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Guys guess what motherfucker found their lost comic files and is finally continuing the mini comic after almost a year
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#fanart#digitalart#art#sketch#drawing#pokemon#comic#clingyshipping#my art#pokemon legends arceus#pla#trainer lucas#trainer rei#rival barry#trainer dawn#professor rowan#champion cynthia#Yes I lost many sketches of this mini comic and got so salty I never tried to redo them I hold grudges for long#but I finally found them GOD#and even then I'm probably going to change so much of them cause the composition difference is crazy#so like who wins after all that nobody me thinks
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The consequences of a friend getting me into RvB like a week or two ago and then suddenly Rooster Teeth announces it's shut down got me sobbing at 4:30 am
#we're only on like season 9#and i cannot draw halo armor but i love the armor i will learn...#rvb#red vs blue#richard simmons#dick simmons#dexter grif#sarge rvb#simmons rvb#grif rvb#franklin delano donut#donut rvb#mart#sorry for the Messiest and Worst Tags known to man i don't know this fandom#them two ketchup and mustard guys are totally fucking gay though#kudos to whoever read the tags#my final words. uhhhh i could make grif denounce the christian god#rooster teeth#grimmons#<- edited tag cause i finally found out the ship name LOL#rvb doodles
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yeah the epilogue was ass for the bkdk nation but at least it confirmed that Dynamight often comes to Deku Sensei's classes (and that's how I imagine they look like)
#Dynamight shamelessly flirting with Deku Sensei we love to see it !!#honestly I like pro hero bakugo x teacher izuku way more than them both being pro heroes don't come @ me 😔✌️#all i could think of was that image and i finally found some time to draw it between endless shifts sighh#it's literally them im sorry#bakudeku#bnha#bkdk#katsudeku#bnha fanart#boku no hero academia#my hero academia#mha#mha fanart#my hero academia fanart#izuku midoriya#bakugou katsuki#bnha deku#deku sensei#teacher deku#great explosion murder god dynamight#.........i cant believe this tag actually exist lmaoo#pro hero bakugou#dekubaku#boku no hero academia fanart#vicky draws
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MHA didn't create some miracle way of helping others. It was never promised to be this way. And when it came to villains...
Spoilers for manga all the way to chapter 423.
The only way to get anything in life in MHA was to be born "normal" like everyone else and that way of thinking never left Izuku with Toga getting the same treatment she did before from everyone from her family to her "normal" classmates. It was Ochako who helped Toga even if just a little by lifting the weight of all the feelings that Toga had.
She couldn't save Toga the way one could save a civilian by saving them from harm. If it worked that way Dabi would've saved Toga even before Ochako could apologize for failing to notice Toga. She was so lazer focused on saving everyone else, that she was just another villain to stop, not a human.
Even if by the end of it Ochako helped Toga to deal with her grief, acceptance as it was wasn't something possible when a quirk makes you want to drink someone's blood from jealousy.
We got a bittersweet ending with Toga, in which she probably died from blood loss just like her double did in MVA. If it wasn't for Twice she would've died back then.
Giving away her blood for Ochako wasn't a redemption or a way to save Toga in the end, more as it was her being true to herself until the very end.
Just like Twice chose to stay with the League even if Hawks offered him a way to survive that battle. He refused and died protecting his friends who accepted him instead of choosing to betray them and accept Hawks' offer.
After Twice's death... It was a matter of time that more 'active' LoV members would join him as well. As sad as it is, we now can return to Izuku.
Who, after his time OFA-AFO quirk space, now wanted to help a "crying boy" he saw in Tenko just as before with Katsuki in chapter 1. He didn't forgive Tomura and didn't excuse the way he chose to solve his problems.
It didn't mean that Tomura would survive in their battle, even if Izuku didn't see killing others as a way to solve problems. He didn't understand Tomura, but he still wanted to try, and try he did.
The rest of this post was nothing more than a contextual prologue to understand that it's not the first time a hero failed to save a villain and in Twice's case we know that he died and his death was the reason Toga started thinking about her own possible death and Dabi finally revealed himself as Toya.
The goal of saving a "crying boy" never was an end-goal for Izuku in the Final arc, since helping Tomura deal with his feelings just left him hollow with a goal that clashed with Izuku's. As being a hero for villains meant destroying the world for them to help them live freely.
But that was before AFO resurfaced.
Sadly after that Tomura who was talking about making his own choices for a while now stopped doing that. Even if he still had a goal of helping villains and only villains, Tomura was almost gone. And his goals were now unreachable.
Izuku helped Nana who in turn kept Tomura from fading away entirely. In MHA there were countless situations where Izuku's help affected people by helping a different person to keep hope, All-Might being the first one and Nana being the last one at the moment.
Hollow after Izuku helped him to get rid of his hatred Tomura could do the only thing he did - accept the situation as it was.
Accepting AFO as his Sensei, accepting Stain's ideals and Overhaul's deal was the way he solved his problems. Just like Izuku had a problem of understanding something outside of his norm, Tomura was accepting too many things, which lead to his downfall after accepting AFO's quirk.
Just like Twice could've given up everything that he had for his friends so did Tomura.
With Izuku helping as much as he could let Tomura to finally rest as he wasn't really living ever since waking up in the hospital. With his body now affected by AFO's wishes instead of his own until the end.
In a way Izuku didn't succeed in his wish for Tomura to stop ever since PLF war arc. As he "kept fighting to destroy" no matter how hard Izuku tried to stop him.
The only thing he succeeded in was changing Tomura's mind about himself, instead of viewing himself as a monster he accepted that he was a human just like Izuku said. A "crying boy" who couldn't really destroy Izuku's hands in the end.
For a group of Villains who weren't supposed to get profiles of their own at the start of the series, League is slowly fading as the most memorable group that there was in MHA, getting backstories, their own Villain themed arc all the while being as human as anyone else.
As sad as their story is they were not "unlucky", they didn't need a happy false ending where they would need to change to be normal - they chose to live this way and they lived it to it's fullest.
#bnha#bnha manga spoilers#bnha analysis#league of villains#shigaraki tomura#tenko shimura#toga himiko#mha twice#midoriya izuku#ochako uraraka#todoroki touya#dabi#spinner#shuichi iguchi#not art#While writing this I've been rewriting it time and time again#But by the end of it I just started crying because god... I didn't want them to end like this#Also I finally found the tracks that connect to the scene of Twice's death#Which may or may not have been a reason I started crying#Anyway the reason I wrote this was as simple as that - I read Twitter got sad and needed some way to cope#Because I'm getting sick from all 'oh they'll survive' yes HEROES might survive all of this VILLAINS would not#Magne died Twice died wnd Kurogiri literally became a cloud in the sky#I do hope that Spinner would be at least alive because leaving Mr. Compress alone with no sushi too is just too cruel#While writing this I suddenly found myself so frustrated with Izuku that my last tries to write this ended in a trashcan instead#it's so fucked up#To be a LoV stan and see how Class 1-A is getting the best ending they can with so much hope while LoV is... Dead :(#this is a mess
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Well, I finally finished Dragon Age: Friendship is Magic and that is *my* biggest regret.
#datv spoilers#great game - nothing but respect for most of the game devs (even if the music was hella bland)#but the writing was atrocious on all fronts imo - plot worldbuilding codices dialogue#and for all this yammering on about “great stories are about change” I'm still 0/2 for the rebellions I wanted to see in this universe#world's been sanitized to hell and back#(and yet funnily enough they still found the time to shit on the Dalish by having them whine about their “responsibility” for the gods)#i did really like all the lore reveals (except the ILLUMINATI) but hated how they factored into the game plot-wise#there were no believable repercussions regarding faith and society which is just a crime#plus the execution via fetch quest was lame imo#current Thedas deserved better#and this was the first Dragon Age game where I just wanted my companions to stfu more#(grown-ass adults telling me *to my face* they won’t focus on stopping the apocalypse unless I fix all of their shit)#(are you so serious right now)#eh well now I'm finally free to mourn properly#I still love the Dragon Age that was#but in the spirit of change I guess I need to accept that my time as a fan of the franchise post Trespasser is done 💔#veilguard critical
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tom holland in uncharted is a treat to watch. just hits different. iykyk.
#yes i watched this movie today only#finally found the will to start watching movies again lol#let's see how long this bout lasts#anyhoo#this boy is such a lovely treat in this movie#I've been seeing a lot of people say he's not good looking#and good God he might not be the most conventionally handsome guy#but he's still handsome and pretty#if anyone doesn't see that that's on them#tom holland#nathan drake#uncharted#uncharted movie
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SO LIKE. As much as I roll with the Emanator of Elation Sampo theory, I do have. Some doubts about this specific instance of it. Not that I think Boothill is lying, or that I think Sampo isn't an Emanator, but I wonder if the person Boothill actually met was Sampo.
Just! Sampo is so careful. The only reason we even knew he wasn't of Belobog was due to a dialogue-dependent fourth wall-breaking dream sequence that no other character could have seen. It took a missable dream bubble in an out-of-the-way spot that was seemingly left only for the trailblazer at the very end of a side mission just to confirm him as a Masked Fool. Like it's not just the fact that Boothill mentions this person being an Emanator. It's that he knows they're also a Masked Fool, which is also something Sampo is incredibly dodgy about. Sparkle even seems to call him out on this in her party join line fjkdjaskldj
((But also, Boothill, baby. WHY were you trying to get them drunk????))
And regardless of if you believe him when he calls himself an old timer, he obviously has a lot of experience in doing what he does. He knows what he's doing, he's good at it, and he is viciously capable and competent, unfortunately for his victims smhznskdn
So it just. Feels very unlike him, for him to let his guard down enough to not only let himself get drunk in front of Boothill-
a total stranger btw whom Sampo has absolutely no reason to trust, and a dangerous Galaxy Ranger to boot who has plenty of blood on his hands and a significant bounty on his head
-but to get SO drunk that he lets loose the secret that he's an Emanator.
When Boothill brings this up, he mentions that if Emanators were obvious and known at a glance, it would lead to atrocities. And for as much as Sampo is disliked by his victims (there's an entire anti-Sampo organization in Belobog JFDKLASJFDL), it's all for fraud. He's wanted by the IPC as an intergalactic thief. He scams people out of their money, and only rich people at that. That's mostly all that he's known for. Nothing he does is violent, even though Sampo surely has the capacity to inflict a lot of harm.
And I don't mean that he's exactly a pacifist or anything; Firefly comments that Sampo seems like a highly skilled covert fighter. His voicelines make it sound like he enjoys combat- hell, his ult line makes him sound like a hitman. I like to hc him as being a pretty high ranker in the fighting rings at the World's End Tavern, like we see in the Simulated Universe occurrences.
But I don't think he would enjoy being the cause of uncontrollable violence and bloodshed.
Like yeah he's a dick who scams people on the regs for funsies, but he has lines he refuses to cross, which we see a lot of in how he interacts with Sparkle. More than just not enjoying it, I think he would hate it if he were found out and it caused an incident, especially since he seems so endeared to Belobog and her people now and it looks like he plans to return there. He wouldn't want to bring any of that back to them.
So I just can't imagine him carelessly fucking up bad enough to out himself to a random stranger that could easily put a bullet right through his head.
Sparkle maybe could, though.
Because as we find out later the dreamscape had expanded FAR beyond what it seemed, far enough that the trailblazer had been dreaming since the warp jump in. Most people enter it unknowingly, and don't realize they're already dreaming when they think they're still awake. Boothill and Dan Heng should have already been dreaming during their exchange on the Express that started all this.
And as long as someone knows they're dreaming, completely changing their appearance is easy, even for the common layman. We see this with a couple of NPCs and also Sparkle herself, with her (in)famous impression of Sampo.
Thank youuuuu Sparkle
And yeah, the trailblazer and almost all of the other characters wouldn't know about the expansion until near the very end. None of them realized they were dreaming even outside of their dream pools, and surely none of them would think to be suspicious of another person's appearance outside of the dreamscape like that.
But Sparkle has a script from Silver Wolf.
She knew all the secrets of the dreamscape, and she knew them from the very beginning. There would have been nothing stopping her from appearing as Sampo in front of Boothill and spilling all his secrets.
And she apparently has a long-standing history with Sampo, including trying to get him in on her own much more fiery and aggressive version of Elation.
Maybe all Sampo needs is to be outed as an Emanator, and then when all the violence and bloodshed catches up to him, then he'll finally understand! ദ്ദി(。•̀ ,<)~✩
#honkai star rail#hsr#sampo koski#hsr sampo#sparkle#hsr sparkle#hsr hanabi#boothill#hsr boothill#tbh I doubt Hoyo put this much thought into it- Boothill did say he only found out by sheer luck after all#but it's such an entertaining conspiracy theory for me JKFJASKLJD#Sparkle sucks so bad I hope she commits atrocities <3#she should show up in Belobog. at least just to give Sampo a heart attack and finally rile him up out of his customer service act.#it would be funny#her relationship with him makes me chew concrete AUGH#HOYO GIVE ME MORE OF THEM PLEASE OTL#if it turns out Sampo really IS an Emanator of Elation and the Fools know it that makes all the disrespect he gets like x10 more hilarious.#you guys that is the MOUTHPIECE of your GOD that you WORSHIP and you are grilling him for his religious views (Giovanni)-#- and backstabbing him (Sparkle)#I hope Aha treats him in a similar manner#God's favorite little chew toy uwu#and also my favorite little chew toy#I am going to shake him until the squeaker breaks!!!
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Curly had two days to act and Swansea had two months.
I think it’s just interesting that every defense of Swansea not immediately acting are the same ones that are argued against for Curly. “He didn’t want to alert Daisuke or makes things worse for Anya either Jimmy!” I mean people also assume that about Curly and the crew. “He has to think about his plan of action and a right moment!” Again so did Curly, power and authority aside, he still would have to think of what he had to do. “He makes sure he doesn’t have to be around Jimmy!” So did Curly and they only do this to an extent, both give Jimmy more than a few opening to keep harassing Anya.
This isn’t defense of Curly nor a damnation of Swansea. Their actions are very parallel to each others in tragic and sour ways when it comes to how they approached helping Anya. In the grand scheme of it all they both did the same thing: Nothing. No action either took stopped the inevitable outcome of her death nor Jimmy’s continued damage to themself.
The only real difference is Swansea didn’t like Jimmy which is pretty substantial, but also just as damning as Curly knowing how bad Jimmy could get to an extent. He had even less of a reason to wait, even more of a reason to act seeing as he was now worried for Anya AND Daisuke. He is not bound by the possible procedure as Captain and actively does not care about what happens next. So what does it matter if he acted in the moment? Why did he wait? I think he’s just as morally complex and grey as Curly and we hold him on a pedestal that still perpetuates things in rape culture the game critiques.
It’s not just enough to dislike and be abrasive to predators/abusers like Jimmy. It’s not enough to just put yourself between them and the other person. It’s not enough to hold tensions when you know someone is vulnerable. He and Curly do the exact same things but on different sides of the coin. I ask how is it better to not turn a blind eye but still not really do anything about what you are seeing? Not until it affects you atleast…
The game makes a big point to not put men doing the bare minimum or who wait to do more on pedestals and I’m actually surprised so many are missing that point.
#like I’m sorry two months? he couldn’t have explained it at all to Daisuke?#he’s no better than Curly and it’s likely Anya found comfort in the fact that Jimmy would at least avoid being around Swansea#tho everything he went off to drink or passed out she would be acutely reminded that things are still taking precedent in his head#she is not his top concern nor is seeking justice for her like he is admittedly more concerned about Daisuke he doesn’t mention her#outside of the fact that they were def talking about what Jimmy did and likely the fact he might’ve crashed the ship but pls don’t mistake#his final acts as being majority for Anya. the game keeps showing how these men keep prioritizing things over her even when they say they#won’t and it’s sad it’s so sad that we keep trying to say but what about him like they all do it#it’s not intentional but that’s what’s also bad about it like I doubt she made a suicide plan with him two months in advance#these characters are acting to get out of this and she knows her ending is not happy if she leaves or not she’s taking that choice to do it#and hell Swansea might not have known by the way he speaks to Daisuke and Jimmy that that was her plan to khs#likely either to just keep her and Curly locked in med bay until they got rescued or died#but it’s all speculation and thinking and I can only implore people to think why are you giving Swansea more credit?#cause I see him bittersweetly so used to the negatives he cares not for futile efforts#two months vs two days and each time nothing was really done for her other than prolonging her suffering around Jimmy#Swansea slept outside utility was drunk most of the time and it’s clear Jimmy was able to have access to Anya whenever#I mean look at the teaser where they sit at the table he is far from her with Daisuke#like it’s just frustration at this point thinking any guy on that ship was doing good by Anya specifically and not for their own reasons#like at least Curly was direct on the issue he still did mostly Jack shit but Swansea doesn’t even let Jimmy know he knows#and that’s another issue in rape culture of men avoiding calling other men what they are even if they hate them like#the game plays with the idea of knowing vs acknowledging and neither truly acknowledge it as a part of their actions#against Jimmy and god no one did better than Anya for Anya. they just weren’t heinous like Jimmy#mouthwashing#mouthwashing game#curly mouthwashing#captain curly#swansea mouthwashing#anya mouthwashing#nurse anya#it’s not all men but all men can and do play a part especially in the extreme scenario mouthwashing deposits
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When he accidentally pins you to the wall while talking about fanfics
#fionna and cake#adventure time#prismo#prismo the wishmaster#Scarab#the scarab#scarab the god auditor#prohibitedwish#prohibited wish#prismo x scarab#scarab x prismo#I finally got another idea of how to draw them#this is based on a draw your ship like this I found#pretent Prismo’s other hand is doing something expressive#I couldn’t fit it into the canvas without making it bigger#I decided not to make it bigger because then it would add mostly empty space#my art#my post#fan art#digital fanart#digital art
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Hhhhhh do you ever think about how there's a high chance the reason why Oscar got attached to Arthur so quickly is because he was lonely.
#oscar malevolent#malevolent#malevolent podcast#I AM SO FUCKING SAD OVER THIS STUPID LITTLE PRIEST ITS CRAZY 😭#HAHA WHAT IF HE WAS LONELY AND DIDNT HAVE ANY FRIENDS THAT WERENT LIKE CHURCH ATTENDEES AND HE THOUGHT HE FINALLY FOUND SOMEONE HIS AGE#WHO'D UNDERSTAND HIM AND BE THERE FOR HIM AND OUGHHHH GOD NO LIKE YOU REALLY DO GET THE IMPRESSION HE THOUGHT HE'D GET TO SPEND MORE TIME#WITH ARTHUR AND WANTED THEM TO GET CLOSER AND THE WAY THEY CLICKED?? OUGH#blindfaith#<- but like vaguely#and also this post could be platonic or romangic or qp etc#txt#the fumble#alternatively oscars just a little devoted freak and i can get behind that
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[zombie au] tome joins the gang. her special ability: AUTISM
#qkdraws#mob psycho 100#mp100#mob psycho#ritsu kageyama#mp100 ritsu#tome kurata#mp100 tome#zombie au#this took onefull day of work for some reason#i know this is a bit wonky without context so basically#ritsu worked himself into the ground and finally collapsed from exhaustion. poor kid's tryin so hard to keep his brother alive#zombie mob‚ in a rare moment of clarity out of desperation‚ wanders off to find help#he finds tome.#(if he had found literally any other person on earth he woulda been shot instantly so .thank god)#tome .... my wonderful autistic weirdgirl tome#she's soooooo abnormal#doesn't bother w violence against zombies she's here to study them instead#anyway things happen the settlement that tome belongs to takes a delirious ritsu in#more things happen ritsu n mob r separated for a few days but it's okay tome feeds mob and keeps him alive#she then reunites them both. and then this happens. bc again she's not normal#and neither is ritsu. so he says yes#first time drawing tome i think :) wahoo#the 10th and 11th panels here really capture the entire au i think#tells ya everything u need to know
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I want you to know that I have scrolled through your page after coming back to HL brainrot, and I have deviously fallen in love with Mousey. Like seeing your artwork of him makes me so giddy to the point I swing my legs and twirl my hair. 😭🫶 I love your art and page sm, the only thing that I look forward to.
THIS HAS ME SO UNBELIEVABLY HAPPY.. 💋💋 LOVE U ANON THIS WAS SENT WEEKS AGO BUT IT MADE MY MONTH!!!
it makes me so ecstatic that people love my art AND my characters?? i swear it makes me feel like i'm living 13 year old lukas' dream 💜
ANYWAYS.. i see that the people like mousey 🙏 and mousey LOVES the people.
if mousey was able read these messages, he would be beyond happy.
mousey LOVES being loved, being popular, all of that.
that being said.. it would 100% go to his head.
he can't shove it in sebastian's face though 😔💔
#BOO 👻 i've come back from the dead#i FINALLY found the perfect brush for me on procreate i'm literally so AHDGSHDHSNM 👏👏👏#i also started all the way over with the nine mcs challenge bc i didn't like how they looked before 😙 so NOW i promise i'll get them done#i love mousey and i love that people love him but GOD do i need to flesh out milena's character more and post more of her#I ALWAYS SAY THAT BUT#i keep all my milena stuff to myself i guess .. on accident 🥲���#hogwarts legacy#hogwarts legacy fanart#hogwarts legacy art#hogwarts legacy oc#sebastian sallow#mousey mcgregor#sparxyvdoodles#ama
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sooo normal about this (lying)
#idw is constantly Kiling It with the turtle characterizations but man what they are doing with raph is so special#he was alone for a Year at the very start and then finally found his family#he’s familiar with how to survive but now he has a support system! a family!#and then bit by bit everything gets more dangerous#casey gets hurt Badly. leo is kidnapped and brainwashed. donnie almost dies. splinter’s desperate to kill shredder and succeeds#and then mikey leaves bc he sees the path splinter is on and he can’t be a part of that#raph’s family keeps getting hurt or they leave and he’s trying so hard to protect and keep them together#god the talk raph has with mikey absolutely rips me apart bc it’s literally right before splinter sets up harold as bait#we all know raph is the fighter and the protector but i really like how idw showcases it#he’s terrified but he can’t stop fighting or else something else will happen to his family and they will possibly get killed#sorry i’m insane about him#tmnt idw#tmnt#idw#idw raph#idw leo#idw donnie#idw mikey#teenage mutant ninja turtles#turtle talks
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#caleb widogast#essek thelyss#shadowgast#critical role fanart#mighty nein#oh my god I finally did it#I found a brush to do this piece justice#I hold them very gently#my scribbles
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blocking every fucking idiot on this website that thinks that wwdits queerbait them because nandor and guillermo didn't fuck nasty on the stairs.
YOU'RE ALL FUCKING DUMB.
#wwdits#wwdits s6#wwdits spoilers#you people are so god damned tiring#SO WHAT they didn't kiss#what they did was MUCH more intimate than making out and professing their undying love for each other#NANDOR BUILT A SECRET LAIR JUST FOR HIM AND GUILLERMO?????#ARE YOU KIDDING ME????????#also: this show was always about found family AND THAT'S HOW IT ENDED#you fucking dumbshits#guillermo and nandor may have been a lot of the drama of that#but ultimately it was about family and not whether two characters were going to get together ON SCREEN#IT DOESN'T MATTER#that was never the fucking point#y'all latched on to this ship and determined that an entirely queer set of characters somehow queerbait you because 2 of them didn't kiss??#like maybe you should have actually watched the finale and PAID ATTENTION#because you need to grow up#AND REMEMBER THAT THE FOUNDATION OF THIS SHOW IS THAT IT'S JUST A SILLY FUCKED UP VAMPIRE SHOW#THAT IS OUTRAGEOUSLY FUNNY AND SWEET AND GROSS AND WONDERFUL#but it was NEVER anything but a fart and shit gag show#like my god#(and i say all of this as someone who has shipped these two characters since day *one*)#(so kiss my actual bisexual ass motherfuckers)
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...I must confront Apollo with his wrongs. To force a girl Against her will and and afterward betray! To leave a child to die which has been born In secret! No! Do not act thus. But since You have the power, seek the virtuous path. All evil men are punished by the gods. How then can it be just for you to stand Accused of breaking laws you have yourselves Laid down for men? But if--here I suppose What could not be--you gave account on earth For wrongs which you have done to women, you, Apollo and Poseidon and Zeus who rules In heaven, payment of your penalties Would see your temples empty, since you are Unjust to others in pursuing pleasure Without forethought. And justice now demands That we should not speak ill of men if they But imitate what the gods approve, but those Who teach men their examples.
Ion (from Ion by Euripides, translated by R. F. Willetts)
#okay i FINALLY read this play and i liked it a lot. there is so much going on here#but right after i read it i found some discourse that i sometimes stumble across in conversations about paganism#about how you can't treat gods like characters who do good or bad things#and that's sort of true? it doesn't really make sense to look at gods in (for example) greek mythology and treat them as wholly good or bad#and i think this applies whether you engage with them as literary characters or as gods (or both). adaptations that do this annoy me!#BUT. you cannot act like ancient societies didn't have moral questions and discussions about their own gods. they absolutely did#ion#apollo#euripides#queue
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