#bound to vengeance

[utoshi-san]

Как обычно успела за месяц посмотреть подборку из 10 фильмов и даже несколько не плохих попалось. Продолжаем в том же духе.

Годнота - 💗, хороши для разового просмотра - 😌 нейтральные - 🙄, не стоящие внимания - 👎🏻 полное днище - 💩

"Связанные местью"/"Bound to vengeance" 💗

"Вернуть отправителю"/"Return to sender" 💗

"Фургончик с мороженым"/"The ice cream truck" 👎🏻

"Эксперимент Офис"/"The Belko experiment" 😌

"Безупречная комната"/"The immaculate room" 🙄

"Заклятье. Дом 32"/"32 Malasana Street" 🙄

"Дверной замок"/"Door lock" 💗

"Хроники хищных городов"/"Mortal engines" 😌

"Ракка"/"Rakka" 👎🏻

"Груз 200" 👎🏻

[hannahwatcheshorror]

BOUND TO VENGEANCE (2015)

💁‍♀️Strong Female Lead

Classic horror movie beginning with the old video of the couple. “Not all of them are like you, Eve.” Boy, was he right. Surprising film. One good twist. A sad film but it ends satisfyingly.

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Eve breaks out of a basement den where a man has been keeping her in for God knows how long. She gets him up like a dog and has him take her to where he is holding the other girls. The night takes a turn and the antagonist turns out to be her old boyfriend. The “zookeeper” is left for dead at his family's house but then she stops to tell the family what he had done.

[the-priestess-of-dawn]

Thinking about how when Chrom talks to Robin at the beginning of chapter 6, just after war has broken out, he specifically says "Not everything Gangrel said was a lie." And then his next line is talking about how his father waged war on Plegia, which makes it sound like, oh, okay, Gangrel was telling the truth when he said the former exalt led a crusade against them. But I'm wondering if the line that was truly eating at Chrom was actually "Yours is now a haven of hypocrisy." Because this is when Chrom goes into detail about how Emmeyn suffered ending the war and bringing peace to Ylisse, and he's, y'know, way more bitter about how the Ylissean people acted than anything Plegia did. He talks about how Plegians "rightfully remember" what his father put them through and he does mention that their desire for vengeance was part of the legacy their father left her to deal with, but what he goes into detail about, what he complains about, what he's really upset about is the Ylissean response. They hurt her and she hid the fact that she was suffering from everyone while continuing to work to heal them. And then they "forgave" her—Chrom literally uses scare quotes. Now, he doesn't say "those damn hypocrites" aloud, but the implication is pretty much "how could those damn hypocrites 'forgive' her when she did nothing wrong and they did nothing but attack her? They should have been the ones begging for forgiveness."

And like, this all started when he was 4 years old, you know? He brings up how Emmeryn wasn't even 10 yet when she became exalt, and that means he was only 4! It's been 15 years. He's had these feelings about the situation for most of his life! And then you've got Gangrel over here, mouthing off because he wants to start a war but he needs to be able to paint Ylisse as the aggressor, and he throws out "yours is a haven of hypocrisy"— How horrific and sickening must it feel to hear the enemy who openly claims to want all of your people dead make a statement about them that you agree with.

And perhaps Chrom is thinking about himself, too. This conversation is where he gives his "perhaps I must be death's agent" line. Emmeryn would never order Gangrel killed, and he wouldn't WANT her to do so, but he is fully ready to take the matter into his own hands. He believes in his sister's ideals. But. They're not as important as HER. Virtue isn't his priority and he knows it.

Honestly, the whole Plegia arc is such a dark time for him.

[shorlinesorrows]

sometimes I run into discourse about The Odyssey vs. EPIC: The Musical and I get tired

this is why I think we need to start taking a more oral tradition approach to stories like the Odyssey tbh, and I'd argue stories in general

The original and the adaptation being different, or the characters being different, doesn't make one or the other Wrong.

EPIC isn't claiming to be a direct retelling of the Odyssey, and the Odyssey doesn't need to be put under a moral microscope just to prove that "Odysseus was a Bad Guy Actually i can't believe you like EPIC" or "The Actual moral of everything is This."

Analysis is good, but we don't have to do it to spite other people's enjoyment of a piece of art!

One of the most beautiful things about many oral traditions is that the story changes over time. It grows to fit the ideas and needs of the people it's being told to and the place it's being told in. Each storyteller remembers different details more vividly, or adds a little flair, or forgets a few words, or adds a few words, and it grows.

EPIC doesn't have to be the Odyssey, and the Odyssey doesn't have to be EPIC. Enjoy them both. Adaptations and spins off of stories aren't a bad thing in themselves, even if they're different.

Heck, the Odyssey was almost Definitely an adaptation, conglomeration, or re-telling of other stories that were told orally before it was written down. And I'd bet that it continued to evolve and change even after it was put to paper. I highly doubt The Odyssey the only version of this story there was, long before our time.

It's fine if you dislike one or the other in any adaptation! Hell knows I've absolutely despised some adaptations of media i enjoyed in the past. That's not a bad thing. But one story isn't objectively morally better or worse compared to another in adaptations.

Basically, my whole point is that both the Odyssey and EPIC are Great to me personally, but they aren't completely the same thing and that's what makes them great.

And I think people maybe need to be ok with that!

[maddiesflame]

Bound By Vengeance headers

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[vows-and-vengeance]

Drawn for the NoFaember prompt: bound

I didn’t provide context but it is spoilers so I’ll put it behind a see more

lyrics are from Honor Bound from the Death Note Musical

[citricjoy]

i think i could’ve fixed benson by introducing him to dungeons & dragons

[dreamedfyre-a]

post b&c helaena hates herself more than she resents anyone in this essay i will

[anony-geist]

When the crew is hunting Dracula down to kill him, Van Helsing and Jack are almost clinical about it: Those are the facts on how to kill a vampire, and we'll perform the procedure once we apprehend him. Quincey declares that he'll swiftly destroy him in his coffin, and he's praised for it. This will end that reign of terror once and for all! Save Lucy's dearest friend from the same fate. It's a noble, somber cause. Meanwhile, Jonathan violently launches upon Dracula's heart, jumps out of a broken window after him, speaks of trading his soul, of dragging him to Hell, of willing to face the rope, of anything it takes to kill him.

When the doctors, Arthur, and Quincey hear that they'll get Dracula soon, they're burning with excitement. Jonathan meanwhile is staying away from them all, quietly whittling his knife, now always on him.

Despite the fact that they all have the same goal -to kill- Jonathan stands out as the dark one between them because his actions communicate hatred, revenge, hopelessness, and bloodthirst that the others don't have.

Mina and Van Helsing oppose those traits whenever he displays them, and Mina even warns him that they can bring him divine punishment and prays to God to forgive him...

The bells were ringing for him throughout the story, but he came out alive.

[orcelito]

That bitch Danzo getting killed and it starts showing his past like I'm supposed to be sad for this piece of shit??? I'm Not. He's a warmonger and a fucking snake. He caused so much suffering, literally inlaid the eyes of Sasuke's murdered clan in his arm -- the clan that HE ORDERED TO BE MURDERED. He conducted genocide for the sake of "peace", and even in death he thinks it's for the best of the village. Nevermind the fact that he literally stole children from their families to indoctrinate them into his underground cult, and he was just Allowed to do this??? Hiruzen when I catch you...!!!!!!

Anyways fuck this dude, I'm glad he's dead. Good for you, Sasuke.

[manonblackbaek]

CORA REILLY’S BOOK BOYFRIENDS SORTER

Pick what character you like better in each battle to get an accurate list of your favorite book boyfriends from the group. Note: hitting 'no opinion' or 'I like both' frequently will negatively affect your results. Note: If you make a mistake DO NOT click backspace unless you find extremely necessary. It will erase all your progress.

https://cresswellslover.tumblr.com/crbookboyfriends

please, like or reblog if you enjoyed the sorter. credit me on twitter @cresswellslover if you post it there — thanks <3

[marinaslibrary]

[smallfrogpleasedtomeetyou]

How do u feel now that u see ur followers were on my side in ur evil arc vote >:)

im gonna throw a pencil at u tmr

[redcandle17]

Cora Reilly’s Bound by Vengeance

I'll admit I initially read this novel just seeking non-con and not expecting much. But oh my God. I got so much more. This story delivered everything my id craved and more!

Cara is the nineteen year old daughter of a high-ranking mobster. Her mother and her friends, who are also the daughters of high-ranking mobsters, live in willful ignorance and consider their menfolk merely businessmen despite knowing that they work for Benedetto Falcone, the head of the mafia in Las Vegas. Cara attends one of Falcone's parties with her parents and notices Growl. Growl is twenty-something in age, Falcone's head enforcer, and only known as Growl or Bastard. She feels attracted to him, and while lost and drunk on champagne, she even introduces herself to him before her mother drags her away.

Growl, meanwhile, knows that Falcone only invites him to parties (invitations he cannot refuse) to provide the other guests with something to gawk at and gossip about. He is Falcone's illegitimate son (though it is not common knowledge who his father is) but he's only regarded and treated as muscle and "a monster" by his father and everyone else.

A few weeks later it's revealed that Cara's father has been stealing from his boss (an automatic death sentence for him and potentially his family) and while her father is in the midst of preparing them to flee, Falcone and several of his men burst into their home. Falcone gives Cara as a gift to Growl (as a deterrent to anyone else thinking of betraying him) before killing her father.

Naturally Cara is deeply upset by everything that's happened. Because of the circumstances and because she's been raised to believe any sex outside marriage is a sin (her mother even shamed her for masturbating) Cara is in emotional turmoil despite enjoying sex with Growl.

Growl has never been loved or treated well by anyone. His mother was a drug-addicted prostitute who didn't abuse him physically but also was never affectionate to him before she was murdered in front of him when he was five years old. He's been abused in one way or another his whole life and he has internalized it to the point that he doesn't think he deserves anything good or even to be treated with basic decency. His only friends are Coco and Bandit, pitbull dogs he rescued from being killed after they got too old to win dog fights.

Although no one's ever been nice or kind to him, Growl tries to be nice to Cara. He buys milk after she says she doesn't drink black coffee. He buys books after she says there's nothing to read in his house. He takes her to visit her mother and to visit her father's unmarked grave after she demands it.

Cara is not immune. The dangerous bad boy + sad damaged boy = Growl is irresistible to her. She both wants to be ravished by him and to comfort him. And he wants to both ravish her and protect her. At the end of Bound by Vengeance he tells her that his real name is Ryan and that he wants to start a new life with her as Ryan Trevisan (AKA an actual person) rather than as Benedetto Falcone’s pet monster Growl. 

Bound by Vengeance has a happy ending for them. But it's their short story in the Born In Blood anthology that truly depicts their happily ever after. Growl accedes to Cara's want for children, despite his fears, and they have two sons. And it is totally adorable to read about him playing with his kids.

[starcatchingsnake]

Epic the musical Fandom my beloved for making these memes.

so how about that theory that Odysseus' red eyes in Six Hundred Strike mean Ares is helping him out on behalf of Athena, huh?

[bikananjarrus]

wrath of the triple goddess and tears of the nameless both out tomorrow. huge day for annoying people (me)