#mindrape

[vulcan-enthusiast]

i take the notion that sybok was just a heroic aspiring reformer who did nothing to deserve his exile but was the victim of a dogmatic, repressive regime with a grain of salt.

given that, you know. he spreads his philosophy by brainwashing people into a cult.

[realbeefman]

tfw you (gay man) are about to fuck (have dopamine receptors overloaded by) the wife (alien tentacle monster who is mind-controlling you to end the world)

[neuroticboyfriend]

please make the world bettter tomoorrow god

[ahamkara-apologist]

"Eris Morn gets an anime powerup" wasn't on my list of expectations but go off queen. though I have to say I AM disappointed that we didn't get to actually SEE Eris unleash cosmic hell upon Xivu Arath... also, it's really wild to me that Savathun believes we need collateral for her. like girlie why did you need to be revived in the first place

yeah that's the one thing I felt that we were missing in the end of the season cutscene, a direct depiction of Xivu being torn from her Throne World as Eris banished her. Not sure how they would depict that concept, so that could be why they didn't put that in there (they could have neatly slotted it in as Eris chanted the banishing words, but animating it? whoof. Plus they probably don't have a Xivu model ready to go just yet), but I can live with it. Main reason why I wish it was in now though was so that people wouldn't whine about how they 'killed her offscreen' like I saw some doing, because then it would have been even more clear that she's not fucking dead. Just mortal and pissed about it

As for my gut-reaction opinion on Savathun- she's Savathun. I don't really question anything she's doing because I just assume I wouldn't be able to understand it in the first place. I'm a dumb boy who's bad with any puzzle other than 'point and shoot' who had to look up a guide for all her previous shenanigans. Though if you want my thought-out opinion, its because her interests to foil the Witness do genuinely align with ours, but she doesn't trust that we'd be able to do it with her dead. With her alive and Immaru in our possession, she can effectively force an alliance where she can physically be in play moving the chess pieces without us muddying up her work, while also nudging us towards where she wants us to go. We're not allies as in equals, we're allies only in that we're both trying to stop the Witness, so I have no doubt she has other plans on the side that she needs to keep us from fucking up by dangling Immaru in front of us as a gesture of goodwill

[il3x]

Ward

this post is also about ward

i decided to read the kenzie has a breakdown chapter so that I can be an even more annoying Kenzie apologist and

jesus christ

she'd get along so well with Pr0_d1gy. and by 'so well' I mean like an explosives factory on fire

screaming. "if not mine then whose". if you told me this line was said by Pr0 after Seb* got kidnapped I'd believe you.

*Pr0's teammate in the podcast Reboot.exe

sobbing sobbing SOBBING this is e.xactly how pr0 acted except his breakdown was quieter externally. this is it this is him. kenzie would handle the reboot s1 finale even worse because there it's not denial, seb IS alive, and he DOES need hacking and/or surveillance tech to be found.

pr0-core pr0-core pr0-core.

though pr0 would not be self-aware enough to say that. bless his heart.

anyways I remain a kenzie apologist. what she did was bad but not even halfway as bad as I imagined it (this is a pattern with her). I will be chalking it up to insanity defense and possibly (will have to cross-check with her former characterisation) She Would Not Fucking Say That syndrome. fooled by the projection

[navree]

it's fodder for excellent drama but let's admit it, hush and war games and identity crisis and under the red hood all happening in relatively close succession is insanely funny. just bruce speedrunning the worst fucking 365 days of his life. they should release a compilation book of all four and just title it 'batman and the terrible horrible no good very bad year'

[perelka-l]

Love the conflict but also how about HiruDan co-rulers with corrupted Hiruzen (maybe through some weird mindfuck???) and Kagami as their loyal shared knight? Ahah, just kidding. Unless... 👀👀👀

Ooooohhhh..... Those three all at once... I can't add more bc my brain just keeps spiraling and I am fainting like a victorian lady ahhh ahhhhhh

[selamat-linting]

i love victoria but sometimes it feels like taylor is much more of a hero than she does

[delionhearts]

honestly disgusting how dm fans have turned a story of what was louis resisting against the mind rape he was subjected to for decades and turned it--surprise surprise, away from the black man--and into a romcom that decentralized the black lead lol

like he's finally found a window of opportunity to tell his story and recall his own memories and it comes in the form of a role play! again under armand's terms! giving him the semblance of control while still under armand's supervision! but yeah fans are liek lol what if it was about this other non-black guy's hypothetical affair

"you're lingering, rashid." you just know that armand made that martini and waited around to see if daniel liked it - or better, still liked it.

[doctor-cunt-phd]

This. Show. Is . spectacularly horny thus far

[hog-fiend]

people seem desperate to minimise the moral wrongdoing of miquella, and I legitimately cannot tell why. it seems to be a pretty common take that miquella bewitched mohg after being taken from the haligtree, a sort of 'last resort' mindrape, but that's not true. he had to have bewitched mohg before going into the cocoon, because ansbach dueled miquella for mohg's freedom and lost. unless he lost a fight to a fucking cocoon this places the time period of mohg's bewitchment prior to miquella's hibernation.

why get so attached to the moral purity of a character? im a big fan of ranni. especially love how she orchestrated the death of her half(?)-brother which directly caused the outbreak of the Death Blight, killing thousands, and contributed to the Shattering. her ruthlessness and callous selfishness are characteristics i am enamoured by. similarly, i really like mohg's blood cult full of serial killers dedicated to a sinister outer god. also a big fan of miquella's casual disregard for the emotions and free will of others! ranni without her scheming or mohg without his insanity just wouldn't be the same, and miquella as a completely innocent victim is uninteresting.

[atopvisenyashill]

not to discourse (i say as i discourse every day) but one thing i find frustrating in the conversation about young griff is that people tend to paint him as some out of control angry spoiled little lordling who hasn't experienced the ~real hardships~ of others. and that's frustrating just because it's like a) what the fuck does real hardship even mean get the fuck out of my face with that shit but b) oh he's a 16/17 year old with a slight temper? are we pretending like jon, dany, sansa, and arya all haven't lost their tempers and fucked some shit up due to that at some point? bran is out here mindraping hodor and we're pretending like yg getting pissy over a game of cyvase is somehow a sign he will never be a good king??

MEANWHILE half the crew of the shy maid is like "tyrion is fucked he swallowed like a gallon of poisoned water we gotta throw him overboard" and don't throw him overboard very specifically because young griff tells them not too. and then spends the entire next chapter in a bad mood not because he's throwing a tantrum but because he's annoyed he's not allowed to go out and do shit while everyone else risks their lives. that feels like a very rational reason to be a brat idk!!!

[goodgymboy]

You love my spirals, don't you? You always come here to my profile to get weaker and dumber. My posts and spirals make you feel good, relaxed, blank, no thoughts, no worries. Only my words and power in your head. You can't help yourself. You need my power intoxicating your weak mind. You love me taking you deeper and deeper. You feel my power washing your mind. It feels like anything else. Let all your thoughts go away. Open your mouth. Roll your eyes. Empty your head. Relax. Take a deep breath. Relax. Good boy. Now you are ready to be fully mindraped. Just relax and enjoy.

[olderthannetfic]

the way some people.... view violence and sex is something to behold (derogatory). like, the cognitive dissonance is working overtime, sis.

i literally once saw someone write about children being torn apart by beasts, the protagonist being mindraped, stalked, abused, and used by authority figures, they just created a whole hellscape of a world, then on the same blog, i saw them turn around and reblog anti posts specifically about sex.

like, i'm sorry, am i supposed to take you serious when you just wrote about a 10 year old being shish-kebabed and eaten by an eldritch monster in front of their sibling? because your type of penetration wasn't sexual, oh, it was just some kid being torn to pieces?

how tf is what you are doing any better or different? your artistic violence freedom vs my "illegal" sexual depravity?

like, get your shit together. this is embarrasing.

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[lakesbian]

alright this one is getting its own post instead of a reblog on a post that is Entirely Not About That. presenting the 'what if we put amy and alec in a room together' manifesto because the thing is that it is interesting but not in the way amy/alec shippers think

Amy shook her head, talking over her, “She’s always been emotional, passionate, unrestrained, and she’s channeling all this new emotion into hate, because it’s the closest equivalent.” “New emotion?” Regent asked.  “You mean you mindraped her.” Amy looked like she’d been slapped across the face.  I wasn’t surprised, but hearing it said out loud was unsettling.

“Nice,” Regent said.  “She could be a human-spider hybrid.  Add some insult to injury with the mindrape thing.” I could see Amy tense.

it is relevant to his character that he's the first person to cut through amy's euphemisms (and everyone else's avoidance of saying the unsettling part out loud) and outright say "you mindraped her." he calls the euphemistic language out and then intentionally repeats it a second time for no other reason than to bug her about it. it's vaguely reminiscent of something he says to sophia during his interlude:

“You and I are more alike than you’d suspect, I think,” he said. “We’re both arrogant assholes, yeah?  Difference is, I admit it, I don’t dress it up and tell myself that I’m a bitch and that that’s a good thing.”  He burned Emma’s face out of another photo.

he has a repeated habit of making people uncomfortable by calling something out for exactly what it is, whether it be "yeah sure cape groupies, my dad's girls, people i used my power on towards the end" or "you mean you mindraped her." he's desensitized enough to really all forms of violence to be unbothered by committing or witnessing them, but he seems to harbor a genuine pet peeve for people who obscure or unreasonably justify what they're actually doing. as uncomfortable as he can make taylor, it's often not that he's doing things worse than the other undersiders, but that he's the person most willing to openly admit what he's doing--or to pettily call out what someone else is doing.

i think it more or less boils down to the fact that he's never gotten to be the person on the peripherals of violence making up neat and tidy ways to talk about it: he spent his entire childhood being hurt in every way imaginable & being coerced into doing the same to others. i think it left him with a sort of genuine distaste for being expected to talk in circles around the viscerally awful things he had done to him or did to others, and subsequently, for people who have done similar things but can't fucking fess up to the reality of it. it's like he's been walking around his entire life just absolutely drenched in blood, witnessing so much else get covered in it, and he's starting to get legitimately bothered over people standing around twiddling their thumbs and pretending it's red paint. he knows it's blood. he's been tasting it since he was 6. he would really like if everyone else could also grow up and admit it's fucking blood.

it's always funny to me that amy/alec shipping is, like, a Thing--a niche thing, but a Thing, because i could not think of a rapist more hand-crafted to piss amy dallon off than alec vasil. he cannot go Three seconds in her presence without going "oh you raped her? you mean you raped her? with your mind? like she doesn't just have new feelings you specifically mean you mindraped her?"

she, on some level, views herself as someone who did harm because she's irrevocably, ontologically evil, and is sort of desperately obsessed with minimalizing or half-justifying her actions to herself so that she can avoid recognizing that she feels like she can't be better. she's clinging to the idea that she can be "redeemed" if she does something of equal measure in the opposite direction (e.g 'spending the rest of her life healing people' as she mentions), but because she can't even directly acknowledge how bad her actions actually were without crumbling under the weight of the idea that she's doomed to be that bad, she's fundamentally incapable of looking directly at what she did at this point in the story.

alec, on the other hand, is really fucking upfront and fairly objective about his actions--he never ties them into some Inarguable Truth About His Soul, and he's pretty honest about whether or not he thinks they're justifiable. in 14.1, he has this dialogue with cherie:

“When daddy had you practicing your powers, you ‘hijacked’ a few people at a time, used their bodies to get high with no consequences for you, you threw orgies for yourself…” “Again.  I was a kid.”

but despite the fact that sophia is, on some level, justified in his mind by his "eye for an eye, this is a favor for taylor" rhetoric--he's fine with admitting that he's also just doing it because, yeah, he's an arrogant asshole and he feels like it. some of it was because he was a kid being groomed, and some of it was because He Felt Like It.*

*sure, he only Felt Like It because he has a comically large cocktail of unpacked psychological issues--but he doesn't know that, he just knows he felt like it.

in other words, he doesn't subscribe to the idea that any of his actions are, like, Ontologically Predetermined By His Inner Being or even necessarily all related. he's like the fuckin' "might do it again, prolly not" dude from the sex offender shuffle. okay, sorry for saying that in my seriouspost. but his philosophies would clash hilariously badly with amy--he insists on accepting his own & others actions for exactly what they are, he's generally very invested in not being his father (being asked if he intends to turn out like his dad is one of the only times something briefly upsets him), and he's actually doing pretty okay at that. he's like...shockingly well-adjusted given the circumstances. his entire arc is more or less a slow upward climb.

i think having to be around someone who both believes and would outright admit "yeah i raped people, no i dunno if i feel that bad, no i'm not raking myself over the coals for it, yeah some of it was because i was a kid, yeah some of the other stuff wasn't, no i'm not Predestined To Suck," would like. clash with her beliefs abt 'ontologically evil' being a real thing, abt punishment as justice, etc. in a way that would really bother her. she spends a lot of her time in her head trying to twist things around until they feel salvageable to her, but alec is 0 amount concerned with rationalizing to make him feel alright--he just does things, some bad, most shitty attempts to be better.

it's, funnily enough, far more functional for improving than what amy has going on--he operates on material actions as opposed to her Self-Flagellating Thought Labyrinths, and the fact that he's busier moving on from things he can't materially change than he is kicking himself in the face means he can actually achieve some form of progress towards more functional approaches wrt human interaction. i think if amy had an extended conversation w/ him about the subject, she'd both be disgusted with him for not thinking thoughtcrime is real and deeply resentful that this fellow ontologically evil villain is doing better at moving forwards as a person than her despite not 24/7 flagellating himself + yearning for "redemption" like she is. it'd throw a disturbingly large wrench in her worldview, and she would not be happy about it.

oh, and alec would think she's weird and mopey and dumb and annoying and "why do it if you can't even admit it." and he would probably tell her as much. which is the point where i unlock the door to the room so alec can sprint out to escape amy's attempt to put tastebuds on his asshole.

[imageingrunge]

Sees a nice article my friend posted about the voice actor of The Emperor saying:

“everything The Emperor gives is considered. And I know that leans in towards players saying it’s all manipulation, and with all stuff like that it is, to a degree. I think every single character in Baldur’s Gate manipulates. In fact, I think we all manipulate.- . Anyone The Emperor encounters is likely already going to have a lot of weighty preconceptions that The Emperor may have to get through or contend with. Because of this, The Emperor’s very much on edge, they’re treading a very fine line" X

then i scroll down n see deranged comments like “see i always knew he’s an abuser, nice to us when it benefits them, a gaslighter and a narcissist. He’s cazador levels of evil and its all just a matter of time before he mindrapes us like he did to stelmane”

Do you know what the word fun means? And have you ever experienced it??? Its fun to peel back the layers of a character- see the motivation behind their actions and realize there is more to them than what I experienced the last time- Sorry for sucking the emperors big fat cock i guess???