#now theyre both just being actively hostile towards each other

[lone-sk]

I love The Sopranos so much. On the surface, it's about all these profound topics, like the importance of family, ties to one's heritage, etc. But at its core, it's about the world's worst therapist and the world's worst therapy patient creating the most codependent relationship ever.

[riotshotguns]

Okay you know what I feel like I should repay you because you've in the past inadvertently helped me by letting me gain enough vague knowledge of R6Siege to pretend I've played it to get like 50¢ from a survey so: Tell me about Lion! He seems like a guy you're eager to talk about

OH BOY TYSM glad i could help you get like 50¢ from a survey with my insanity . i’m sorry for all the information you’re about to lesrn he sucks so fuckign bad but i love him so much

so basically lion was a super rebellious teenager in a very well-off conservative catholic family and he ruined his life when he was 18 by fucking up and getting his at the time girlfriend pregnant. he begged her to get an abortion because his family is so religious they’d absolutely kill him if they found out, she said no, he tried to pressure her into it and she left, it was a whole thing. they did find out and disowned his ass and he, now faced with being kicked out of the house with absolutely nothing at 18, went on a depression and fear fueled bender and landed in the hospital . absolutely sucked 0/10 bad time

so when he got outta this hospital he decided he ws gonna clean up his life by joining the military and try to be a good person. wild choice but yk its a military fps game what do you expect . he also became catholic again which i mean yeah sure fine i guess thats his choice. after a while (like a Long while) his unit’s chaplain arranged a meeting with the ex girlfriend and the child, and he was like “oh SHIT my actions have consequences this child almost didn’t exist” and now makes an effort to be in his son’s life even though the kid grew up calling someone else dad bc the gf got married at some point i think? idk regardless lion tries to be a good parent despite his past fuckups and i like that about him

but anyway so lion joins the gign, then gets recruited for cbrn which is like . anti-bioterrorism basically, where he meets doc and twitch (two other gign operators that r in the game) during an ebola outbreak. lion, being a quarantine specialist, decides to quarantine a bunch of infected people to prevent the spread of the virus. doc is NOT happy about this because hes hardcore humanitarian and wants to try to help them. because of lion’s shitty quarantine practices they wind up dying, and doc has blamed him ever since which is totally fuckin fair . they both had a lot of mean things to say to each other, namely that lion lacks empathy and that doc’s belief that People Should Not Die If It’s Preventable is a liability. the two have been actively hostile towards each other for a long time, but have reached a stable point in the past couple seasons. theyre both beginning to move on and work together to lead wolfguard, which is rainbow’s rescue unit essentially

so now with all the backstory shit out of the way, what i like about this wretched beast; he sucks, he fucked up a whole lot, but he’s trying so very hard to do better for the people he cares about and for himself. he’s confident and even cocky when it comes to his combat skills but he absolutely does not trust his civilian instincts because of the things he’s done in the past so he’s really, really bad at interacting with people . he tends to come off as an arrogant asshole (which is kind of true honestly) and has gotten into fights with so so many other members of rainbow because he’s just so full of fuckin attitude. he also canonically likes heavy metal and cats and is fascinated by virology and vector control :] and when he’s not doing stuff for team rainbow he tries to help his community by volunteering for various stuff

in conclusion; i love this wretched beast. he’s the reason i got into r6 and i rotate him in my brain every day because he is just Inch Resting to me. i could talk about my nighthaven lion thoughts BUT tahts not even canon adjacent that’s just me being insane so i will save that for another day . sorry for the 800 page essay i just fjskgkakkgks lion my beloved . i will leave you with this picture of him bc i like it :]

[mchi22]

☕ Tell us about your thoughts on an HLVRAI character of your choice

oh bestie you have given me too much power <3

so benny from funny. nobody knows how 2 characterize him correctly and it pains me. wayne said MULTIPLE times throughout the commentary/q&a streams that scorpy basically wasnt even playing a character, and scorpy mentioned that he kept needing to chime in with random antagonistic shit because he forgot he was even supposed to be playing a villain. repeatedly through the series, but more noticably in act 4 specifically, benrey alludes to not wanting to go to xen, which can be interpreted as being because he knows theres no way he can avoid his role as the final boss once they go there.

during the battle, he switches between being actively hostile towards everyone else, and saying how he didnt want things to go this way- he doesnt want to be the final boss.

benrey isnt a bad person, really. he had to fulfill his role as the final boss, but ultimately the only person he hurt was gordon, who got his hand back in the end anyway. he was a fucking nuisance and intentionally provoked gordon repeatedly, but hes not evil.

when benrey comes back in the acab stream, he doesnt hold any resentment for gordon or anyone else in the science team for killing him. a lot of people like to take the more realistic approach of depicting their relationship where both parties need time to become used to each other's presences, but in the acab stream, the time it takes between gordon acknowledging benrey and saying "im coming to terms with the fact that benrey is here" is 56 seconds. now that theyre out of black mesa, benrey has no obligation to be a villain, so theres no reason for him to hate gordon or vice versa. hes still an asshole, sure, but that all ties back to the fact that hes a character played by scorpy, who is friends with wayne. they dont hate each other, so its presumably hard for them to try and depict hatred between their characters, so they both act half-heartedly rude and petty to each other in a way thats still obviously just baseless banter

so like yeah, benrey is still causing problems and being antagonistic, but its clearly in a friendly way, or at least much more so than in hlvrai

so basically in conclusion benny is a little bitch but hes not evil and didnt wanna be the villain ok thanks (-:

[unidentifiedfuckingthing]

just talking about proship anti anti-anti shit and why i think a punitive stance on internet content doesnt work. dont misconstrue this. if you call yourself an anti-anti i hate you

honestly i think the real way we break the cycles of kids being traumatized/groomed by people/content on the internet isnt by trying to stifle all instances of that content because

-theres no clear line between Okay and Not Okay in an objective sense, partially because this is informed by cultural ideas of what's appropriate and not and there's never going to be one answer of what is and isn't appropriate that doesn't clash with another person's sense of that and that doesn't explicitly make one of them wrong;

-and more importantly, because the line at which something becomes a traumatic or vulnerable subject is completely different for each person. for some people even content that's benign in an objective sense can strike a bad chord for them personally.

i think the actual answer is by providing ANY kind of useful support structure for children and other vulnerable people especially on the internet, in a way that actually reaches out to people, for the same reason as that internet safety post about how conventional internet safety is filled with enough disrespectful and infantilizing lies about every internet friend being a 40-year old man looking for children that its difficult to respect the things that are true, because when people do offer support it's never in the right place, or enough of it, or not filled with assumptions that alienate its audience, and honestly the worst is that its an area that feels shameful to accept help for. partially because it IS shameful! the way people do psas toward tweens about harmful internet content on this site is so abrasive and demeaning to the people its supposedly trying to help! its not about helping its just about jerking yourself off about how good you are at sjw theater! nobody with any stance in particular treats kids or victims like rational people because internet discourse lacks the nuance to allow that children and victims both have full agency in their actions and can and will make bad decisions, AND that they deserve respect and sympathy and support regardless of making decisions you dont like. yelling at kids and then feeling smug about how no kids will listen to your correct opinions because theyre dipshits who intentionally do things the wrong way isnt activism!

i dont have like a 12-step plan on how to make the internet safer but i do feel that like most things the answer is increasing the pitiful amount of good before trying to stamp out the bad that exists in its place. even if the laws about internet content werent externally motivated for profit and subjugation of swers i just think that anything from the direction of trying to direct whats allowed and disallowed is not going to ever be capable of actually succeeding in making the internet a safe place the same way that i think incarceration wont fix all crime. i sure would fucking love to never have to quickly scroll past "underage" tags on porn ever again but i also think that if our current methods actually worked we would see them working by now

all i want is to see general culture and internet culture both become a less hostile space for children and victims. i want a broad internet culture that ALLOWS children to understand what being manipulated means and how to recognize it and what to do about it, and to know that they can go to people without feeling like its an admission of guilt that you found yourself in that situation even after hearing internet "safety" lectures, and to know that theyre safe around people. and in my personal perspective all the internet legislation of the last 10 years has made absolutely no difference for me. if i were 11 right now in 2021 and wanted to talk to someone about how the internet (among other things) made me hypersexual and made me fear my sexual safety around adults i wouldn't feel a single bit safer than i did then. the problem isnt a finite number of bad actors corrupting the internet that if we locked them all up wed all be saved, its that our entire culture is so hostile to victims of sexual violence and especially underage victims of sexual violence that

-it isnt hard for people to fall into habits that create sexual violence, and

-theres nothing to balance out that influence for both the perpetrators and the victims, and

-its hard for victims to even recognized they were victimized because the state of our society is already so entrenched in the normalization of sexual violence, and

-if they do recognize it theres nowhere for them to go other than back to that sexual violence. sequestering people away into therapy and self help and the whims of the medical system where outside people can pretend sexual violence doesnt exist while people are bounced between therapists who cant help them is not a support structure btw.

this whole discourse has gotten so out of control and radicalized into black and white arguments and knee jerk reactions and even for all that what do we have to show that were benefiting victims?? we're not! its all just outrage addiction! and its fucking ridiculous!! im tired of it!!!

[elfdyke]

hello its harlisleys on my main!! for enrichment: what are the friend groups in the maxverse! do the sirens get along with the birds of prey? any thoughts about where the other rogues fit in? love ur designs so far!

im gona put the answer under the cut cuz i made little relationship charts to go with this and it gets long dkfgdkfjgdf

ALSO THANKUUU THIS WAS VERY ENRICHING Q__Q <3

OK off the top of my head, here are the main friend groups

harley quinn, poison ivy, selina kyle 

barbara gordon, dick grayson, jason todd

harley quinn, poison ivy, dinah lance, helena bertinelli

and then some ! important dynamics are- 

selina + bruce

harley + helena

harley + dinah

harley + joker

jason + ivy + harley

barbara + joker + jason

jason + bruce

bruce + barbara

bruce + harley + ivy

cass + harley

cass + barbara

(im sure i forgot some but these r like. the most important ones i can remember!)

this is gona be very much a harley centric world but i do wana explore other dynamics and relationships!! i know i wana dive more into the birds of prey characters as well as the batfam!!

FOR THE OTHER ROGUES!!

i know i want to have twoface/harvey and bruce be weird ex almosts from college, which causes a lot of strife. 

scarecrow and harley know each other and are friendly!! 

harley and deadshot hook up during suicide squad activities (harley would be removed from the team after her first mission via Bruce Wayne, but she does end up being forced into it). also im channeling assault on arkham vibes with their dynamic. he canot rly stand her but isnt actually cruel to her, and she is mainly just using him but feels affectionate towards him.

i have not thought abt how the dynamic would work storywise but i desperately want killer croc and harley to be friends. i will reflect on this

black mask is super important for dinahs story!! hes like. her main villain : (

red hood is very important in my story!!! harley and ivy take him in after the joker kills him, and ivy revives him with the powers of the green, causing him to be connected to it as well (though he has no control over it and the things can do are very weak/not relevant to him skillset wise). hes basically harley and ivys gay son dkfgndkf, he views them as his parental figures over bruce, and while this is mainly to Spite bruce, he really does trust and care for them. more ivy than harley bc .. harley does some fuck shit. but he cares for harley too

heres some chronological relationship charts ft. birds of prey and gotham city sirens : )

(basically during the original bop, babs and dinah start it, then renee and helena join later, babs n dinah have a very awkward dynamic with helena bc shes gay and has never rly seen Other gay ppl, and barbara is very hostile and takes her staring at them as her being homophobic so. its not GREAT!!!)

(a while after the birds break up, harley and helena end up working together and end up hooking up a few times, its kinda weird, kinda tender, and its mainly just harley trying her best try and give helena a little support which is at the current time pretty uncharacteristic for her)

(the sirens are together at the same time as harley/helena hookups, this is the longest of harleys joker free periods so its when shes at her healthiest, though she is clearly still struggling)

(this is a massive jump in the plot but. its for the relationship charts. we skip past a huge arc ft harley/ivy getting together, and becoming safe and settled with each other. harley and dinah meet up and begin a gay little fwb relationship post bop events , bop events are similar to in the movie but i did take my own spin on them, so theyre. also different ! ) ((also also just 2 be clear, while ivy was jealous of helena, that was bc she wanted the intimacy and love harley was giving her. now that they are in a committed and healthy relationship, ivy is ok with harley having certain other partners that theyve discussed n agreed on! its very much something they talk about unlike what the comics show :/ ))

(babs ends up initiating the birds of prey’s comeback. dinah and helena are both very unsure abt it bc uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh the last time they worked together ended. VERY BADLY!!!! which i will release in more detail Soon. but. they end up agreeing and actually do form a rly good cohesive team and despite the awkwardness of their dynamic get a lot of good stuff done!)