#and it's not just physical violence

[untethereddreams]

Watching the Carnival Job and had a revelation about why I connect with Eliot so much in particular, particularly after seeing that post about Eliot and children.

It's the way he chooses violence as a way to protect the weak, about how he'll do anything to keep the people he cares about safe. It's being the hitter and taking all the hits, of being a meat shield not only because it's his job but because it HAS to be his job because nobody else can take it. It's about the physicality of it all, of breaking his own rules because he, the things he believes in, the things that make him him, all of these things are less important than the people he loves.

It's Andy choosing violence and dying over and over again but she has to do it until she can't anymore. It's Dean soaking up all of John's abuse and turning himself into a weapon because he has to protect his little brother.

It's me, standing myself between my parents and my brother because I know I can take whatever they throw at me, I have before, but by everything that matters in this world HE will not, not because he can't, but because he shouldn't. No one should.

[saints-who-never-existed]

“In the war film, a soldier can hold his buddy—as long as his buddy is dying on the battlefield. In the western, Butch Cassidy can wash the Sundance Kid’s naked flesh—as long as it is wounded. In the boxing film, a trainer can rub the well-developed torso and sinewy back of his protege—as long as it is bruised. In the crime film, a mob lieutenant can embrace his boss like a lover—as long as he is riddled with bullets. 

Violence makes the homo-eroticism of many “male” genres invisible; it is a structural mechanism of plausible deniability.”

–Tarantino’s Incarnational Theology: Reservoir Dogs, Crucifixions, and Spectacular Violence. Kent L. Brintnall.

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 352

“Mother, I crave violence,” a small child interrupts the video call, practically clambering up into Nightingale’s chair. They look around five or so, with white hair and red eyes. Albino perhaps? 

“Ah, apologies, let me take care of this real quick,” Nightingale turns the microphone off when he gets a few acknowledging noises, picking the small child up and moving them from the room. 

“Cute kid,” Barry acknowledged from behind his coworker’s head, having been helping move things. Actually, the kid looked kind of familiar, though from where, who knew. Hard to remember everything with how fast his thoughts usually went. “I didn’t know Nightingale was a father…” 

Then again the specialist was notoriously private, and set most meetings online thanks to some sort of medical conditions. So he supposed it would make it easier to be a stay at home dad if he was there already…

[morganbritton132]

Part 2 of this:

Once it becomes increasingly clear to Eddie that Steve is probably not staying with them, Wayne starves off a fit by asking, “Hey, Ed. Why don’t we go see if your caterpillars have cocooned yet?”

The impending tantrum deflates with his little shoulders, “Fine.”

Wayne leads the barefoot boy out into the dewy morning, giving Hopper a brief reprieve to figure this whole thing out.

Wayne lights a cigarette, leans back against the side of the house, and watches as Eddie kicks at the grass, “Ya done?”

“It’s not fair,” He grouses out, kicking again.

“You said your word is everything, Uncle Wayne,” Eddie accuses. “You said no take backs an’ you’re taking back! You’re takin’ back an’ you’re givin’ away, and - and you’re going back on your word!”

Eddie stomps his foot, hands working everywhere as he sputters, “You - you’re a-a-a hippo-crite!”

Wayne stubs out his cigarette, lights another one to give Eddie a second to collect hisself before he drawls out, “I think you were fixin’ to mislead me when you ask me that question last night.”

“No, I wasn’t.”

“I think that’s why you had that crawler with ya,” Wayne continues. “You wanted me to think you were askin’ if you could keep that caterpillar, not your buddy in the tent. That’s mighty deceptive, Ed. Almost lying.”

Eddie responds like he’s been shocked, “Nun-uh! I don’t lie, Uncle Wayne.”

Wayne raises an eyebrow at him and Eddie explodes in all his tiny dramatics, “You were gonna say no!”

“It’s not fair,” He laments. “I found him all by myself and I’ll take care of him! I promise. You ain’t got to do nothing.”

“Ed, that boy ain’t an uncollared dog you found,” Wayne replies. “He’s got a family.”

“Then where are they?”

Good question, Wayne thinks privately but doesn’t vocalize that. Instead he asks, “Wouldn’t you be sad if I kept you forever and you couldn’t see your daddy?”

“No.”

Well…

“I think Steve might think different,” Wayne concludes, snubbing out this cigarette too. “Why don’t we see if him and Hopper want to set up a play date sometime.”

“Wayne, I can’t date people. I’ll get cooties.”

“Oh, of course. A hangout then.”

Eddie sighs, turning around to look at their caterpillars, “No butterflies yet.”

[itsyamanjack]

GET XEM @askoverkill

[charlesemersonwinchesteriii]

Fascinating how Edward's response to distressing events is to immediately get a hand on his nearest fellow lieutenant. Almost like he's afraid they'll be taken away from him or something.

[gabelew]

some recent bazzes from twitter

i like to think that Bazz is, rather uncharacteristically for a Zora, very competent with a sword

[danadiadea]

love that argument about "well Remus says Levicorpus was popular so it was okay to use it", Mudblood word was also pretty popular, why would you ever think it wasn't normal to use it then?

[comvi]

could you draw Cobalt actually...id love to see her in your style

thing yes thing here is your creature

[seance]

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE ❧ i bet on losing dogs.

[voidbeau]

Puns. It's silly time with Mr. Plant + another one of my OCs, but we don't need to worry about him!

He is being pulled apart like a gooey mozzarella stick.

I completely forgot i wanted to add vines to this but its almost 5am as i type this and im too lazy. maybe i'll add later i dunno. = v=

[gabelew]

gaddison my beloved...

[queenoftheimps]

After seeing Lukas Gage playing cocky, swaggering characters like The Cat King, I was not prepared for how completely protective I am over him in Companion, where he plays the sweetest, goodest robot boy who did not deserve all of that suffering my poor boyyyy

[akkpipitphattana]

it's actually really funny to me that style is a pacifist. like of fucking course you are, you're the most annoying person on the planet, of course you have to be against senseless violence cause everyone wants to commit that against you all the time

[uncanny-tranny]

Important tip for trans men/transmascs/whoever needs the reminder: Even if you pass as a man to cis people, you still need to have either some form of self-protection on you (e.g., mace, knives (if you can use them effectively), ect.) or know some form of self-defense. Please take it from me, you don't know what will happen out there at any given time.

You might assume that if you pass as a cis man to cis people, you will be safe from any harm. While I wish that were true, it simply isn't the world most of us live in. Please do whatever you can to protect yourself out there.

[feroluce]

Had the cutest realization last night- so there's a saying we have in English meaning to get something done by any means necessary. It specifically includes dishonest methods, such as violence or lying. So when you're willing to resort to that kind of thing to achieve your goals, you say you're going to do something

"by hook or by crook"