#cw child harm

[nekropsii]

HAPPY 4/13!! Here's a partial Alpha Troll Lore Iceberg to celebrate, as asked for by fans and followers!!

All information in here is completely true, and this isn't even everything I could think of off the top of my head!! Have fun perusing, and I hope you learn a thing or two!!

[owostrich]

i know that in the isat ageswap au Adult Bonnie is the one who steps in and loses their eye to protect Tiny Kid Siffrin but tbh i feel like there's potential for Siffrin to still be the one to step in to protect Bonnie

like. Adult Bonnie is about to be hurt by a sadness. Kid Siffrin panics and moves in front of them at the last second & takes the blow. now Bonnie has to deal with the fact that a kid is bleeding out in front of them & oh change their eye--

and now when the party gets to new towns and stuff ppl instinctively look towards them like. that Actual Child is wearing an eye patch. why does that child need an eye patch. oh no

like. there's potential there.

[umahumahumah]

brave it out, this is only the first step of becoming the best boss of all time!!!

[too-many-rooks]

Thomas Levin as David in 'Those who Kill' (2011)

(CW for Children in peril, child harm.) These ones definitely make me feel... a little icky. This scene is chilling and that kid is a convincing actor (I've actually trimmed some of his reactions), but I think this scene is still fascinating, especially with the Yassen AU lens I've been applying to my explorations of the Thomas Levin Extended Universe.

Anyway, Alex the blonde kid survives and goes back to his dad (played by Kim Bodnia from Killing Eve)

[briannafrostgirl]

Campaign memes, pt 3!

In honor of us having played this campaign for a truly mind-boggling 4 years without missing a week

Credit to my whole group for being incredibly funny on the cards one

[happy-mountain-goats]

OH MY GOD I JUST REMEMBERED shoutout to the random man on the street who barked with me and my co workers after we were delirious and overwhelmed after seeing our student get hit by a car at school!! (she's totally fine now) we were all teary eyed and numb and being dumb as hell and barking on the street and he just joined in and said have a nice day afterwards, humans are actually so good sometimes

[skygodtraumabond]

I've been working throughout the day to get Hoenn evacuated and let me just tell you something point-blank:

The shadow sky has claimed lives. It will claim yours if you are not careful. Do not be a hero if you're not equipped to be one.

I've seen flocks of Swablu drop from the sky. There's a wild Zangoose in here that's half-burnt alive. Flesh and bone adrift in the craters. It ate through a child. I watched him breathe his last breath. The screams...

Is this what you wanted?

[vintagedean]

idk why this is aggravating me so much, and i don't want to be misconstrued as if i'm saying all work that depicts harm is fine, that there's no limit to what should be normalized or accepted in public spaces, etc. etc.

but reading comments saying that there should be a limit to what we let artists get away with or saying the paintings of castrated bloody toddlers playing with their own body parts, is an admission of guilt on the artist's part.

really? there's no possible other interpretation to glean from depicting wounded children? the author most definitely painted these images because he's sick and reveling in the subject matter? there can't possible be a single other reason to commit those images to canvas? no one could possible relate or connect with the content matter?

people say borremans' art is ~chilling~ so they don't want to think about it. like, my fellow in christ, is there possibly not an invitation in that feeling to examine why someone would want to inspire that in the first place?

idk. idky i care, like i said, i'd never heard of borremans before today. i just get exhausted with people's unwillingness to deal with that which makes them uncomfortable, or who decide since THEY can't handle it, anyone who can is a fucked up deviant with no morals.

[nekropsii]

Do you have any thoughts on Equius

Equius is a fucked up kid who has done a lot wrong, but he is still a kid. He reads as a startlingly real portrayal of a pubescent autistic boy with an unhealthy and shaky grasp of his budding, overwhelming sexuality, with a concerning amount of influence from the internet. He is the result of adults failing him, and exposing him to hardcore fetish porn at an age too early. This is a real kind of guy that exists. A very common one, who I have met, like, at least 40 of.

Like Eridan, he feels like a kid stuck in a pipeline — except instead of the alt-right pipeline, it’s fetishism and hypersexuality. He feels like a pretty solid example of how getting involved in NSFW spaces online as a child can both deeply fuck up your sexuality and completely destroy your perception of what consent is, and what is and is not okay. He doesn’t have a grasp on boundaries whatsoever, and while this manifests in ways that are quite honestly horrifying and uncomfortable — like constantly projecting his Caste-Play BDSM fetishes onto nonconsenting, unsuspecting individuals, and… The things he did to Aradia — I cannot help but view him as an autistic boy having a rough time of puberty who got groomed through the internet over-exposing him to pornography at an early age. He’s deeply sympathetic to me from that angle. Again, I have met this kid. Homestuck is fantastic at presenting characters that are exact archetypes of real people you have known, be it personally or not. People you would have either been close friends with in middle school, or terrorized by in a random chat room on the internet. Maybe they were even you! There’s a complete nonzero chance someone is reading this who has played the role of Equius in their youth, who is totally fine and healthy now. And if that’s true, and this describes you… I’m proud of your growth!

Back to Analysis- His ardent Hemoloyalty is fascinating, also. I’ve written about this before, but there’s something compelling and very realistic about how his bigotry comes from a place of deep insecurity, rather than pride. I find bigotry coming from insecurity to be more common than it coming from overt pride. Many fictional bigots have such a genuine ego to them, a fine layer of paint labeled Badassery, when for the most part real life bigots are total losers with nothing better to do than worry about… Where someone was born, or how much melanin they have, or what’s in their pants, or whatever.

I get why people don’t tend to be fond of him, but the disquieting parts of his character are both very deliberate choices and also shockingly… Earnest, in a weird, Hussian fashion. I’ve never quite seen a character with his traits get portrayed before. He’s easy to work with, analytically speaking, you just have to be willing to stick your hands in the uncomfortable muck that is messy teenage sexuality. Many aren’t willing to, which is fair! But many also mislabel his uncomfortable traits as not intentionally uncomfortable, or simply a product of Hussie being weird and wrong and having bad opinions. This… Just blatantly isn’t the case. Sometimes fiction isn’t comfortable on purpose. Big whoop.

I think Equius could’ve been quite a fine person, had he been given the room to grow up. He’s like Jake to me in the sense that he’s one of the only characters I genuinely wouldn’t mind seeing expanded upon more, provided he be taken seriously, and not completely sanded down.

Alas.

[rotteneldritchhorror]

Fuck the account that genuinely reblogged a video showing a BEHEADED CHILD?????

I get it, forcing someone to confront the reality of a genocide is gonna be uncomfortable, BUT YOU DONT NEED TO SHOW A BEHEADED CHILD TO GET THAT ACROSS.

[ammoknightsofficial]

Going into the Spyke tag at any point in 2016 and immediately getting flashbanged with Bad Things Happening To 11 Year Olds like

[lucylyall]

Inktober 25: Dangerous

Pretty dark one, sorry about that. The number of dangers I worry about seemed to increase exponentially the minute I had kids ...

[cac-deadlyrang]

no context hunger games simulator

[cooper-magnolia]

musharna mail

You're fifteen, Just sent on your second mission. It was going all well too, till some trainer with an arcanine hits you directly in the face with a flame thrower, your partner. An odd froslass, freezes them both in place and then hits the cubes with thunderbolts to shatter them into pieces.

your sat there with your face burning and bleeding

[He sits straight up in bed as he wakes, shaking and breathing heavily as he tries to collect himself and his thoughts. It puts its head in his hands and they feel their face a little bit, sighing with relief only feeling only his skin and the scars from the brute bonnet and the ones from the fearow at the Silph raid. Fae sits there for a few minutes, calming down and reassuring faerself that the trainer and pokemon were ok and so was he.

He gets up and walks to the kitchen to make some tea.]

[switchelsweets]

Give me a bad media rec, demonstrating your bio

Oh shit I’ve never done an ask before, let’s hope this formats correctly lol~

Take a weekend and watch the dub of Neon Genesis Evangelion. HAS to be the dub. It’s an AWFUL dub, and it pairs brilliantly with the bonkers plot line and hilariously mismanaged animation budget. Like they are already using the “voiceover/still frame” trick in Episode TWO. Because they spent all their money on robot fights and Carl Jung x Reader fic commissions. Bonus points if you try to cap it off with the movie End of Evangelion, but I will tell you now, it starts with maybe the most gross scene in the franchise, and also answers none of the questions that the show left you with.

(See tags for CWs btw. That might not even be all of them. The fact that this show ran in an after-school time slot in Japan forever baffles and amazes me. Program schedule guys truly saw giant robots and thought “kids show” honey NO)

This show is deeply flawed and problematic and I adore it. By the first SEELE meeting you will either be cackling in morbid appreciation, or you will be on your way to my house with a trowel to make me pay for making this part of your earthly experiences. You should totally watch it.

Also, unironically, do not skip the credits. Beginning or end. The themes slap.

[nekropsii]

one time i saw someone saying that post retcon vriska ruined meenah and (vriska)’s relationship… as if their relationship wasn’t already doomed. like what.

Did people just skip over the fact that Meenah was grooming her and that (Vriska) is 13 while Meenah is 19.