#I would commit atrocities

[thatheathenbastard]

The things I would do for some head scratches right now.

[homielander]

i'm sorry but hotd positing that all women are innately cautious and peaceful and compassionate while men are rash warmongers is not a feminist win! i could see the value in everyone being hesitant to go to war at the onset of the story because it intensifies the tragedy of this house tearing itself apart, but at this stage, rhaenyra has as much reason for bloodlust (if not more) as the men on the show. it's pretty heavily implied that the shock of her usurpation killed her daughter, aemond killed lucerys, and one of aegon's kingsguard snuck into her quarters with the intent to assassinate her. most importantly, she has felt entitled to the throne since she was named heir as a child. she should be incensed! rhaenyra's inaction in the season 1 finale due to a sudden aversion to violence was already stretching believability -- this is the same woman who expressed nothing beyond mild shock at vaemond's beheading, who plotted with daemon to have an innocent man killed to facilitate laenor's escape while declaring that the realm should fear her. to have rhaenyra insist on peace at this point in the story, when war is already well underway, is incredibly irrational.

this problem is not limited to rhaenyra. alicent ordered larys to kill mysaria's network of spies and any suspected traitors in the red keep, presumably without any due process, and neither of these decisions was depicted with the gravity they deserved for a character who was once horrified by any bloodshed. meanwhile, aegon had a few extra ratcatchers executed, and not only was the direction sufficiently ominous, but we also got a lengthy monologue from otto about how it would spell his doom. it is probably pointless to bring up rhaenys because she is written less like a believable human being and more like a mouthpiece for the writers to assert whatever political opinion they believe is correct in a given episode -- but she did very much kill dozens if not hundreds of smallfolk last season. she did do that and very clearly did not care. why is she an advocate against war? for both alicent and rhaenys, there is a strange dissonance where their actions are at odds with their attitudes about opposing large-scale war for the good of the realm. i'm not saying this dissonance cannot exist, but it should at least be acknowledged.

helaena raising concerns about the losses suffered by the smallfolk might have worked in isolation, but for it to accompany everything above is exhausting. can none of these women be allowed to feel for themselves?

[shadowqueendiangelo]

Imagine you’re Grover and Annabeth. Your friend has just tricked you in an attempt to sacrifice himself for you. This is the second time this has happened to you in your life. You watch him fall out of the Arch. You see the three fates and watch them clip a string.

You think he’s dead. He’s definitely dead, no question. Except you go to look for him, expecting absolutely nothing, but trying to keep the faith.

And then he climbs out of the river, waves awkwardly at you, and says “hi.”

I would’ve thrown him back in the river.

[benevolenterrancy]

this description made me realise what one of my favourite MXTX character tropes is: Over-Worked, Under-Appreciated Employee Who Is Not Above Becoming Somewhat Evil About It

[multifandom--mess]

if biker hannibal has a million fans, i'm one of them. if biker hannibal has 5 fans i'm one of them. if biker hannibal has 1 fan, that one is me. if biker hannibal has no fans then I am dead

[fun-esta]

[mmelolabelle]

random asoiaf/hotd headcanon - so you know the way the dragon/dragonrider relationship is framed as a bond wherein the rider has to ‘control’ the dragon, or at least make sure their will overpowers the dragon’s otherwise they end up being taken on a field trip to old valyria or idk accidentally murdering their nephew? cool

daemon and caraxes are the opposite. caraxes is the ‘sane’ one and daemon is the one who needs anchored lest he go completely feral. they have (1) braincell between them and noodle boi has it.

daemon every six weeks “i’m going to do something incredibly stupid and cool that may result in my death and in the deaths of an untold number of bystanders”

caraxes “OR hear me out bro we could not??”

[superbsoups]

thing i wont finish..... anyway can you imagine victorian era house

[feroluce]

SO LIKE. As much as I roll with the Emanator of Elation Sampo theory, I do have. Some doubts about this specific instance of it. Not that I think Boothill is lying, or that I think Sampo isn't an Emanator, but I wonder if the person Boothill actually met was Sampo.

Just! Sampo is so careful. The only reason we even knew he wasn't of Belobog was due to a dialogue-dependent fourth wall-breaking dream sequence that no other character could have seen. It took a missable dream bubble in an out-of-the-way spot that was seemingly left only for the trailblazer at the very end of a side mission just to confirm him as a Masked Fool. Like it's not just the fact that Boothill mentions this person being an Emanator. It's that he knows they're also a Masked Fool, which is also something Sampo is incredibly dodgy about. Sparkle even seems to call him out on this in her party join line fjkdjaskldj

((But also, Boothill, baby. WHY were you trying to get them drunk????))

And regardless of if you believe him when he calls himself an old timer, he obviously has a lot of experience in doing what he does. He knows what he's doing, he's good at it, and he is viciously capable and competent, unfortunately for his victims smhznskdn

So it just. Feels very unlike him, for him to let his guard down enough to not only let himself get drunk in front of Boothill-

a total stranger btw whom Sampo has absolutely no reason to trust, and a dangerous Galaxy Ranger to boot who has plenty of blood on his hands and a significant bounty on his head

-but to get SO drunk that he lets loose the secret that he's an Emanator.

When Boothill brings this up, he mentions that if Emanators were obvious and known at a glance, it would lead to atrocities. And for as much as Sampo is disliked by his victims (there's an entire anti-Sampo organization in Belobog JFDKLASJFDL), it's all for fraud. He's wanted by the IPC as an intergalactic thief. He scams people out of their money, and only rich people at that. That's mostly all that he's known for. Nothing he does is violent, even though Sampo surely has the capacity to inflict a lot of harm.

And I don't mean that he's exactly a pacifist or anything; Firefly comments that Sampo seems like a highly skilled covert fighter. His voicelines make it sound like he enjoys combat- hell, his ult line makes him sound like a hitman. I like to hc him as being a pretty high ranker in the fighting rings at the World's End Tavern, like we see in the Simulated Universe occurrences.

But I don't think he would enjoy being the cause of uncontrollable violence and bloodshed.

Like yeah he's a dick who scams people on the regs for funsies, but he has lines he refuses to cross, which we see a lot of in how he interacts with Sparkle. More than just not enjoying it, I think he would hate it if he were found out and it caused an incident, especially since he seems so endeared to Belobog and her people now and it looks like he plans to return there. He wouldn't want to bring any of that back to them.

So I just can't imagine him carelessly fucking up bad enough to out himself to a random stranger that could easily put a bullet right through his head.

Sparkle maybe could, though.

Because as we find out later the dreamscape had expanded FAR beyond what it seemed, far enough that the trailblazer had been dreaming since the warp jump in. Most people enter it unknowingly, and don't realize they're already dreaming when they think they're still awake. Boothill and Dan Heng should have already been dreaming during their exchange on the Express that started all this.

And as long as someone knows they're dreaming, completely changing their appearance is easy, even for the common layman. We see this with a couple of NPCs and also Sparkle herself, with her (in)famous impression of Sampo.

Thank youuuuu Sparkle

And yeah, the trailblazer and almost all of the other characters wouldn't know about the expansion until near the very end. None of them realized they were dreaming even outside of their dream pools, and surely none of them would think to be suspicious of another person's appearance outside of the dreamscape like that.

But Sparkle has a script from Silver Wolf.

She knew all the secrets of the dreamscape, and she knew them from the very beginning. There would have been nothing stopping her from appearing as Sampo in front of Boothill and spilling all his secrets.

And she apparently has a long-standing history with Sampo, including trying to get him in on her own much more fiery and aggressive version of Elation.

Maybe all Sampo needs is to be outed as an Emanator, and then when all the violence and bloodshed catches up to him, then he'll finally understand! ദ്ദി(｡•̀ ,<)~✩

[lotus-pear]

bsd fic authors i understand yalls pain SO well right now why is it so fucking HARD to write dazai. like i have a whole fucking spreadsheet dedicated to tireless analysis i have done on my part so i can accurately characterize him but he is such an unpredictable and morally gray character that it's hard knowing his limits and boundaries and where he draws the line for himself.

[trappedinafantasy37]

Why she gotta be looking at me like this?

[smol-soop-spoon]

the amount of "i can fix him" energy henry winter (or any other tsh character tbh) produces in people should be studied

[corporalkiheart]

I just finished Long Live Evil and want the Emperor in a way that is frankly concerning. Sarah Rees Brennan knows her villain fuckers and what we want, because she is definitely one of us.

[assortedvillainvault]

Happy Valentine's Day :)

Since you seem to be in a Maleficent mood, can we get a Mal x reader drabble please?

Happy extremely belated Valentine's to you too anon – here you go!

Maleficent x Reader Drabble - Bad Weather

Absolutely stunning forethought on your part, to be out in the dark mountains with no coat.

Thunder rattles your bones as dark clouds surge overhead, rain sluicing down through your clothes as though personally offended you’re not yet soaked through. Maleficent’s castle, in all it’s ominous glory, leers down from above. You can see her goons running around the ramparts, unable to hear you over the wind and water.

Another slap of thunder has you flinching under the cliffside. Shit. Maybe you can find an alcove-?

A sound like water hitting an umbrella filters into focus as the rain eases. Shivering, you glance back, meeting amused yellow eyes in the downpour.

“Enjoying the weather, my pet?”

Maleficent, unbothered by the elements and partially transformed, stands with her dragon wings arching overhead into a makeshift shelter. She tsks and beckons you closer, literally taking you under wing and arm. “Poor thing,” she mocks, smile curling at how your teeth are chattering even as you roll your eyes and lean in. You let your eyes close as her nails trace the raindrops on your cheek. “Come now,” she purrs, leading you back towards the castle. “A frail little thing mustn’t catch cold, hm?”

[badacts]

every now and then an author will offer me the most horrible blonde man you've ever seen and i will be like. thank you. character of all time.

[fusionfanatic]

Research for an au fic I’m working on: how would Azula act and behave in a modern setting? And I don’t mean re-imagine her character within a modern context and stories. This isn’t Azula, but she’s an overachieving American high schooler with strict and overbearing parents, or Azula, but she’s the soon-to-be CEO of her father’s multinational conglomerate based in Japan or something. No, I mean how would Azula as she is in canon, Fire nation princess and all, act and behave if you simply just took her from her world and plopped her into [insert current year you’re reading this]?