#criticism cw

[otterlyart]

How do you want to do this?

[floweroflaurelin]

Opal, Twice-Crowned Champion of Lolth 🕷️🕸️🕷️

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(Billie Eilish’s “you should see me in a crown” playing in the distance)

[oddthesungod]

You're the big bad wolf, Chetney

[g1ngerbeer]

besties sketchdump yay

[itseghost]

a few meager cr3 sketches :] ft feywild fearne, orym's sending stone blues, and the revival scene from blood and dust that i sketched ages ago and decided i was never going to finish lmao

[liltaireissocute]

if gods allowed that, I will kill all the gods

[bramblebeau]

Alright I told myself I wouldn't interact with fandom when s2 came out, and I haven't and don't plan to except to say this about people deciding Caitlyn is the Worst or that the writing is OOC.

As someone who has had a family member violently killed, I cannot stress how much it shakes up everything you thought you were and stood for. My beliefs in proportionate compassionate justice and the rights of all human beings are some of the strongest I have (stronger now because of the way that experience affected me personally), but they were pushed to the absolute limit when it came to an individual who had killed my loved one, showed no remorse, and laughed in our faces outside court, among other things.

People generally like to believe it wouldn't be them or their peace-loving family members being talked down from seriously considering violent revenge, consequences be damned. People like to believe they wouldn't lash out at people closest to them under that pressure, that they wouldn't build walls around the kindest and most sensitive parts of themselves because those parts are the ones feeling pain you never thought possible, that they wouldn't stalk the killer, make notes on all their family and friends, and fuck up their hands punching walls in anger wishing so badly it was flesh and bone because they can't handle the fact that there's no way to turn back time to stop it all from happening. People like to think they're "better" than that. But the reality is messy and painful as hell.

With Caitlyn, she has the added guilt of having actually had the opportunity to stop Jinx before she fired the rocket, but she hesitated just long enough for it to result in the deaths of her mother and other councillors and in the cities being plunged into chaos. Not only that, but the person close to her she's lashing out at is the person who caused her to hesitate, and just so happens to be the sister of the killer.

Furthermore, her behaviour is entirely in character. We have seen her set up as someone who becomes obsessed with achieving a goal and will do pretty much anything she wants to get there. In S1, we agreed with her methods because her goal was exposing and taking down Silco, and because it led to Vi being released. In S2, she's doing a similar thing but it's fuelled by fear and a type of pain she doesn't know how to deal with, rather than being fuelled by a need to prove herself and solve a case, and it leads to her making morally questionable decisions and to hurting Vi. She admits herself, albeit privately to Vi, that she does not know what she's doing and doesn't know how to fill this hole in her chest (and the hole in the city leadership). She has been sheltered from the real world for almost all her life, and as a result she has no experience of functioning or making decisions under this kind of pressure. The real world blew up in her face in the worst way and she was given power and a loaded rifle, and then shoved into an even more elevated position by a very experienced warlord who is manipulating the shit out of the whole situation.

I'm not saying that you have free rein to hurt people when you're grieving and facing extreme stress. (If you think that's what I'm saying then idk I'm not sure there's much hope for you in terms of critical thinking skills). What I'm saying is that Caitlyn is exhibiting pretty normal human behaviour that most people would be susceptible to in those circumstances, not the behaviour of someone who is some kind of heartless abusive bastard.

TLDR: Caitlyn is being written in a way that completely makes sense and is also not OOC, and if someone told me there would be no chance of them reacting in similar ways I simply would not believe them.

[theangryman]

One person was banned almost immediately.

The other person was not banned until they made another post revealing that they were posting videos of their partner.

One person was harassed and bullied and told that they were lying.

One person was given advice, told about how they could improve their situation.

This is why kink is not safe. There is more compassion and kindness for someone who admits to wanting to kick their partner in the face than there is for someone who has received that treatment.

[elzorton]

He deserves to go a lil crazy actually

[radiantrookie]

Every fandom's worst nightmare

And then the vid has millions of views with everyone agreeing with it

[impperfectcritiques]

There's a lot of micro aggressions with Mammons character, not only to fat people, but towards ace/aro spec people and nuerodiverse people.

Hes shown to have a short attention span, and needing to use fidget and sensory tools, this could be a commentary in the over monetisation of fidget and sensory tools which cause them to be less accessible to those who need them, but with the lack of forethought with the writing and how Mammon behaves (the forementioned low attention span), it seems more a dig at people who NEED to use them, rather then people who use them for trends.

Hes almost always depicting eating something, which other characters react with disgust, frustration or uncomfortable which uhg. Honestly sets off my eating disorder with how its treated, so I won't go into it too much.

Hes asexuality was a last minute thing, and viv has stated before that she specifically believes that people are asexual due to being unable to love anyone but themselves with Alastor. This train of thought follows through with Mammon and Octavia also gets similar treatment with how the spindlehorse team treats her as a burden to stolas and a selfish kid.

Please share your thoughts with me ♡

[floweroflaurelin]

For 400 years I looked up at the moon. Not a bad place to go….

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can you spot the wolf? 🐺🌙

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NOT TO LIVEBLOG THIS EPISODE BUT AHHHHH

[oddthesungod]

imogen and her analog horror gf <3

[undead-knick-knack]

Wishing a Sam a speedy recovery and smiley day! 💛🥹

[coulsonlives]

This has been a reminder

[maddyscrsideblog]

[ID in ALT text]

In honour of the comments I got last year on a drawing of Orym eating an ice lolly that I (without thinking about the potential implications) made blue