#and Johnny's daddy issues
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Johnny: Thanks dad
Sonya:
Liu:
Kitana:
Raiden:
Johnny: Why's everyone staring at me
Kitana: You just called Raiden dad. You said "Thanks dad."
Johnny: What? No! I said "thanks man"
Raiden: Do you see me as some sort of father figure Cage?
Johnny: No! If anything I see you as a bother figure, because you're always bothering me
Liu: Don't talk to your dad like that
#mortal kombat#johnny cage#sonya blade#kitana#liu kang#raiden mk#mk95#source: Brooklyn 99#and Johnny's daddy issues
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I love him so much. He's my favorite (probably) mass murderer with Christmas tree hair ❤️❤️❤️🧚♀️✨💅🏼
I have even more pictures of him on my Instagram 💀💀💀 My brain is mush.
#fanart#johnny silverhand#cyberpunk 2077#He's a true southern man with a city to burn#You think he has religious trauma?#cuz he definitely has Mommy and daddy issues
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FAKE DILF ENJOYERS WHEN A REAL GERIATRIC FUCKER COMES AT THEM
#i would fuck that old man#break his damn PELVIS#silver foxville let me talk to youuuuu#johnny knoxville#are my daddy issues showing in this post?
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like many who have suffered at the hands of bbc merlin before me, i recently indulged in a thought experiment in which i outlined my own version of seasons 3-5 that stay thematically and tonally in line with the show (except they're less fucking stupid). but then i quickly realized that focusing on details is pointless: all you need is to solve the one Big Problem the show has, and the rest will follow. the problem in question? ✨morgana✨
i like the first two seasons. s1 achieves what it sets out to do and has fun while doing it, and s2, while flawed, sets up a ton of potential that the following seasons unfortunately squander, beginning with the insidious season 3. you can only distract me with cute knights and goblins and fart jokes for so long before i start seeing through you, evil, evil season of television.
my hypothesis is that if the writers had crafted s3 morgana into anything more sympathetic than a violent half-alive poltergeist that can never be reasoned with because she's suddenly terminally off her rocker, everything would've fallen into place. a sympathetic morgana would've made real, valid arguments against uther (and arthur) that wouldn't just be the ramblings of a woman possessed. her betrayal of arthur would have stemmed from her feeling increasingly morally superior to him because of his complacency in the face of their father's tyranny. under morgause's guidance she would stop believing that arthur is capable of change, and the whole point would be that she might actually be right. arthur would have to actively try and prove her wrong, instead of getting praised for doing the bare minimum because the bar is on the floor.
furthermore, morgana's prophetic dream about arthur and gwen becoming king and queen and her decision to prevent this however she can is a direct parallel to merlin learning about that same prophecy and making it happen by any means necessary. merlin's desires about his and arthur's futures are subtextually fueled by gay love and devotion, so why couldn't morgana's be? why couldn't she properly express her bitterness that arthur gets to be with gwen in a way she can't "took gwen away" from her, instead of suddenly declaring that gwen is nothing more than a servant, after two seasons of demonstrating again and again that she loves, values, and respects gwen more than anyone else in that godforsaken castle?
following this, an angry and emotionally volatile but still sensible morgana asking gwen to stay by her side during the coup of the castle in the s3 finale and gwen going behind her back to help arthur and the knights would've hurt like a bitch. double-sided betrayal! gwen having a real plot! the proper beginnings of a toxic yuri that would shape a generation!
then there's the utter hubris of having morgana shoot arrows at the same civilians she worried herself sick over for 2 seasons — even morgan, her medieval counterpart that was rooted in every sexist trope in existence, doesn't just go around killing senselessly but instead has (often petty!) personal vendettas against gwen, arthur, and the knights. morgana had every right to be sick of the pretensions around chivalry in camelot (she was always quick to mock it, even in s1), and to lash out at the knights and soldiers after years of feeling powerless in a castle full of armed men that blindly followed her oppressor. the show conveniently forgets that morgana was victimized as a woman as well as a sorcerer those first 2 seasons.
but like i said, this is not just about morgana. allowing her to remain a real and multifaceted character even as she betrays everyone in pursuit of her ambitions would've given the rest of the core four more interesting conflict to work with: merlin because he would have to experience real consequences to his actions, arthur because he would watch his sister go against his father (and his knights, and his birthright) and experience some actual internal dilemmas about it, and gwen because she would be forced to choose between morgana and arthur without the pretense that it's an obvious or easy choice for her to make.
even morgause and gaius would come off more interesting as mentors: neither one inherently evil or inherently good, both jaded by events that happened before our protagonists were even born, both heavily influencing morgana and merlin into fulfilling roles that they think are appropriate, but that morgana and merlin may not have chosen for themselves had they not been under their care.
you get the gist. if the show followed its own setup, morgana's mistakes wouldn't lie in cheap and senseless acts of violence but in alienating the people she loves because she is too hurt and jaded to trust them. meanwhile, everybody else would feel guilt over "failing" her and yet they would be too caught up in their own (sometimes flawed!) beliefs of right and wrong to truly see her point of view.
arthur would convince himself it was sorcery that corrupted her. merlin would know that isn't true but he wouldn't be able to argue without confessing everything, which is the defining conflict between him and morgana and it's cheapened when she's just an evil witch caricature and merlin is framed as inherently virtuous in contrast. gwen, too, would become a more active participant in her own life by choosing arthur over morgana and choosing to rule camelot with him instead of just waiting politely to see where things go.
and, of course, uther's downfall and death would be quick, final, and completely earned — when and why did the show even decide he of all people was the sympathetic villain, anyway?
lastly, and perhaps controversially, i think morgana should've learned merlin's true identity by season 4. her being the first of the main characters to find out makes perfect sense considering their shared history and their interconnected and mirrored arcs. even the show seems to agree, considering she does find out a little before arthur. but the narrative itself tried pointing flashing neon arrows towards this way earlier — there is a whole entire episode in s4 where merlin being emrys is repeatedly spelled out for morgana and she still isn't allowed to see it. that episode makes her look like the stupidest person to ever live, which is pretty funny im not gonna lie, but also another frustrating thing in the endless string of frustrating things that make up this show.
morgana learning that merlin has magic would've transformed the source of merlin's anxiety from a crippling fear of being outed someday to the crippling fear of knowing she could out him at any moment. this would make him want to beat her to the punch (perhaps he'd consider killing her for a minute and decide against it because she isn't a cartoonishly insane evil person in my version of events) and maybe he would even feel some tentative excitement at the idea of coming clean, now that it seems inevitable. after all, he always intended to tell arthur eventually! and i think gaius would have to admit outright that he does not want merlin to tell arthur he has magic because he, gaius, simply cannot risk such a gamble. it would be so interesting to see gaius and merlin clash and disagree once it becomes obvious that it's not merlin that isn't ready for the reveal, it's gaius. delicious!
with morgana's knowledge looming, things would inevitably spiral into a magic reveal by the end of season 4. i picture this season as an absolute mess of miscommunication between everyone at camelot, which is, y'know, canon. growing increasingly cunning and vengeful, morgana would use this tension to her advantage, destabilizing the court from the outside while she creates alliances with other sorcerers outside of camelot (instead of living alone in a hovel for no reason — morgana le fay i'm sorry i'm so sorry they gave you agravaine instead of your all-female entourage oh my god).
and here's where the events would change beyond recognition (aka here's where the meta becomes the fanfic i refuse to write). picture it with me: a militia of sorcerers infiltrates camelot and arthur and gwen have to set aside their differences (assuming gwen kissing lancelot and arthur overreacting happens, which it should) for the good of the kingdom as well as for love. picture high priestess morgana in her element, side by side with a bunch of misfit sorcerers that aren't so easily vilified, chopping down camelot's soldiers and knights and assuredly making their way to the newly-minted king.
then, just as it starts to seem that all hope is lost, in swoops merlin (the actual merlin, not his old fart disguise) on dragonback (kilgharrah hates morgana so much i know his sexist ass would stoop to anything to stop her)!!! imagine merlin showing off the extent of his powers in front of everyone and preventing the sorcerers from getting any further, declaring loud and clear that camelot is protected by him, by emrys. imagine that display of power alone being enough to send everyone home.
imagine the loyalties clearly drawn: merlin on arthur's side, morgana on the sorcerers'. imagine arthur, feeling confused and betrayed by everyone at this point, banishing merlin despite everything he's done for him in the angstiest, most emotionally dysregulated scene the show had ever put to screen. imagine merlin starting season 5 free at last but very lonesome, an embittered dragonlord like his father. imagine the absolute mess camelot would become without him, even with gwen — now queen guinevere — there to pick up the slack. imagine arthur actually earning merlin back, finally growing into his role as king as he does so. imagine the reunion.
all this and more could've been not just possible but inevitable if morgana was allowed to remain a complex character that is neither inherently good nor inherently evil: it was undeniably the biased and one-note treatment of morgana's downfall by the writers that set the precedent for literally everything else that happened after merlin chose to poison her. the show wouldn't have even had to jeopardize its tone or the monster-of-the-week vibe, all it would've had to do is admit that even the "good guys" are capable of mistakes and what makes them good is the ability to feel remorse and change for the better. (as opposed to uther, who was miles beyond redemption since way before the pilot and deserved to lose everything and die alone. OBVIOUSLY???)
in a world where morgana remains multifaceted and sympathetic, mordred would get a better arc as well, so if we really wanted to, we could still end on the same tragic note that the show ended on. with so much harm inflicted onto so many innocent people by the pendragons for so long (including mordred and the many druids and sorcerers that raised him), it could realistically end up being a little too late for anything more than one shining glimpse of king arthur and the sorcerer merlin's short-lived golden age before fate catches up to them. glimpsing that reality just to immediately lose it would've been far more satisfying and far more tragic than whatever the writers thought they were doing with all that pointless carrot-dangling.
and finally, an ending in line with morgana's new and improved arc. in this version, rather than bleeding out on the forest floor alone, she would channel the morgan le fay we know from the legends: sobered up by the reality of her brother dying, she would use her high priestess status (and perhaps also her pendragon status) to be granted passage over to avalon alongside arthur on the boat — a one-way ride — just to make sure he gets there safely. this is her penance for the harm she has caused, the same way arthur's penance is to die and leave the true ruler of camelot (gwen) behind to achieve everything he was too slow and indecisive to build while he still had time.
merlin's penance, then, would be to stay behind and watch them cross over without him, waiting and waiting and waiting until they come back or until he can finally join them. which is a bit fucking harsh if i'm honest, so i'd at least make it slightly more faithful to the legends by having him return as an old man and letting him take a long nap under a tree by the shore, his body slowly enveloped by vines like the cobwebbed fisher king in 3x08, never fully sure if he's dreaming or if there really are strange shapes fading in and out of the fog over the lake. still tragic, but nevertheless a little more open-ended and whimsical than [TRUCK NOISES] THE END!
#[johnny the dragon voice] ✨ MORGANA ✨#tldr: if you treat your villain with nuance then more nuance will follow and your story will be better for it! groundbreaking i know!!!#what im also getting at is that morgana broke free FIRST so she DESERVED to become the morgan le fay of legend#way before any of the others grew into their own roles.#morgana#bbcm#bbc merlin#analysis#merlin meta#theres no focus on the knights here but if you know me you know how angry i am about s4 and s5 gwaine at all times#so in a story with a more nuanced portrayal of villainy and knighthood i think he would openly question his choice to become one#and maybe he'd leave for a while#go home and sort out his daddy issues. have some fruity subplots along the way. visit merlin during his dragonlord era. that sort of thing#and interact with lancelot at least once!!! for gods sake#but i dont see lancelot surviving sorry. that dude will literally die for anything#also scientists and tv execs had not yet discovered bisexuality in 2011 and he already had everyone acting unwise#in ways that barely got past the censors :/ unsustainable#elyan however shouldnt have died. i know gwen ruling alone with only the lamest knights in her service is “the point”#but its a stupid point. elyan is her best knight and they rule camelot together. working class heroes etc.#poetic justice for their father who was murdered by uther + a fun narrative contrast to morgana and arthur#nightmare siblings of all time. banished from the mortal realm for their crimes. could never rule together. stinky#ANYWAY. I HAVE THREE (3) EXAMS DUE THIS WEEK. HERE'S TWO THOUSAND (2000) WORDS OF BBC MERLIN ANALYSIS.
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Every Herondale except James and Lucie
Herondale: It‘s a package from my father
Someone: What‘s in it?
Herondale: It‘s heavy. Must be his disappointment in me
#daddy issues are part of their personality I‘m afraid#cassandra clare#will herondale#cecily herondale#jace herondale#kit herondale#johnny rook#valentine morgenstern#tsc#the shadowhunter chronicles#tid#the infernal devices#tda#the dark artifices#tmi#the mortal instruments
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knox gets a peculiar phone call!
#knox n i both have daddy issues wonderful 💋#johnny knoxville#2000s#2000s nostalgia#early 2000s#jackass#2000s fashion#2000s scene#bam margera#steve o#y2k fashion
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I know this fandom loves their Ghoap. (And I do too! Don't get me wrong. Quite frankly all the 141 are gay and dating if ya ask me) But I LOSE MY MIND the second I see even a crumb of just Soap and Price 😵💫😵💫
I am barking like a feral fucking dog. I am looking as disrespectfully as possible. Foaming at the fucking mouth over this ship. The blind faith Soap has in Price both in the og mw series and the reboot (while subtler we still get dialog options that shows Soaps full trust in Price even against ghosts warning in response) just gets to me in a way none of the other ships in this fandom do.
I'm such a manwhore for that mentor/mentee dynamic. Go absolutely nuts for it. Younger man trying so desperately to impress the man he looks up too just for a drop of praise and the clap of a hand on the shoulder. Full unwavering certainty the man he looks up to will be there it's just sooooooooo good😵💫😵💫
Bonus points for Soap seducing Price. He knows what he wants and he wants that man right now.
#haha author has daddy issues#and grew up in a rigid military family#and authority issues by defualt of both#pricesoap#soapprice#soaprice#john price#captain john price#soap mactavish#johnny soap mactavish#john mactavish
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Jace and Kit parallels kill me
Lady midnight, page 822
City of bones, page 882
#Herondale daddy issues 😭#Kit Herondale#jace Herondale#lady midnight#city of bones#CoB#tsc#the shadowhunter chronicles#tmi#the mortal instruments#the dark artifices#lord of shadows#qoaad#queen of air and darkness#city of ashes#city of glass#city of heavenly fire#city of fallen angels#city of lost souls#Cassandra Clare#christopher herondale#Jonathan Herondale#jace wayland#Johnny Rook#valentine morgenstern#kit Rook
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the thing that irks me about the og ‘throwing in the towel’ lyrics (‘soda i’m really depressed, spending every night drinking myself to sleep’) is that the curtis house always seemed like a refuge for steve/johnny/dally from their alcoholic/abusive/absentee parents
#darry wouldn’t want to become the angry drunk — he’s seen what that’s done to johnny#idk#maybe that’s me projecting my alcoholic daddy issues#(and i can’t remember if anything is ever said about two-bit’s parents but my point still stands)#again idk#drinking culture was different and whatnot#and i can’t remember if darry drinks in canon#but…it just kind of seems out of character for me?#like he’s stressed and he’s angry#we know that#and there very much is that culture within construction#(from lived experience)#but for someone who’s putting his entire body into making sure his brothers don’t go to a boys home#it just doesn’t make sense to me#idk maybe it was intended to come across as a thing that happened in the days pony was gone#but yeah idk that’s my two cents#or…two-bits if you will#the outsiders musical#the outsiders#darry curtis#darrel curtis#the curtis brothers#sodapop curtis#ponyboy curtis#steve randle#johnny cade#dallas winston
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unfortunately, I have only ever been comforted by men older enough to be my father and dead men
#oscar wilde#morrissey#johnny marr#charles dickens#suggs#mark bedford#jamie t#terry hall#johnny rotten#sid vicious#jonesy#sex pistols#the smiths#this might be daddy issues idk tho#merlin#george harrison#paul mccartney#john lennon#the beatles#adam ant
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Do I want him to be my boyfriend, do I want him to be my dad or do I just want to be him like FUCK
#johnny knoxville#jackass#loneliness + daddy issues + gender envy/body dysmorphia is a combo straight from hell#oh and also +pre-period emotional nonsense#like get outta my head DAMN#STUPID HORMONES
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#they all have daddy issues but I think Johnny has worst daddy issues#anakin skywalker#star wars#sw#bg3#jjba#astarion#johnny joestar#baldur's gate 3#baldurs gate 3#astarion ancunin#jojo no kimyou na bouken#jjba meta#darth vader#steel ball run#part 7#bg3 astarion
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My delusions are finally getting to me. JUST CAUSE I CANT BELIEVE THIS MAN IS TERRIBLE ON PURPOSE (at least not that often anyway) the scar is from his dad since I’m sure their father had HIGH expectations for bi-han being not only the oldest but next in line for grandmaster, so he was much harder with him which would explain why kuai liang and tomas saw their father as a good man and bi-han was ready to let him die when the opportunity presented itself since HE was basically watching his brothers get treated better than him by their OWN FATHER- I'm so sorry the demons
These guys are ROTTING MY BRAIN ❕️❕️
#mk1#mortal kombat 1#mortal kombat fanart#fanart#sub zero#sub zero fanart#bi han#bi han fanart#johnny cage fanart#johnny cage#johnny cage x bi han#coldstar#my art#THIS MAN WILL NOT LEAVE MY THOUGHTS PLEASE SIR#i dont mean that im sorry bbg 😔#somebody put me down#i am insane when it comes to bi han and his fathers relationship#me 🤝 bi han: daddy issues#definitely not projecting#🤨
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Hottest JJBA Outfit Bracket - Johnny Joestar Preliminary Poll
#seriously i am in love with the star beanie and the vest in the flashback with his brother's boots#that's the saddest flashback but he has so much STYLE look at those clothes they suit him so wellll#of course that's the daddy issues flashback where his father says the worst things known to man but i can ignore that#for that absolute banger of a look#johnny joestar#steel ball run#jojo no kimyou na bouken#jjba#jojo's bizarre adventure#who's hotter jjba#hottest jjba outfit bracket
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gnawing at the bars of my enclosure i need more johnny rosemary and kit as a family content
#if i think about kit feeling unlovable bc of johnny for more than five minutes i start to go crazy#was johnny a good father when rosemary was still around#was johnny so obsessed with having rosemary back#that protecting his kid started to become estranging him from everyone#did johnny love his kid in the end or was he bitter till his last breath#did johnny regret how he treated kit when he was dying#or his only regret was not meeting rosemary one last time#without knowing she was already dead#cassie please don’t forget about kits daddy issues in twp#kit herondale#kit rook#johnny rook had fifteen years to cherish him and look what he did instead#rosemary herondale#the dark artifices#twp#tda#the wicked powers#shadowhunters#the shadowhunter chronicles#tsc
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