#because it's written so beautifully

[absolute-flaming-trash]

Watching multiple cracks in Alastor's composure only for him to narrow his eyes and/or smile a bit wider afterwards is one of the most delightful while simultaneously horrific things put to media that I've seen in a while.

It just builds on such encroaching dread as the episodes continue, because you can see it very clearly in his eyes that he remembers shit that bothers him, and stores whatever happened to act upon for later.

[lindseymcdonaldseyelashes]

Leverage 4x1 - "The Long Way Down Job"

[bellamysgriffin]

ULTIMATE SHIPS CHALLENGE - Deaths  [4/4]

[chrysalis-the-butterfly]

Me after reading @aparticularbandit's Timeline Canon fanfiction about Jessica Rabbit finding Roger and then losing him again:

I love media that you never really recover from/srs

[mercymaker]

i feel like a lot of people who write astarion's character off and refuse to engage with his story and character arc are missing out on a very important aspect that is incredibly real and devastating in our world.

it's the existence of an imperfect victim.

which is an unfortunate reality for so many people. and that's why so many of us keep running into this cognitive dissonance where we can't connect the two.

in a way, through media, as well as real life examples, we're constantly being shown this image of a perfect victim, the target of suffering. often completely innocent, there to be tormented and to be weak and to suffer and cry. it's almost... palatable? they're there for us to feel one emotion or another. pity often being at the top of the list. they're at the bottom of the line when it comes to control, authority, aggression. they did nothing wrong. they're there to be brutalized, to fit a very particular role in the narrative. a passive role.

but more often than not, in real life, victims aren't these perfect, meek, quiet, passive figures. especially when it comes to sex trafficking (sex work being looked down by the society and the law surely creates a brutal trap where you're the 'bad guy' even when you ARE a victim). there's no escape. you learn to play by the rules of that world. for so many, there's no 'fairy-tale' ending where you're going to escape by remaining passive and hopeful and continuing to suffer.

there are so many cases where trafficked people end up committing crimes. for some it's just theft, battery, assault. but there are cases where the victims end up brutally murdering their abusers, or their 'clients', or both. and that's when society, as well the judicial system, stops seeing them as a victim altogether. as if they never were one. all of their absolutely horrific suffering gets pushed away, nullified in the eyes of the public. now they are the perpetrator, the criminal. and worst of all, some use this to justify their horrific abuse.

i can't even count how many times i've seen comments where people say 'well, they didn't have to kill them, they could've xyz' or 'why go out of their way to be so brutal?' etc. etc. which yet again... erases sympathy for the victim.

as if committing immoral acts somehow retroactively applies 'punishment' through previous abuse. and the mob's moral craving for 'justice' gets scratched. resolves the cognitive dissonance. it's much easier to connect the two dots, if the person was 'evil' all along. perhaps they were never a victim to begin with? perhaps they deserved it?

and that's where, to me, it loops back to astarion's story. and one of the key points portrayed.

no one deserves such horrific abuse. it doesn't matter if you're an asshole or if you're a sweet girl who had her trust exploited.

and it's not to say that a victim's crimes are suddenly justified because they were a victim to begin with, no.

it's more about our inability to tackle the nuance when someone is both. the one inflicting the suffering as well as receiving it. their 'crimes' are not justified by their suffering. yet, their suffering is also not justified by their 'crimes'.

it is certainly a difficult situation to navigate, but i wish some people would engage with those uncomfortable topics and step out of their comfort zone sometimes instead of writing something off because of some surface details.

[sky-is-the-limit]

Watching tiktok users not understanding the TLOU2 storyline at ALL, butchering all significant points and only having braincells to put characters in either a good or bad category, Joel stans calling Abby the villain, Abby stans calling Joel selfish, blaming Tommy for Ellie's decisions, thinking that Ellie chose revenge over Dina or that she'd be happy if she stayed etc:

[swan2swan]

KUBO.

[frecklesandpoverty]

you ever read a few chapters of one of the best fics you've read recently, only to finish the 3rd chapter and realize the story is unfinished, and thennn you see it hasn't been updated in like 2 years, and thennnnnn you see that the author orphaned the account, and thennnnnnnnnn you follow the user's notes with their twitter and tumblr tags and see that they've apparently deleted both of those accounts too?

[rowrowronnie]

why the hell has no one been talking about the pantheon show on amc why the hell is there legitimately No Way to watch the show without pirating and again, to reiterate: WHY THE HELL HAS NO ONE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS SHOW!!!!

[seriousturd]

Some little BMB doodles

[riddlerosehearts]

listen, i appreciate that not every movie needs to be a romance and sometimes the story is better without one. but wish was supposed to be a tribute to classic disney, the very first disney feature film was a fairy tale with a romance, the disney renaissance period was (at least partly) built on fairytale romances and romance in general, and the last time WDAS wrote a romance that was a) actually important to the story and b) not a pre-established romance that would obviously remain in a sequel, was with kristoff and anna in frozen (2013). and i just wish disney would vary things a bit more in general! like we finally got a classic ruthless villain again, why can't we have a romance that's not just in the background again too? we went from the renaissance period where every movie had romance as a central part of the story, to now where for some reason none of them can, and idk why it has to be that way. also, just, the concept of a romance between asha, just a regular girl, not a princess and not even so much as the king's apprentice, and the literal star she wished on who came to her in the form of a human boy, sounds extremely interesting and sweet to me and would've worked as a sort of callback to peasant x royal stories like cinderella or beauty and the beast but with its own unique twist! i also personally think that whether he was actually intended to be a love interest or just a friend, star would've been a way cooler character as a shapeshifter in human form.

[mysticdragoni]

Why are you crying? It’s just a lego mini figure?

The Lego mini figure:

[spaceboystar]

satosugu is not canon but the implications to me are crazy (rant)

the first thing i want to talk about is how BOTH of them died on december 24. why is this significant?

not to mention, gojo is the one to kill geto. even then, they harbor no ill feelings for each other (gojo still calls him his “one and only / one and only best friend” even after everything”. what gojo said to geto at the end remains unknown due to it being inaudible, but it’s still speculated that gojo again, still tells him that he’s his one and only best friend, before suguru says “at least curse me a little at the very end”.

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then there’s this; i’d like to think that he was also talking about geto while telling yuta about his curse with rika.

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gojo has infinity, meaning that he’s basically untouchable. anything that comes close to him slows down a tremendous amount until eventually—they basically can’t reach him. so obviously, with this infinity, he doesn’t need an umbrella because he could easily dodge the rain. but nope, he brings an umbrella to share with geto anyway 🙁🙁

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when geto and haibara talk, haibara asks if he wants anything sweet or salty when he gets back from the mission he’s assigned to. geto says that gojo might want some too, so he asks him to get something sweet. HES STILL THINKING ABOUT HIS BEST FRIEND. because after the star plasma vessel’s death and everything that follows after, gojo had become the strongest and geto still falls behind. effectively, they are no longer the strongest together—something that made their bond in the first place. without being able to keep up with gojo along with riko’s death and his morals as a jujutsu sorcerer getting flipped, geto falls into a depression that eventually descends into madness. but even then, he still thinks about gojo.

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suguru speaks satoru’s name in a softness that’s only reserved for him. that’s what kenjaku couldn’t replicate, geto’s love for gojo. but even for a split second, gojo really thought he was back and that was his downfall in this arc—with the shock, he gets sealed.

you can listen to how geto calls gojo’s name in this video vs this one;

it lacks the softness. gojo almost smiles, but he realizes it’s not truly him. it’s not shown in the clip above (all the clips i’m finding always cut it out.. for some reason?) but gojo also says this: “your body and cursed energy, all the information provided to me by my six eyes is telling me that you’re suguru geto, but both my heart and soul know otherwise.” because kenjaku couldn’t keep the same soft spoken tone with geto to gojo, he knows it’s not him.

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the last one is insanely funny to me. gege reads BL’s and i’m pretty sure he said that’s what inspired him to write gojo and geto’s storyline 😭😭 he was literally inspired by doomed yaoi to write them

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that’s it. best friends or lovers they make me so insanely sick, there’s a lot more but i think these ones are more satosugu oriented. thank you for reading because i was tweaking out the entire time while writing this.

gege has confirmed them as just best friends but still holy shit how can you drop all this

[lemonfreshlysqueezed]

The Eighth Sense

This series feels so true to the queer experience while not having homophobia be the plot

[fightingmonsterswithwords]

(this is just me overthinking stuff for fun)

Genuine question from someone very ignorant about many things lote-related in this fandom... what are the other Deadly Sins?

Because I was checking Paradise Lost *for reasons* (fic reasons, and the pic is not necessary but there you go) and... like, we all know Luci supposedly didn't fell alone.

(....) what time his pride Had cast him out from Heaven, with all his host Of rebel Angels (...)

A little further down, the poem mentiones at least Beelzebub as being one of those that fell with him. (I'm not reading much more right now.)

And I know - I know - these are different works and there's a million others to nitpick from, and that Hazbin pretty much takes all this imagery and does its own thing with it, but I'm bored and sleep-deprived. So I'm asking myself - why couldn't they be angels that fell along with Lucifer? (Except that we see Luci and Lilith falling alone in Charlie's recounting of the story, even if that's an abridged version of their family history, yeah, like I said... I'm bored).

I guess anything about it is total speculation because the wiki merely states they are "a class of Demons who, aside from Lucifer Morningstar himself, rank directly beneath the royal family in Hell's hierarchy", and that they're Princes of Hell as per Binsfeld's classification of demons, so maybe Hellborns like the Ars Goetia who are technically royalty.

But also the Seven Deadly Sins are supposedly not Hellborn? And why would they hold more or less the same status as Lucifer, as to be entrusted to oversee the other Rings? Did he create them? Where do they came from? So yeah, they look nothing like Luci and they have demonic forms, no wings like his, etc... but I think I like the headcanon that they fell along with him and Lilith 🙄 (and that would add a whole new layer of angst to Lucifer who would feel guilty for dragging them with him). And they're like family (this I have seen represented in varying ways already, anyway).

If this is mentioned somewhere I honestly can't remember.

[dailypurpled]

DAILY PURPLED DAY 140 - I can no longer take it anymore I thought I could hold in my anger at the live action movie but I could not oh god it’s so bad