#betrayed and butchered

[news4dzhozhar]

[fizzyorange-v2]

on not being able to save those you love, even from themselves

“I've been inside his head. That guy's a piece of shit.”

“It doesn't matter. I-I don't want to be someone who leaves people behind. I want to be someone who saves his family. And for better or worse... he's family.”

Credits:

1 - Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body / Virgina Woolf, Final Letter to Her Husband // 2 - Nick Schager, The Boys Recap: Don’t Forget Your Second Wind // 3 - Adrienne Rich, For the Dead // 4 - Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care / The Boys, Assassination Run / Lena Oleanderson, Love in the Thoracic Cavity / Friedrich Nietzsche / @ell-hs, x / unknown // 5 - The Front Bottoms, Twelve Feet Deep / Dazai Osamu, No Longer Human / Walter Benjamin, One Way Street (tr. Edmund Jephcott), Selected Writings, Vol I: 1913-1926 / lillie, via Pinterest // 6 - John Le Carré, The Looking Glass War / Bring Me the Horizon, True Friends / starparkdesigns, via Instagram // 7 - Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart / The Crane Wives, Tongues and Teeth / @neuxue, x // 8 - Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks (1964 - 1980) / Molly McAdams, Stealing Harper (Taking Chances, #1.5) / The Mountain Goats, Training Montage / Hael, Who Made You A Monster? // 9 - Bares, Montage // 10 - Aeschylus, Agamemnon / Garth Ennis, Preacher / D.N., excerpt from a book i'll never write #71 / @catradoraism, x / Poor Man’s Poison, Black Sheep // 11 - The Mountain Goats, Up the Wolves // 12 & 13 - Natalie Young, Notes on Earth Life // 14 - Brandon Sanderson, The Final Empire / unknown / David Fincher, The Social Network // 15 - Margaret Atwood, "Hesitations outside the door", Power Politics / @theartistichuman, x / Jorge Rivera-Herrans, No Longer You // 16 - unknown

as always please let me know if any links break, any credit is incorrect, or if you’re aware of where a missing piece of media is from :]

[denimshortsdean]

karl urban your slutty little faux-cockney accent isn't fooling anyone. every now and then you will say a word in the most wellingtonian accent known to man. you can't potato potahto your way out of this one karl. i know it's you

[wallissa]

“I’m really glad you’re here”, “I’ll miss us” — there is just something about Homelander expressing what seems to be genuine emotion towards people who he’s fighting against.

Which is to say: I fear he cares about these people.

And him caring about people leads to him prioritising the people over their actions. We know he doesn’t care about most people, but it seems that if he does care, he’s willing to bend his morals for them (him not agreeing with Stormfront’s politics but going along with them anyways because he doesn’t care enough about the politics and cares too much about her). I think on some level he might think that’s how it is for those other people too. He respects Butcher and Annie, so he thinks on some vague level, that feeling has to be mutual. The “rest” (Nazi politics, lives getting destroyed, Butcher’s revenge, etc) is just something that happens around them, something they do but not something they necessarily are [side note: the core thought here is also about HL and how his lack of autonomy is possibly tied to a lack of agency. What does HE believe in? He has wants and needs, but does he have beliefs? Hence it might be easier for him to overlook a clash of beliefs].

“Yes, we’re on different sides, but deep down, we respect each other, and that’s what counts” — but that’s not how the world works. The gravity of the situation escapes him. Those people genuinely despise him.

[arthur-lesters-spinal-cord]

Dollins au

(Which I used to think was cannon)

Story time:

Back in the early days of me getting into this podcast I stumbled across a lot of fanart for Malevolent, specifically Potato-lord and Izel

I was in the middle of season two and I had no idea who the season four characters were but I fell in love with Noel almost instantly.

And as everyone does when they are super normal about a fictional character they have yet to meet in cannon I read and re- read his wiki page a lot.

Now one of the things that the wiki fails to tell you is that the Butcher and Noel start working together within the timeframe of the podcast.

Instead it just says this:

I had seen and enjoyed a lot of Dollins stuff by this point and extrapolated from the art and the wiki that Noel and Collins had been working together for a decent amount of time.

It would probably be useful for The Butcher to have a man in the force if something were to happen to him or if he needed to get some evidence handily disappeared.

I also guessed that due to the dreamlands and training from the war Noel is dangerous enough on his own just in a less obvious way than The Butcher (I still believe this).

Essentially they were a serial killing power couple.

Thats it. Thats the au that was cannon to me for a very long time.

[kanga-moroo]

what I would give for Harlan Guthrie to release a full cover of Peggy Gordon in The Butcher’s voice

[padfootastic]

truly one of the worst ways james and sirius’ characters were butchered (both by canon and fanon) is the implication that they thought remus was the traitor or spy because he’s a werewolf.

those boys did not spend 3 YEARS becoming ANIMAGI and risking their body, mind, and soul, as well as courting azkaban just to turn around and give in to prejudice against creatures???? like yes, i realise war makes enemies of everyone and it heightens paranoia, suspicion etc etc but this is just the laziest of all reasons??? if they weren’t scared of remus in school, after watching him transform, and they still used the damn nicknames, then why would they suddenly think his furry little problem made him unreliable??

and at that!!!! what tf kind of sense does it make for them to believe that remus was the traitor and then…do absolutely nothing about it???? the whole bullshit only checks out if they all firmly believed each other. if they thought one of them was a spy for the DARK LORD, then why would they shut up about it??? both james and sirius clearly realised the war was about more than just them; they would not be hiding a potential spy if they knew about it.

this is honestly why the whole thing, and r/s reconciliation rubs me the wrong way. if they thought remus was untrustworthy, then give me a reliable reason other than him being a were. (i’ve got a few but none of them are ever used in fics). and even if they had some doubts about remus, it would still never make up for his belief that sirius betrayed the potters and joined the DEs. ever. that’s entirely a false equivalence.

[crossdressingdeath]

Rook: And [the contact] asked for me. Not you or Viago. Teia: You helped this city, and you're helping all of Thedas. You've earned respect. Ivenci: And yet those of us sworn to Treviso are beneath you.

Tell you what, Rayan, when you fight gods and blighted dragons and prevent Antaam plots to team up with the Venatori and make increasingly deadly gas instead of standing around and bitching and trying to weaponize said gas against the people of Treviso then maybe you'll win some respect.

The whole situation with the Butcher and Ivenci is genuinely so funny to me, though. Imagine you help a guy invade your city and he falls in love with the place and starts despising you for betraying his new favourite city. This is Ivenci's life now.

[sebek-zigbolt]

i wanna whine I LOVE baul. I rlly love his tsundere ass. But I feel like his introduction to the story disconnects sebek from the rest of diasomnia kinda... Like the latest update he says he will protect what is important to him but like.... Isn't that malleus and lilia??? Ofc he loves his grandpa too but he has LITERALLY STATED that malleus and lilia are the ppl more important to him than ANYONE and like his behaviour prior to this chapter and in EVERY event absolutely supports that. Sebek felt like a character who wants to live up to his grandpas expectations but it is MALLEUS and lilia who are at the core of his life. His existence revolves around them. And his actions these last chapters when concerning lilia and malleus have been honestly so.. Mild for him??? Like ofc silver would worry abt lilia but sebek would too????? It's so weird bcause I feel like im watching a character assassination in slow motion lmao. Like u see maleona attacking lilia and silver steps in immediately but sebek just 🧍‍♂️. HELLO???? THE INSANE PERSON????? R U SURE?? idk...

I also feel like they are trying to make is so that sebek being half fae had no impact on him growing up bcause uuu but his grandpa loves him after all, and there has been no mention of it affecting his life in these chapters. We got mentions of fae vs human tensions and it was abt Lilia. It rlly feels like they just don't wanna deal with it and changed their mind. LIKE IM NOT INSANE RIGHT?? 90% of sebeks behaviour links back to him being half fae and his inferiority complex abt it?????????????CONSTANTLY having to prove himself. Needs to feel useful or he will explode. Never being strong enough. Like.... ok. It feels like instead of that, what we r getting is... racist grampa is the problem yup. thats it. Nothing to see here besides that, sebek is just bauls clone.

On one hand I didn't rlly expect for sebek to get any development this book but on the other it feels like they are erasing his Previous characterisation. To me. And I think they are kinda doing it with lilia too but the other way around. Like they over correct his character flaws by not mentioning them. We KNOW hes not that great at parenting for example, he trained silver and sebek like soldiers for a while before relaxing abt it, he is generally very rough, feeding baby silver from a Mug and stuff. He just thinks that a baby can handle getting lost in the woods. Doesnt't mean he doesnt love his kids!!!! But it's how he is!!! And we Completely ignore that this book. It feels so weird.

[strangenessandcharrn]

I talk about religious imagery in yellowjackets all the time but it wasn’t until I made this that I noticed that they all knelt down to take jackie into their mouths almost like the eucharist (jackie’s death and lottie’s notion that jackie would have wanted it this way for the baby, symbolizing death and rebirth the same way that sacrament does)… insane of them if you ask me

[sharonisthebettercarter]

Billy Butcher is 800% Gerard Argent and I hate it.

TRUE--

[argcicle]

you can make multiple aus of jack manifold getting adopted.. but watch out

[carterashofficial]

So the characters are pretty bland. Only one for me had been memorable enough that I googled to see if he was a romance option (spoiler- there’s only 4 and none are the dude that spent 2 hours implying I was a moron and then had to eat humble pie when I did not betray him)

The thing that really bugged me tho was during the mission where the above jackass character and I were teamed up. It’s the first Crimson Fleet mission and spoilers below

You’re tasked by some high-level United Colonies Military dude (the fact that I can’t recall anything about it tells you how cool it was) to infiltrates The Pirates

You do a handful of classic things like “deliver drugs” and “kill this dude” and then get brought into the Fleet as a recruit. Big Bad Pirate Boss takes the recruits planetside (it’s you and Jackass).

Now, military dude wants the Pirate Fleet destroyed. Pirate Fleet Big Bad Boss is there in front of me. I save the game, pull out my sword, and attack b/c I’m curious and mildly bored.

Nothing. Can’t kill him. Can’t damage him. He doesn’t even realize I’ve been trying to skewer his kidneys and liver. There’s no “think smart and kill Astrid” option. There’s no other option. You have to enter this dungeon and do what the game wants you to do.

I think the biggest sign of the grand “fall of Bethesda” or whatever is the fact that Starfield officially released a full calendar month ago today and I literally have zero idea what it is about or what happens in it. absolutely zero cultural osmosis seems to have happened, which would’ve been unthinkable for a Bethesda RPG like ten years ago

[kaerinio]

cannot get this image out of my head: dany narrowing her eyes teasingly and asking daario what he wouldn't do for his queen. him flashing her a grin and saying he'll kill for her, dirty his hands for her, devour any sin for her, love her until his dying breath, cut his heart out for her . . . only for dany to smile and lean forward, a playful challenge between them, "and what if my wish were simple? silly, even. what if i were to command you to act like a fool? to bark like a dog?" and daario, not skipping a beat, grinning wider, that gold tooth glimmering, murmuring, "woof." this sums up the energy of their relationship.

[vaguelyaperson]

decided to watch a bit of the atla remake with a curious eager open mind, and now i'm fuming over it. it's infuriatingly faithless to the original, despite the time and resources it had.

[cratis]

Being sure to know a word for 10+ years and then hearing an american saying it for the first time in a completely different way you thought it was in your head is the psych version of a slap, not only the pain but the indignity of it. Like, how dare you? That word was my friend and you insult it so blatantly in front of my own eyes.