#im terrible at decisions?

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SporeClan's first babies!!!! I love them so much

[shazzbaa]

A Bringer Of Death is increasing...

tremendously inspired by @tofupixel's pixel portrait work lately and wanted to play with some big pixels myself so....... I SCRIBBLED MY NEW FALLEN LONDON GUY....... Deacon Samuel Ashman is a obvious Sammy expy former clergyman who ended up joining the Black Ribbon Duellists and is DEFINITELY not experiencing ANY cognitive dissonance about his actions in the Neath,

[xxplastic-cubexx]

bro the feminine wiles aren’t even a joke like. im with that anon who thought hellfire gala charles was a woman when they first saw him bc same, that design is insaaaane (/pos). how could u not think that when u see it lmfao. idk whose choice it was to give him a corset but the hourglass figure + female coded jawline combo do not lie. i saw it on pinterest and i was like ohhh don’t lie to me i know an anime girl when i see one- WAIT PROFESSOR X????

and that’s not even to mention movieverse charles ofc. we’ve all seen james mcavoy and his big sparkly kawaii anime eyes, i shouldn’t have to say it. charles xavier is never beating the allegations, i fear

gonna need this ask hung in the louvre i fear

[variousqueerthings]

watching this Paul Gross thing he did in the 80s (chasing rainbows) and ive been enjoying it despite the knowledge that there'd be some kind of a het love triangle thing going on and that the other two characters simply aren't that interesting, but. oh boy. is... is the woman in this constellation meant to be read as a villain???

(ME DOING A BREAKDOWN ABOUT A SHOW NOBODY WATCHED AND NOBODY WILL WATCH ✌)

PG character -- a working class man who is fundamentally good to everyone in trouble he meets, to the detriment of himself more often than not, but scraping by until he gets his big break (which he also works very hard for) and becomes the owner of a relatively successful nightclub

other two characters -- come from rich backgrounds and sort of suck him into their lives by the coincidence of the two men having been at the front in WWI and PG saving the other guy's life and consistently don't realise he's got way more working against him than they do

the lady in this situation initially dumping said other guy "to find herself" when he comes back from the war, which, fair, it's 1919, she's going to college, she wants to be sure she can make informed choices, chill enough

said lady imprinting on our working class heroic character, because he's working class. i just. cannot read it any other way. she clocks him as such at a party (that he was invited to as a veteran) straight away, insults him, throws water in his face when he doesn't take it, but simultaneously is into the whole idk... rugged unpolished nature of him

discovers a diary written during the war with poetry in it that she presumes was written by him -- steals the book and reads it out loud to her college friends and is offended that he's not flattered by this

despite numerous protests that he didn't write the poetry (and he didn't, it was written by a kid he tried to save who was later shot in front of him for desertion), she just doesn't believe him, because she desperately wants him to have the "hidden depths of a poet" or some nonsense. never mind his actual good traits -- his kind-heartedness, his tenacity, his savvy, his sense of humour, nonono she wants a Poet

also, she is a failed playwright. she writes terrible plays about things she doesn't understand (including the war), asks his opinion and is offended when he (under duress) admits he doesn't think they're very good

and now she fucking... copied down the poems without his knowledge and published them under his name with an article she wrote about said hidden poetic depths!!!! gets incredibly offended when he is upset about this, first of all with a "I thought you'd be pleased" then with a "you should be happy for me for getting an article I wrote published in a major newspaper!" (because at the end of the day it's about her)

he initially -- not knowing how to handle the situation -- goes along with it, because what do you do now? go to the publishers and say it wasn't you? out yourself in the news?? I mean??? but pretty quickly re-emphasises He Did Not Write Those Poems!

the plot then mysteriously seems to pivot into saying it was his fault for "stringing her along" because the "hidden poet" bit was the only thing she really liked about him... and she vehemently denies this (but girl, tell me one other thing that draws you to him, and you can't say because he's pretty!) and says he's hurt/betrayed her by lying. i just... don't know... if the plot... is writing her like this because she's meant to be a self-absorbed college girl who has her working class dream-boat fantasy get broken, or if it's meant to be presented as him having betrayed her. it is. unclear

and now she's threatening to write a new article about how he's a fraud. im just. waiting for the plot to point out that she's done all of this herself and she also won't suffer for any of it in the way he will...

this boy can do better than these rich kid tourists 😔

[birdricks]

i think one of the reasons i find rick so compelling as an autistic character is that a bunch of his autistic traits are not treated as either purely good or bad but instead a mix of both. or just neutral parts of him as a person.

like on one hand his tendency to hyperfixate on things heavily contributes to his creativity and problem solving when it comes to his inventions and schemes. but he also often gets far too carried away and it ends up causing issues later down the line (eg: gotron)

like its very refreshing to see a character whose autistic traits arent … mutually exclusive. it makes him feel more real and less like a caricature

[fraternum-momentum]

SO UM I JOINED THIS LIKE WEBSITE BC I WANTED FUCK AROUND (NOT LITERALLY) AND I WAS CURIOUS BUT ITS BASICALLY KINKY TINDER AND THERE ACTUAL PEOPLE MESSAGING ME AND IM SHAKING IM ACTUALLY TERRIFIED IM SO SCARED I ONLY HAVE A PICTURE OF A CAT AND ITS NOT EVEN MINE

[gloomy-eye]

Angsty fic idea:

when Armand is first turned, Marius sticks his own arm into the sunlight to show that the sun will hurt vampires. B/c Marius is so old there is only a bit of smoke coming off his arm, but Armand understands it will hurt him far worse. Years later, he first sees what happens when a young vampire like him goes into the sun- the short lived screams and a body collapsing into ash.

Centuries go by, and then comes a day when he loses track of time. the first rays of sunrise hit his arm through an open window and... nothing. Not even a bit of smoke. It doesn't make any sense. he's only 200 odd years old. Why doesnt he burst into burn like the others? He thinks back realising he has never once checked himself to see if the sun would hurt him.

He could have left. He could have up and left Marius or the Parisian coven at any point. Could leave all his duty and responsibilities behind.

But he didnt. And he still wont. He's a coward stuck in a prison made of twigs, afraid of a life outside of this space he's been put in- outside the picture he's been painted into. So he keeps quiet about being a daywalker. Tries not to think too much about it and adds it to his ever growing collection of secrets and carries on with existence.

[amimochi]

Why Hawk outed Tim in 1957?

I think Hawk's decision to out him is a culmination from a lot of things happening during that time.

Hawk used to be master of compartmentalization, never let his two worlds mix together but that's before Skippy. His love for Tim was so strong that it starts to effect his ability to compartmentalize. We see this when Lucy said she called to his office and he wasn't there two times in a row and how Hawk missed the love marks left by Tim. He was becoming clumsy from love and he knows it.

Also Jackson, as the pregnancy scare starts to hit Lucy. He relized he cannot be spending all his time with Skippy in that apartment anymore since the baby could be here any moment. He's running out of time he got to make a decision whether to put his family first or Tim first.

Another key part is when Tim said 'We would be colleague, I'll get to see you everyday.' I think Hawk got scared of what that could means, Tim is not the calculating type and he, himself is becoming more and more careless. Who's going to protect both of them now?

We know Tim could not lie. If they see each other everyday it's only a matter of time before Tim get expose/report. The scene with Miss Addison calling Tim out at the funeral also reminds us that she's probably still around in the bureau office and she knows about Tim. She could report him any at any time once Tim get that job.

By outing Tim before he got the job at least Hawk would spare Tim of lie detection test and its consequence of failure (report to families) and in a twisted way Hawk will also spare Tim a life full of lies. He was preventing Skippy to become someone like him.

So he did what he did. He made that decision and purposefully try to make it hard on Tim so this will finally be the end of their relationship. He tried to make things 'right' for his family, putting them first even at the expense of Tim.

Too bad he just never seems to be able to follow through with his own decision.

[videogamelover99]

Listen, I can write a whole thing on why I'm starting to resent the whole "evil pedo Mori" trope and it very much is that whole "banality of evil" thing where it's just not interesting, but it's also that by doing that, you inherently take away any and all complexity present in the character in the first place.

Lemme tell you about The Last of Us episode 8, ok? Spoilers I guess.

I don't care about David.

I don't care about his character, I don't care about his philosophy, I don't care about any question the situation might have posed about canibalism or survival or community that he presents. Why? Because he is evil. Because in the series he is shown to abuse and exploit members of his own community. Because he is a child predator, and because of what he did to Ellie, I stop caring about him as a character and start seeing him as a vehicle of evil for Ellie to overcome. Which is his role, his function in the story and it's what TLOU needed at that moment.

But everything I've listed about David is what people like to give Mori in fanon and I hate it. Because Mori is meant to raise questions. He is meant to be a complex character. He's not just there to be an antagonistic force for the other characters to overcome, he's meant to be a character in his own right who sure does a lot of evil, but there is a difference between a character who does evil and an evil character.

Not every character needs complexity, but to see complexity get taken away by derivative works is like. You're not just character asassinating Mori, but pretty much every other character that is influenced by him. If Mori is Evil and was known to abuse children, why the hell did Natsume pick him to help with his plan for Yokohama? Why did Fukuzawa partner with him? Why does Yosano have mixed feelings about him in the current arc? Why would Kouyou or Chuuya or any other PM member we see as sympathetic choose to follow him? And if the answer to all of this is "they didn't know" then what is the point of doing this trope in the first place?

[hyunpic]

aw hyunjin is doing a poll on bubble about what he should wear 😭

[tommygotwrittenoff]

if they're gonna make eddie diaz suffer in texas, can they at least put the texas yellow filter on

[xxplastic-cubexx]

Can we talk about how fcked up Charles can be sometimes? Can we talk about how Charles can sometimes be actually scary as a person? Like he can legit be nefarious sometimes, but those moments are not as talked about as Erik's warcrimes (aside from the holocaust visions from TAS)

girlfriend i promise we're all very aware about how wack charles xavier can be and i assure you his nefarious moments are talked plenty from what i run into. like outside of this inbox most times you breathe charles' name to someone they'll be prepared to start swinging

[joy-jpg]

re:tags, stone top Tarquin... you are so big brained for this

im so serious about stone top tarquin. especially in the context of like, tevinter imperium homophobia-misogyny as its presented in inquisition. in my beautiful roman empire coded tevinter mind palace even if tarquin had penetrative sex as a man he would always also be seen as a Lesser Man for it. tarquin is very aware of the social expectations of being a man and a soporati and also! dysphoria! and i think its fun for him to turn that on its head a little. because no one who saw him and ashur together would EVER assume ashur is trying to be the victor in a power struggle or something. he's too busy whimpering and probably praying. what was i talking about

[gunstellations]

rk800 💙 rk900

[birb--birb]

The more I play, the more I think people that who super dislike Astarion have never experienced a trauma before.

Like ofc you're allowed to dislike a character for any reason, but it also makes so much sense why he is how he is when you unlock his positive approval rating covos. He's a snarky stab happy fuckboy yes, but his quest for power isn't unjustified. Astarion is scared, he's terrified he'll be brought back to Cazador and tortured 5 ways to sunday, if not outright killed. The tadpole is what's keeping him safe, and he isn't going to give it up without a fight. So he thinks the only way to ensure his safety and freedom is to go full scorched earth, take as much power by any means possible no matter who it hurts. He's a spurr of the moment decion maker, of course he's not going to think it through. When your ticket to freedom after 200 years of torture is right there, you don't stop to think about the cost of it, to yourself or others.

Astarion doesn't want power so he can rule over the sword coast, he wants power to make sure no one ever can ever hurt him again. You hear something simular in folks who have experienced trauma (plz understand that I'm generalizing here, trauma is processed differently by different people no one brain is the same). Anger, grief, fear, confusion, terror all are things that can go through your mind after a traumatic event occurs. Your brain is trying to find a way to make things hurt less, so if there's a chance for revenge, or the ability to take back power, you bet your ass its gonna sound delicious to your emotionally flooded brain. This is what I think is at the core of Astarions story. That this confident, cunning, flirtatious vampire is mostly an act, it's what he's practiced and what's protected him thus far. He likely learned that showing any sort of vulnerability is a weakness that will be used against him. His grab for power is selfish yes, but not in the way it seems at the surface. But absolutely power will corrupt absolutely, which is why I say his desire is justified, but not exactly supported depending on what type of run you're doing.

Idk man I just immediately looked at this man and went "aweeh.... it's traumatized". That boi ain't got any coping skills whatsoever and I'm a sucker for characters who's confidence is just a ploy to keep you from seeing just how fucked up they actually are. Anyways each character in this damn game is written so freaking well I could write a billion essays about it everyone say thank you Larian