#I'll behave.

[bitebitbonebare]

God fucking dammit I'm genuinely losing my fucking shit.

I wonder if he'd put up a fight. I wonder if I would have to hold him down myself, knee against his neck, to tie his hands behind his back. I wonder what curses I'd wring from him through this, if he'd gnash his teeth and threaten me with his face pressed into the concrete floor. Would I need to get his feet too? Kicking and swinging, trying to get away-- oh and what if he screams? Yelling for help, would I need to silence him? Keep him from biting? Do you muzzle someone like this? Do you keep them from saying anything-- what happens when I kick the breath out of him?

I's stand above him, my boot pressed against his cheek-- I hated the concrete floors until now and I think I how they shine with his spit as he bared his teeth.

How careful would I need to be to make sure he was the only one to know he was bested? How badly does he want to feel this days from this moment-- how badly do I want him to feel it? Better yet, I know that he would rather there not be a later to feel, I think he's imagined death like this in great detail when he found himself at my mercy.

What tools would I have at my disposal? I wonder how much a tazer costs. I wonder if I could figure out a way to hit him in such a way he briefly loses consciousness. I wonder if I could choke him until he sees those black stars.

Could I press my knee into his throat while I tried something new-- could I put out a little match on his ribs? He complained of the pain on of a rib tattoo but what if I could methodically burn a scar on the other side, or as a lovely accent? He wanted to be an unflinching and incredibly willing victim to someone's cigarette shoved into him. This should be nothing then, right? Right?

What could I use to leave creative bruises on him-- I often weild a cane, don't I? What would shards of a broken mirror look like dug into his legs? I wonder how carefully I could etch something into his skin. He's let me tattoo him before anyway, what's different about a knife then?

I wouldnt want to keep him on the floor I don't think. Would I be able to hurt him while his sits on his knees-- his bones digging into concrete, he's so proud of how small he is, nearly just bones anyway, sharp and sharp feeling in his own skin.

Oh! What if, in kicking him, it's hard enough to make him vomit? Do you think he'd do that just for me? Well I think he'd do it for anyone who hit him in that specific way, but in that moment I think I'd revel in knowing that I was the cause.

Do you think he'd need to be told that maybe it's a little pathetic to want to be hurt this way? Granted, I think it was a bit absurd for me to tell him that I wanted to beat him this way, but for him to respond in this way? I think I might have known the answer when he resisted the urge to flee. I'd have plenty of words for him if he would like them.

Oh! He also proudly announced how fast he was! Oh I'm quite happy for him. So proud. Makes me wish I could set him loose in a forest with traps-- oh a daydream for another post, maybe not for him.

He is acutely aware of how inpatient I can be. I wonder if he'd taunt me to give up how much I'd want to relish this. That I want this just as much as he does, but I want it to last. I want to take my time, I want to commit every moment to memory, I want to write something about this that he might stumble upon-- or I offer up enthusiastically and just for "critique" not as if I wanted him to remember the ache of it all, this would live on in his mind too, after all.

Oh, hah. Even better. If I'm careful, I could keep him exactly where I want him and get a recording of the entire thing. I don't care to know what he would do with footage like that.

I'm tempted by the idea to bite. I think biting would be my preferred means to draw blood. I could consider something else though. Either way I think I'd like to stain something or his as a souvenir. Wouldn't that be just so thoughtful of me?

Good fucking god the whole idea makes me dizzy. Does he know how excited I am? How caring I would be about it all-- not too caring that I'd be scared to hurt him, no-- but caring in the way that I want nothing more than to make him feel it, just how he wants. It's not just for him.

It's not just for him.

[namtanlovesfilm]

"I don't hug anyone I don't have feelings for."

[samuelroukin]

BARRY SLOANE as Joe 'Bear' Graves in SIX (2017—2018) Episode 2.08 Scorpions in a Bottle

[maglors-grief]

me when I see the hundredth post or comment from team green stans about how much of an evil bitch Rhaenyra is in the show 🥱

[tai-lung]

Tai Lung | Shen | Kai

[mangosaurus]

THIS IS HOW BENRIUS CAN STILL W— [GUNSHOT]

[twig-tea]

Trauma Patterns in LFTCOT ep3&4

Still thinking about Let Free the Curse of Taekwondo episodes 3 and 4, and how abuse and trauma results in behaviour that goes counter to our own desires and best interests.

Dohoe is so afraid of the potential for violence in himself that he refuses to allow himself to ever be violent, and so instead he cuts contact whenever there is any risk that he will want to be. He cuts contact with Hyeonho (and tries to avoid his bullies as much as possible), he cuts contact with his father, and he cuts contact with Juyeong. He understands Juyeong because it's when others are threatened that he is driven to fight back too.

It was only when Dohoe's father announced his intention to go beat Dohoe that Juyeong fought back. He knew Dohoe would hate him using violence to protect him from his father, and after explaining that he'd first been expelled for hitting a teacher while protecting someone else he promised not to do it again, but he did it anyway, because he was triggered in that moment (we saw the flashback to him in high school reacting the same way).

Juyeong's been taking care of Dohoe's father (and with the hope of seeing Dohoe again) for years, and has been teaching Taekwondo with a gentler and patient approach (and teaching the other instructors to do the same) in some kind of penance. Meanwhile Dohoe is the one who thinks he needs to stay away (but he can't so he buys the building a block over).

I'm also thinking about Dohoe's father and whether his decision to drink and call to wake his son the night before his university-qualifying exams to buy cigarettes and beat him for being ungrateful and disrespectful was conscious or subconscious. It doesn't really matter--we know from his friends that Dohoe being stuck at home is what allows his father to live as he has been, and Dohoe has made no effort to hide that it's his goal to get the hell out. I'm sure he'd never call it this but Dohoe's father clearly lashes out from his own trauma. I wonder how much he hates the fact that Dohoe's life will be better once he leaves, like Dohoe's mother's apparently was. I wonder how much his own fear at his wife leaving and subsequent lashing out is what drove her away in the first place. Sabotage of his son's future is such an ugly thing and is similarly counter to his own interests long-term, even if he thinks Dohoe leaving will make his life harder in the short term (which of course he does anyway).

The thing about trauma-triggered behaviour is that it is not a conscious decision, and not something the person can stop doing at will. That is not an excuse and does not mean they're not still responsible for their actions; But they need to have worked through whatever was underlying the trigger and unlearn the behaviour in order to be able to act differently in the same circumstance.

[toxicroyjamie]

If Phoebe's making Potions™️ in Roy's backyard you know Jamie's 100% joining in like "you added leaves yet?"

"No I still have to forage for them."

"Mint, I'm on it"

And jamie collects leaves in one of his little cross-body bags. Then they collect the potion in a jar and try to get roy to drink it

YES OMG Phoebe is such a little weirdo I just know she loves playing potions haha

Jamie babysitting Phoebe is such a great concept because they really would just be hanging out like this. Best friends <3

[galadriel-blue]

I want to talk about Celadriel compared to Haladriel/Saurondriel and the reasons why I want Celeborn to appear in the show, but I am terrified of the hate I might receive-

[glamfellens]

dont mind me im just feeling cross that larian is bending over backwards to pander to the I Want Romance In My Arr Pee Gees crowd instead of focusing on core rpg elements of their fucking rpg game such as making sure the companion characters are all (equally) fleshed out and present in the game and story. sorry but arent you guys tired of seeing yet another patch headlined with Look What We Added for Astarion! like? oh my god. oh my god. meanwhile Wyll gets his main quest demoted to a subquest and there is no new content for him that the other characters are also not getting when he was already far, far behind them in terms of hours of content. Exhausting. fuck off.

[hakusins]

hakudean mini event! as requested by the devil of JDOLH herself, @shylittlemoosen! thank you for the beautiful request miss devil~! enjoy these two love birds walking around and talking about the word of god 🙏.

[pageofheartdj]

You know what also kills me(among many other things)???

The freaking parallel!!

“Eda. Eda, can you hear me? I’ll listen to you now, I’ll do whatever you say! Just fight back! Please! Eda!”

“No! Please stop! Run away! Why is anything working?! I don’t want anyone else to go away, I don’t want anyone else to go missing! I am sorry, for everything!”

[fidgetspringer-art]

Olath - Aberrant familiar

[forgotten-daydreamer]

"I hate how they're writing Damian in Batman #146, he can't be that dumb, he's so ooc."

I mean, they're writing him almost as if he were a literal child who wants, no, needs to believe that his father's ideals aren't as fucked up as his mother's, who blindly believes in the man whom he learnt to trust despite being raised with widely different beliefs and ideals for the majority of his so-far short life.

Almost as if Damian were a pre-teen, or young teen at most (because how old can he be here, 13? 14?) who desperately clings onto the belief, onto the hope that his father hasn't really abandoned him, because his father is Batman, and Batman always has a plan, doesn't he? Obscure, complex, but a plan nonetheless, and it (almost) always turns out fine, so Damian needs to trust him, he knows he can, he knows that Batman is safe.

Logically, everyone else is older; I think the one whose age he's closest to might be Tim here, who's about 18 as usual, I guess. But Damian is a child, he's a child who's overall relatively new to Batman's antics, and he's a child who (unfortunately) rarely saw the difference between Batman and Bruce Wayne, a child who rarely got to meet Bruce Wayne at all, if you think of it.

You (you readers, not the characters in the story - because it makes sense for them to be so lost in the plot of their world that they lose sight of things) cannot blame a child for being delusional for believing with his whole heart that his father is not an evil bastard who's attacking everyone, allies included, family included. Because again, Damian doesn't really have a clear idea of how Batman and Bruce Wayne differ, he rarely got the priviledge to be with his father, Bruce Wayne, and not with his work partner, Batman.

You (readers) cannot really tell me that you're putting the blame on a child for 'snapping out of it' so late.

Of course, everyone is free to have their opinions, and if you think that this version of Damian is ooc or whatever, it's a valid, let's agree to disagree. But from a narrative pov, you can't possibly deny that it makes sense for Damian to be acting like this. He's a child, a literal child.

Expecting him to regulate his emotions as well as his sibs do is messed up. Which, by the way, they don't. Dick is a mess but keeping it together - except for the whole "punching your father senseless" thing, but good for him, I'd have done the same there. Jason is a mess and doesn't try to hide it, Steph is baffled and Babs is exhausted. The others are nowhere to be seen (and I'd have done the same pt2). Tim's the only one with a plan that's actually somewhat good - hope he makes Bruce snap out of his fear-induced little gateaway once and for all.

I know not many are fans of this run, but honestly? I'm digging it, it's possibly one of my faves. I love the drama, love the angst, love the plot-twists, like Damian snapping out of it just for Zur to silence him? Backup Robin who grins suspiciously like Jason? Tim ditching his phone - which is ossibly the most shocking thing? I'm hyped as hell.

All of this endless yapping to say that, okay, feel free to hate this or whatever, but please be humble enough to admit that Damian is being written exactly like he should be. I get it, DCAU gave us "Damian who talks like an old man, who never smiles and doesn't understand his peers" and it's cool. He's a bit like that in the comics too. But newer comics have a (very welcome, imho) tendency to write him as 'awkward' while simultaneously keeping in mind that he's a teen. And it's the best thing ever.

I, for one, needed reassurance at Damian's age. I needed an anchor and that anchor were my parents - growing up, the dynamics shifted but it's not the point. At 13, 14, or whatever Damian's age is, you're just a child who needs reassurance, because you're changing, the world around you is changing, and you're disoriented as if lost at sea. Writing Damian like that makes sense, it's not even up for debate.

He's not ooc, and he's not dumb either.

He's just a child.

Feel free to dislike how they're writing him, feel free to dislike literally every single detail about everything, this is a free world. But please don't tell me that needing a parental figure to be there for you, and that siding with said parental figure no matter what because they're essentially all you got left (rip batfam I guess?) - is ooc for a child. Damian is a child, don't forget that.

[amid-fandoms]

they are so otherworldly and soulmaty and written in the stars or whatever that they can't just get married. they need to get married in every country around the world a hundred times over this is a phwedding tour and we got our email/text invites already

[necrotic-nephilim]

in lieu of having posted any writing/headcanons/asks in the past few days because i have been *so* busy and unable to do anything fandom-related which is terrible and evil, i have a poll out of morbid curiosity and self-indulgence. i've been meaning to ramble here about how i feel about DC's lack fo Deaf representation and which Batfam members i would personally make Deaf, but i am mildly curious about the larger opinion and now i will subject you all to the question, i would love to hear thoughts/opinions/headcanons on any specific choices. (would love d/Deaf/HoH opinions esp but i'm mostly expecting this to reach the hearing crowd, so opinions from hearing ppl are ones i'm very curious about. if you've never given it thought before you are going to now or else /lh)