#It's a complicated situation.
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"We need more morally grey characters in complicated morally grey situations" Y'ALL CAN'T EVEN HANDLE THEM
#istg the amount of people “picking sides” here#IS OUTRAGEOUS#THEY ARE BOTH SHIT AT COMMUNICATING#THEY ARE BOTH MAKING MISTAKES#AND ARE BOTH WRONG AND RIGHT AT THE SAME TIME#you cant ask for complicated situations and then treat them like theres someone completely in the right/wrong#BECAUSE THERE ISNT#fandom.bzzt#textpost.bzzt#stolitz#helluva boss#full moon helluva boss#helluva blitzo#helluva stolas#helluvaverse
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me in big fandoms: oh cool, it's so active and there's so many people to vibe with, this is amaz-
*finds my niche angle that appeals to approximately six people*
me: okay, folks, it's you and me now
#doctor who#shaun temple#doctor x donna#donna noble#fourteen x donna#doctordonna#fourteendonna#donna x shaun#this used to be how romantic doctordonna felt back in the day#but now it's wanting to know why shaun is how shaun is#like why are you THAT chill with all this#what life experiences have led you to this place#and where the lines where he would actually get frustrated with the doctordonna shenanigans are#coming up with a reason is more interesting than just blaming it on a flaw in the writing#though that absolutely may be what it is#why he can seem a bit flat#because rtd does not have a great history with black characters#for the record#i respect the different takes#mostly#but i always seem to do this with something#and overall i think donna might have a more complicated time adapting to the new situation than either shaun or the doctor#but let's not reduce shaun to a cardboard cutout
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Can I offer you a nice (round) frog in these trying times?
#frogs#animals#nature#amphibians#selfie#my face#that thing on the front of my skull#gpoyt#this is a very round frog#truly excellent#Plethodontohyla cf. alluaudi#Plethodontohyla#they were brought out on the second to last night in the forest by a heavy rain#so amazing to see them#I coauthored a taxonomic revision of these back in 2018#a very complicated situation#but we solved it
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MDZS AU where Jiang Cheng realizes that Lan Sizhui is the Wen orphan that Wei Wuxian took care off during the Burial Mounds arc, decides that's close enough to qualify him as Nephew, declares that no Nephew of His (much less a surrogate son of Wei Wuxian's) is going to be raised in the Cloud Recedes, and immediately launches into a custody battle with Lan Wangji.
But since neither Jiang Cheng or Lan Wangji can acknowledge that Sizuhi has any connection to Wei Wuxian, both begin steadfastly and stubbornly insisting that he is a Cultivator of peerless potential and skill and he belongs in their sect thank you very much, and would clearly be very unhappy in the other's. This confuses the hell out of the already mystified Cultivation world, who had barely adjusted yet to gossiping about Sizhui being Wangji's illegitimate child by mysterious love affair.
(Eventually the common consensus in the rumor mills is that both JC and LW where in love with Sizhui's mother and both believe themselves to be Sizhui's real father.)
(LW couldn't care less what gossips say, but JC has to bite his tongue till it bleeds to avoid telling anyone the truth in a fit of anger.)
(It was Nie Huaisang who put that rumor out in the first place, partly to troll JC, partly because, in a way, it's a little true.)
#MDZS#mo dao zu shi#the grandmaster of demonic cultivation#the untamed#Jiang Cheng#lan wangji#lan sizhui#wei wuxian#Wangxian#nie huaisang#mdzs shitposting hour#thoughts that come to me in line for take out#in the end they settle on joint custody#half the year in the cloud receces half the year at lotus pier#but not after first re-litigating every point of contention in the 'wei wuxian should have come with ME' argument#poor sizhui is just confused and a little overwhelmed by the whole thing#being assigned nephew by Jiang Cheng is an honor and a horror at the same time#just ask Jin Ling#also he dosen't feel worthy of all this attention#but in a weird reverse self fulfilling prophecy sort of way#with both LW and JC to train him#he does end up one of the best cultivators of his generation#then WWX comes back and complicates things EVEN FURTHER#but somehow LS's joint custody situation is enough to prompt a Jiang Sibling reconciliation#and eventually LW begrudgingly agrees to live a few months out of the year at Lotus Pier#everyone is happy but the family dinners at first at awkwarddddddd
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im in agony. a little self indulgent but I think wyll deserves to be told he's loved and have a small breakdown about it
#bg3#wyll ravengard#tav#wyll x tav#baldur's gate 3#voltaical ocs#bishop#finally downloaded one (1) font bc i had too much dialog for this#i dont even hate ulder taht much i just thing wyll should talk about ANY complicated feelings he has about him.#also the way wyll always seems to be quoting him like pls what are YOUR THOUGHTS not some cryptic thing your father told you 10 years ago#and rlly if you take the way wyll describes the situation as hard truth#ALL the justification Ulder had for banishing his son#are conclusions WYLL has come to on his OWN since ulder only said ‘one word to him’#LIKE his relationship with his father could have been SO interesting but wyll isn’t allowed to have ANY introspection at all#so he just apologizes and wyll continues to try and please him
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I’m so sorry about your mother. I’m sorry I can’t bring her back, but please just…
#Arcane#League of Legends#arcaneedit#animationedit#loledit#Vi#Caitlyn#Caitvi#*mine#yeah sorry i know this scene has already been massively overgiffed#anyway gdi Cait this is why we have trust and abandonment issues#but to be fair i think they were both asking a lot of each other in an extremely volatile and complicated situation#like Vi gave up a lot of herself to be there for Cait#but she's also asking a lot from Cait in return who is not in the best mental and emotional state right now#there's just too much at stake here but Cait should've never made a promise she couldn't keep!!
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Heading out to perpetuate the family's cycle of patricide! #YOLO #slay #girlboss
#trials of apollo#toa apollo#lester papadopoulos#apollart#dark!apollo au#Adding a purple cloth to my Dark Apollo design specifically to make anyone who's heard me talk about this au in the ToA discord cry <3#also I added elements of my Trojan War Apollo design for a little bit of spice and pure pain#feeling cute and silly might actually work on the personal entries#(DONT HOLD ME TO THAT I'M SO BAD AT WRITING CONSISTENTLY)#It's like on one hand I have to write which sucks and is hard#but on the other hand putting blorbo through horrors is my favorite pastime#it's a complicated situation
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Wally stumbles into middle of nowhere, Kansas
#I love to put these guys in situations#my art#dc#dc comics#justice league#jlu#wally west#clark kent#the flash#superman#martha kent#jonathan kent#please don’t tag as ship I’ll get sad#Clark isn’t actually unhappy about Wally being there but it does make things complicated#with the secret identity and all…
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gee John Dory how come I let you have two partners who are way out of your league
(★ my Kofi)
#my art#dreamworks trolls#trolls fanart#trolls john dory#trolls viva#trolls dickory#trolls#fun fact john dory is now the FOURTH blorbo i've stuck in a needlessly complicated poly situation#i'm too generous to him he doesn't deserve nice things 😔#vivadorky
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today I am thinking about how wonderful it is that Wyll Ravengard is unquestionably Good but he also has flawed judgment
like, there are several little moments throughout the game where you can earn his approval by doing things that have consequences he would NOT want
(minor Act I spoilers) he approves when you defend Auntie Ethel from Mayrina's brothers, even though evidence is starting to stack up that she's not what she appears to be. and if you do, it starts a fight with them—with innocents who are just trying to help their sister.
OR (slightly bigger Act I spoilers) he approves if you take revenge on Kagha over Arabella's death, even if you haven't uncovered the Shadow Druid plot. and challenging her openly like that, without first calling into question her authority, causes violence to break out in the Grove—hurting many of the tieflings he's trying to protect.
this is not at all to suggest that he has "bad" judgment, because I don't think he does. it takes precious little for him to realize that Karlach isn't the monster he expected, even with lots of voices telling him that she is (Mizora, the 'Paladins of Tyr') and a perfectly reasonable justification for dismissing her own self-advocacy (devils lie). I actually think he's very discerning in a lot of situations—like his insights into Raphael and Mol. or an even more direct example (Act III spoilers): the hero's tests with Ansur, where he can just tell you the answer to all but the lanceboard puzzle. he knows what he's about! he's been making these calls on his own, in the frontiers, for seven years!
so part of why I love those moments of imperfect judgment is because I think they're an incredible window into his interiority. they come up in moments where his sense of justice has been activated—where he feels a need to protect; to face down a threat. he's a little more hasty, a lot more willing to gamble, when he feels like the safety and wellbeing of someone innocent is on the line.
and I have no reason to believe this is on Wyll's mind in those moments, but it's certainly on mine: how would his life have been different, if 7 years ago there had been someone around willing to make a foolish mistake for the chance to protect someone who might be innocent?
because when Wyll looked at Ulder, no cultists or battlefield in his wake, wrapped up in a devil and offering no explanations—
Ulder used exacting judgment to protect his city, and banish an infernal threat. he made a call that Wyll himself considers utterly reasonable.
but what if he had done something a little stupid, and gambled on his son?
... so. this post is a love letter to Wyll being the hero that he himself needed, and all the complicated ways that both hinders and helps him
#wyll ravengard my beloved <3#also this is NOT about blaming ulder for everything. they were BOTH in such a complicated position#and i have a lot of feelings about that situation as well as their whole relationship. but that's a different post#this is just about how wyll is good in a nuanced and flawed and layered way and i love that about him !!!!#wyll ravengard#baldur's gate 3#nyssa says things#nyssa's gate video game tag
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Panels with Time and the Master Sword are my favorite flavor of angst
Credit to @linkeduniverse
#there’s definitely a conflict brewing here#time and sky are gonna argue about this at some point I can feel it#maybe time will even find himself in a situation where he has to use the master sword#probably to save the boys#and he has to push through his hatred (and fear) of it#either way#jojo’s definitely not finished with Time’s complicated relationship with this sword#linkeduniverse#linked universe#lu time#trin rambles#lu update spoilers
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they could never make me hate you, miss oranje
#disco elysium#de fanart#de#disco elysium fanart#quick sketch tht i just dressed up a little hah#ive been seeing klaasje hate recently in diff circles and it makes me so sad bc i really love her#she’s SO complicated and morally grey and i really feel like ppl forget just how much shit she’s already dealing with#and just focus on how harry feels when he finds out she lies… like YEAH i would too in her situation#trying to stay spoiler free for my buddies but its just like. ppl seem so hard on her. im not saying shes a good person#but shes not an evil master manipulator either. shes just trying to survive in her own way#my art#if klaasje has 100000 fans im one of them. if theres only one its me. if there are none im dead
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Wild that she even had to put this in writing for some people to get the point.
#taylor swift#like barking at her to speak on it not long after it happened was cruel#like she was reeling from it to#and a lot of this situations have nuance and complicated things involved it’s never straightforward
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This reminded me of you recent art post
accidental/situational closeness 👀👀👀
#not an art#Overt romance? Nah. A series of complicated but platonic situations to give a very similar throughline and theme? YEAH
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a lot of people act like sqq’s main character trait is obliviousness and i could not disagree more
#it kind of always implies that binghe is being obvious about his feelings and is not the king of mixed messages#shizun i’ll quote romantic poetry at you but while hunting you thru the streets so u can’t even think about it#shizun i was just remembering how you treated me well (chokes him out)#binghe: gives him his robe when he tears sqq’s clothes after threatening to use the blood mites to bite at his organs#i could keep going#when people in the jianghu start to theorize that there’s something romantic going on they’ve had FIVE YEARS of luo binghes bullshit#to start figuring out alternative explanations to explain what he’s got going on#sqq gets like a week before he runs into binghe again and gets nearly killed for LOOKING like sqq#do you see what i am putting down#can we just be honest about the situation being complicated and sqq having to make sense of a LOT of conflicting information#this isn’t even getting into how he feels genuinely threatened by lbh being sweet bc it was a precursor to bingge planning something awful#which we get literal proof of in the punishment protocol#sqq’s got the worst case of confirmation bias
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Sister stretching the budget just enough so she can supply her secret son’s dress-up trunk is probably the closest she ever got to dressing up her child when you think about it. She never got to shove him in one of those sailor outfits people always put babies in, she missed out on putting him in whatever kid-appropriate fads were going on in the 70s. She never even got to be there when he inevitably went through his awkward teen phase where he was figuring out what styles he liked.
She’s secretly playing catch-up with her adult son the best she can, but it means diving headfirst into letting him buy shit that shows off his schlong to the masses.
#sister imperator#papa emeritus iv#Copia#frater imperator#ghost bc#the band ghost#it’s a complicated situation
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