they travel the mountain of purgatory

but anyway edwins file in the night nurses book said he either goes to Hell or PLV-4s

okay this is kind of a long one so strap in

Overall:

this is based on shotty memory bUT

in the trilogy you would be put to the respective layer you belong (hell, purgatory or heaven)

if youre a sinner, hell, but Dante goes through all layers going down, then to lucifer who blocks the path leading to purgatory.

youd then have to climb up the mountain of purgatory depending on your sins for like a number of eons until you cleanse yourself of the sins, once you make it past a layer youre free of it forever and one step closer to paradise

and only then are you able to get to paradise and i THINK the layer of paradise youre placed on is based on how good a person you are or smth

Purgatory:

someone pointed out it could mean Purgatory Level V (5) or just level, and the 4s could mean how long he should spend there (?) but layer 4 is also Sloth so theres that too (the souls being that theyre forced to run all the time which is lowkey what edwin goes through in hell)

which is the path you have to travel AFTER getting through hell you would normally go through up purgatory in order to get up to heaven once youve proven ur self worthy and ur sins righted iirc

so i think he would have to be placed somewhere in the middle (based on the level V if thats the right theory, theres 9 layers total) of that mountain based on his life and unfinished business and everything hes done while as a ghost he would have already been pushed up a few levels

so im assuming the night nurse's book was like glitching out because he was supposed to be in hell (on a technicality) but he served time there being passed around demon to demon, made it out of hell, but in the opposite way of purgatory

according to Dante's i believe he would have gone to purgatory IF he had unfinished business but he made it back to earth (the wrong way), and because of the things he did helping ghosts it technically counted towards his unfinished business so like he should be in hell because thats where he was placed last BUT everything hes done post-post-mortem wouldve counted towards purgatory and (maybe up to heaven ?)

Paradise:

on another theory, PLV could either mean paradise level Venus (the lovers) being the 3rd layer but the layer of heaven granted to those who in life were deficient in the temperance of love (smth smth edwins repressed feelings and never engaging in then smth smth)

the 4th layer is the Sun (the wise) -4s maybe?- which hold the souls of the wise, which kinda plays into edwin being the brains of the team so to speak, and he was seen reading in his mortal life before dying, as well as knowing a bunch of languages and probably a whole bunch more in his afterlife (in the comics they taught french at st hilarions so im assuming he knew that before he died)

the 5th layer is Mars (the warriors of faith)- maybe layer V?- i dont really believe this is the case bc this layer is given to those who gave up their life in the name of faith, but i would like to believe everything he went through in hell and also everything he gave up eternal virtue for to help the lost souls left on earth could grant him to be a warrior

heres a diagram to put into perspective

but yeah theres a little divine comedy lesson for yall

idk take it all with a grain of salt because i learned about dantes inferno like last year and really only remember the hell part of it all. also dante thought that gay people were worse than murderers in hell so thats another issue. aND the sandman universe takes into account all faiths and religions and gods and mythology theres not actually a true one god. and the divine comedy is very much a catholic read so yeah

[lilacheavenbby]

WERE YOU SENT BY SOMEONE WHO WANTED ME DEAD DID YOU SLEEP WITH A GUN UNDERNEATH OUR BED WERE YOU WRITING A BOOK WERE YOU A SLEEPER CELL SPY IN FIFTY YEARS WILL ALL THIS BE DECLASSIFIED AND YOULL CONFESS WHY YOU DID IT AND ILL SAY GOOD RIDDANCE CUZ IT WASNT SEXY ONCE IT WASNT FORBIDDEN I WOULDVE DIED FOR YOUR SINS INSTEAD I JUST DIED INSIDE AND YOU DESERVED PRISON BUT YOU WONT GET TIME YOULL SLIDE INTO INBOXES AND SLIP THROUGH THE BARS YOU CRASHED MY PARTY AND YOUR RENTAL CAR YOU SAID NORMAL GIRLS WERE BORING BUT YOU WERE GONE BY THE MORNING YOU KICKED OUT THE STAGE LIGHTS BUT YOURE STILL PERFORMING AND IN PLAIN SIGHT YOU HID CUZ YOU ARE WHAT YOU DID AND ILL FORGET YOU BUT ILL NEVER FORGIVE THE SMALLEST MAN WHO EVER LIVED

[greyeyedmonster-18]

(“i wouldve died for your sins, instead, i just died inside”)

[mihai-florescu]

Do you think godfather died for the sins of the idol industry but not in a jesus repentance way but in an insurance way that means he died for your sins so if you don't sin you're wasting his sacrifice. You know? Like a industry sinning free card for his subordinates. Or maybe that was akehoshi? Maybe he died in the jesus repentance way? No no he would count as a martyr right? Where was I going with this actually

I hate that Priest doesnt have a canon design because i wouldve loved to edit him in court for his crimes, with a speech bubble saying this as he's slowly going insane trying to rationalize why he did the things he did

[person4924]

I WOULDVE DIED FOR YOUR SINS INSTEAD I KUST DIED INSIDE

[magxit]

Can stop listening to Smallest man 😭 I dont know what to feel about matty now. I wouldve died for your sins but I just died inside fuck

He is a fuck boy. I hope he has grown since last summer.