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On March 5th, 1959, 69 African American boys, ages 13 to 17, were padlocked in their dormitory for the night at the Negro Boys Industrial School in Wrightsville. Around 4 a.m., a fire mysteriously ignited, forcing the boys to fight and claw their way out of the burning building. The old, run-down, & low-funded facility, just 15 minutes south of Little Rock, housed 69 teens from ages 13-17. Most were either homeless or incarcerated for petty crimes such as doing pranks. 48 boys managed to escape the fire. The doors were locked from the outside and fire mysteriously ignited on a cold, wet morning, following earlier thunderstorms in the same area of rural Pulaski County. The horrific event brought attention to the deplorable conditions in which the boys lived. The boys all slept in a space barely big enough for them to move around & theyre one foot apart from one another & their bathroom was a bucket at the corner where they had to defecate in. In an ironic twist, the land in which the school stood is now the Arkansas Department of Correction Facility Wrightsville Unit. In 2019 a plaque was finally placed after 60 years.
PURE EVIL!!! MY GOD!!
#white racial hatred#white people are evil#racism#civil rights#history#black history#historical injustice#institutional neglect#fire tragedy#juvenile justice#systemic racism#correctional facilities#commemoration#memorialization#social reform
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Being a batfam fan is funny because people will make a post like “here’s my headcanon-“ and it’s just something that’s directly canon to the story then post about major canon events and get everything wrong.
#this post was inspired by me remembering the experience of reading death in the family#after only knowing the fanbase version and realizing oh none of that shit happened okay#like girl you don’t understand it’s so bad#Jason wasn’t even fired as Robin#He’s not accused of murdering anyone by Bruce#He’s not trying to prove himself at all he’s just looking for his mom#The reason Bruce didn’t go after him right away is because he was tracking down a goddamn nuke the Joker stole#Then after he finds it and handles the problem he helps Jason track down moms 2 and 3#Also Jason died in like 20 minutes?? even less??#He died in less time than it took his mother to smoke a cigarette#Bruce literally went ‘wait here I’ll be right back’ and was gone for less time than a trip to the grocery store#and then you go into the Jason Todd tag and they act like Bruce pulled the damn trigger on him#Like besties I don’t know how to tell you this he basically did everything right he possibly could have#Even him benching Jason from Robin temporarily happens so that he can get Jason into therapy about his trauma#Like the whole point is that neither of them did anything wrong bad shit just sometimes happens#That’s the tragedy. The drama.#Bruce couldn’t have made better choices in the position he was in and Jason was never going to make different ones#It was inevitable#Anyway rant over please read death in the family before I lose my mind#batfam#batman#jason todd#tim drake#dick grayson#damian wayne#bruce wayne
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It would be a hundred times easier
If we were young again
Where Did You Go?, Hishaam Siddiqi//Waiting for This Story to End Before I Begin Another, Jan Heller Levi//Jodi Picault//Brutus, The Buttress//Two slow dancers, Mitski// House of the Dragon (2022-)
#rhaenicent#alicent hightower#rhaenyra targaryen#house of the dragon#hotd spoilers#got#asoiaf#a song of ice and fire#game of thrones#emily carey#milly alcock#olivia cooke#emma d'arcy#alicent x rhaenyra#rhaenyra x alicent#wlw#sapphic#web weaving#mine#parallels#quotes#on love#lovers to enemies#queer#lgbtq+#on tragedy#tragic endings
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Going through my old unfinished art and I completely forgot that before I made English Willy I had another kind of fan story/pitch/whatever that was about the people working the closing shift at the fnaf 1 location in the late 90s. And each person had managed to bond with one of the missing kids in one way or another so instead of fighting for their lives they were running a really fucked up robot daycare. I feel like I should do more of this the designs go hard
#i think william had already been springlocked in this au bc i have art of their even older designs setting him on fire#which then led to the idea of ‘hey wouldn’t it be funny if the dayshift workers fucked with springtrap’ hence English Willy#fnaf#i think it had overarching themes of like. the way ordinary people will go out of their way to help strangers in tragedies#it was mostly like. dark comedic fluff with a hint of drama from the lady on the far left who was the older sister of her missing kid
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the first sleepless night
#when will i stop drawing the tragedy of duscur? the world may never know#fe3h#fire emblem#three houses#fire emblem three houses#fe3h fanart#fanart#digital art#art#my art#dimitri#dimitri alexandre blaiddyd
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Tbhk Ch120 Analysis:
(Warning: Spoilers)
#1: Teru did not kill Kou on accident or by reflex.
I’ve seen this take on tumblr and Twitter and I disagree. As much as I like the poetic irony of Teru’s violence towards supernaturals causing him to hurt whose he’s sworn to protect from them, I think it’s wrong.
As Teru blasts Kou, Teru is already upset.
Comedy moments in the manga aside, this is the 1st time we’ve ever seen Teru visibly devestated. Prior to this he has always, consistently approached supernatural danger with whimsy and lighthearted cheer. Even when there were dire stakes:
Teru after realizing Aoi was essentially dead after coming getting kidnapped by Number 6. (Ch70)
Teru in ch79, after learning his baby brother went into the notably deadly Red House. (Ch79)
Teru after getting betrayed and apprehended in the Clock Keepers’ boundary. Where they’re supposed to be “undefeatable.” (Ch109)
The uniting factor is that Teru had some level of control. That there wasn’t any true danger/death. He’s gonna get Aoi back, he had faith in Kou to not succumb to the house’s wishes, and you can’t die in boundaries (applies to when the gang got jumped by Num 6 too).
Here, Teru is devastated — not bc Teru is sacred that Kou may get hurt (active threat) but bc Teru knows Kou is already dead.
Look at how Teru walks to the well immediately.
Teru isn’t falling to his knees like “Wait, I didn’t mean to kill him. What have I done?“
He walked there immediately. With intent.
He’s not acting like someone who’s killed his brother on accident. On reflex. He’s acting like someone who knows. Who’s already grieving. Who’s checking for confirmation.
Confirmation that his little brother died in that well. Has been dead.
This isn’t a boundary or fictional world. That is the real Kou — just of a different timeline — and in this one he died. No control, no games, no convenient truth. And Teru couldn’t protect him.
#tbhk#toilet bound hanako kun#jshk#jibaku shoujo hanako kun#teru minamoto#tbhk ch120#tbhk ch120 analysis#teru-centric#even if you argue that his last expression looking down the well is shocked#it could equally be argued that that bewilderment is bc if the sheer brutality of the gore down there#imagine seeing your baby brother’s body desecrated among countless other victims#it’s horrifying#got akane tweaking too#teru my poor baby#my darling kou too#even in death he was thinking about others#nene and mitsuba#why do good people like kou die#I think teru thought that as well#side note#teru is usually so unreadable#but this chapter he’s not that at all#teru minamoto the ash of the fire that is your tragedy leaves your every word singed#my tofu analysis
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He's-a Gone
Luigi time! To suffer, that is.
(CW: character death)
This is obviously a sort of comlementary piece to I Was-a Too Late. But it's more than just that as it also illustrates a certain fun, dark what-if idea I had. Please keep reading if you're intrigued!
Lore:
Luigi's Mansion, the first game. Everything goes the same as in canon until the final boss fight, when Luigi defeats King Boo in his Bowser costume. After King Boo comes out and Luigi intends to suck him in, the villain laughs and reveals the truth: Mario's painting was an illusion, so was everything Madame Clairvoya saw. All just to mess with Luigi. Meanwhile the real Mario wasn't just captured by the Boos, he was immediately killed by them on their King's orders. The only physical thing that's left of him in this realm is the five items Luigi found - hidden by the Boos for Luigi to find, another part of King Boo's sick game.
Luigi is able to finish the fight despite his shock and grief, fueled by the anger King Boo never expected from him. After getting out of the painting the plumber discovers that it is indeed empty, no Mario or anyone else in the portrait.
Heartbroken and guit-ridden, Luigi goes back to Professor E. Gadd's lab and gives him back the Poltergust 3000. He doesn't even want to stay long enough to see what is going to happen to the ghosts. Of course the Professor tries to offer some semblance of comfort, but we all know it's not his forte.
So Luigi leaves, only taking Mario's five items with him. He notices that the mansion has disapeared without a trace. The reality of it all finally hits him, and he practically collapses onto a nearby tree's large root protruding from the ground, putting down the precious items around himself, only leaving the matching red hat and the letter in his hands. He should have known something was off. After all, the Mario he saw in the painting was wearing his hat and both gloves.
Looking at all these items, to his growing horror he can't help but imagine what exactly might have happened to his brother and what his last moments might have been like. He hugs the hat to his chest and rereads Mario's note several times, knowing that the brief warning was his brother's last words to him.
Luigi can do nothing but cry for the beloved brother he couldn't save, desperately wishing it was his warm, living and breathing body pressed to his chest rather than just a couple of his belongings.
But Mario is truly gone, apparently having met such a horrific fate that not even a single part of his body is left in the physical world.
[Good night]
…I'll leave the rest up to your imagination ;) Sorry if I got carried away with my description. Occasionally even I enjoy being a little dramatic, though I'm no writer whatsoever.
Yeah, I'm not apologizing for making this one - I was nicer to Luigi than to his bro, at least here the Mushroom Kingdom and everyone in it (except for Mario lol) is still okay!
But alas,
You can no longer play as Mario (warning: this is a video with sound)
Rest in spaghetti, funny wahoo man.
@federthenotsogreat I'm tagging you because you said you wanted more Mario art like I Was-a Too Late, thought you might like this one too!
@drones-of-innocence Also tagging you because you were interested in my idea.
Edit: Tagging a few more mutuals who might want to see this based on their reaction to my previous angsty work just in case, feel free to ignore. Or ask me to remove the tag if you want, no problem.
@silenzahra (remember, no rush) @c-lavanda @jell-o101 @stripetkattelalala54-gf
@luigixfanxayjay @itsavee4117
And you @giddlygoat just because you have a Luigi's Mansion AU and I thought you might appreciate this... Also because I'm a fan 👉👈
#please kindly ignore the fact that if the boos are not there anymore the blue fire shouldn't either#i needed it for the extra light source and the atmosphere okay?#let's just pretend it's going to die out right after this pic#the gate is still there because it looks exactly the same when the new mansion is built for luigi#so i assume it just never vanished in the game#maybe it had already been there and the boos were like “oh this looks like a perfect place to put our fake mansion”#anyway#one thing i like about these two angsty pieces is that i mostly used reds in mario's and mostly greens in luigi's#my art#fanart#luigi#mario#luigi's mansion#does this count as an au?#if it does then i guess#luigi's mansion au#more like an alternate ending#luigi's mansion bad ending#poor luigi#cw character death#angst#tragedy#mamma mia#i feel dirty#again#but not as much#forgive me?
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What would it feel like, to have all of your memories erased in an instant? To watch helplessly as your mind is digested, reformed into something new. A sweet ripe strawberry with no taste of lingering bitterness.
What was it like for Foeslayer, having to do that to her own son?
(There's so much horror potential and tragedy with how his story ends and it's infesting my mind)
#Wof#Wings of fire#Wof fanart#Wings of fire fanart#wof darkstalker#Darkstalker#Darkstalker wof#Darkstalker wings of fire#Darkstalker fanart#Horror#Body horror#...fruit horror? Plant horror? No clue#Angst#Tragedy#Wings of fire art#Dragon art#Dragon works#My works
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The Hindenburg over Manhattan, minutes before it exploded, May 6, 1937.
Photo: Associated Press via N-TV
#vintage New York#1930s#Hindenberg#disasters#tragedies#explosions#fire#dirigible#airship#May 6#6 May
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Zuko and Azula in "The Beach"
Lately I think a lot about "The Beach" episode [x], especially about this small detail of great teamwork Zuko and Azula have during the game.
Zuko is looking ahead, directly facing their rivals (who had the control of the ball at this moment) but his body is clearly lowered to the ground, left hand most likely touching the ground, legs bent and widely spaced - a clear contrast to Mai standing near and how he stood before on two separate occasions
which is why I think Zuko willingly create an opportunity for Azula, so she could jump higher - something she definitely used to their team’s advantage. If Azula simply jumped on her brother’s back when he wasn’t expecting it or wasn’t ready, he would probably just fall face down from the impact but as the scene shows, he had no such problem nor was angry about it in the following scenes.
During the game sequences there was no dialogue shown between our protagonists, so it is hard to determine if Azula in advance called Zuko to give her a “lift” or Zuko offered on his own, or did they were that much in sync they just acted without thinking. Regardless I like this few seconds long interaction, because for me it implies how they trusted each other despite all the rivalry and bitterness from previous episodes. Like Zuko trusted Azula won’t use that moment to hurt/humiliate him by overuse of force, the same as Azula trusted in Zuko’s strength and that he won’t mess up by losing his balance. It is a small thing but no less sweet to see them working well together when fighting for the same goal - what reminds me a bit their teamwork from the previous season finale.
Interestingly, it was also the second time Zuko assisted Azula in scoring against their rivals while not scoring himself any point on screen. The first time happened almost right at the beggining of the game (second from total five sequences)
while each girl have the solo sequence of winning a point:
Azula's first attack,
later Ty Lee landing on the net
and Mai kicking the ball (and presumably scoring)
while Zuko’s two actions are shared only with his younger sister while there is no sense of competition between the siblings, something contrasting a lot with some previous and later episodes.
Azula is bossy and competitive through most of the episode and her brother lets her be that without a complaint. Azula and Zuko get along pretty well and A) do not argue (with the exception of the campfire scene and then they argue not even for the whole scene itself) and B) don't get on each nerves the way they do in the palace, with Ozai's presence looming in the back of their mind. I absolutely adore this episode, as it humanizes all our Fire Nation characters by showing them as teenagers outside the war zone but also giving us a bit of insight into what Azula and Zuko could be if Ozai didn't pit them against each other. And they could be a great team!
#atla#avata#avatar: the last airbender#prince zuko#azula#mai#ty lee#zuko and azula#fire nation#fire nation siblings#avatar: the last airbender - the beach episode is such a great mini story#look i have a lot to say about zuko and azula and their messed up relationship but this episode just make you realize how much azula & zuko#are socially awkward teenagers who have no idea how to interact with their peers#but also the deep of their bond shattered by ozai's abuse and yet somehow still connecting them on emotional level#when they can be just kids not ozai's perfect soldiers and heirs#also zuko just tagging with azula's friends is both funny and sad he has no friends of his in fire nation#while sokka will be the first boy befriended close to his own age (with aang a bit younger and lu ten some years older)#i think a lot about the tragedy of azula and zuko okay? a lot as in too much
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i’m so tired of this team green vs team black. specially given the framing of the show of alicent and rhaenyra as lost lovers friends. those are all people who should have been family. they should have been the first to go war for each other. but they don’t get to be family because they are a dynasty. rhaenyra wants her throne for what? because it’s her birthright, it’s the token of her fathers approval and love. aegon wants his throne for what? for nothing, but he needs to fight for it because he’s so estranged from his sister that he doesn’t know if she would or not kill him for the crime of being born. and even if she wouldn’t, and even if he bent the knee, some lords who still refused to accept her authority because of gender would always have him as a figure head.
and alicent, my poor alicent, she’s doomed by narrative as doomed by the narrative gets. she has allies but men who wanted to use her. she’s losing control and grip of her children, she’s made a bet by crowing aegon to keep herself safe but she lost. she lost the moment her father asked her to offer the king some comfort, in the moment she was married to him, and when aegon was born she was already shackled. and she did her duty like a saint. she had the king’s children’s, she slept in his bed, she looked after him to the end of his rotten days. all while being neglected and abused and having her child being neglected and abused. her son’s eyes was GAUGED OUT OF HIS SKULL and no one got even a slap on the wrist. and she may not love how she had them but she does love her children and no one would protect them. no one but her.
#a song of ice and fire#house of the dragon#no more of this#team black#team green#shit#what about team tragedy ?#rhaenyra targaryen#alicent hightower#aegon ii targaryen#aemond targaryen#helaena targaryen#hotd season 2#hotd#rhaenicent#??#it’s in the subtext#pro
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LOVE IT WHEN WOF HYBRIDS HAVE PHYSICAL ISSUES-
LOVE IT WHEN WOF HYBRIDS HAVE PHYSICAL ISSUES BECAUSE YOU'RE MIXING TRIBES HAVE DIFFERENT PHSYICAL TRAITS WHICH COULD CAUSE ABNORMALITIES IN THE CHILD AND OVERALL GIVE THEM A WORSE LIFE EXPERIENCE.
#SUNNY COULD'VE HAD SO MUCH WORSE GOING FOR HER JUST SAYING MAN#IT COULD'VE BEEN WAY WORSE THAN JUST 'oh no barb :( anyways-'#wof#wings of fire#realistically hybridization isn't really all that big a deal(?)#Most of the time they're sterile since well. Hybrid of two different animals#It varies from hybrid to hybrid really in whether or not it could actually survive#sometimes they're weaker than the parents other times they're stronger. sometimes they're more like one parent rather than the other#there is a range.#I'm just a sucker for a good tragedy that's all :)#Kos speaks
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An Oresteia, Aiskhylos//House of the Dragon (2022-)
#house of the dragon#hotd#got#game of thrones#asoiaf#a song of ice and fire#helaena targaryen#phia saban#aiskhylos#aeschylus#an oresteia#cassandra#kassandra#web weaving#mine#parallels#quotes#tragedy#team green#alicent hightower#greens#jaeherys targaryen#hotd spoilers
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DOES THIS LOOK LIKE BESTFRIENDS TO YOU!? This?! Nah… this lesbians in disguise, denial and love.
#rhaenicent#rhaenyra x alicent#alicent defender#hotd alicent#team alicent#lady alicent#queen alicent#alicent hightower#young alicent#olivia cooke#emily carey#rhaenyra defender#hotd rhaenyra#rhaenyra targeryan#queen rhaenyra#rhaenyra targaryen#pro rhaenyra#princess rhaenyra#emma darcy#milly alcock#wlw tragedy#wlw post#wlw#wlw yearning#leabian#bisexual#a song of ice and fire#asoiaf#hotd#house of the dragon
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seen a couple people running to that "is it bad writing or do you not understand genre" post in regards to the ofmd upset. and let me remind people that this show was marketed as a romantic comedy, ESPECIALLY this season!
In that regard, I found an article/blog post that directly addresses the question "can you have character death in a romantic comedy?" And it really hits the nail on the head.
Even if you were to make the argument "well it's a dark comedy!" or "its a pirate show!" there's still a balance that needs to be met if you don't want to alienate your audience.
People are going to argue that the death was earned because they spent the entire season building up his character and "completing his arc". Well, I'll argue that they DIDN'T complete his arc. In fact they took about twelve steps back in his death scene by seemingly ret conning his progress and having him center Ed's feelings on his literal deathbed. So it really feels a lot like fridging, because that's exactly what it was. Izzy's death was for Ed's arc, not his own. And they spent so much time focusing on Izzy all season, focusing on his growth and giving him such a specific arc about queerness and recovery, that yeah, his death feels like a slap to the face and not a tragic story beat that makes the story all the richer.
#ofmd spoilers#ofmd season 2#ofmd#izzy hands#ofmd s2#thought about going into the definitions of comedy and tragedy in terms of classic theatre and shakespearean drama but modern story telling#has really diverged from those structures especially in television and with the way shows are produced#even so if i get fired up enough maybe i'll make another post about it#cause there are Rules to shakespearian comedy and even in modern storytelling those rules are generally respected#ofmd critical
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Can we acknowledge how tragic of a detail this is? In ch114?
The fact that Teru views Kunishige (shrine grandpa) as the only one he can rely on despite how their relationship is at-best frenemies and at-worst hostile is downright devastating.
Reason #1: Teru and Kunishige’s relationship is predominantly negative.
In ch79, gramps was making jokes about threatening Teru’s livelihood and while Teru later joined in to counter, the comment was clearly in bad faith — an attempted power play to exert control over Teru and his flippant behavior. It’s a baseless threat stuffed within the carcass of a joke: “your family needs us — show respect.” Teru’s an instigator for sure, but he’s not the adult in this situation.
Point #2: Kunishige has done little to deserve Teru’s faith as an individual.
Shrine politics aside, gramps was beefing with a teenager and snitches on him to his dad! He pulled the “I’m telling Dad on you” with Teru’s OWN FATHER pushing 90 — like DAWG.
I don’t fault gramps for reporting the Red House incident given his past experiences or its history, but it was the professional choice — not the kind one. It doesn’t indicate any affection towards Teru nor resemble how you would treat a child you would go out of your way to support. Teru clearly has an adverse reaction to his father. He’s off-put by the idea of contacting him in ch79 and canonically views his father as absent and not someone he can expect help from in ch114. Not over Kunishige at least.
Yeah, gramps puts on the Santa suit per Teru’s request. That in itself is an undeniable act of kindness. He does care and I don’t doubt that he is there for Teru. But it’s not enough to deny this fact:
Conclusion: The only person (and adult) Teru feels he can rely on doesn’t treat him very well and won’t protect him from his father if it meant going against his shrine duties. A bottom of the barrel choice because it becomes unnervingly evident this child, Teru, as early as 14, grew up having no one else. He chooses Kunishige over his own father, family members, friends, teachers — everyone.
And Kunishige doesn’t even like him.
#tbhk#toilet bound hanako kun#jshk#jibaku shounen hanako kun#tbhk character analysis#tbhk ch114#teru minamoto#my tofu analysis#makes you wonder what kind of shit adults Teru had in his life if Kunishige is the best#teru’s dad just has to be ass#teru puts kunishige over everyone#over akane#that’s insane#at least according to this translation#his volatile relationship with gramps has to be part of the reason teru thinks bullying is affection#teru minamoto the ash of the fire that is your tragedy leaves your every word singed#characters whose suffering is less evident on top
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