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[calware]

here all are the icons in the relationship chart if anyone wants them on their own :)c

[sunflawyer]

flowers for the sweetheart 🌻🧡

hi everyone!! hiii!! im finally back!! who cheered!!! \⁠(⁠๑⁠╹⁠◡⁠╹⁠๑⁠)⁠ﾉ⁠♬ of course i had to draw sunflawyer with sunflowers ♡ jimmy absolutely loves giving her flowers... he's such a romantic ෆ

i finally got the time to be back here after some days off ʕ⁠´⁠•⁠ ⁠ᴥ⁠•̥⁠`⁠ʔ im feeling much better!! ✿⁠ i drew this while i was still mourning, but they genuinely helped me to smile and be happy again! sunflawyer happiness (⁠ ⁠◜⁠‿⁠◝⁠ ⁠)⁠♡

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[a-star-that-burns-brightly]

I've definitely said this in an earlier post but I want to repeat it: The mental image extraction machine in Milgram is quite literally intrusive thoughts horror, imagine basically being told "yeah we're going to use this machine that displays your deepest thoughts to decide whether or not you're a Good Person™ or a Bad Person™" I would die on the spot

[mylambandmartyr]

Sitting alone with my controversial Frank Castle and Karen Page opinions

[bbdoll]

Asher Shepherd ♂️🍼🐣

[schwan-des-hofstaat]

We're going out, Heinrich.

No greetings, no gifts. Valentin showed up in the office unannounced - not that he ever really needed to announce his presence here. He carried a stack of papers, all clumsily stuffed in his hands in seemingly either a rush or an overly emotional moment.

If you're free, that is. I can go alone, if you'd prefer that.

((@all-are-liars-and-hypocrites))

The moment his footsteps echoed down the hallway, from that weight and rhythmic pace, the duke knew it was Valentin's. No matter how engrossed Heinrich may be in his work, that man's allure will never fail to rip him from such tasks...

"Hmm?" He hummed curiously, a smile already forming on his face...until he looked up at Valentin and took in his demeanour.

Heinrich swiftly placed his quill back into the inkwell while his smile faltered slightly— his expression twisting into that of a small frown as his dark eyes studied the Russian's demeanour...as much as a man with this damning eye condition could from such a distance, that is.

The duke sat up straight. "...You're upset, Valentin." He asserted with a gentle voice— a rare feat— and clasped his hands together, putting them under his chin and leaning forward slightly. The silence lingered in the air for a moment: "We shall go, yes, but can you...come here first, please?"

His eyes flickered between the man's cool ones and the papers in his hand as he awaited a response...

Though unlikely to be noticed from under his facial hair, Heinrich's frown deepened; he knew what Valentin wanted to do...

[urlocalmagicalcat]

Gregory Horror Show Characters as Text-Posts (2/3)

Apologies for keeping you all waiting for so long! Things have been hectic with our personal lives that I haven’t gotten around to working on this series or posting at all! (I’m the one who has to keep everything in tip top shape for us and to keep everything perfect, after all…) As my way of apologizing to you all, here’s the long awaited second part! I have a third one planned and nearly ready to be posted soon! I still need some time to work on it knowing that I still only have two pieces of the third part of the series done. Enough with my yapping, please enjoy! — JB (They/Them, It/Its, He/Him) ⚖️

[wayfinderships]

Oh...He made a pun..👉👈 Maybe things can work out between us

[randgugotur-6]

Sept 7th 1988 #Metallica released the GREAT album "And Justice For All" #One #HarvesterOfSorrow #Blackened #EyeOfTheBeholder #HeavyMetal

Did you know...

It was the first Metallica studio album to feature bassist Jason Newsted.

The album reached number 6 on the #BillboardCharts

[linagram]

𝚢𝚞𝚛𝚒𝚔𝚊'𝚜 𝚝𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚕 𝟹 𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚞𝚕𝚝𝚜!

Prisoner 008, Maruyama Yurika, is officially voted..

Guilty! (52.2%)

According to the verdict system, she should receive a death penalty.

Thank you for your participation.

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[sunflawyer]

a little sunflawyer lore drop because its been too long since i did one!!

just as a way for me to show abby's personality better ☀️ it's about Abby and her patients.

its quite long though !!! (⁠⊙⁠_⁠◎⁠) but its sweet :3

abby is a psychologist who works at a clinic !!! her patients range from kids to adults :D so far the one that i would love to mention is Clara, a 9 year old girl who suffers from abvuse trauma. for clara's case, abby helps her to heal while jimmy helps bring justice for her by capturing the perpetrator.

recently i thought of a new patient!! this one is an elderly man named Sam who recently lost his wife. he goes to abby to help him cope with his grief. he tells abby everything about his marriage — the memories, the dreams, the moments... and sam's stories make abby think of jimmy. the same romance that sparkles between the two of them...

now, sam's wife's passing got her thinking about herself too. abby has a low blood pressure, which causes her to pass out quite often, and it always worries jimmy. she's afraid if something happens to her one day, jimmy will struggle to cope with it. and it terrifies her and haunts her mind for days until one day she can't take it anymore.

so one day, after she comes home from another session with sam, abby sits beside jimmy and asks him to make her cry. jimmy was taken aback of course — he never wanted to see abby cry, let alone being the one who caused it. but abby trusts him and says crying is a good way to cope with sadness to relief all of your bottled-up emotions. at work, she has to be tough for her patients, but today, she needs to ve vulnerable.

so, jimmy did. — he tells her about the day they met, about how he was instantly captivated by her the moment his eyes met hers. he tells her about their wedding day, how he was so nervous that he was the loudest to cry during their vows. he tells her the day tommy was born, the day tommy said 'mama', and the day when he first entered daycare. he tells her their memories together.

and she cried. of course not from sadness, but from happiness. they've been through a lot together. there were times when she doubted herself, and there were times when she was the happiest woman in the world. and she went through them with jimmy by her side.

he then pulls her into his arms and whispers, "its okay to cry, abby. i know you want to be tough for others, but with me, youre not just Dr. Abigail McGill, you're Abby. You're my wife, my best friend, the reason why I wake up with a smile everyday."

and he kisses her forehead, lingering there.

"you're a human, abby. a human with feelings. I'm here for you, to share your burdens with. i love you, no matter how you are feeling today, tomorrow, and the next day.

you're my heart."

[a-star-that-burns-brightly]

Actually, I'm curious Do you guys have any criticisms when it comes to Milgram? Specifically from a writing/storytelling/character perspective, but it can also be about anything.

[mylambandmartyr]

when you have the time and energy id be very interested to hear why you dislike the punisher (2017)......... because i also dislike it but can never put into words why or even point to a reason. its always "frank's vibes are off" or "the general vibes are off" or "its painfully unfunny" or "it just annoys me". if you have anything more specific or analytical id love to hear it

Where to even start…

Ok. I'm going to be focusing on just the first season where it’s at it’s "best" to be generous, because all of the most egregious issues get so much worse in the second season so it barely counts in my mind.

It’s got all of the trademark Marvel Problems. The cringe dialogue, the convoluted plots, the nationalist propaganda, the aggressive heterosexuality, sacrificing an interesting story in favor of an American-dream-Apple-pie-and-motherhood ass-plot… etc. etc…

I’ll split this up into a miscellaneous laundry list of complaints for structure, so this doesn’t end up turning into a rambling essay.

• Incoherent messaging/Bad politics

First off, It’s US military propaganda, but we all know that. That impacts its ability to tell an authentic, thoughtful story. Propaganda is always full of contradictions and exceptions to its own rules, which exacerbates problems that already riddle corporate media.

The most glaring problem I think most Marvel properties have is lack of a cohesive message and themes. Daredevil suffers from a similar issue, which is as much of a "too many cooks in the kitchen" problem (too many contradicting ideas) for what they wanted as it is with the producers being spineless hacks who were unable to decide what they wanted their story to be.

They wanted to have their cake and eat it too, in a lot of respects. They wanted to tell a story about trauma, vengeance and the brutality of war but they also wanted a All-American Badass Gun Guy to get young people interested in enlisting, so it constantly jettisons back and forth in tone and makes for shitty television.

• Stupid Plot

The conspiracy-thriller plot feels off-base for a Punisher story, and is jarring if you saw season 2 of Daredevil. It doesn’t even feel like it takes place in the same universe (none of it feels cohesive, which as stated is a running problem)

The series begins with Frank "finishing" his mission to eliminate everyone involved with the murders of his family and symbolically burning his Punisher vest. This is beyond stupid for a variety of reasons. From a continuity perspective, a storytelling perspective, a character motivation perspective… it just doesn’t make sense. This means the writers have to scramble to come up with a new conflict, which is absurd to me when they could’ve just… had him keep going.

• General Characterization

You’re entirely correct in that Frank’s character just feels off. Like I said earlier, going into the Punisher fresh off of Daredevil season 2 is jarring, even before I knew anything about the character from the comics. There’s a sense that there’s something missing with Frank’s motivations and it definitely has a lot to do with the aforementioned stupid Government conspiracy A-plot in season 1.

Imo, Jon Bernthal, despite everything, plays Frank pretty well considering the material he’s been given, but there’s still something off. @cabfarewell says that it’s because he plays him too much like a cop, which I think is true. There’s just air of… Bootlicker throughout the whole show that undercuts the fact that Frank, at his core, is a character who gets fucked over by his government, which is vaguely gestured at but never satisfyingly addressed.

• Sexism

It goes without saying that Marvel is dogshit at female characters and the Punisher is no exception.

It’s tragic because Karen Page, Dinah Madani, Sarah and Leo Lieberman (and to some extent Maria) all have potential but are woefully underutilized. It’s very clear that the writers are using stock archetypes as a crutch (Potential Love interest, "Virtuous" Cop, Mother, Daughter, Dead Wife etc…) and never expand on them more, because clearly they do not see them as people, but like I said, this is par for the course for Marvel, nobody’s surprised.

• The Liebermans

Then there’s my beloved Micro.

I adore Micro as a character for a variety of reasons and I think Ebon Moss-Bacharach plays him fantastically, BUT it has to be said that he embodies a lot of antisemitic stereotypes.

The narrative aggressively pushes the audience to view him as an unathletic, cowardly effete intellectual who’s reluctant to get his hands dirty. He’s scheming and not entirely trustworthy, he’s simultaneously hypersexual and impotent. Literally the only way they could’ve made it worse is if they made him a cheapskate with deep-seated mommy issues.

It’s kind of bizarre because there are things David does that directly contradict the stereotypes, he’s clearly very capable, and not a coward, but Frank and other characters insist that they’re true. It’s just bad writing.

They kind of half-ass a suggestion of a character arc, but it ultimately ends with a restoration of the status quo which MAKES NO SENSE for David as a character.

Sarah’s an even worse case, not even getting an arc and barely changing as a result.

Like I said earlier, Sarah is neglected by the narrative which makes a lot of the things she does not entirely make sense taking into account how a real person might respond in her situation. Sarah and her kids are more plot devices than people, which is disappointing, because I feel like giving her more character would have enriched the story a lot. She’s positioned as a mirror to Frank, being also recently widowed and coping poorly, and like most things in this show this is never addressed fully.

[amatorysacrivn]

Jelly sitting in the car with Cy or Zack in uncomfortable silence

Jelly: how was I supposed to know they were your ex? you never talked about them. I just thought having dinner together would be nice.

Cy or Zack: *pointedly stares at Jelly, reminding themselves that they should kill their so*

"buttercup, my love, i really do appreciate the dinner! it's just..."

"just what? are you that upset over my presence? do you detest me to such a large degree, cy?"

"see, this is what i mean! you think you're so high and mighty over others because you speak like an old english poet who thinks he's so talented when in reality-"

"your analogies are such a bore!"

"having sex with you was such a bore!"

"OH YOU WANNA GO THERE!?"

[bbdoll]

Nightcap

[linagram]

𝚊𝚔𝚒𝚘'𝚜 𝚝𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚕 𝟹 𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚞𝚕𝚝𝚜!

Prisoner 001, Miyagawa Akio, is officially voted..

Innocent! (86.7%)

According to the verdict system, he should be able to come back home safely with all of his memories intact, while other people forget about his crime and his victim's existence.

Thank you for your participation.

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