#badass good guys

[sailorrdee]

I wanted to test out their shell designs, and I am super happy with them!

This au was really well-received, especially on my Instagram and Twitter, so this drawing is also a thank you! :D 

Also, don’t worry, I see your asks piling up, and I swear I’m gonna answer them!! 

[fluffylord]

TWELFTH DOCTOR S10 E07 | THE PYRAMID AT THE END OF THE WORLD

[mr-malumm]

🔥‼️Hell💥is😩forever😳😔‼️🔥🥵(whether you like it or not)

Guys im worried i unironically love adam and lute together, its one of those ships thats nasty and yucky but then im like 😳😏 why they kinda.. perfect for one another.............. HSHSHAHHSHA AANYWAY

Stay tuned for tv man and deer guy fighting (theyre best friends i love them) 🥰🥰🥰🥰

[devious-little-milkmaiden]

Love it when your fav character says some cringey ass shit bc you still root for them but you can be like "what a dumbass thing to say!!!! love her"

[crossthread]

Okay I swear to God I hope the directors of avatar (the alien movie) sees this post somehow but the whole reason the way of water flopped so badly is cause it was written over 10 years ago. So I like avatar. I thought it was a cool concept and good characters and overall a solid action movie. But the characterisation is just a dacade old man. It's really outdated. It instantly turned me off when Jake was seen to be a 'hardass' to his kids, and having them call him Sir, and have Neytiri taking kind of a secondary role as the 'peacekeeper' parent who goes 'but your dad loves you, he just wants you safe' bullshit trope that's just really not what this generation is looking for rn.

Emotionally mature parents is what's on topic rn. Dad's that step up and know what they're doing and don't have the 2000s 'military hardass emotionally distant' bullcrap. Just look at all the other movies and shows with family themes that did really fucking well. The Last of Us. Ultraman: Rising. Nimona. Even Maleficent, which I think is one of the earliest movies of this trope that's well known. They did well for a reason. You can't make Jake Sully a bad father and think the current audience will dig it. All of his kids, one way or another felt the pressure of living up to their dad's expectations, and im sure, whether he really loves them. And I assure you for all intents and purposes it felt like Neteyam died thinking he wasnt enough. You can't have those 'your dad loves you but he just doesn't know how to show it' bullshit anymore and expect the audience to like or even relate to that character cause a lot of us don't take that shit anymore from our own parents. A lot of millennials are actively trying to be present and good parents to their kids. So yeah. The way Jake Sully, and to a certain extent, Neytiri were characterised is probably one of the biggest reasons this entire movie flopped. It could have been great. But it isn't. And I kind of hate it actually.

My point is: if there's gonna be a third movie, the best bet to make sure it doesn't follow the way of waters footsteps is to overhaul a lot of the characterisation and plot. See what the audience wants rn, and what they audience relates to. It was clear the writing to that movie was old as balls and gen z or gen alpha don't take that shit man. Give us good parents

Edit: okay as someone pointed it out it wasn't actually a 'flop' flop because they grossed by over a billion or smth in the box office I think but to be fair half this post has been sitting in my drafts for like 2 years and I wrote this soon after I watched it back then, and a LOT of people werent that happy with it. But yall know what I mean. I waited for this movie for 10 years and all I felt was this low simmering disappointment because it could have been so good, but it wasn't.

[tvckerwash]

you know, an interpretation of ct that I don't see that I personally really love is that she's a fuck up. like yes she's cool and she has some good fight scenes, but a huge part of her character is that she makes mistakes. the mistakes that she makes are ones that on their own aren't the end of the world, but she keeps making these little mistakes, and they eventually add up until she's out of room to make any more.

a really good example of this phenomenon in action is the actions she took leading up to her final confrontation with carolina and tex.

strike one, she thought she saw something in the water, but when asked by the leader what it was, she brushed it off as nothing when even if it had been nothing, it would've been smart to tell him what she thought she saw.

strike two, she didn't sense or notice florida's presence when the leader did, and she looks at the leader twice, once as she pulled out her magnums, and again after she did a scan of the room, almost like she was looking at him for guidance before he finds florida and takes him out with one good axe throw.

strike three, she couldn't convince the leader to leave when they had the chance to get away, and her cheap tricks were not enough to hold off either tex or carolina in a fight. they were only good for incapacitating her opponents enough for her to get away, which doesn't work when she has no escape.

ct is not tex, or carolina, or south. she is not a one woman army who can get herself out of trouble when she's stuck in tough situations. she needs people who can watch her back, she need a team who can cover her when she does mess up, and the leader and his team were not those people. she couldn't bring herself to trust them, and they couldn't bring themselves to trust her, and that cost all of them their lives.

[clarissaweasley-10]

i have officially started reading Six of Crows!!!

@jkriordanverse @randomfandom-3 @isthataraccoon !!

[ahamkara-apologist]

Thinking about Taniks again. Thinking about how the Vanguard depicts him as some sort of unfeeling monster, a cruel being incapable of understanding sympathy, and yet despite his savagery and the disdain in the way others speak about him, he's still not a mindless killer. He has honour, albiet one twisted by years of bloodshed. He challenges you in the ways of old the first time he encounters you, calling upon a time when his people had the luxury of playing fair. When Cayde killed him, he returned the favor in a manner that was fair- eye for an eye, his life for the life of a friend. He has a sense of dignity, too, even if its obscured by the gruesome nature of his work: when hired to bust Askor out of prison, he scorned the Winter Kell for not freeing better Eliksni warriors (like Eramis) whom he greatly admired. He refuses to swear a house-pledge not just because he cannot be tamed, but also because he despises the arbitrary old customs that keeps his people stagnating, when they could feasably have taken Sol for themselves. He's looked down on for his bloodied claws and the fact that he is now more machine than Eliksni, but he does what he needs to survive, and was willing to work alongside House Salvation to further their cause of regaining the power they lost on Riis, striving for a better future for his people rather than simply chasing his bloodlust

It makes me think about how he really isn't any different from our Guardians. Just like us, he's a survivor, rising back from the dead again and again to fight- not for pride, or what he believes in, but because he's hungry for loot and the thrill of battle (how many times have we been called out for that, after all? Lightbearers aren't saints- they kill because they want loot or because they enjoy it. We're no better than he is). He's no longer considered fully Eliksni the same way we're no longer considered fully human, and he's sent after the enemies of the Eliksni the same way that we're sent after enemies of the Last City. He's slaughtered us the same way that we've slaughtered his kin. He's not a monster insofar as he is a mirror, held up to us to let us see what we are through the eyes of the other side. Our narrative foil

I know that its just a meme at this point that he keeps coming back, but honestly I'd love to see him in Final Shape or the episodes at some point, with maybe more lore entries about him/from his perspective. We've only got one so far, but it's something that unveiled a lot about his character, and what we saw was super interesting and spoke to him being a fellow with a lot more depth than what the Vanguard wants to give him credit for

[clownowo]

Guardian of the Eastern Gate and the One Entrusted with a Flaming Sword by God: Principality Aziraphale

[euryleli]

I like the idea of will byers carrying a gun in s5 not because I think he would enjoy it/it would be badass, but because the ANGST and the exploration of the abuse lonnie put will through is really important to me

I need it to be addressed!!

[ravioliravioliravioli]

Very surprised that they were NOT going to end up together unlike usual movies that do this

[lordbucketofthecaribbean]

Every👏 fukin👏time👏

I don’t remember the 90s show being this heart breaking someone help-

[brainrotgoverner]

Dark Ace's wings

[gerryrigged]

okay but following up on this gorgeous art and potential Dick-infiltrates-a-harem fic

what if it's like a trafficking situation and once he infiltrates he's constantly trying to draw all attention to himself to protect the other people there until the rescue operation can kick off. Just the flashiest, most gorgeously seductive outfits and behavior.

And he's successful at it, too - it's less nauseating to him when he can treat it as a performance, distance himself from it, weaponize the looks and charisma that have drawn him attention (both wanted and really, really unwanted) his entire life. When he can use the helpless attraction that people react to him with in order to draw the master's gaze away from those less equipped to handle it, less able to protect themselves.

he's especially trying to shield this younger boy, who is dangerously, magnetically beautiful, and who was very obviously - very unfortunately - The Favorite until Dick arrived. He even looks a bit similar to Dick, superficially - soft black hair, and pale blue eyes that sharpen so keenly whenever his gaze catches on Dick. So unlike the hazy, half-lidded look he's always giving the master.

Watching that man put his filthy hands all over the kid makes Dick feel sick. He re-doubles his efforts to never let them be alone, barely even wearing clothes anymore to catch and keep the master's eye on him, instead.

only for Tim to be like. So I know you're new here, and this protectiveness is...really sweet and kind and everything, but. You're stealing my shtick. I'm the self-sacrificial lamb protecting everyone else around here by drawing away the worst of the attention. I can take care of myself, you don't have to...put on that act, put yourself in the line of fire - not for me.

And Dick is like yes I do - at least until I can get you all out of here. god, you shouldn't have to do any of that either, I want to break his hand every time he touches you--

And Tim is like I knew it, I knew you had to be either a cop or a vigilante, okay what's the plan, I'm fully on board, here's all the security information and blackmail I've been gathering, we're burning this place to the ground, right?

Dick: --Absolutely we are 🥺💘

.......Okay but what if it's Ra's' harem

[vertigoartgore]

Doctor Doom by the talented comic book artist Tom Reilly (2024).

[who-is-riley]

WIP