#Tragic irony

[coquetteladyofthedeadmensworld]

The whole irony of the Monmouth Rebellion is that James was deposed a few years later.

Honestly, if Monmouth had just waited, he could've been made King.

[spectre79]

[look-at-that-right-there]

I'm obsessed with Robin Hood, severely nearsighted, and also allergic to most trees. Doomed by the narrative, as the youth say.

[bobauthorman]

History

Funny how things get muddled as the years go by, ain’t it?

[fuckthisshitimin]

I'm starting to put my finger on why The Boy Who Cried Wolf always bothered me but still can't put it in a single sentence. I hate the moral of the story, cause it rings wrong, or - so incomplete it's wrong. Because yes, the Boy is a serial liar and the village has every reason to distrust him. Also he's a kid and if they had just checked what he was saying he wouldn't have died. Yeah - if you keep lying over and over again, you will lose other's trust. Also - every liar is gonna tell the truth once, and maybe if the liar is your kid you'll want to 'waste' your energy checking every. single. time. "You'll die if you don't wear your seat belt" is a lie until it isn't.

As a kid the story scared me, because, yeah, I lied, not that much but some, and what if I need help and my mom doesn't come? Do I deserve to be abandoned by my mom if I'm a little bad? So I do wish we'd at least take it as a story with two morals, one for kids maybe, and one for the parents/adults and guardians reading it.

Still can't put that thought down concisely enough, so if anyone who's good with sentences could help that'd be awesome.

[fuckyeahisawthat]

Really digging the subtle little arc that Paul goes on from when he and Jessica arrive at Sietch Tabr and he says "I must sway the non-believers" (I don't think he means convert them to the prophecy; I think he means convince them to follow his lead politically; but still seeing the Fremen as a tool to be used in his personal revenge quest), to when they're talking before Jessica leaves for the south and he says he's staying in the north to fight but that "they deserve to be led by one of their own" (ie. I'm in this fight because I believe in it but I don't expect to gain anything for myself and actually I probably shouldn't).

The fact that Paul is only becoming more convinced that he is nothing special at the same time that people are starting to worship him. The fact that his own mother is doing everything possible to accelerate that process and the two of them keep moving further and further apart (literally, he is going north and she is going south). The fact that people keep telling him he should just reach out and take the power that's available to him (Jessica with the prophecy, Gurney with the nukes), it's so simple, look, it's right there waiting for you, it's your birthright, wouldn't this makes things easier? The fact that he resists all of these arguments right up until the attack on Sietch Tabr, and that it's his best, most human impulses (grief over watching his home be destroyed again and guilt that he should have seen it coming; if he'd just seen more clearly or understood the visions better--) that make him finally decide to step onto the path that dooms him and everyone else.

[queermasculine]

speak your truth. they also hated jesus when he said that he wanted to be dyke pounded gayboy style

they beat jesus with a wallet chain

[luxurystark-jackson]

sam is like his father. was innocent to the reality of what was going on until something bad happened and he was forced to become a monster he shouldn’t have been, all for the greater good.

dean is like his mother. cursed with the knowledge of their reality, forced to grow up in it and ready to do anything to save their counterpart from anything that tries to kill them, even at the expense of the greater good.

[b0tsbby]

More Trigun Racing AU!!! Wow!!!

Please give no welcome at all for your own safety to the elusive Racer Number 999.

The Pale White Horse. The Silver Angel. The Last Racer. Triple Nine. Maybe even Nines if you’re suicidal. This formidable legend of many names has only ever been seen once on the track 70 years ago. Was it mass hysteria? No one truly knows if he’s real. But something cleared that track in record time, and the unfortunate racers on it never lived to tell the tale…

Talking and Design Notes Under Cut as Usual

Since this is a Stampede au I! Didn’t have a lot to work with from the original content! But it’s okay cause I read Max❤️.

That said I wanted Knives to appear somewhat more uniform then Vash. It is essentially still SEEDS uniform, but I wanted it to feel somewhat at home in a racer setting, a bit more uniform to contrast everyone else who is a little wackier. So designing it close to astronaut attire felt like the way to go. A weird mix of general pro racer attire and something that feels a bit alien and unapproachable. The Onesie situation was also non negotiable. It’s in black now because I read Max❤️.

A lot my inspiration came from Knives’ edgy black Griffith suit he just fucking wore that one time (points to his helmet and the three eyes) as well as the abstract sci fi work of Range Murata.

I love the name 999 for the wordplay on Knives and Nai and Nines and Nine. It is also the last racer number. And the angel number 999 is so perfectly oxymoronic to his whole character and situation I guess it was perfect. Something about the end of everything too.

Knives in this au, like Stampede, still has an obsession with the idea of belonging and home. Where No Mans Land here is a purgatory, a criminal’s playground, Knives has a strong affinity for and desire to reach the stars. But he needs the power within both him and his brother to do that.

His car is dubbed the Ark too, it’s an extension of himself, made out of the material remains of his sisters and his own gate. It can drive on its ‘own’, but doesn’t for the purpose of winning, but rather to enact some form of judgement in one big swoop.

Not actually interested in this game Zazie has orchestrated, but the two are more so on equal footing in this setting, so Knives compromises. His car only appears twice, and he only actually races once. That one time being against his brother…for drama’s sake…

Oh also, glasses are reference to when he really fucked shit up that one time. Crazy swagger (among other things) radiating off this…

[awerzo]

Do you know the ancient way to identify a witch? If she drowns, she's innocent. If she survives, she must be a witch – off to the stake with her. And our town's residents have taken to testing people with the plague. They call it "sandboxing." What charming folk.

[conceptofjoy]

im probably a girl but i have capitalism to suffer though and then i gotta fight a huge fish later so idrc about that rn

[fraternum-momentum]

ik you *just* posted kylar but your version is soo good and i keep staring at the drawing of female kylar at the end can we get more of her in particularrr 🫶

im just projecting myself onto her i need to stop btw im sorry for taking so long huhuhu,, i initially didnt have any ideas for her so,,,

[gilberttheboy]

Rip théâtre des vampires, you would've loved Martin Crimp and Sarah Kane

[hurlumerlu]

Tattoo that is sooooo Alan-a-Dale-(from 2006 BBC show Robin Hood)-coded of you.

[serasarascreams]

Quick Mouthwashing drawings right after I finished the game. I have so many emotions and feelings about this game that I feel like I am going to explode. Individual character close-ups beneath the cut.

[biopanik]

The only universe in which Vi's family lives on is the one where she's not with them,

and the only universe in which Vi is alive, not only does she mourns Powder and Vander twice, but she loses them forever.