#I like villains leave me alone

[dragon-in-a-trenchcoat]

legend of vox machina is like this too btw. good as hell show. haven't seen season 2 personally cos I was just interested in watching Orthax be a badass puppeting that dork Percival around. but that doesn't mean you shouldn't. show's great watch the whole thing.

Still in awe of how well the D&D movie mimicked the feeling of D&D without doing anything as tediously literal as a "sitting around the table" framing device. The way some characters have names that sound like names a DM improvised on the spot, the sudden appearance and disappearance of a overpowered DM NPC for a single dungeon, the way they used the fact that characters can plausibly just mess up for no clear reason to escalate action scenes...that was cinema

[tea-cat-arts]

Shen Yuan getting transported into pidw isn't "the system punishing him for being a lazy internet hater," but instead representative of "step 1 of the creative process: getting so mad at something you decide to go write your own fucking book" in this essay I will

[rottingflowrs]

She’s badder than the twink y’all throw her under the bus for

[beanghostprincess]

I think constantly about Pudding and Sanji being obviously parallels of each other and how fucked up it is that Pudding had to live the life Sanji managed to escape but she constantly gets hate online as if she hadn't been literally manipulated by her mother through the whole fucking arc. But okay. Yes. God forbid women have any sort of trauma response and if they do they're not allowed to have a redemption arc because of course they're extremely evil for making your silly baby boy cry and they don't have a heart even though it's explicitly shown in screen that they do and they regret their past actions.

[cinnamon-bunni]

guess who i've been thinking about again

[soraya-snape]

People hating on Dumbledore because he chose to take the hard way and step in and lead the fight against Voldemort. And now they blame him for all the people who have died (not just order members but also death eaters like Regulus?!) but if he hadn't done anything they would still have died. The difference is that a lot of other people who survived would have died too.

Yes, I agree that Dumbledore sometimes had a bit of an ego, and he should have maybe trusted more people/told more people (especially Harry and Snape) about his plans. But on the other hand, I totally understand why he didn't or maybe even couldn't trust anyone. There are literally a couple of reasons. Like the last time he trusted (not only trusted but loved) someone, his sister died, and he never forgave himself for that. Or the time the Potters trusted someone and they died. And simply the fact they were fighting a war, and it's common knowledge that you don't know who to trust in times like these, especially when you know the enemy uses spies.

Dumbledore also didn't raise Harry to die. I mean, as far as I remember, he only figured out that Harry was a horcroux when he already went to Hogwarts. Before that, he probably knew something was up, but I don't think he believed that this something would mean that Harry would die (or at least he chose not to believe it because it was too terrible to think about). And even when he knew Harry was a horcroux I think he still hoped that there would be a way for Harry to survive this because he did care about Harry (and I mean as a person not as some kind of weapon). But even if he raised Harry to die, what else was he supposed to do? Nothing? That would mean that thousands of other people would die. If you have the choice for either one or thousands of people to die, what would you do? It's obviously a horrible situation and I hope no one ever has to see that happen, but sometimes the only choices we have are bad ones, but we still have to choose.

In the end, Dumbledore was a morally grey character who made a lot of mistakes and also some character flaws but he had a good heart and most of his mistakes were made with the best intentions but under horrible conditions.

[angie-starz]

Girls🥰

[akuma-tenshi]

this is my truth

[yeonbam]

[gildeddlily]

"relax, echo's on it" and what if I sobbed

[kayvsworld]

imagine if the mcu was good

[arttsuka]

It's all fun and games until your favorite non protagonist character from a movie suddenly gets their own movie/show and they 'main-character'-ify them to the point they don't resemble themselves anymore.

[trekkele]

I do think its funny when someone says “oh the fans make everything about the batfam” as if thats a fanon thing and not something DC did. Like. As a Batman fan, DC keeps sticking bats where they dont belong in an effort to sell more. This is a real thing the fans did not do.

[misty-doodles]

Lmao as a c!dream apologist, there is something soooo funny about the way c!dream anti's will unironically say that he deserved torture and that they're happy about that and then in the same exact breath talk about Tommy and how dream apologists' won't call exile abuse.

Like okay bestie, sure, torture/abuse is completely morally acceptable as long as the person deserves it. That is a completely normal, not at all concerning way to view retribution.

And I think most Dream apologists (at least the normal ones) can acknowledge that exile and prison were both unacceptable. Can you?

[sukibenders]

Me, when I see modern retellings of Greek myths that are actually worse than the original---- from woobifying some gods and making them innocent meow meows to demonizing and villainizing others (eg. Demeter and, yes, even Hera), ignoring how they are morally grey and can't just be lumped in with a modern viewpoint at all times, making the goddess and other female figures "girlboss" but also riddled with undertones of misogyny/internalized misogyny and victim blaming (you see this a lot with retellings for Medusa, especially regarding Andromeda because if they aren't making her a girlboss than they hate on her for being a damsel, which isn't even bad, or even make her the "other woman" 😭), or make characters like Perseus the bad guy, even though he was literally sent/went on a dangerous, life threatening quest to save his mother (and himself lowkey) from an abuser and then went to save Andromeda, who he loved even though these retellings try to say otherwise, from death:

[lucky-clover-gazette]

i really love the story i've set up here with minthara. i had not exchanged a single word with her prior to this. in the goblin camp i had simply stormed her office and launched into initiative, and then used my team of four + shadowheart's ghost spear to non-lethally take her out. i stole her items and kept them for her in the camp chest. and then my heroic charlatan ass showed up and convinced her boss to let her go in a cunty power move that completely dismissed any of her original authority that i never even witnessed in the first place. and now she just hangs out with us and gets annoyed at me when i don't want to kill people, reacting with reluctant approval whenever i deception check my way out of over-level boss fights. absolutely beautiful