#a defender of his ideals

[ihavesomejays]

oomf died, what do i do -lu guang, probably

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[clonerightsagenda]

I rag on Maes Hughes for being chill with genocide but to be *entirely* fair upon a reread, it's not like he's loving it, he's just not particularly haunted by it either. Roy rants about how this is a betrayal of how he joined the military to protect people (mistake number one, dude, seriously) and Maes calls him naive. His reason for fighting is to stay alive. While Roy talks about his dreams of a better future, Maes refers to letters from his girlfriend as his brighter future. He's willing to support Roy's ambitions because Roy's his friend, but he thinks they're childish.

The impression I get is that Hughes has decided he can tolerate atrocities as long as he stays alive and can go home to his loving family, so he leans into that loving family really hard. That's his reward. That's what makes it worth it. Which adds a layer to Envy killing him while disguised as his wife. You can't hold those things separate. If you're a collaborator propping up an awful regime, your family (and you) will still eventually become its victims. The rot at the heart of the nation is wearing your loved one's face.

[shreksstepfather]

Liking Gray Wing not in the "he's wise and did nothing wrong" kinda way but in a "characters who sabotage their interpersonal relationships and defend heinous actions for the sake of someone who doesn't care if they live or die are really interesting" kinda way

[kurthummeldeservesbetter]

To me (because I like making myself suffer) there are 2 other types of universes where Jayce and Viktor make hextech. If Viktor is always the mage, able to go to all universes where Jayce gets stuck in that blizzard with his mom, maybe he doesn't exactly know how that particular universe ends and is just searching for the exact one Jayce (and also Ekko) can save.

Viktor dies before Jayce can save (also doom) him with the hexcore. Maybe it's before the explosion, maybe he dies with Sky, maybe he just goes to bed and doesn't wake up. Jayce deals with this however you interpret. Maybe he goes crazy and destroys universes trying to find a healthy Viktor who won't die before their dream can be fully lived. Maybe he intentionally creates The Machine Herald this time. Maybe he stops inventing and just. Becomes a loner.

They are able to create hextech without any death/damage at all. Maybe Jayce and Viktor (who could find out about it before Jayce's place is robbed) and discover it's potential somewhere else. Maybe they start in Zaun and end up improving the lives of everyone there that Silco and Vander reconnect, Powder and VI stay sisters, everyone stays alive. Maybe Viktor is able to find a cure for his illness (and therefore find no need to experiment, since the fear of death will no longer control him.)

[im-not-buying-it-ether]

Watched Implicitly Pretentious’ video on Clash from JL:U and want to blab

Like they said, this Superman is like this because he’s been through this all before, he’s kinda gotten his old values shaved down and narrowed to still being a hero but not the one he started out as. Which, just hurts to see progressively get worse and that version of Superman become a simpler, angrier version of himself for a time, and it hurts to see that current state of Clark clashing with Billy.

In the final goodbye he gives the League as he’s resigning, Billy says it himself, he’s fought his own battles before and each time he didn’t stoop to his bullies level to win. Each time Billy was out there he was thinking “What would Superman do?” like a lot of people do, he tried to be that ideal he’d grown up seeing in this universe and he actually got there.

Batman says it kinda humorously in another scene during that episode when Clark says “I thought I was the Boy Scout.” and Batman responds with “I did too, until I met Captain Marvel.” Billy is quite literally what Superman used to be in that world, someone trying to do the right thing because they can and be an example of what to do. Clark used to be Billy’s example of what to do, but when this Clark at that time met him he was annoyed at how naive he seemed.

Once more like IP said, Clark’s lost that passion to believe that people could get better as heroism’s become to routine and job like to him and the League as a whole that Billy still has. But because the League doesn’t, because they don’t act like heroes anymore, Billy leaves. He obviously made friends or was friendly with other League members, he’s a hero working with the people he grew up admiring and wanting to be like, but he leaves when they aren’t standing for the ideals they inspire.

[jackdaw-and-hattrick]

Love how we can all agree that, while never explicitly talked about, it’s awful suspicious that the two bats Talia had heavy influence over both tried to kill Tim.

[queer-cartoons-quotes]

[startsbeatboxing]

sorry that reminds me. mark and william parallels. never fully believed in the system they were under but never did anything about it until they experienced a highly traumatic event that flipped their world and worldview on its head, losing all faith in the system they were under and falls more and more away with every loss they experience. vs dakota and tide who have always had faith and gains even more every time they lose something. there's a full analysis post in here somewhere but words are escaping me

[un-pearable]

HD remake of a low effort meme i made a while back in response to people hating on my man pilots jay. dude is a critter to be studied if anything. he’s shitty he’s ridiculous he’s perfect and i love it

[pidges-lost-robot]

Keith is the type of guy to have probably eaten the most abhorrent combination of singular ingredients on Earth and yet still turn his nose up at the green food goo cause "its green though" and he expected "green" to taste different

[moe-broey]

Idk if I'm gonna be able to articulate this on the fly like first thing in the morning, but. I think my ENTIRE body of work is This: Examining how family ties, bonds or lack thereof, the good and bad AND ugly, seep into every facet of who we are and how we come to interact with others. How sometimes, a family tie (or again, a Lack of one), will sometimes bleed into how you act and treat specific people. Will bleed into how you CONNECT with those people (or, will be the very reason you fail to do so).

HOWEVER. HOWEVER. THERE IS A DELICATE LINE. A BALANCING ACT. You CANNOT just simply attribute fanon flavored ideas of found family to such characters. That's too simple, and sometimes, is a complete disservice to the specific character you're working with. I am once again bringing up Chilchuck. YES, him being a dad Absolutely seeps into how he treats his party. But if you call him the party's dad, you're Insane. Do you know ANYTHING ABOUT THAT MAN???? He would prefer you didn't. But I digress. He strikes a fascinating balance, between having The Qualities and ESPECIALLY expressing his care for his party in a Really Specific divorced (separated.) father of three fashion, but that does Not make him a "dad friend". He's a professional. He's on business. He's going home at the end of the day, and at the end of this adventure he's thinking of setting up a shop. I wanted to keep this more vague and broad but like. The Chilchuck example REALLY DOES perfectly articulate What I'm trying to get at, here. He's the perfect encapsulation of How his family shapes him, how that bleeds into his relationships with others, vs Who he is as a person.

How we were raised, our family ties, whether you adhere to it or you've fallen FAR from the tree -- you still fell from that stupid fucking tree. It's in your blood. Literally. It gave you shape, whether you liked it or not. And sometimes some things just set off weird domino effects, that also affect us irrevocably forever.

WHICH IS. TO SAY. I have no fucking idea what I'm talking about. I'm always trying to figure that out. Found family is/can be real, you're not strictly bound by blood if you don't wanna be. BUT. The bullshit I'm constantly on, is trying to figure out how to balance all that without slotting everyone into reductive roles. I'm gay and I seek to destroy the nuclear family. Not attempt to recreate nuclear family 2.0. You CAN reconstruct What Family Is/Means from the ground up, but you have to accept that things are going to get Weird. Because you're Queer. You are fundamentally incompatible with the status quo and normalcy, the solution is NOT assimilation and palatability, the solution is to just. Get weirder. And be fluent in canon. Okay. I love you

[ohsweetflips]

i am suddenly thinking a lot about jiang cheng and jiang fengmian, specifically in how jiang fengmian—while not being outright cruel to jiang cheng—gives us no reason to believe that he is proud of or pleased with jiang cheng due to jiang cheng’s 1) penchant of maintaining a certain status quo/refusal to take risks and 2) the similarities of his personality to yu ziyuan. and yet, the time we see jiang cheng put himself in the danger, take a risk, defy yu ziyuan, is when he is putting himself in yu ziyuan’s own line of fire to protect wei wuxian from zidian, all while the wens are there and the threat they pose is dangerously tangible. and jiang fengmian is not even there to see it, let alone live long enough to hear of the events.

no clown activities (pro/anti character discourse) allowed on this post

[shikai-the-storyteller]

Listening to the Hadestown OST and getting fricked up over the musical and the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice again

> Listening to the song I chose for that (still unfinished) Jaiden and Roier animatic and getting even more fricked up

>> Listening to Epic III from the soundtrack and getting even more fricked up thinking about Pac and Madagio – specifically Pac appealing to Madagio's humanity (for lack of a better word), drawing parallels between Madagio and Fit and asking Madagio to change the narrative so he and Fit aren't doomed to the same fate as them.

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[thedragonagelesbian]

hes literally never smiled like this before not for his lis not for his qpps just for his bestie isabela 😭

[dimiclaudeblaigan]

I'm... kind of confused about this? Like Ignatz is basically saying the only way for people to move forward is by continuing to fight and destroy? That's a pretty awful message in general, but coming from Ignatz it just feels weird. It sounds like he's just accepted war and that it's just... something that happens so we should shrug it off and move on?

I know this game tends to have very strong pro-war/pro-invasion messages which is already really gross to me, but it went from being annoying and icky to just making me feel disgusted. Also, Ignatz of all people shouldn't just shrug his shoulders and be like well that's just the way of things, I guess! There's an active war going on so it makes sense that towns could be rebuilt and destroyed again. It doesn't mean just give up on it.

Also really doesn't feel like an Ignatz thing to say.

[itstimeforstarwars]

Loving everyone in the comments of the leverage fic giving their opinions on what species the gang should be it is very fun and it is giving me Ideas.