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this is news to none of you but i'm a die-hard romantic and as long as there is genuine affection and sincere romantic interest present there's almost no situation where I don't want an ongoing relationship to become good and beautiful even when the involved parties are damaged or deeply flawed. I love love!!! I love redemption stories!!!!!!! I wanna see both!!!!! I wanna see people change and fall in love and change bECAUSE they fall in love and fall in love so hard THAT they change. There is nothing I ever want more than that. All the time!!!!!!!!!! I want my realistic projections to be proven wrong and I want true love to win the day!!!!! And I stop shipping things when it's clear that that possibility has been rejected utterly and completely but not before lol!!!!!!!
#anon this is as close as i'm going to come to answering your question lol#but thank you for sending it and i fully understand why you did <3#anyway maria once told me 'you ship ships where the people are really in love'#and it's so true#there's no other type for me#it's just that#powerless against it#i was able to crack the code of jason's street ambitious and deceptive coldness because i knew he didn't love her lolololololololololol#proposing to lyla with steel in his eye and ice in his heart#what a (wilding) (heartless) icon
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You know what I always think about? Percy is the classic funny boyfriend. He’s sarcastic and witty. Some of his jokes are sharp and clever, many are corny dad jokes. But nevertheless he’s hilarious. And yet, Rick rarely writes Annabeth laughing at his jokes. I feel like he thinks it’s empowering for Annabeth to just roll her eyes or scold him every time. But he’s funny asf!! Let his girlfriend think he’s funny!
There’s a scene in HoH where Percy makes Annabeth laugh when they’re climbing down a cliff, and she has to tell him to stop so she doesn’t fall to her death. Then in CotG, Percy says something and Annabeth smiles against her will, and it makes Percy so happy. Those scenes are rare, but so. damn. cute. That said, I wish Annabeth wasn’t always trying so hard not to laugh at his jokes. I want to see him be able to make her smile and laugh so easily that it’s not even fair to her. I mean, the guy can drop banger after banger—there’s so much opportunity.
If these new books are supposed to be lower stakes, give me percabeth laughter. Give me Percy cracking bad jokes and Annabeth bursting out laughing with no shame. Give me her cackling at his witty comment so hard that her abs hurt and tears fall from her eyes. Even though we know Percy is conventionally attractive, give me Grover making a joke that the reason Annabeth likes Percy so much is because she spends so much time with her eyes closed since she’s always laughing. I want people to think they’re kinda annoying. I want to see their friends giving them side eyes from across the table because Percy’s making Annabeth laugh so hard that it’s disrupting the whole room.
Annabeth’s reluctance to laugh made sense before they were dating and were bickering 24/7, when they didn’t want to show their true feelings. But that’s not the case anymore. And don’t get me wrong, it really frustrates me how Rick seems to be rapidly reducing Percy to simply being “the funny guy.” He’s stripping him of so many qualities and compensating with double the cheesy humor. But the worst part is that even when being funny is all Rick will allow him to be, Percy still doesn’t get to be the funny boyfriend. It’s as if he wants Annabeth to be too mature for her boyfriend’s bad humor. But if Percy is going to continue be diminished to the stupid, annoying guy who can’t take things seriously, the LEAST Rick can do is give him the ability to easily make his girlfriend laugh.
#let the poor guy make his girlfriend laugh#make it so annabeth is powerless against his humor#i just want to see rick put them back on the same level#not the weird dynamic he’s developed where annabeth is like his mother#they’re besties and battle partners#let them have fun together#pjo#hoo#percy jackson#annabeth chase#percabeth#percy jackson and the olympians#heroes of olympus#rick riordan#riordanverse
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so, watched ep 1 of the atla live action and uhm, imagine not wanting one of your main characters to depict sexism because you believe it doesn’t read well in Current Times, so instead you double down on the character’s obsession towards leadership in order to give him that extra edge. but in order to make that work u have to make his sister quietly obedient instead of an outspoken leading presence that has the potential to overshadow him. because silencing a female character in order to write out a male character’s story arc of unlearning sexism is obviously a better and less sexist outcome.
#also the show made kyoshi say the opening of the show instead of katara cos apparently they’re obsessed with robbing katara of her voice#she’s literally just an entire different character and i cannot think of why except to make sokka look like a more prominent leader#which also goes entirely against sokka’s character trait of consistently feeling powerless#i don’t normally vent post about stuff like this but i’m just so baffled by this#atla#anna rambles#avatar the last airbender
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the modern villainisation of demeter will never cease to enrage me bc it wasn’t ENOUGH to just take a story of a girl being torn from her home from everyone who loved her and dragged away to be forced into marriage and twist and corrupt it until it was a romance story about female empowerment that wasn’t ENOUGH they HAD to take the original hero of the story the mother who went to every length to find her daughter again to bring her home and demonise her character until she was this horrific overbearing unloving mother. overprotective controlling without love. they turn the story of her grief at her YOUNG daughter being torn from her without her knowledge into the story of a misunderstood bad boy and a horrible cruel mother who won’t give him a chance and i really find it sickening. it’s ironic, that the ever misogynist age of hellenistic greece, has a better grasp of how disgusting and horrifying this situation was that a modern, self proclaimed ‘feminist’ era.
#ovids version made me cry#imagine you’re just a nymph watching your friend torn away from you by the literal king of the dead#and despite knowing how powerless you are against him you still choose to stand up to him#to stand up for your friend#imagine being so torn apart by the grief of losing her you weep yourself to death#imagine turning that story into a good girl/bad boy romance#weird#anyway#the story of persephone is personal to me#bc i wish my mother loved me like that#demeter was a good mother#you all suck for portraying her as anything less#idc if you disagree#‘oh myth is open to interpretation and reinterpretation’#okay. well i don’t care.#there’s such thing as bad interpretations#making demeter the villain is a bad one#making hades a misunderstood protagonist is also a bad one
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Can’t stop thinking about claudeleine in their last moments. The last soft glance. The unknown whispered final words. How they kneel together hand in hand until Madeleine can’t bear the brunt of the sun anymore and wraps her arms around Claudia. How Claudia holds her close until there’s nothing left of her. The only person in the world to put her first and Claudia’s final moments are spent clutching their ashes in her hands.
#i am so fucking unwell over it#madeleine didn’t stand a chance against the sun being so young#so she mercifully burned quick#but claudia…she lingers and burns slowly and it’s the final fucking cruelty of her life#powerless as her companion is incinerated alongside her#i fucking HATE IT HERE 😭#interview with the vampire#iwtv spoilers#claudeleine
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"But lying there helpless with a massive aperture in my chest... I won't let that happen again."
Part of an art trade with @thisisaasecret00
#perceptor#idw1#maccadam#transformers#all hail megatron#ahm#tf#cerebrocentric art#eye strain#/i know i dont talk about Perceptor here but#/the fact that the realisation that he was defenseless and powerless against Turmoil was so shocking and terrifying to him#/that he modified his frame and composure to never ever let that happen to himself ever again#/is something that i think about often#/ :(
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6/9 - Jason Todd tarot card designs for Complete Candor by @vexfulfolly as part of the @batfam-big-bang
Read the fic here!
Other cards:
1-Babs 2-Cass 3-Bruce 4-Tim 5-Damian 6-Jason 7-Duke 8-Steph 9-Dick
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Image 1:
A design of "The Devil" tarot card. It has the texture of recycled paper and reads "THE DEVIL". A symbol of a gravestone is visible behind the numeral "XV".
A young Jason Todd in his Robin uniform tugs at a thick chain around his neck that comes down from the top of the frame. Matching shackles are around his wrists and he is buried up to his waist in dirt. His head is tilted up towards the chain. There is blood on his hands, arms, chest, and dripping down the right side of his face as well as from his nose.
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A design of "The Devil" tarot card. It has the texture of recycled paper and reads "THE DEVIL" upside-down. A symbol of a flame is visible behind the numeral "XV".
Jason Todd faces forward, filling most of the frame. He is in his Red Hood uniform and has narrowed pupil-less white eyes. He is holding the end of a thick chain in his right fist. Flames fill the background and bathe him in an orange light. The entire card is upside-down.
#fic rec: complete condor by vexfulfolly#batfam big bang#I did change these two at the LAST MOMENT as to which was upright and which was reversed#becasue visually it seemed better with robin jay as reversed and hood as upright#but thematically. much more the opposite#upright is about being trapped in a shitty situation and being unaware of or powerless to change it#generally in reference to addiction and abuse- both parts of Jason’s character esp pre-death#whereas reversed is closer to like… becoming aware of these and starting to fight against it#which is very much the entirety of jays character as red hood#so I did change them#i also take a little bit of twisted joy in the idea that it looks like jason is trapping himself#because in a way he is- he’s continuing the cycle and is still stuck in that warehouse and in a way he always will be#because he’s never given the chance to properly heal and recover by both the other characters and himself (and bad writing)#which again. very thematically on point with this card#sorry to anyone hoping/expecting for Jason to be Death but I think the Devil is crueller in a way too#dc comics#fanart#jason todd#robin#red hood#batfam#tma#the magnus archives#tarot cards#tarot art#my scribbles#cw blood#tw blood
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Sitting up with my elf friend, bleary-eyed and tired, to make sure they don't freak out after they tried the edibles I got from the Shire even though I warned them specifically not to do that
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mago relationship cycle btw. 90%procent of romantics stop trying right before getting their ideal sweetheart‼keep killing those people.goodnight
#mago#rotates him some more.theu closer he gets to someone the worse it is forthem if he starts feeling negatively abt them´ -`)#so hes always like ok im not getting involved with any humans again.(cant date creatures bc hes powerless against themm))
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"Grief suffocated. Grief paralysed. Grief was a cruel, heavy boot pressed so hard against his chest that he could not breathe" - R.F. Kuang, Babel
#i love the way babel depicts rage and anger towards something unjust that keeps happening but you feel powerless against#babel an arcane history#studyblr#brown aesthetic#dark academia#the song of achilles#university#study motivation#on my desk
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They do all kinds of unimaginable things in public but Majima still gets embarrassed when Kiryu does small and cute acts of love 💖
#Majima is powerless against Kiryu's wholesomeness#even scary yakuza guys can be cute#they're so silly#yakuza#like a dragon#ryu ga gotoku#rgg#龍が如く#真島吾朗#桐生一馬#真桐#桐真#goro majima#kazuma kiryu#kiryu kazuma#majima goro#kazumaji#fanart#my art#gazkerber#illustration#games#videogames
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okay but what if we get silvie seeing that ominous creepy side of Rick when he talks about the coliseum?
what if we see real time just how dangerous a person who had to fight for their life every day can be? What if he’s protecting his friends from someone trying to hurt them and he slips back into that fight mode. And Molly and Silvie have to stop him from causing severe bodily harm to someone.
I think that when in the coliseum, based on how he talked about it, he still had to kill people, those who wouldn’t become friends. I feel like when it comes down to it he can be downright terrifying if he wants to be, he just never is because he genuinely just wants to be friends with people. Either because it’s a defense mechanism of self preservation or knowing that the more friends he has the more likely he’ll be able to keep them safe.
or we just see Rick put someone in a chokehold really easily and it freaks the others out just a little. I just think it be neat, he has such wildly different personalities for different situations, he’s so great
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Anon, you mind reader. How did you know that Rick’s backstory has been rotating a bunch in my head too? Now you’ve just sent me on a full-on ramble I want to let out about this guy.
I hope you know what you’ve just pushed me to do :3
(Btw, Prison of Plastic spoilers ⚠️)
I’ve always interpreted Rick’s pushiness about making friends comes from a raw feeling of wanting to survive. After all, his powers and proficiency rely on the friends he does have and it drops down whenever his friend count drops as well.
And the arena’s a terribly cruel place where the weakest ones eventually die at some point. And I think Rick’s fully aware of that. He knows his survival is determined by his ability to fight, and how can he do that without friends? I think that’s why he’s so pushy and insistent to make friends with people he just met immediately. It must feel so daunting to literally have 0 proficiency in a very new place nonetheless. So vulnerable too…
But aside from his epithet powers, I’m sure Rick can improvise as well if his proficiency is indeed low at the moment. I won’t be surprised if he’s efficient in targeting fatal areas or even use sorcery to take down threats out of defence.
(Rick doesn’t strike me as a malicious guy. I feel like he kills in the arena only when necessary to live.)
I agree with you, Anon. He could absolutely fold someone if he needs to, but I doubt that would be his first choice. Rick did escape the colosseum for a chance at a better start, so I think he’d be a lot more reserved in committing bloodshed and rather try to be more friendly to everyone he meets to build up his strength again. If he could, I feel like he’d much rather keep from making enemies. (Unless….. time calls. He’s shown to be open to the option in the POP!book)
That doesn’t mean his traumatic experiences from the colosseum don’t seep out to be observed by others though. No one else knows about his past other than Molly but uhhhhh…. questionable stuff happens y’know?
(Remember how Rick first sees Lorelai and his instinctive reaction is to yell “WITCH-!” and shoot at her? What if that’s just his reflex from years of fighting and killing other witches and wizards?)
(He already freaks the others out a lot in many diff ways, lol)
Btw Anon, sorry for not drawing Rick unhinged with someone in a chokehold like you requested, I didn’t have the motivation or time for a full action scene drawing. 😅 But if you really want me to, just send me another ask and I’ll find some time for it :))
#prison of plastic spoilers#epithet erased#my art stuff#flicker’s art stuff#molly blyndeff#sylvester ashling#sylvie ashling#giovanni potage#rick shades#toidei gourami#character ramble#the fact that Rick’s trauma is sooo recent#just freaking destroys me istg#ughh the thought that he switches to survival mode#and how he breaks whenever people unfriend him#it’s funny at first with no context#but do you think he also sobs because he’s afraid of his proficiency going down and leaving him powerless + defenceless against the horrors?#my guyyyy#why Tf is death such a norm in your life#stooopp#jello give him a happy ending >:((#can you tell chapter 8’s implications depressed me?#ask
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EBENEZER SCROOGE - A CHRISTMAS CAROL - 2020
#TIS THE SEASON#Andrew Lincoln#*#A Christmas Carol#DADDY SCROOGE#man 2020 was wild#roll me into the fog mr scrooge#ill work for free mr scrooge#bob i'll take your shifts#i am powerless against a man in a waistcoat#the ghosts can watch idc#who said that#me....many times#let me wear the hat
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There’s something about seeing a man in his jammie’s with messy hair and a groggy sleepy voice that makes me absolutely feral.
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No shade @ everyone in Middle-earth but Bill and Ted could've gotten the Ring to Mount Doom and been fine
#all the Ring's influence all Sauron's forces are powerless against Bill and Ted's benevolent queerplatonic stupidity#Bill and Ted#Lord of the Rings#why this is hell nor am I out of it
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For the first time in his life, Darth Vader, the greatest nightmare of those who oppose the Empire, has met his match.
The Ghost crew can’t believe what they’re seeing.
[part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
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reblog, don’t repost. thank you
#he can defeat hundreds of rebels#but he's powerless against a rebellious teenager#star wars#Darth Vader#Anakin Skywalker#Luke Skywalker#leia organa#zeb orrelios#chopper#ezra bridger#sabine wren#hera syndulla#kanan jarrus#Sith AU#Vader Family#Nieriel#2020
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