#i dont begrudge that

[ludinusdaleth]

i'm not trying to start anything, but i'm confused. if ludinus cared and trusted in people and respected them to make decisions... then why was a a raging racist towards groups of people? i can't fully see how that could possibly match up.

because his hypocrisy is his most center trait, that made him a villain and also parraleled the gods, a neverending cycle of those who think they know best for others when they have descended into selfish ways - but, as with c3's themes, can we bear to accept that someone was terrible but that they were radicalized into it as scared and powerless moments? he did care for exandria. immensely. maybe more than the pantheon did. he would rend himself apart and break everything if it meant everyone was safe from what he saw as the greatest tyranny. but his festering anger and focus on only one goal, his growing power & privelege as he raged with no one to ever guide him away from radicalization from his trauma, meant he both lashed out at others, and thought destruction was a necessary if disgusting trade off for a final peace for those he lashed out at - that was what happened in the calamity, after all, wasnt it, to secure "peace"?

to our knowledge he didnt hate the kryn for being the kryn - he hated them because he couldnt bear to imagine a calamity survivor would worship an object of science, exacerbated by being in charge of an empire so long that he could only see xhorhas through imperialist value. he didnt want everyone in molaesmyr to die, it clearly haunted him - but his hatred of their forgetfulness of what the archheart did isolated him entirely til he grew desperate enough that he destroyed them for his plans (and even then, he remembered them - justifying that their deaths wouldnt be in vain). he despised trent and the imperium and it went against his morals enough he faltered talking to caleb about one of them, but they furthered his end goal and then their abuse wouldnt matter anymore, because the real abusers, they would be gone in his eyes. he hurt everyone around him because he was hurt, and his position and his experience gave him the cruel chance to.

he cared but he learned to steel himself against truly caring. after hundreds of years feeling powerless and alone in a changing world he began to know nothing but the most extreme and final option. war changes and radicalizes people, and eventually even when we think we are kind or intelligent we can break and fall to bigotry and extremity through insanely punitive justice if it means we think it will end suffering. he is us. the bells are us. liliana is us. frankly the pantheon is us too. i see them in this world every day. i think that is the truth of where that hypocrisy is important. we are all suffering people and we have to find some way in the web of the world to meet folk who do not enable our worst but also reach a hand out at our worst. ludinus never found that. and frankly many of us havent either.

[automatonwithautonomy]

it doesnt matter if theyre in love because they love each other. do you understand. do you get it.

[rainsongdean]

ANYA JENKINS & RUPERT GILES | BTVS

—"and i feel compelled to take some vengeance on you!" "ow! god, no wonder i'm leaving you!"

[lunavagans]

The duel in the volcano takes on a very different light once you unironically start shipping ViGreenDow, I realized…

[pidges-lost-robot]

I think Hunk and Keith love to just stand there as Lance and Pidge fucking roast the everloving shit out of each other and wonder whether people can just be nice and get along instead

(They are both hypocrites)

[ihaveanaversiontodecisions]

would you still love me if I was a broke, ugly vampire?

Thinking about how arthur has often relied on his appearance to get by, and how his appearance was on the same level as his connection with magnus and void when it came time to make a sacrifice. He gave up his humanity, and he also gave up the appearance that tied him to his humanity. he no longer looks like he did when he was human, and considering how tightly he clings to his past that has to be a huge blow. poor man.

anyways! I tried a new artstyle with this one and im not quite sure if I like how it turned out, so any tips or constructive criticism is welcome!! this is the first thing I've done with no line art involved and it was terrifying.

[ninjasmudge]

listen were not hating on anyone here but it IS funny

[jessiesjaded]

love when homegirls send me holiday pics of them with their boyf and their cat bc I dont get jealous at all bc im really normal about women and im not always sorta in love with my friends and im well adjusted

[maulfucker]

Yeah yeah jedi Maul au we've all seen him. But what about senator Maul au. Representing Dathomir, a neutral world like Mandalore that is still somewhat hostile to outsiders. Wearing fancy clothes that show a bit too much skin for the cold climate of Coruscant. Falling in hate at first sight with Padmé, the only other senator who brings a gun to the senate floor "just in case". The two of them having a weird rivalry because Maul doesn't trust the Jedi and is neutral in a lot of subjects that Padmé is a vocal defender of.

[funnyscienceman]

people who have brothers (especially those who are brothers themselves) are you and your brothers like Equals or does one have more authority or responsibility over the other

asking bec im not unconvinced that the former is a thing but siblinghood is so embroiled in the latter for me like i cant imagine a pair or a group of siblings and there not being some sort of hierarchy or power dynamic present. but maybe thats just the filipino upbringing idk. probably twins are equals right? i dunno

[notquiteaghost]

i don't like wholesale dismissing the capabilities of The General Public and this is something i am tested on five days a week when a customer walks down one (1) aisle of my shop and doesn't see any potatoes or onions and then assumes that this grocery store has made either some deeply nonsensical layout choice or the batshit decision to not sell two of europe's staple vegetables. rather than that there is, shock horror, a second produce aisle. right next to the first. truly i want to believe the best of people hand on my heart. please just turn the corner.

[docholligay]

I mean I know strictly speaking no one cares, but I doubt I'm going to get the next choose your own out this month and I personally am bummed and frustrated

[faunandfloraas]

i saw ur tags earlier and i have, a controversial take for all the stays out there, but. i'll be honest i don't like LVs designs and i feel like they have Not #slayed with a lot of the styles they've put lix in

Me reading this

[sometimesimperfectlybitchy]

Bones Dude: is that your boy friend?(derogatory)

Jon: Yes actually

Bones fella: Oh... Fair enough.

Martin: ...!!!!

Boy you're adorable and it was so just straightforward I love you omfg

[clemkesh]

:(

[violetgarlends]

okay now that theres multiple official bf/lf plushes can we please get some of Feng Xin and Mu Qing