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”Surprised to not see ya hunched over that journal of yours being back at camp and all…”
”Hawhaw…”, Arthur grumbled and just offered Hosea a cigarette. “I was out looking for prongbuck but instead…”, he took a long drag and turned to look to the cliffside. “I found lil’ Bo Beep and her sheep.”
I've been here thinking about where Addie is in the beginning of the RDR2 story. I really love how the sheep just looks at Arthur who's just battling this internal debate.
#this is my first true procreate drawing#it's about the innocence and guilt#pure vs sinner#This is the first time in ages I felt inspire to illustrate something I wrote#rdo oc#rdr2#red dead redemption 2#arthur morgan#cavs art
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Turning off the reblogs on this. At the time I wrote it, it felt like what I needed to say. There's not as much activity on the post now, but when there is, I feel...sort of hollow. We're so far past the point where this even means anything.
Y'all remember "cops aren't supposed to kill guilty people, either", right?
Palestinians who have done something wrong don't deserve to die beneath the rubble of their homes.
Palestinians who have done something wrong don't deserve to be shot with expanding bullets that cause massive tissue damage leading to amputation.
Palestinians who have done something wrong don't deserve to have their flesh burned away with white phosphorous.
Palestinians who have done something wrong don't deserve their fishing boats blown up.
Palestinians who have done something wrong don't deserve to see their husbands and fathers executed in front of them along evacuation routes.
Palestinians who have done something wrong don't deserve an anonymous phone call threatening to destroy their lives and families.
Palestinians who have done something wrong don't deserve to be detained for years without charges.
Palestinians who have done something wrong don't deserve to be tortured, starved, and sexually assaulted in prison.
Palestinians who have done something wrong don't deserve to be deprived of water.
Palestinians who have done something wrong don't deserve their olive trees to be uprooted while they look on.
Palestinians who have done something wrong don't deserve sixteen years of blockade.
Palestinians who have done something wrong don't deserve to be prevented from traveling for lifesaving medical care.
Palestinians who have done something wrong don't deserve this genocide.
#like obviously we're right to talk about innocent palestinians#but also#there is no guilt any palestinian could possibly carry as an individual#and sure as hell no guilt that could attach to palestinians collectively#that justifies any of this
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In Knives Out Blanc wanted to do the murder mystery investigation with Marta so bad, but she was certain she was guilty so she spent a good amount of the movie avoiding/hiding stuff from him
Meanwhile in Glass Onion Helen was fucking carrying the investigation, even while accidentally getting drunk, and even went to investigation lengths Blanc was hesitant to do
#knives out#glass onion#ko: marta actively ruins evidence due to her perceived guilt. blanc knew the entire time she was innocent or ill intent#go: helen fucking diving forward to eavesdrop on duke/miles/whiskey better. helen tossing a tape recorder in birdie's bag. helen listening#in on lionel & claires freak out at the pool. helen did all the research on her sisters journals to get as into the role as possible#marta only standing up for her rightful inheritance at the end after everything vs helen down to ruin those shitheads from the start#i love these movies & the duality in the chars/victims & how it ends. marta gets the house. helen burns miles' down. its just!!!!! AHHH#i just rewatched knives out again so i can rewatch glass onion again tomorrow. im so normal about this series#tc posts#*of ill intent gdi. tumblr mobile let me edit tags
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Rosemary is for Remembrance Part 5
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#aw did someone's plan to torment an innocent girl as a way to assude the guilt they feel about their friends death backfire#cuz they got spooked by said girl echoing said murdered friend?#aint that just the way#my art#Rosemary is for Remembrance#the picture of dorian gray#tpodg#rosemary porter#henry wotton#lord henry wotton#basil hallward#dorian gray#tw body dysmorphia#reincarnation#gothic novel#classics#classic literature#gothic literature#cw smoking#tw eye contact
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while i wouldnt necessarily disagree that childe seems to be on edge more so than usual (and he himself mentions being in a poor mood in act I) in the fontaine archon quest i do have to say i find it a little funny that theres people who think hes behaving, like, completely out of character in the court scene when he decides to go apeshit after being judged guilty by the justice.exe AI bot like.
did it somehow escape peoples memories that this man when presented with the idea that we as the traveler mightve tricked and gotten ahead of him with the geo gnosis just. entered a state of complete murderous rage leading to him activating foul legacy in the golden house. which actually ends up self-sabotaging his current objective more than anything bc unlike the clear way they struggled against childe before now the traveler just won by default by outlasting him
he mightve gotten over it fairly easily afterwards (in no small part bc traveler actually fought him which automatically translates to equal=respect=friend in his fucked up head) but childes been shown to be a highly dangerous individual with a massive ego prone to outburst in the heat of the moment when outplayed or his pride wounded before even when it isnt the smartest course of action like. this isnt new lmao.
getting accused of a crime he had never even heard of in a foreign nation he only recently arrived in and then sitting through all that court drama and being assured afterwards that he only needs to partake as a mere formality for declaring his innocence only to be somehow declared guilty by a machine is very much realistic grounds for childes patience to reach its breaking point if you ask me lol
#and if its about the like... civilians in the opera watching thing id like to remind ppl#that childes never raised any ethical issue or personal guilt relating to the endangering of innocents#childe dislikes involving the weak bc its something he considers as BENEATH himself as a warrior whod rather solve every problem w a 1v1#him going 'the weak of this world are so insignificant that no honorable fighter would pull them into matters beyond their ability'#isnt.... a moral stance jkwdjkdjkwjkdjkdkdw#so like no him choosing to activate foul legacy in front of a crowd doesnt necessarily ring ooc to me#just that hes decided its a means to an end situation where he cannot abide by his preferences#the same way he chose to revive osial despite his personal distaste for such methods because at the moment its what he had to fall back on#genshin#genshin spoilers /#rambles#childeposting#childe
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Sacrificial Lamb
another little symbolism moment with my oc inquisitor maera modeled on 'innocence' by William Adolphe-Bougueraeu
#my art#dragon age#qunari#dragon age inquisitor#qunari inquisitor#inquisitor adaar#adaar#inquisitor maera#lamb#artists on tumblr#art#wow another painting of maera looking UP how original ik anyways parts of this are great parts i rushed bc it is 2:40 am#and i wanted this to be done tonight#OUGH I MISSED HER i missed my babygirl#obsessed with the role of the inquisitor as like figurehead and also sacrifice#also martyr also saint like i love leaning into the cult of the herald idea tbh and like since shes like 10 theres is a level of#child sacrifice to it like the loss of innocence the child of omelaswhich like if i ever get the energy for fic writing again we WILL be#exploring everyone's feelings about that (many flavors of guilt)#i told myself I wasn't gonna do a gold foil background but gradually we ended up with that. I also told myself no halo but
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A GOOD GIRL?!
#Nevermore#Nevermore Webtoon#Webtoon#THE GAYS WERE GAYYYING THIS EPISODE#DUKE STOP BEING SO BLOODTHIRSTY LIKE JEEZ#DANGIT LENORE CAN'T MAKE UP A COMEBACK#OHHHH LENORE AND DUKE SORTA FIGHTING OOOOFFFFFF#MONTRESOR SIR ARE YOU GOOD#ANNABEL PLEADING LIKE LOOK AT HER DUKE SHE'S INNOCENTTTTTTT DON'T PUSH HER OFFFFFFF#MONTY IS RIGHT TO BLAME FOR LIKE A LOT OF THINGS#PLUTO BEING SO POLITE AS HE'S DOING SOMETHING SO MEAN#SHE IS DEFENSELESS DUKE BUT LIKE YOU'RE ATTEMPTING TO DO WHAT SHE DID TO YOU DO YOU WANT THAT#THEM OFFERING TO TAKE THE GUILT OF IT LIKE AUGHHH AND TELLING LENORE TO DO NOTHING WHEN SHE ALWAYS WANTS TO DO SOMETHING GRRRRRRRR#SHE WAS ABOUT TO TELL THEM THE PLAN OMGGGGGGGGGG AND THEN ANNA WAS LIKE NOOOOOOO#KICKING PLUTO IN THE FACE OMG AND TAKING DUKE WITH HER OMGGGGG#JUST WENT STRAIGHT OFF THE BALCONY FOR HER YASSSSSS NOW THEY'RE ALL DANGLING OFF HAHAHHA#SHE SO INNOCENT WHEN SHE SAID “I promise”#GOOD GIRL OMG LENORE I'M BLUSHHHHHIIIINNNNGGGGG#OOOOHHH THAT MENACING STARE VERY INTENSE MMMM#GOOD EP GOOD EP FOR A GOOD DAY
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side-by-side
#mitsuai#persona 3#p3#mitsuru kirijo#p3 aigis#i have THOUGHTS and FEELINGS about the potential of mitsuai as a dynamic#emotions even#just. listen. they are the only two who can never stop fightjng shadows. who will never have peace and never leave the other world behind#everyone else has a choice. maybe akihiko doesnt feel like he does maybe he feels like he has to get stronger and keep figjting#so that no one he knows will ever get hurt again. but its a DECISION on his part to stay fighting shadows. and everyone else has left their#fighting days behind. but aegis and mitsuru??#aegis is a shadow suppression unit. she was created to fight shadows and even if she has a life and feelings and friends she will never#NOT be a robot made to fight and kill shadows. she can never stop. it is a part of her forever.#and mitsuru theoretically has a choice but. does she really? does she really? the moment she awoke to her persona she was cursed#now as the last kirijou alive she has a burden no one else could possibly bear. no one can take responsibility for her grandfathers sins.#nor for her fathers. nor for every person who worked at kirijou ergonomics no matter their innocence. no one but her.#she cant stop fighting shadows until the kirijou name is clear of guilt. and that will never happen until shadows stop existing#everyone else who survived sees have the option to put their weapons down. whether they choose it is on them but they CAN choose#mitsuru and aegis will never be so lucky#just. G-D! G-D! gnaws my arm off
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hating hod is a red flag tbh. never trust a hod hater
#ramblings#something something.. her story being about learning to move forward and forgive yourself#about how even if you make an unimaginably horrible mistake it doesn't condemn you to being a Bad Person Forever#and endlessly beating yourself up or sacrificing yourself in a search for redemption is pointless#and it's better for everyone to try to be kind to yourself#like people genuinely are out here hating her for getting the head onto ayin and co.'s case but#that's the entire point of her story? it's About how much she regrets it and her journey to heal from that guilt?#she did it because she was young and innocent and her friends were dying out there??#the central theme is literally The Hope to Be a Better Person#i will never understand. hod is my best friend i love her. hod haters not allowed
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Zelda fandom stop misinterpreting Zelda's "I'm still your Zelda" challenge
#1. Hylia died and Zelda is mortal now 2. I'm still your Zelda means she still cares about him AS A FRIEND. AS MORE THAN HYLIA'S HERO#she feels bad for 'using him' BUT SHE DIDN'T REALLY. SHE'S CONFLICTED. SHE'S A VICTIM TOO#reading comprehension is SHIT in fandom#it's both her feeling sad that she unwilling made Link into the hero because she became friends with him BUT it's her saying that doesn't#mean I was never your friend!!! it doesn't mean she was plotting the whole time and she's evil. neither does it mean she's completely#innocent because she IS Hylia and she DOES feel guilt about it but she's ALSO zelda and she KNOWS THIS WAS THE ONLY WAY#WHAT WAS THE OTHER OPTION. LET DEMISE DESTROY EVERYTHING? LINK KNOWS THIS TOO AND IT'S A SACRIFICE HE WOULD MAKE OVER AND OVER AND OVER#AGAIN FOR HER. BECAUSE SHE'S HIS FRIEND. SHE'S STILL HIS ZELDA. AND SHE MAKES HER SACRIFICE FOR HIM AS ZELDA AND AS HYLIA#SHE GIVES UP HER AUTONOMY TOO BECAUSE THE ALTERNATIVE IS THE DESTRUCTION OF EVERYTHING#ZELDA FANDOM UNDERSTAND NUANCE AND STOP FUCKING DEMONIZING HYLIA/SWS ZELDA#sorry. I reached my threshold of stupid posts and need to rant again 💕
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14 years old, only like a month into being spider-man, peter takes down a mugger and the guy is cursing peter out and peter just calmly says "i'm fourteen" and watches this dude have a crisis
"no you're not"
"i literally am. did you not hear my voice cracking every two seconds? pretty sure i only started going through puberty last week"
"you're lying"
"believe what you want"
"why would you tell me that if it's true"
"because no one will believe you and i think that's funny. also i want you to know that you just lost to a freshman in high school. even if you don't believe me, you can't prove that i'm lying. this is never going to leave your brain. i won the physical fight and now i'm playing with psychological warfare. and i called the cops. anyways, bye!"
mugger gets arrested and is like "no seriously i swear to god he was in these like red and blue pajamas and had a mask and goggles and he said he was fourteen and psychological warfare and-"
#idk if anyone else will be entertained by this but mcu peter being a little shit means the world to me#i mean lets be clear every single version of peter parker is a little shit#but mcu peter is painted as this innocent little fuckhead by a lot of the mcu fandom which like. sure yeah its fan content have fun with it#but personally peter's sass and attitude and anger problems are some of my favorite aspects of his character#“if you think about it this is really your fault” bro said that to TONY STARK to his FACE#he only backpedaled because tony was visibly upset by those words but dude was fully about to commit to that angle#peter (blaming himself; drowning in guilt): ya actually i did nothing wrong im 16 and its all ur fault so maybe calm the fuck down thanks
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For @thiamsxbitch, captain of this ship: happy late birthday
#twedit#twfemslash#twrarepair#teen wolf edit#malacy#tralia#tracy stewart#teen wolf rarepair#tracy stewart edit#malia tate#malia tate edit#teen wolf#song: hurt by johnny cash#guys#GUYS#im so proud of this one#something something parallel lines#its about killing your family#its about dealing with grief and guilt while your whole world is changing#its about losing your childhood and your innocence#anyways <3#thanks jaque for making me insane about this ship#hope you like the edit#sam edits#mine
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is this ooc for kya and hakoda? yes but HEAR ME OUT neglected sokka
sokka seeing katara waterbend for the first time. sokka dragging katara back into their igloo like "mum! dad! look at this look at this!!!" and being so excited because his little sister is a waterbender, that's so cool, and his parents are making a really big deal about it and hurrying katara out to see the elders and sokkas falling a little bit behind but that's ok, because katara's a waterbender and they need to tell the elders
and so they host this celebration - nothing big because they may still get traders but they don't want this to go out to the fire nation - and hakoda and kya are doting over katara and making sure she's had enough to eat and everything and sokka... feels a little weird. he knows its kataras special day but he just feels a little lonely, but when he goes up to his parents they tell him they're busy, so he tells himself that he'll talk to them tomorrow.
but then the next day, his dad is in meetings all day - that are about katara, he gleans from gilak and bato, who look a little confused as to why sokka's alone - and when he goes to find his mum, she's with katara and she's watching her shakily try to bend on command, instead of by accident. so he goes up to her to say hi but she tells him that she's busy and not to distract her. sokka frowns because it doesn't look like she's doing anything and can't he say hi? but then katara loses concentration to say hi to sokka, and though his mum smiles at katara, she doesn't spare another glance at sokka.
which. is fine. he thinks. obviously life is different now that his little sister is a waterbender and he had sooo many adults tell him as such when their village celebrated it, so... it's fine. maybe it's just because his parents look a little worried, he thinks, as they sit down to eat before bed. they do look worried.
and then katara says that she's tired, and his parents wish her good night and their mum goes to tell her a bedtime story and it's exactly as it should be. except that sokkas still eating and they usually wait til both of them are in their cots before the story happens. so he tells her to wait while he quickly shovels his food into his mouth, and he thinks it's fine but then once he's eaten and moving towards his cot, he hears the end of the story
he pouts, saying that he wanted to hear it too, but his mum tells him not now, sokka. she sounds tired. he doesn't care, he wanted to hear it too. she sounds a little angry when she tells him to be quiet, because kataras sleeping, but he doesn't care, he wanted to hear the story and why didn't she wait? it's his dad that scolds him this time, telling him that katara needs her rest. sokka goes to say that he was only a few extra minutes, but he's shut down. his parents tell him that they won't be speaking to him when he's being so rude, and sokka doesn't understand but hes too tired so he cries in his cot before falling asleep.
the next morning, his dad isn't there and neither are katara and his mum. and he learns. he learns through his parents ignoring him when he asks a question and scolding him when he wants something that he's selfish. what else could he be, trying to put himself above his sister, who could be targeted by the fire nation (which he didn't originally know, he finds that out when his dad yells at him one day and, oh ok maybe he is being a bit selfish) and katara needs her parents more anyway because shes the only waterbender, she needs guidance in connecting to her culture and her history. he wonders whether it's technically his history too, but he doesn't ask. he stopped asking a while ago, stopped talking a while ago.
he thinks he hates katara a little. bato tilts his head and asks him why, when he tentatively tells him after the man prods and prods because "I haven't heard you speak for ages kid, you ok?", and sokka doesn't have an answer for him because he doesn't know why he hates katara but he doesn't want to hate her, it's just that his parents like her more cause she's a waterbender. bato tells him thats silly, of course his parents like him, and he ducks his head and mumbles an apology and doesn't notice the way bato frowns and glances over to gilak, who sports an equally worried frown.
the next day his dad takes him fishing. he's so excited but he's nervous too, he doesn't want to upset his dad and his dad is already looking at him weirdly that morning so he answers the questions his dad awkwardly pushes towards him and doesn't ask for help even when he can't get the bait on his hook, and eventually his dad takes the rod from him and does it for him, and he apologises but his dad looks at him weirdly again and so he doesn't speak again on the trip. but... it's nice. his dad claps him on the back everytime he catches a fish and he proudly displays his three fish to him at the end and gets a laugh for his efforts. so. it's nice.
the following week, there's a raid on their tribe. sokka runs towards their igloo, having lost katara in all the chaos. he pulls to a stop by the entrance, hearing his mum talking to some guy about the waterbender and... what is she doing?
he freezes. the man stomps out of their home, sees sokka and throws him aside. sokka doesn't feel the bruises til the next day, and when he does he doesn't care.
there's no point. he's got to take care of katara. that's his job now
#neglected sokka#inspired by the idea that sokka doesnt remember his mum and yeah that could be trauma blocking (which is valid if it is) but#consider#katara obvi thinks shes a good mum but we never get sokkas pov unless its his own guilt#again#i dont think this is actually the case#but its fun to think about#sokka#kya#hakoda#katara#bato and gilak being the mvps in this#gilak is innocent free my man he did nothing wrong#atla#BTW its important to me that you know#that kya was gonna take a step back and consider her actions too#but life got in the way#well#death in her case#but anyhoo#the issue ofc is that sokka doesnt know that kya wanted to apologise too#so#more trauma for him ig
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hello, i know we haven't directly interacted yet but i love your character takes thus far dfsfds.
i'm learning abt yelan and so far i love love love her!! i love what you've written about her and your breakdowns. they feel so... right about her to me (if that makes sense). i have a question myself: do you feel yelan has survivor's guilt? and i'm asking on a deeper level than just for those who passed when they got involved in her line of work. i'm extending that towards situations like people getting hurt—or worse—while she's undercover b/c of her.
forgive me if you've already covered it b/c i couldn't find it whilst reading!
I know I'm numerous days late with this, and I apologize for it, but please know that I smiled the first morning that I saw it. I'm truly quite humbled that my takes seem to resonate at least little, because I think that it's one of the greatest compliments that you can give an RPer, because ultimately we seek to present a realistic portrayal of these characters that are dear to us for one reason or another. Yelan was never supposed to be a muse of mine, as I simply pulled for her because of gameplay reasons, and then she kind of sneaked on me, and now I can't imagine my roster without her. I think that she is a brilliant and quite unusual female character, and it makes me sad that the fandom seems to kind of sleep on her, because she touches on an incredibly human reaction to loss (yes, even the dissociation that it seems to create) and loneliness without roping pity into its fold, and a very interesting approach to a breach of the status quo. I wish that the fandom would see that while Yelan plays into the trope of 'femme fatale', it is not the usual modern-type that they seem to like to push narrative-wise, nor is she fully reminiscent of the original 1940/50s trope, the roots lay in it, but she more so deviates in terms of motivations. If you keep that in mind, and you look into her, your entire perspective of her will change, and things may click differently— I apologize, I always end up rambling, I'm sorry! But I wanted to say thank you for the compliment, and it thrills me that she's growing on you as she had! She truly is an amazing character, so any attention that she gets makes me happy. Now, as for your question, which no, I haven't quite covered yet! So I'm happy to get to it:
Yes, she does. And though you note that you're not referencing her past and those she's lost, it is paramount to keep it in mind when looking at her future as she moves forward; because there's a difference to those who speak of disaster scenarios in hypotheticals, and those who have seen it happen with their own eyes. Now, I assume that you mean people who would be considered innocent bystanders, and even informants? People who have no direct involvement in what she does? (Correct me if wrong!) It would be immense, of course. And it's because those are the people she aims to protect. Let me quote a part of her 4th character story for this:
The results of such work please her greatly, and day after day, she perfects the lists, as crows embellishing their nests with shining trinkets. That said, while both are equally obsessed with collecting, Yelan must sweat and even bleed to secure what she is after, while crows need only flap their wings to achieve their aim. Fortunately, this does not bother her at all, for she believes that the intelligence is worth whatever cost she is going to pay. One day, the information will come in handy — Liyue will never plunge into disaster without any clue of the danger like it once did 500 years ago. She will see to it that Liyue is not caught unprepared.
While some may argue that Yelan has her own personal motivations to heading into the Chasm, yes, she does— it was the fate of her ancestors, but no one is ever fully selfless— and she is no different. But ultimately, Yelan ventures into the Chasm so that no one else has to, because the last time people did, they did die (I know, I'm touching on her old losses, but bear with me here). But those were people who did actively make the decision to work for her, they were aware of potential consequences. But look at the mark that it left on her (and you can see a reaction manifest from it best versus Xiao in Perilous Trail and then this pivotal moment when she reaches out to him), and how firm and strict she can be, and how excruciatingly meticulous that she is in looking at problems from all angles, so that the chance that anything can go wrong is minimal. Yelan is intense in this, exceedingly so, to a point where Ningguang notes in Yelan's vision story: According to Ningguang, the Vision carries a message: "From today onward, leave all matters to the extraordinary Yelan." Where it becomes clear that (since this is a hydro vision, and those, especially since Fontaine, seem intricately tied to devotion and self-sacrifice), that she will take on the serious cases herself, such as the patrolling of the Chasm.
Any way, I'm getting slightly off-topic, but it's all to state that the repercussions of Yelan's past dictate her future very firmly. But all in all, there are differences between those who choose to follow in Yelan's footsteps or walk with her, and if she loses those— the weight is a significant one to bear, so imagine the injury to those who have no involvement in what she's doing, imagine the emotional burden to bear if the unimaginable (though all too imaginable to her) were to happen to those that she literally aims to protect, those that are part of the Liyue that is her home, and what she wants to see stay safe, and never torn asunder like it once was. Imagine if her own investigations caused strife for anyone, I think that she would be caught between— 'I'm unsure whether I'm still fit for this', because to her it means that she would have overlooked something, or... overcompensating by doing too much to try and set it right. But both options, inherently, come with a deep (survivor's) guilt.
#yelan. [ i can't change the facts. but if it's a choice between the cold; hard truth and blissful unawareness: i'll take the former. ]#yelan: meta. [ the chances are if i open this door; there can be no witnesses left alive. is that a sufficient reason for you? ]#manifoldis#[ i LOVED delving into this a bit. and i do apologize for touching on her past losses for a while there. ]#[ but i genuinely can't talk about losing people -- innocent bystanders or partners -- in present/future without reiterating just... ]#[ how deep-rooted her reaction to those old losses is. ]#[ because it shows how unbearable the guilt would be about those who are entirely innocent. ]#[ thank you again!! 💙 i hope i answered this right. and if i understood it wrong-- don't hesitate! ]#[ hope you have a lovely day/night! ]
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I mean... I kinda do blame Hagrid a bit? Like I love him but.... there's no way his classes would be approved for the children's health and safety. Not that Hogwarts itself would be in general, but Hagrid's COMC classes were definitely questionable, even for wizarding standards... so yeah, as much as Buckbeak didn't deserve to die, Hagrid also shouldn't have introduced such a dangerous animal to a group of third years without proper safety measures in place. My father, too, would be hearing about it if I was in that class! 😆
Yeah, I feel you, but there's also genre to contend with. The level of appropriate/acceptable danger in the wizarding world is already noticeably higher than it is in ours, so I debate whether or not to apply my own expectations for child safety and welfare to a class that's essentially about studying dangerous magical creatures. Like, students at Hogwarts suffer worse injuries than Draco's all the time — the mandrake scream could stun kids for hours, Lockhart's detentions involved a ton of pixie bites, flying lessons in general, QUIDDITCH, dueling club, blast-ended skrewts, Moody practicing Unforgivables on children (also potentially a breach of the rules but we never see consequences for it), et cetera, et cetera. At a certain point, we have to say that while all of this would be wildly inappropriate for a real children's school, the magical world is just built diff. We can't say that Hagrid is uniquely irresponsible without also indicting most of the other teachers for at one point or another doing something that could put students in harm's way. Which is part of what makes Malfoy's targeting of Hagrid so mean-spirited.
There's also the fact that Hagrid explicitly laid out a safety protocol for how to approach the hippogriffs, which Draco knowingly and willfully broke. The hippogriffs didn't respond well to Neville, either, but Neville backed off when he was told to, so he didn't get injured. Meanwhile, Draco ignores Hagrid's advice and tries to touch a wild and dangerous animal when he's been told not to. It's like a teacher at the petting zoo saying "don't put your hand in the goats enclosure" and then a kid shoving his hand in anyway, and then being surprisedpikachu.jpg when he gets bitten. So while I agree it's Hagrid's job not to let his students get hurt, I think the problem is more that Hagrid (having not worked as an educator) doesn't realize how dumb and/or stubborn children can be, and how "don't touch this thing, it will hurt you badly if you do" scans to some kids as "touchy touchy!"
But like, that's an argument for why Hagrid isn't qualified for the job in general. He's giving these kids creatures well above grade-level because he can handle them, and he has no idea how to rate a thirteen-year-old's abilities against his own (he didn't finish Hogwarts himself). So there's a problem of his inability to judge what would be an appropriate level of danger to expose a thirteen-year-old to, knowing, as teachers must know, that there's a chance kids won't follow the protocols you set down and may end up hurting themselves in the attempt. Which is a fair criticism to make of a first-term teacher who isn't paying a lot of attention to standardized curricula. And like, we know that Lucius Malfoy isn't doing this out of concern for the wellbeing of the student population of Hogwarts, or even out of concern for the wellbeing of his son, who the text suggests is milking his injury for clout well after it heals; he's doing this as a vengeful, petty power play to get his son's least favorite teacher kicked out of school, and Draco is doing it because he was embarrassed in front of his peers. So while Hagrid probably bears some of the blame for Malfoy's injury, his punishment for the whole thing reeks of fish.
#greenteacup asks#dumbledore in POA suggests that buckbeak is 'innocent'#in a line where he compares him to sirius#and i was always curious whether he meant that in the general sense that buckbeak is a wild animal#and hence shouldn't be blamed for attacking someone because That's What Wild Animals Do#or if he's making a thicker claim about buckbeak having been provoked into attacking malfoy#and hence not bearing the responsibility for what happened#dumbledore is obviously overfond of hagrid to the point of favoritism imo#because (i think) he feels guilt over hagrid's expulsion and his inability to do better for hagrid at the time#and — wait hang on a second. i need to make another post urgently.
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Can you tell me why you think muu deserved to be innocented in the second trial? Its been a year and I still don't really see a reason to why she should tbh (btw I'm not trying to argue or anything I just want to know your point of view)
the first and the more silly answer is bc i like her i kinda relate to her and she's a 16 y.o girl. being 16 is full of horrors and considering her conditions i don't blame her for snapping and for her attitude in milgram itself ^^
more serious answer is that while like. yea i don't think she's entirely innocent in this scenario especially w the reveal that she was something of a mean girl too, i'm just more mad with like. how guilty she got in comparison with some of the other prisoners. like if she had gotten a almost 50/50 guilty i would've been less bitter about that is more the fact that she got a 74% guilty vote when a character like mikoto got the same percentage in the opposite direction. like atp i'm team "vote all innocent so that no one has to go through the mental torment of the guilty vote" but there's actually no way in hell that the 16 y.o girl who very likely on accident stabbed someone in a state of extreme distress and was shown to be distraught after the fact is more unforgivable than the 23 y.o who has killed at least 2 people bc of the stress of his job👍🏾 idc how hot mikoto is or how much i like natsuki hanae, mans did not deserve all that
#inbox mail#anon asks#muu kusunoki#milgram#and like even when you look at her most recent mv its shown that even she isn't 100% confident on her actions. ive talked about it before#but like the way she depicts herself as a large monster and the way her voice wavers in the last chorus when she wonders if she actually di#do something bad. i do think that the guilt wouldve gotten to her eventually even if she did get an innocent vote again#also im not trying to like. smooth over the nuances of mikoto's situaiton but like. he is the one who killed those people not john.#mikoto is the prisoner for a fucking reason there is a reason john could attack es. it was mikoto#feel free to crucify me if i turn out wrong tho lol i just feel very strongly about muu. she;s my blorbo and this fandom is so mean to her#not sure if ishould tag mikoto bc i am kinda bashing him a bit...i wont jic
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