#marytr

[houseofpurplestars]

"Toughness found fertile soil in the hearts of Palestinians, and the grains of resistance embedded themselves in their skin. Endurance evolved as a hallmark of refugee society. But the price they paid was the subduing of tender vulnerability. They learned to celebrate martyrdom. Only martyrdom offered freedom. Only in death were they at last invulnerable to israel. Martyrdom became the ultimate defiance of israeli occupation. "Never let them know they hurt you" was their creed.

But the heart must grieve. Sometimes pain emerged as joy. Sometimes, it was difficult to tell the difference. Death came to resemble life and life, death."

- from Mornings In Jenin by Susan Abulhawa

[inutaffy]

everyone n they mother in insta is saying how political violence againdt either party shouldnt be justified...... SHUT UPPPPPPPPPPPPP

[carnage-cathedral]

NINES DID WHAT?????!1!1???!!

[themosthatedbeingg]

You told us how you weren't afraid to die

Well, so long

Don't cry here

Or feel too down

Not all martyrs see divinity

But at least vou tried

Standing above the crowd

[madsthebat]

oh i’m sorry for opening up, i forgot i was too much to handle.

don’t worry, i’ll be back to normal soon

[gemsandowlsandstuff]

transphobes on twitter are so unserious

[milksockets]

christian marytrs from roman catacombs: 'the skeletons were decorated by nuns who were skilled in textile + beadwork, or lay brothers who had trained as gold- and silversmiths. the bones would be articulated + covered over with jewels, or placed in finely wrought suits of armor with cutouts strategically placed to reveal their skeletal nature' in memento mori: the dead among us - paul koudounaris (2015)

[melmedarda]

tell us more ur thoughts on marcus arcane? i can send more specific qs if that helps

thank you :)

hello anon! feel free to send any questions, because at this point, marcus arcane is my chew toy, and i mull over him likely the most after mel. i simply cannot be normal about him.

so i just reblogged the character motivation sheet for jayce, and i really believe that marcus is parallel to jayce. how so, gentle, you may wonder. i'm so glad you asked. what marcus wants most seems to be the ability to keep piltover safe, and to fill the shoes that grayson left behind. we see this in act one, where he follows her religiously, acts in ways for HER best interest because that is how much he loves and respects grayson. AND LET ME PAUSE HERE BECAUSE!!!! WHEN EVERYTHING GOES DOWN AND GRAYSON DIES IN FRONT OF HIM AND SILCO THROWS HIM THE MONEY... and he says this wasn't the deal. JUDAS ISCARIOT!!! iykyk (and if you don't know i will soon be making a set so you see. so you understand). also... the fact that he kept the coin that was encrusted with grayson's blood. as a reminder. marcus,,,,,, baby boy... anyways. let me continue.

I think it's also important to realize that this is likely when he becomes sheriff, seeing as he was grayson's protege. AND THIS IS ANOTHER THING. he and caitlyn were both proteges of grayson. and i believe part of him hates caitlyn, because he realized, in the end that he was a fool, just as grayson had said. that caitlyn was somehow bringing more change/peace than he could. and here's where i strongly believe that if grayson had been around longer, died later, marcus would have been completely passed over as sheriff and the job would have gone to caitlyn, if it had been up to grayson.

ANYWAYS. so then, timeline's a little fuzzy, but i think the year grayson died was the year marcus became a father. after the time skip, i estimate ren to be about 6-7 years old, which means that marcus' main motivation had switched from continuing grayson's legacy to keeping his daughter safe. again, how can we tell? during the funeral for the enforcers, where he's talking of the enforcers protecting mothers, fathers, sons. the camera zooms in to focus on marcus as he mentions daughters.

AND THEN. when he meets with silco, sees the bomb and envisions himself pulling the trigger, and killing both himself and silco. yeah, that scene lives in my head rent free. marcus has always been ready to be the marytr, and i believe, already he considers himself one. the only reason he does not, i think, because then his daughter, ren, would have no one else. i think silco sees he is losing marcus that day, and that is why he turns up to marcus' house, ren's room. and marcus' face when he sees her with him.... people died. (it's me, i am people). it breaks him because the only reason he has remained under silco's thumb, is his desire to protect this daughter, despite the fact that doing so corrupted him.

and then when he holds the gun at caitlyn, he cannot bring himself to pull the trigger. why? WHY can't he pull the trigger? perhaps because of grayson's memory? or perhaps does he think of his daughter in that moment. does he remember that she is someone's daughter too. like, marcus isn't a killer. it's not what he does. he had the opportunity to kill vi, but didn't. he could have killed cait, but again, he didn't. in any case, she does not end up dying, and it is marcus who dies instead.

WHAT ARE HIS LAST WORDS?????????? "Tell my daughter..." I love her. we never get to hear him say it, but we know. we know because after all, everything marcus has done is protect his daughter. to give her safety, and a home. she was his reason for living, and she becomes his undoing, too. he's just a man who was doomed by the narrative before he'd even begun. and in the end, he failed to protect his daughter. i really hope that next season, we get to see marcus' daughter, that caitlyn tells ren that her father loved her.

anyways. if you read this far, kudos to you. if you have any further questions about him feel free to drop them on me.

[deansxharley]

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[newbornwhumperfly]

whumpmas in july day 5: media that gives you whumperflies

a little bit of a throwback, but a childhood favorite of mine was the prince and the pauper. i found it incredibly whumpy, especially the scenes that talked about poverty and public punishment. sure, it often got pretty dark, but i was incredibly intrigued boy medieval horrors at that age! there's an incredible scene where prince edward is going to be publicly whipped and miles, his bodyguard and friend, takes the punishment for him...utterly delightful and formative of some of my favorite tropes 😍🥺😭

of course, captain america: the winter soldier, is a longtime and eternal favorite 😈😈😈 boy oh boy, this film truly has everything, huh? a human weapon whumpee who is so brutally dehumanized, he wears a goddamn muzzle?? and he's the long-lost boyfriend of the Defiant Whumpee protagonist, who goes through heaven and earth to save him??? AND HE IS SAVED THROUGH THE POWER OF LOVE??? 😩😩😩💖💖💖😭😭😭 creepy whumpers ABOUND (politician robert redford ofc but uhhhhhh brock rumlow and the hydra trash party kinkmeme might've been my first foray into noncon whump and he's the base formula for a lot of my worst whumpers 😈😈😈). people getting nearly beaten to death. brainwashing to kill your beloveds. fitey little do-gooder against the cynical forces of the world. institutional corruption and the rise of fascism thought defeated. epic car chases. just...thee film of all time.

daredevil as a show still slaps prodigiously and matt "marytr" murdock is so pretty when he's in pain (plus, i always love a good "misunderstanding/confrontation scene between besties" and mattfoggy will make me weep every goddamn time). 🥺

the bourne trilogy was also very formative for me in a lot of my favorite tropes 😍 dehumanized weapon of a person rediscovering his humanity and burning down the institutions that birthed him? YES. stoic and grim and quiet and deadly and haunted and longing to be tender? YES. epic car crashes that leave their victims broken, staggering, and bloodied? YES. 🙌

the adventures of robin hood was a childhood favorite as well for its glorious whump, particularly scenes of a defiant errol flynn tied up in prison or severely beaten and ready for execution. what a delight. 😈

these are just a few of the ones that give me whumperflies but i wanted to include ones across the range of my life! 💖💖💖 have a very merry @whumpmasinjuly 🥰

@whumpmasinjuly-archive

[sw33t-oubliette]

shoutout to burn the ballroom for making so many andercard coded songs . two times marytred save me

[neonmetro]

Parallels my beloved. . .Abaddon and Arakiel ou how yall break my heart. . . The way I just *flatlines* I really love them. The more info I get about Project Martyr the more reason I have to love them.

ALSO REFICUL AND GENESIS ???? Hey chat I love them so much. Ima need more on the Crazy radioactive y**iness. Also if you don't mind me asking what audio clips you were talking about. . .

Kesabel !!! Kesabel the darling. . . And Beezlebub is so drippy :3 they are so cool honestly !!! I love all of Project Marytr and the only thing that's stopping me from asking about all of them is the fact that there might not be a whole lot of information on them, and I don't want to be bothersome. . .

But seriously chat Kesabel !!! They are never winning, I love my girlfail. I want to ask generally about all of Project Martyrs opinions on each other / relationships. Like those relationship chart things kind of ? OFC ONLY IF YOU ARE SO INCLINED. GOSH I AM SO SORRY ABOUT ASKING FOR PROJECT MARTYR SO MUCH BUT THEY REALLY ARE SO INTERESTING.

Also, Chemosh. Chemosh. They are so BEAUTIFUL. Also, I feel really bad for them. . . Like I need Project Martyr to group hug ( very unlikely )

-Ulysses loving anon

i love my stories to be filled with characters that are so fucked ❤️❤️❤️ hehe ty!!

YEAH SURE!! their relationship is slightly different now

for most of projmar i have planned that reficul is constantly teetering on the edge of just giving up. their stoicism (autism) has made it so everyone expects them to continue being so otherwise they're in the wrong. whether they're helping or hindering people, they're cast away.

genesis wants project martyr to continue to fester more emotion into the world so people become more violent and feed into the primordial silt so it may one day consume everyone once more and the golden age will come back, while reficul very much wants to end project martyr and stop all the deaths and they're just like please please please genesis can we just stop

reficul is VERY much struggling against their dead spouse's goals and tries to convince genesis it isn't so morally basic and pleads for them to stop but genesis insists they know it isn't, but they need to think about the long run rather than the short run and they'll still try to convince them even if they die doing so

the audio clip that inspired this is class of '09 the flipside and overly sarcastic productions' detail diatribe on batman (specifically this one scene where bruce is begging his dead parents to let him let go of revenge and live out his own life)

YAYYY THANK YOU!!! I'M SO GLAD YOU LIKE PROJMAR... IT MEANS SO MUCH... CRIES...

OF COURSE !! i'll be honest i have most of my characters' dynamics figured out but whenever i do a relationship chart it always looks insane...

for your convenience and comprehensibility i have organized it based off of tiers

[valerieblogsalot]

WW LORE

apparently their school thing is marytrs

[illyrianbitch]

I agree with all of your HG views regarding the acotar boys. Vanserras on top!!!!!!! Rhysand with a good chance but defintely a marytr. Eris for me, personally. I think he has the guts and skills needed

yess baby!! vanserras always b on top!!!!

[echopy]

Marytr! Are you cake? *grins while holding up kitchen knife*