#and is a coldblooded murderer who kills on a whim???

[walks-the-ages]

Another question for Maribat is .... Why the fuck is Dami/en an upgrade from Adrien?!?

According to his wiki page he is quite literally a cold-blooded serial killer that tried to kill (one of the) Robin(s) because he was jealous of Batman being nice to him, and literally goes around beating people to death and murdering people.

Also, why is the fandom SO OBSESSED with shipping Marinette with the children of billionaires, let alone creepy manipulative abusive ones?????

Oh wait. It's internalized classism.

Like. Luka, a canon love interest, who is kind and loving and puts her happiness above his own, is RIGHT THERE. But I guess because he lives in a boat and isn't a millionaire, he's not 'good enough' for Marinette, she "deserves better" aka, she "deserves to be rich" or whatever.

As if Marinette wouldn't donate any lavish gifts given to her to charities and actually use the wealth her bf/spouse (because these fics are inevitably aged up, because people can't write creatively) throws around like it's nothing for actual good causes

Personal Opinion:

I don't like "Class Salt" or "Alya Salt" like... at all. I see it as uncessesary and overly mean spirited even for me, it's just people writing revenge porn and projecting into Marinette.

I was never mad at the class over how they acted in "Chameleon", I was more mad at Lila's existence and the writers for making everyone stupid just for the sake or trying (and failing) to make Lila seem like a skilled manipulator.

[hellguarded-a]

NPC list! aka important characters to my muse’s story, most of them are muses of mine that i’ve played sometime in the past but can’t dedicate myself to anymore, but they’re still relevant to ignis since they’re all part of this one big universe.

TISIPHONE.

one of the three furies, primarily residing in the shadow realm of erebus. tried to shelter ignis from the life of a hound of hades, though eventually he heard the call and followed it anyway.  he’s never seen her since.  his fury bloodline is something that mainly fuels his innate need to punish crimes.

CERBERUS.

the three-headed hound was revealed to be ignis’ father only after he’d met hades and been introduced to his fate of his heir; that he was to take up the mantle of hound of hades once cerberus had perished.  however, since ignis is a crossbreed, many of his peers look down on him;  but there is no other legitimate heir.

NOCTIS.

pureblood fury, or a shadow demon, if you will.  ignis’ older half-brother, from his mother’s side. he’s been with the gonchiye for a shorter time than him, and their relation alone had earned him the moniker orthrus, which in myth’s is cerberus’ older brother, despite noctis’ apparent lack of hellhound qualities. very volatile, had to be collared from the beginning, specializes in sabotage where little strategy and subtlety is needed.

HADES ( & persephone ).

the god of the dead and king of the underworld, his loyal hounds follow his orders, and his reign over them is further spread by the employment of houndmasters, blessed by his call ---  the ability to control and summon the hellhounds at whim.

persephone had shown ignis a brighter side to things, eventually even blessing him with the floral seal upon his left shoulder that allows him to walk the mortal realm.  also his unrequited crush from his early years.  ( @skyhunted off-handedly plays persephone so i don’t officially include her as one of mine, but she’s worth mentioning. )

CALIGOS.

draconic smoke fiend, acting as one of hades’ houndmasters. this group is commonly known as the ‘lykaios,’ and they have the ability to control the hounds with little more than a whistle. they carve their own, custom whistles from the bones of deceased hellhounds or their shed horns, which allow them to imitate the call of hades, something no hellhound can resist.  they each have a hellhound partner that had imprinted on them, caligos’ being an albino hound called sídero or just sid for short.  eventually hired by lucius to track  ( and preferrably, kill, or seal him back in the underworld )  ignis after his treachery.

LUCIUS.

the horseman of conquest and pestilence, he’s the one to launch project gonchiye, rising it from the ruins of an old pit fighting compound of supernatural beings located in russia.  the organization remains situated in the country to this day, and in the horseman’s zealous pursuit of upkeeping balance and the preparation of the inevitable apocalypse, he develops a deadly virus that had been first introduced to a certain  fox  within the ring.  he’s tasked ignis with his assassination ---  and eventually targeted him for termination once he’d failed  ( twice )  and tried to escape with the virus uncontained, since he’d gotten infected himself due to exposure to the patient zero.

SHINJOU DENALI.

lightning-based kitsune, one of the two leaders of the order of the lotus. patient zero for the pestilence, raised in the fighting pits, is main target of operation stormbringer, and, unfortunately, one of ignis’ past lovers which made it difficult for the sentimental hound to actually pull the trigger.

KALISHA SATOU.

a close friend within the gonchiye ranks, kalisha is a lynx mountain nekomata of latino origins.  she’s one of the few who had been recruited by the gonchiye againist their will, and that led to her immediatelly getting collared to keep her under control.  she’s bitter and vengeful, having not yet gotten over the murder of her late husband and son, and the only thing that keeps her docile are the excessive amount of the drug within the collar. her coldblooded and otherwise quiet nature make for an excellent spy and assassin.

[cinema-tv-etc]

My favourite film: Double Indemnity

In our writers' favourite film series, Paul Howlett is moved by the heartbreak in this classy film noir about an insurance salesman Do you feel betrayed by this review? Then write your own here or brood in the shadows of the comments section below

Who would have thought a movie about an insurance guy could be so bitter, so suspenseful, so heartbreaking? I love Double Indemnity because it's about a couple who are cheap and greedy, but achieve a kind of tragic heroism; because it has one of the great father-son relationships (although they aren't actually father and son); because it's a thoroughly cynical thriller redeemed by just a fading touch of romance. And it also has a trio of superb performances: Fred MacMurray, who tended to play amiable chumps, was here recast as a devious murderer (though still a bit of a chump); Barbara Stanwyck, as the deadliest of femme fatales; and Edward G Robinson, the career-gangster now turned softy with "a heart as big as a house".

Like Billy Wilder's other coldblooded, consummate film noir, Sunset Boulevard, where the hero begins his narration from the swimming pool in which he floats, dead, you know things are unlikely to go well for Walter Neff (MacMurray). He's shot and bleeding; and he's recounting, via an office dictaphone recording to his mentor Barton Keyes (Robinson), his tale of love, murder and betrayal. How he hooked up with the icily beautiful Phyllis Dietrichson (Stanwyck) and conned her rich, unloving husband into signing a life insurance policy (with bonus double indemnity clause) he didn't want, so they could murder him and collect the dosh; how love turned sour and mutual suspicion had fatal consequences.

Screenwriters Wilder and Raymond Chandler did a terrific job on James M Cain's hardboiled novel – with a pairing like that, how could they not? It crackles with sardonic dialogue, as in the couple's first charged meeting, when Neff is so taken by Phyllis and her sexy anklet ("There's a speed limit in this state, Mr Neff – 45 miles per hour." "How fast was I going, officer?" "I'd say around 90"). His world-weary voiceover, likewise, has an eerie, doomed quality: "I couldn't hear my own footsteps. It was the walk of a dead man."

The film was shot by John Seitz like a textbook noir. Outdoors it's nearly always night, while the interiors, at the Dietrichson house and in Neff's apartment, are all brooding shadows; the only sunlight filters weakly through the blinds, catching the dust in the air. It's a setting ripe for hot passion and coldhearted, greedy plotting, which is unpicked only under the glare of the brightly lit insurance office.

It's this office that Keyes inhabits; he's the insurance guy devoted to his job ("an insurance manager is a surgeon, a doctor, a bloodhound; cop, judge, jury and father confessor …"). Keyes is the man who figures out that Dietrichson was murdered, and how; and who provides the film's true emotional heft. Because, despite his forensic intelligence, Keyes doesn't see the truth staring him in the face – that Phyllis's lover and accomplice is Neff, his colleague and friend of 11 years, who always has a light for his cheap cigars, and who even admits: "I love you, too."

What marks Double Indemnity out from other great film noirs is that sense, among all the crazy, twisted, duplicitous shenanigans, of real, human heartbreak. It isn't in the violent showdown that concludes the Neff/Phyllis passion play: that was a fatal clinch from the start, despite their fluctuating emotions (she, finally, can't quite bring herself to kill him; he, almost on a whim, and already shot, takes time out to rescue her stepdaughter's relationship). No, it's when the dying Neff spells it out to Keyes: "You couldn't figure this one … because the guy you were looking for was too close – right across the desk from you." Keyes quietly, tenderly replies: "Closer than that, Walter."

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