#he's so fucking doomed by the narrative

[lgbtlunaverse]

I've talked before about how I think Jgy's specific attitude to defending his actions comes less from a genuine conviction that he's in the right or holds no responsibility and more from a knowledge that any punishment he'd be given would be more because of who his mother was than anything he actually did, and a person with more power of a "cleaner" background wouldn't be punished the same way. Why accept "consequences" for his actions when that's just a smokescreen for what people really want to punish him for. Daring to stand before them instead of knowing his place.

And if I do envision a socratic dialogue with an imaginary nie mingjue in my head, a counterpoint might be that, well yeah at first, sure. But there's a point where punishment doesn't get worse than, y'know, death. And surely at some point in canon jgy passes the threshold where, even if he wasn't the son of a sex worker, he would... "deserve to die" isn't right here because I personally don't believe in the death penalty but basically that, within the moral framework of the world of mdzs where the death penalty is universally accepted, characters would, regadless of his background, rationally agree that the just punishment was death. The moment jgy crosses this threshold, then- and I have no interest in debating when this would be- it wouldn't matter that in reality his punishment was really for something else, because it'd be virtually the same as the "just" consequences of his actions.

And what I like is that the story FORCES you to ask that question, to entertain that argument, and perhaps see the flaws in it. Because it expicitly kills jgy for something he didn't do. Huaisang couldn't have said anything, and jgy would still have been taken prisoner, and the cultivation world would still have demanded his head. He'd have been tried for his crimes and executed. The story could have done that, and everything i said above would still have been true, but you could very easily wash your hands of it and say that justice was served.

Instead Huaisang lies, and Jin Guangyao is killed for something he never did. And the story asks: does that change things? Does it matter, that he died for something he didn't do when all of his actual actions were already enough to doom him? And if it does, what else does that change? Because that has always been the case. That was always going to be the case.

[lotus-pear]

ok gayboy

[grand-line-shenanigans]

Yippee!!

[autisticrosewilson]

So do you guys actually think that Jason's entire story, relationship to the others, and philosophy amounts to him being a rebellious teen who wants his dad's attention? Like are you 100% serious? I thought you were joking about that but too many of you are saying it with your whole chest.

And what the fuck is this "Bruce antagonizing Jason is fanon!" Shit I've been seeing? You guys are aware that a parent can love their kid and still be a shit parent right? I know you guys don't want to fathom the thought that maybe your blorbo might also occasionally have to face responsibility for consistently endangering children but let's not start being delusional now.

Bruce does love his kids, that doesn't mean that he hasn't hurt them. And I'd also argue that for the most part he feels in the right for it, and he's said multiple times that he believes it's for their own good, so you can't even argue that he's sorry about it. It's okay for you guys to admit that your PERSONAL INTERPRETATION of the character wouldn't do that but don't sit here and pretend that it's not a facet of the source.

[wickmitz]

— THE ELECTRIC-FEVER REMEDY.

[anachronistic-falsehood]

ok pause. i just thought about wolfwood's death scenes in both trimax and 98 and i'm crying. what the fuck do you mean he just found a will to keep on living after so long of being willing to die for any bullshit reason and he died anyway. what do you mean trimax ww died next to the man who taught him how to live and love again and vash buried him alone. what do you mean 98 ww died wanting to spend his days with vash ans the girls and vash carried ww's gun around after that and used it in the final fight. what the fuck do you mean. that's the saddest shit i ever heard get said in my life

[houseswife]

find it sooo funny that foreman is cuddy now and chase is house because although cuddy was an enabler she at least had some semblance of what you’re meant to do as a doctor. so she could hold up the facade a tiny bit. chase is gonna walk in like “I need approval to amputate this guy’s perfectly working legs and then re-attach them using dental floss. without anaesthesia btw. and we’re gonna hypnotise his medical proxy to get consent. we think he has a mild mint allergy and I need the answer” and foreman isn’t even gonna look up from his paperwork before responding “k lol”

[meangreennunseen]

You know if Ferrus is Gorgon Medusa from Greek Legend, then Fulgrim is King Midas.

I kinda decided that this man is so obsessed with perfection, everyone he loves end up either with fucked up life or straight up dead due to that. Being loved by Fulgrim is a death sentence on itself. He will not only self sabotage, he will unintentionally ruin lives of everyone else around him.

[grinchwrapsupreme]

thinking about ianto jones... how he died at canary wharf and the man we meet is his walking corpse.... how we never ever meet the original ianto..... how everything he is in the show is the result of what happened to him before the series even began....... how he spent all that time knowing death was still right around the corner................ how he accepted immediately that he was dying in that room even as jack was still fighting for him...................... how the only thing he asked was to be remembered but none of us remember the real ianto jones because he was dead before the story began..............................................

[mysticalarmand]

I don't think that anti Damijon shippers know how bullshit the statement "Yeah, but you can't change their ages, that's not how canon work" really is. Because, yes, tf you can.

Logically speaking, by now, Bruce should be at least in his late 40's, Dick should be 34-38, Jason should be in his mid 20's, Tim isn't far younger than Jason, so he should be in his early 20's and Damian should be 16/17.

However, it's not like that, because of how it's written. So, yeah, and that would mean Damian is either a year or two younger than Jon. It makes perfect sense, but we all know canon is so fucking inconsistent.

If we worked with the logic that we can't change their ages, then let's address the elephant in the room that Babs was de-aged and lost her personality to date Dick.

[kirdoodl]

I love drawing Adam looking like an outcast (ie, composition wise) even among people that he can relate to on some level because I'm evil like that

[beartes22]

Super angry at arc 3 of arcane btw. They rushed to close everything up and it shows

[lotus-pear]

i love you royal trio (minus akechi)

[song-tam]

i am once again thinking abt kim namwoon

[zukkacore]

Jace stardiamond is so darkside mirror universe Patrocles it’s insane

[holysheithyall]

“We’re just two slow dancers, last ones out.”