#chicks with guns

[stendra]

Rocktober fashion challenge, day 21, Guns n' Roses!

[c0ck4ndb411t0rtur3]

[r4ve4ngel]

<3

[smash-or-pass2]

@smash-or-pass2

[vintage-tigre]

“Sexy does not come from the shape of the body, it lives in the fire of the soul”

[sacrificialteenboy]

[brionysea]

I know it's just the inverse of their s1 dynamic where jinx resents caitlyn's very existence while caitlyn routinely forgets that jinx exists, and cait then declaring jinx her mortal enemy while jinx easily evades her little fan club that's tearing the undercity apart looking for her and generally doesn't care IS very funny. but man what do you mean jinx and caitlyn didn't even get to beat the crap out of each other. what about women's wrongs

[womantoday]

Afrofuturism 1 by A.I.

[sharkchick]

is there a type of weapon that's the most fun to fight against

[velourria]

[norman-couple]

Hapa power

[vintage-tigre]

Jenny Ortega and Sabrina Carpenter photographed on set filming music video Taste

[bloodbathfortwo]

This is OLDER! Nigel Colbie, admiring Alex's work: The vicious red marks littered across his chest, painting him with such vibrant hues of blackened reds and hot-ish maroons: the prominent teeth marks on his neck and the strong smell of Alex lingers on his skin, stuck to him like it's his own.

[girl4music]

You know… it really shows you how twisted Wynonna’s sense of morality and justice is when you realize her classic catchphrase “make your peace” before she shoots Peacemaker came from a situation where she had to kill somebody that she really didn’t want to kill. 2 people. 2 people in love at that. When she asks Fish whether he had made his peace with the way it had to go down: the Earp Heir sending them back to Hell, it was a very upsetting moment. And instead of using that traumatic situation and experience to learn something about what all the killing is doing to her, what she does is she blocks out that upsetting moment that she never wanted to experience and twists it into a vanquishing victory moment instead and that’s why her classic catchphrase when wielding Peacemaker; “make your peace” is so hypocritical and psychologically warped. There’s nothing peaceful in it when she says it. It’s violent and it’s cruel and it’s Wynonna deflecting from her pain over and over again each time she has to kill. Each time she means to kill.

It’s not until the 4th season do the writers unpack this about the way Wynonna behaves with Peacemaker. That she just stuffs it all down - the human emotion: the pain, the regret, the sadness, the guilt - and says that it’s what she has to do because she’s a hero. And she keeps telling herself this over and over again because she doesn’t want to face the fact that she’s just as dead inside as she makes her victims. And when she uses her classic catchphrase, it’s really an indicator of how much she’s not at peace in herself.

You always see a painful twinge in her eyes every time she says “make your peace” along with a forced smile because she’s trying to tell and convince herself that it doesn’t hurt her to keep snuffing out lives like it’s nothing because it’s her job - be it demon lives or not. It’s her job. It can’t hurt her. It mustn’t hurt her. At some point - something had to give way naturally because she just wouldn’t let herself break. It’s a brilliant written narrative for illustrating all the power you can have in wielding a gun is just performative. There’s no real power in it when it’s suffocating you. And that perhaps the reason you need the weapon is to mask the weakness and emptiness that is within because that being exposed even for a second is not good for you and your family you’re trying to protect.

Wynonna always had a tumultuous and destructive relationship with Peacemaker since she shot her dad. So if she really had to continue doing this,… being the Heir, being a hero, being a protector, then she either needed to break or get a break so she’d have enough strength to carry on as she was running on fumes as it was trying to pretend as if the killing didn’t affect her. And I really wish this is what they had done with Buffy because Buffy had an even worse case of hero mania where yeah, she’d question whether it made her a killer every now and again to slay vampires and vanquish demons, but the writers wouldn’t explore it beyond a conversation or intervention with her team. There was never really a moment of revelation that maybe it’s something that’s taking over her and making her lose her humanity because it was framed as “the right thing” or “the good thing” to do every time she did it. I just feel like they really missed the mark with Buffy, whereas with Wynonna it was always the point that being a hero is a responsibility that shapes you as a person because it does mean that you have to kill and that you can’t be absolved from the consequences of killing just because you’re chosen to be the hero because if you don’t get locked up for it, you’ll eventually just lock yourself up to substitute for it. So you can’t prevent from happening nor escape from the consequences of killing no matter whether you’re a hero or a villain - the consequences will follow and your humanity will pay the price for your actions.

Wynonna Earp shows from the moment she picks up Peacemaker as a 12 year old child that she’s not going to be let off with the consequences of being a killer. It will hound her all the way through her life that she is and she can’t simply wave it away with “I’m a hero” no matter how hard she tries and how much she may want to. She wields both power and responsibility in being the mistress of a gun that really just runs and rules and ruins her as it did from the day she picked it up and unknowingly made herself the next Earp Heir. Peacemaker knew Wynonna wasn’t the rightful Earp Heir even then but settled with Wynonna as its mistress because its true mistress at the time she was missing never possessed the dedication and conviction of a true and real hero. Willa’s morality wavered too much for Peacemaker to allow itself to be wielded by her. It knew she’d let the power she possessed in wielding it go to her head. Likewise, it knew Wynonna was the right person to wield it because Wynonna was all too aware of her power in wielding it and she was scared of it. It knew it needed somebody that knew and understood the seriousness and severity of the responsibility of saving lives but also taking lives away. That was scared of wielding it and didn’t treat using it like a trip to the fun fair. And it does it again for Waverly - only the once - but still. It seems to allow itself to be wielded by whoever deserves to wield it in the same way that the Philosopher’s Stone in Harry Potter couldn’t be found or used by someone not pure of heart. If the person’s intention was to do evil or just selfish things, then it wouldn’t show itself to that person. It would only show itself to the one who needed it to for the right reasons.

Wynonna was The Chosen One instead of Willa to Peacemaker because Wynonna felt deeply in herself that the responsibility of being a hero that wields a deadly killing weapon is a curse and not a gift. It’s not something that she should want to be or do. It’s not her birthright or her destiny. It is just something that she had to be and do to be a defender and protector of those that could not be able to defend and protect themselves. And she takes that to extremes even she believes is too far in Season 4 but Peacemaker just lets her because she does believe that way even if she can’t stop herself from being that way at the time. It’s patient and it’s considerate of her then-mental state. And it challenges her but it doesn’t throw her out. It doesn’t reject her. It just simply waits for her efforts to seek it out and give it another try and keep trying until she finally gets it right again and gets her head right because at that point, it knows her and it trusts her.

In the end what it comes down to - the meaning of being a hero - is the knowing and understanding that you’re not God nor God’s given champion. You’re just a girl with supernatural powers that has to use them to save the world from the supernatural nasties. But you always have in the back of your mind that just because you have to do that doesn’t mean you should do that. And you can be in denial and tell yourself over and over again that you’re justified or absolved in killing because you’re a hero. But the thing is that you wouldn’t have to constantly do that if you truly believed it yourself. If you were a Willa or a Ward or a Wyatt, you wouldn’t have to constantly question as to whether you’re a killer or not if you truly believed in your misguided excuse of “It’s okay for me because I’m the hero”. You’d shoot and no pain would be in your eyes. No painful twinge could be felt and no smile would have to be forced. Why ever should there be any of this performative behaviour? You’re a hero, aren’t you? So you’re justified. You’re absolved. You’re the law of the supernatural and your job is to put down the danger by any means necessary. Even if it’s by killing.

Wynonna’s a crazy chick with a gun, yes. But she’s only so crazy because she’s the only one that truly knows and understands what she’s doing with it. If she didn’t know and understand it, she’d still be a crazy chick, but there’d be no reference to what makes her so crazy ‘cause what makes her so crazy is also what makes her so human. It’s what gives her the merit of being a hero. That she can feel so crazy from it having to be a hero. So Peacemaker stays beside Wynonna through it all because it knows she is the only Earp worth wielding it and it knew it from the moment she chose to pick it up and wield it when she was only a child. Through all the mistakes, flaws, vulnerabilities, weaknesses, questionable choices and absolute madness - it stays with Wynonna because she knows and understands what it truly means to be a hero - all the positives and the negatives - and as a conscious weapon - it learns to respect and love her as its mistress because only she could truly handle it’s heavy weight. That heavy weight of being The Chosen One because being The Chosen One isn’t a fun job and it shouldn’t be treated or talked about like one. You’re there to do what no one else has the power, courage or physical capability and capacity to do. That is all.

The more and more of a mad woman Wynonna Earp becomes from doing it, the more and more she shows Peacemaker that she’s the only one that should do it, and therefore the more and more loyal Peacemaker is because Peacemaker may be an inanimate object but it possesses a conscious state of knowing its wielder. The Guardian of Eden gives it that quality because without it, it would only end up causing destruction. It’s a smart gun but it’s only as smart as its mistress.

“If losing her is the price for saving us all, I’ll pay it. It’s just a part of me I didn’t think I’d need anymore.”

“What’s become of her? It’s just not-- it’s not human. It’s-- that’s the price, isn’t it? Losing your humanity.”

WYNONNA: “I don’t ever half ass it. I ass and a half it.”

[glowstx]

[stendra]

Rocktober fashion challenge, day 17! Plaid! I actually super love this piece of her, I really caught her general vibe ♥