#kill your heroes

[namonakirei]

Man I forgot to post this. This is some fanart I made for the Naruto fanfic Kill Your Heroes by EvilIsARelativeTerm on ff.net AKA TheLightAtLastAndAlways on ao3.org. "It's time to stop waiting for other people to save you. A story about fear, resilience, and Sakura." I started this piece somewhere around 3 years ago, probably a bit longer than that. The left piece is Sakura in her KMPF uniform, in my best approximation to the Naruto style. The right piece is Sakura in a partial Sage Mode transformation and honestly I should've drawn her pupils blown out and shining, but I didn't plan out the lightning when I started like, AT ALL, so I didn't think of it. I actually couldn't work on it for ages, but a few days ago I popped out my tablet and did the shading and lighting, and well, now it's here! I'm mostly happy with it though.

[your-fav-song-is-an-avatar]

Kill Your Heroes by AWOLNATION is an Avatar of the End

Well I met an old man dying on a train

No more destination, no more pain

Well he said one thing: "Before I graduate

Never let your fear decide your fate"

I say you kill your heroes and fly, fly, baby don't cry

No need to worry 'cause, everybody will die

Every day we just go, go, baby don't go

[iloveyoudie]

having complicated feelings about alan wake and alex casey

[respectthepetty]

Have u heard about ohm? I feel like a lot of bl fans on here are ignoring what happened and what he has done the same for gulf

If it doesn't come across my dash, I have no idea what any of these people do in real life. None. But @gunsatthaphan has been writing about it.

I sit strictly in the Kill Your Heroes boat. Not literally, that's murder and messy, but figuratively I'm always cheering for us to kill our idols. I watched a beloved author embrace being a TERF and learned Gandhi and Mother Teresa were shitty people. Therefore, nothing surprises me anymore when it comes to people who are idolized. Hence why I thoroughly enjoy these little fictional worlds.

Celebrities don't pay my bills, and I don't know them in real life, so I'm also less bothered by their antics. Not in the sense that I excuse the behavior, but in the realm of I can only control what I can control, which is surprisingly... a lot. Ohm already issued a very PR-written apology, so focusing the conversation on him seems to miss the real issue - bullying, which is a societal problem that still persists. We could stop watching his series, but what would actually help is educating people about why what he did was upsetting and harmful, so others don't do the same - [resources] Anti-Bullying Centre (ABC); Sokantat et al. (2012, December). Thai Culture: The Foundation of School Bullying. International Journal of Criminal Justice Science, 16(2), 369-384.

Once again, don't think I'm dismissing his actions, but often I see people I love and care for get upset at celebrity behavior like a rapper saying homophobic quips, yet they are fine with their grandpappy sprinkling subtle homophobic comments at the dinner table every week because "that's just how he was raised."

Sometimes the call is coming from the inside the house!

I can't control what an actor did ten plus years ago and might even continue doing today, but I can guide the people I surround myself with and my community members in harm reduction and operating from a place of kindness and care rather than hurt or fear.

I'm trying to hold the people I know more accountable than people I have never met.

People make mistakes, but some of the people we know have a pattern we continue to dismiss because we love them. People can and should evolve, but sometimes we need a shove away from a problematic path to help us find the light. Maybe Ohm had someone in his life that gave him that shove. Maybe not. But know that I am more than open to being shoved by people I cause harm to (knowingly and unintentionally), so like the TSA announces every two seconds in the airport, "if you see something, say something."

Shove me.

Educate me.

[feral-trans-faerieboy]

I'm not shocked that Helena Bonham Carter spoke out in support of JK Terfling in the slightest actually.

I'm devastated and disappointed, but no, not surprised. It's never surprising anymore.

Kill your heroes, kids. Take your favorite off that pedestal. It's self care for the long term

[broken-brain-poetry]

I'm sorry Billy…. When attempting sleep; I lay...unable. The sheets, their ropes. The loneliness you must've felt. I guess looking back, that would have been the first time...I let you down. Not only as a friend, but as a brother. Dumb and young, you could say.

None of us understood then....

I mean why wouldn't you want to be tied up by three older women? It's a teenage boy's perfect fantasy, right? Never realizing the nightmare, you went through.

Seeing the cuts on your abdomen... the blood on your face, washing away your Clark Kent-esque smile. You hoppled down the block restrained with jump rope, or some kind of bungees around your ankle. Purple and green with black splat patterns. We laughed.

Years later Billy…Your face got better, but those cuts... they resurfaced; unnoticed. Unattended for... so they became more frequent, self-inflicted.

I'm sorry, Billy. But none of us ever thought your pain would burn the world, and still rage.

~Andrew Kelly @broken-brain-poetry 

[erinfulmerwrites]

Please stop worshipping this guy. Want to know what he said about Fahrenheit 451 in 1994?

“Political correctness is the real enemy these days. The black groups want to control our thinking and you can't say certain things. The homosexual groups don't want you to criticize them. It's thought control and freedom of speech control.”

That’s Ray Bradbury in his own words. A racist old homophobe.

watching the US ban more books and make robot police dogs

[protomedeia]

“You were clingy when we were teammates and now you’re vicious. Who’d be stupid enough to date you?” Sasuke asked, ignoring the way his teammates were about to engage in round three-hundred and forty-seven of the argument that seemed to never end.

“I have no complaints about Sakura’s personality,” was Itachi’s even reply, which brought the war between Suigetsu and Karen to a dead silence.

[phneep]

[in-a-garden]

And once again, I repeat: This is the year to kill all your heroes. It is now your turn to step up & become the only one you count on, the only one you depend on, the only one you look up to.

There will be many people that will ‘carry’ you throughout life- - But at a certain point, they will drop you, like the majority of humans tend to do. And it’s your job to pick up where they left off, and to learn from their actions.

What would you do differently? What would you have not done that they did? How will you embody the continued spiritual evolution?

Don’t be a slave to your desires, or you will break countless hearts.

I am forever grateful & thankful for you- - Because if it weren’t for you I wouldn’t be the man that I am today. But somewhere along the line, you lost sight of what mattered- - family…And now here I am, fighting the overwhelming temptation of ‘bitterness’. But I’m going to win this fight, you’ll see. You raised a fighter after all.

[ileftherbackhome]

Plus, it's like just bad writing if you cannot clearly and skillfully foreshadow the ending.

Idk when we lost sight of how important or vital foreshadowing is to writing but you're actually a terrible fucking writer if you believe the best endings come out of nowhere and are out of the character's control.

Within reason, of course, endings are usually a result of every decision the character has made up until that point- for better or worse. A good writer knows how to communicate the consequences of those decisions in a way that is neutral and non-judgmental and that allows the audience to come to their own conclusions about the people you are portraying in your work.

That's why glass onion works because most of the audience will go into it thinking that the main characters are worth empathizing with based on the inherent promises that are baked into storytelling right? BUT the techniques used in each scene show us the reality of the situation while still being tainted with the main cast' perspective/bias.

Like, objectively, none of those people were shown to be good people. They were all doing stupid shit at the beginning of the movie but because the story is told from their perspective, you're empathizing more than you would be if you were any other character in that scene- like the assistant for example.

That's what good writing does, it gives you all the facts of a situation but presented through the character's filter that is their subjective mentality or worldview so that ultimately, you're left uncomfortable by how similar you are to people who you probably wouldn't like if you met them yourself in real life or even in their own worlds.

The point of writing is to point out the universal truth that we are all heros in our own story, but reality means that we are all villains in other people's stories as well. You might have all the facts of a situation but you are limited by your own worldview and perspective because you believe you are always well-intentioned.

i think one of the reasons glass onion is so fun is that it just... loves the audience back.

so many popular movies and shows these days thrive on a sort of bitter engagement with their fans - where the fans are dismissed as being stupid, annoying, and needlessly angry. we are constantly positioned as being less intelligent as the writers.

so much of "spoiler-free" movie-making relies on writers getting away with one twist in their work, regardless of if that twist was earned. the work doesn't actually have any rewatch value or interesting writing - because they think "good writing" is about "pulling one over" on the audience. they don't focus on making interesting characters or storylines or good endings - they focus on fooling you. glass onion, meanwhile, has faith that the audience has figured the ending out, and that we'll watch anyway, because we love the characters.

so many adaptions of older works... kind of seem to hate the original work. they're done without passion. they're done almost as if checking off a box. so many of them openly mock the audience for enjoying the original, almost directly telling us that we are fools for ever having loved something.

but glass onion. loves the audience. it knows that many of the people watching are mystery-lovers. it is an homage that feels love towards the original works it references. it knows we also love those works; and instead of trying to disparage those works, it allows us to celebrate them.

one of my favorite things about it - and maybe why i found it so satisfying - is that this movie isn't trying to tell you it's the smartest, bestest, most-clever detective story. instead, it asks itself what is satisfying and exciting for the audience? and actually gives us that payoff. it's bright, colorful, and fucking fun.

just... more of this please. i'm very bored of nihilism and grittiness and "shock value" writing. put the love back in. let us love unironically. have your work say i love you too. thank you for sharing this story.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Flower Empowered.

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[that-one-weird-cloud0]

Batman: You need a new costume. That one provides no protection.

Danny: oh I cant.

Batman: You won’t owe me for it.

Danny: no I literally cant. Like if i remove it it just returns.

Batman:………. Explain.

Danny: look *takes off glove and explodes it into pieces*

*glove reforms on his hand*

Danny: see? Can’t get rid of it. It’ll just heal itself.

Batfam: …

[moodyvoid]

You and Tomura meet right after the USJ attack. You don’t know who he is.

You treat him like a person. You’re kind to him and want nothing from him in return.

He’s completely fallen for you, but is taking his time with it, wanting to build up a friendship first. It’s been a long time since he’s had a friend, but fuck he wants more.

After hanging out, the two of you are standing on the sidewalk. He offers to walk you home, but you say your uncle is coming to pick you up. He offers to wait with you and you tell him you’ll be fine.

As you say your goodbyes, you surprise him with a hug. Such a simple act, yet his whole body is warm and tingling as the feeling of your body against his lingers. It’s a feeling he isn’t used to at all, but wants— no— needs to feel again.

Tomura stands on a nearby rooftop, wanting to keep an eye on you anyway. After all, he couldn’t allow anything to ever happen to you— the love of his life.

When the car pulls up, everything seems fine until the door opens and Tomura sees him.

Your uncle.

Eraserhead.

[taek-bin]

wanted to show off the high fashion gear I own

[glitter-stained]

Dc writers be like yeah sorry this character was doomed by the narrative there was nothing we could do, like my brother in christ you ARE the narrative