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just finished episode ignis and i am feeling not so good
#listen i'm a sucker for a doomed hero#but the execution in main ffxv plot feels so cheap#the moments that tug at your heartstrings so deeply#like picking out the photo noct takes with him or prompto helping iggy up when he stumbles once he's blinded#they ring so true and hurt so much because they're continuances of what makes the first half of the plot so damn good#community#teamwork#not going it alone#Gladio's dialogue when their fighting the archaean and he's like listen noct my job is to think clearly for you when you can't#the entire teamwork skill tree#you spend so much time with this core group of four people who are holding each other together as things go to shit around them#and the crux of the plot is that the whims of the gods mean noctis has to go die alone??#it doesn't make sense thematically#if you need sacrifice#have the four sacrifice their lives together#or acknowledge that the sacrifices made thru the rest of the plot mostly happen to characters we haven't spent 99% of our in-game time with#and make the climax of the story our main four splitting the lucii ring's power amongst them to save noct and end the scourge#if the theme is sharing burdens don't drop that in the second act#i know my opinions are definitely colored by the fact that#i spent 70+ hours in-game and completed 80+ side quests and hit level 55 BEFORE i brought the boys to altissia#but for fucks sake. we get more character development after the time skip for fucking TALCOTT than our main four.#it feels so impersonal and such a far cry from the first half of the game#anyway#I'm going to go write more fic now#ffxv#ffxv ignis
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You know I used to think "tumblr's absolute refusal to actually engage with the Trolley Problem in favor of insisting that there must be a third, morally pure option that doesn't require them to make a hard decision and anyone who asks them to make a binary choice is just a short-sighted idiot is really fucking annoying, but I guess it's not actually doing any harm".
Anyway that was before we asked tumblr at large to decide between "guy aiding a genocide but making progress elsewhere" and "guy who would actively and enthusiastically participate in a genocide and would also make everything else much, much worse for everyone elsewhere" and the response was that there must be a third, morally pure option that doesn't require them to make a hard decision and that anyone who asks them to make a binary choice is a short-sighted idiot.
#there is not a third option. it is either trump OR biden#and one of those will be much MUCH worse for palestine#i'm really really sorry that these are the options. i wish they weren't.#but WHAT third option are you trying to take here? what on earth is your proposed outcome#that will actually make things better for palestine?#because letting trump win the election is NOT going to help them#i'm sorry but you need to set aside your feelings and take the option that will lead to less harm to palestine in the long run#you talk such a big game about how people need to be willing to make sacrifices to help palestine#but you yourself aren't even willing to hold your nose and vote to stop things from getting worse?#or did you think 'sacrifice' only meant not getting mcdonalds for a few months?#us politics
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always a fun time when real life people are doomed by their own narratives. like guys you know it doesn’t have to be like this right? this isn’t a stageplay the foreshadowing isn’t real until you make it real
#what do roman senators rock stars and real pirates have in common#i would love to write a magical realism psychological horror movie about a up-and-coming celebrity#in which the premise is that the more and more you garner a parasocial following#(i.e.#the more and more you are treated like a character instead of a real person)#the more you become subject to the rules of fiction and thus narrative fate#and the protagonist slowly but surely realizes that by becoming famous they’ve sold away their own ontology#//#god. i need to find that sexy quote from pete townshend about how the music industry is perpetuated on human sacrifice
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Every day I wake up and think:
“At some point Izzy realised how out of control things had gotten, and started putting himself in between Ed and the crew, as much as he could. Especially when Ed was too drunk/high to even know what he was doing. Cause Izzy doesn’t want the others to suffer more for his mistakes.”
“They are all bonded through shared trauma now.”
And every day I cry like a baby.
#grey art#fan art#ofmd#ofmd season 2#ofmd s2#ofmd s2 spoilers#ofmd spoilers#ofmd comic#ofmd fanart#can you believe how much I love Izzy???#and Edward just needs some warm soup#Izzy hands#edward teach#jim jimenez#this season is so dark I’m honestly here for it#whump art#self sacrifice is also a trope I’m very weak for
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whatever it takes
#datv spoilers#dragon age the veilguard spoilers#davrin#death tw#blood tw#suicide tw#lmk if i need to tag anything else please#i was uhhh going through some stuff when i made this like a month ago but i liked how it turned out so i wanted to post it 👍#is this too much for a video game i think is kinda mid overall? perhaps#i have a lot of irks with one of davrin's endings idk#something about how if you make this choice#that means the issue at weisshaupt wasn't lucanis being out of sync with spite#it was that davrin (who lost everything at weisshaupt) didn't sacrifice himself hard enough#davrin would give everything to a world that looks down on him
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faust (1858) by charles gounod | le fantôme de l'opèra (1910) by gaston leroux | wuthering heights (1939) by william wyler | la belle et la bête (1947) by jean cocteau | labyrinth (1986) by jim henson | van helsing (2004) by stephen sommers | the phantom of the opera (2004) by joel schumacher | crimson peak (2014) by guillermo del toro | consumed (2014) by david cronenberg | nosferatu (2024) by robert eggers
#nosferatu#phantom of the opera#beauty and the beast#wuthering heights#crimson peak#labyrinth#van helsing#web weaving#quotes#inspiration#comparatives#parallels#idk where i wanted to go with this!!! i just have a lot of Thoughts after watching nosferatu and. i need to put them Somewhere#i clearly started with an idea and then it turned abruptly to another direction. oh well!! anyway#something something women in charge choosing their own fate and willingly going into their monster's arms as a sacrifice/a desire/an escape#the allure of darkness that both attracts and repels you - scares and arouses you and drives you mad#the villain having to ask and threaten and beg but ultimately the choice is all Hers#and then when is a monster not a monster - oh when you love it etc etc#idk i just think it's neat#this is all a bit confusing but i swear there is a Vision here#tropes#gothic literature#nigliaedits
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I’m glad you came.
happy birthday @sydneyadmu 💫
#feliz aniversário to the bestie muitas felicidades#lila arts#rebelcaptain#rogue one#pixel art#pixel animation#jyn erso#cassian andor#not to be subtle but#she looks away first bc there's a shooting star#and he doesn't need to see it because ya know.#and the star is actually a spaceship coming to save them all yayyyy#51 frames#don't ask me how i did the water animation#it was a blood sacrifice#if there is a python api that's compatible with procreate pls lmk I'll give you a kiss
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Thinking about Lamb being repeatedly forced to bow over the force of the game despite this sort of. charging behavior being a show of aggression in sheep/goats --> Being forcefully dragged into a life of violence
#hoof draws#cotl#idk something something .#'kill or be killed' but you never should have had to be in that life#-and the lamb ironically fulfilling their purpose as a sacrifice by killing the lamb they used to be--#and doing whatever dirty work they need to do so thst the flock doesnt have yo
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When in doubt, Soup it out.
[First] Prev <–-> Next
#poorly drawn mdzs#mdzs#lan wangji#a-yuan.#wei wuxian#Yes I am skipping over LWJ's panic at WWX joking about giving birth to A-Yuan. It's funny bit but there are many more to come!#The last time these two sat down together the tensions were so high. The peace is nothing more than a layer of cold fat on the surface.#It's not 'really' them coming to see eye to eye. It's them not having the energy to say what they really want anymore.#LWJ is very defined by his jealousy and the conflict it creates with his need to put his feelings aside for the perceived greater good.#To live a life where you are always second and never ever allowing yourself to be first...#If other people can be at peace and happy - it has to be worth it right?#If he orders a plate of food that he will struggle to eat but is the favourite thing of the person sitting across from him#Is it not worth the sacrifice?#But remember! You can't take anything for yourself ever. No matter how much you want it.#He did it once before and he regrets it so much. So all he can do is accommodate.#And WWX? Well. You can't let anyone in if there isn't enough water to splash around in.#Keep things shallow and they just move on. Even if you'll miss them when they go - this is just how things are now.#No more teasing and trying to pull a reaction from LWJ anymore. You'll never be more than someone he can't stand so what's the point.
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May your hardened heart be woken By the soft and distant song Of all you left here unspoken All the shards we keep stepping on - Take this body home Take this body home Call the wind, and let her know Take this life outgrown Take this broken soul Call the stars, call them all And take it high, take it far, take it home
#svsss#luo binghe#shen qingqiu#bingqiu#sqq#lbh#scum villain#heard the song Take This Body Home by Rose Betts and it nearly took me out at the knees#it really really suits sqq's self-detonation in hua yue city right? i'm not the only one feeling this?#considered adding some literal shards for them to be stepping on - since sqq's sword explodes - but i couldn't quite make it work#anyway this has been playing like a music video in my head for the past couple days highly recommend listening to the song#if you haven't heard it before#can't get over the absolute dissonance between how sqq views this scene and how everyone else must feel about it#like to him he's just completing his plan - hopefully keeping lbh from destroying a city with energy imbalance and escaping The Plot#nbd! he and sqh have planned it all out it's FINE :) off he goes!#meanwhile everyone who loves him - including lbh who worked years to get back to him and is trying to work through a lot of grief#and resentment and doubt and longing and... - watches him DIE in FRONT OF THEM#just collapse while coughing up blood sword disintegrating energy completely consumed#like holy hell sqq could you traumatize the people around you any more???#no wonder lbh went a little bit crazy after that like my man was already not in a great place but what the fuck#lbh watches his shizun presumably sacrifice himself for him ONCE AGAIN like after he's finally Gotten Strong his shizun is STILL#coming to harm in an effort to make up for his shortcomings#my art#most of the time out here drawing what amounts to muppets and then sometimes i get the urge for this and just need to cover everyone in blo
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an illistration for this fic about an exciting new roleplaying scenario with a reverse time flow and a murder mystery :)
#omniscient reader's viewpoint#orv#yoo joonghyuk#my art#id in alt#you might need a google translate to read the fic but its a small sacrifice i think
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I’m literally BEGGINGGGG for someone to write cho hyun ju x bratty!reader where she fucks the attitude out of them….like yeah we know she’s soft and gentle and patient and we love her for it but I lowkey need her to slap the shit out of me like she did to that shaman lady
#pls someone write this I will sacrifice my first born child#i need her so fucking bad#cho hyun ju the woman you are#cho hyun ju#cho hyunju#cho hyun ju x reader#hyun ju x reader#hyunju x reader#squid game season 2#wlw#cho hyun ju smut#cho hyun ju x reader smut#squid game
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Why didn’t elgar’nan, god of vengeance, not kidnap the inquisitor to get back at Solas? Can u imagine? And before anyone goes ‘well My inquisitor hated solas so why would he care’, I think elgar’nan reacting to solas being idgaf you can keep them :/ would be very funny
#dragon age#veilguard spoilers#romanced solas tho….oghhh….#my dream game where inquisitor was our mentor and we and solas need to save them ughh#like imagine if elgar’nan tried to sacrifice them to try and hurt solas. ugh the drama. the flavor. ea when I get my hands on you…#to hurt solas and rook*
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I’ve seen people compare Julian Devorak to Astarion, and honestly I think you’re all embarrassing wrong.
Gale Dekarios is Julian Devorak.
Astarion is Count Lucio
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#I could write a 10 page mla cited paper about this#you either don’t get Jules#or more likely you’re woobifying Astarion#i said what i said#bg3#baldurs gate 3#baldurs gate#astarion#bg3 astarion#baldurs gate astarion#bg3 gale#gale dekarios#the arcana game#the arcana#julian devorak#count lucio#the fact that Lucio can either become better and become an adventure or he can become the literal devil that takes over the city#he’s need to discard his old self and grab for power by making deals with devils#Gale is a genuine that loves wine his cat and his mom#julian is a genious that loves salty bitters his old dog and his sister#both Gale and Julians need to self sacrifice to prove their worth
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hey you. yes you the starry-eyed character. the narrative gave you a chance. One shot at the thing you want most in the world, beyond everything else, bright and glittering and always out of reach. There’s only one catch, but it’s hardwired into you. If you were a creature, you’d be a deer with branching antlers and soft steps. And you’re on the highway in the brutal dead of night. Oh right, the catch. You’re not selfish. You’ll give everything up, all of it, for someone else if they asked. You’d fuck yourself over without a second thought. You never win, do you? When the car hits, they check on the passengers while you lie split open on the asphalt. Listen, you either lose your kindness or it dies with you. But what are you without it?
#thinking of caretakers today#the kind and gentle characters who just sacrifice themselves again and again#without a thought to their own hopes and dreams#because when people need you. depend on you. you can’t afford to be selfish#and I thinks it’s really lovely and really cruel#whump#whump writing#whump prompt#whumpblr#writing#writeblr#whump community#writing ideas#writing prompts#cw animal death#cw death mention#cw death
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sos month 2024 day 2: once upon a time
two people who are sick of their current circumstances and crave the other's world but it's kind of hard when you need that other to make it happen!!
one can only hope they figure it out
#my art#sasosaku#sakura haruno#sasori#sasosakumonth2024#sos month#sasosaku month#they wanna be part of each other's world so bad#fairy tail with a spin#this is her 4th time bringing him back to the shore he has no chance#sakura made it her turf#the clue being that in order to become a sea creature you need to ritually sacrifice yourself to another sea creature#meanwhile you need a bunch of complicated magic to masquerade as a human#ITS NOT THAT EASY OK
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