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stupid as shit that i can be upset by anything, actually, but wow it turns out the moment you are not in control of what you’re getting into, it goes poorly very fast.
#so i should be in control of everything all the time. this is a reasonable expectation of myself and the world i interact with and will#protect me from all harm.#okay no these posts probably qualify for#vent#fucks sake im upset about bad warnings and im failing my own lackluster tagging system while im at it. christ.
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The fact that Xie Lian is often unable to hide his pain from Hua Cheng, like when there's a needle stuck in his foot, is to me what shows most how deep their love for each other goes.
Xie Lian feels so safe with Hua Cheng, so understood, respected and loved, that even his body fully knows it and is unable to hide anything from Hua Cheng because it doesn't feel the need to.
#and this obviously applies to things other than physical pain as well!#i love hua cheng so much. his respect for xie lian's pain means everything to me#and i love that he's willing to go 'against' xie lian if that's what's necessary to protect him from getting harmed#especially because that isn't something hua cheng always likes to do#catching myself automatically unmasking that i'm in pain around certain people (or even almost being unable to mask it all)#is one of the best feelings in the world to me and i loved seeing that in tgcf so much!#i could talk about the topic of pain in tgcf and cry about hualian all day lmao#tgcf#tgcf thoughts#tgcf spoilers#heaven official's blessing#hualian#hua cheng#xie lian#cw pain#cw physical pain#cw chronic pain#cw injury#my thoughts
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godddddddddddd the vibes/agonizing Cinematique Parallels & Contrasts between taash and a romanced lucanis when harding sacrifices herself are just. unspeakable. and excruciating. they keep going through the same experiences, but taash repeatedly watches lucanis get back what he thought he'd lost, disbelievingly, in ways he would never have dared to hope for in his wildest dreams if it had even occurred to him to do so or have those. while they just. don't. nothing ever comes back for them. lucanis gets his tama back he gets rook back he even gets to keep his cousin in some fashion any way it shakes out. and how on earth could you ever begrudge him any of that for even a moment, especially if you had to see his eyes every day while rook was gone. but also here you stand with your empty hands and your burned-out ruin of a heart with nothing to show for all your love but grief and ash. what do you say to each other after something that. what could you possibly say to each other. what the fuck. what the hell.
there are some incredibly painful and difficult things that can happen between all these people even when no one is acting with anything but the best of intentions every step of the way, and it's such a good theme that keeps breaking through in the writing in this game. it doesn't matter if it's true (because of course it isn't, it's just an illogical but understandable emotional reaction), the guilty feeling that your happiness is at the expense of the happiness of someone else you care about is always lurking. we are inextricably linked. for good, and for ill. joy and regret unavoidably intertwined -- you don't get one fully without the other. and taash truly gets. mostly regret, depending on what you do. jesus christ.
also this is why I don't mind the 'lack of conflict' between the main cast at all. that's the fucking point. horrible and heartwrenching things can still happen between people without active malice or harmful intentions or even fundamental disagreements ever entering into it at all. isn't that awful? isn't that painful to sit with? that you can mean no harm and still cause it, even -- sometimes especially -- to people you love? doesn't it fill you with a very specific kind of dread that actions however well-intentioned have consequences you couldn't have forseen but have to live with now anyway and you won't always be the one to pay the price; that's not under your control?
#there's a protective hand held over lucanis dellamorte in this universe (it's me. that's my hand. shielding him from all harm)#I can't believe how badly I feel like I've fucked taash over I'm in tears I'm so stupidly sorry!!!!!!#dragon age#dragon age: the veilguard#dragon age: the veilguard spoilers#dragon age spoilers#taash#lucanis dellamorte#rook x lucanis#rookanis#obviously if you don't save treviso and davrin sacrifices himself... completely different story. completely different reflections.#and that rocks so severely. they're all thematically interlocked they've got undercurrents that overlap
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genuinely baffled by how some people see homura as evil. how on earth do you watch rebellion and come to that conclusion
#not rb#pmmm#the entire time I was binging madoka with a friend I was. waiting for her to do something really fucked up#that would justify all the discourse I've seen/heard about#even my friend was like “oh just you wait”#plot twist: the self-declared demon is just a mentally ill teenager! many such cases#homura has such an. obviously warped view of herself no wonder she fucking acts like that#how the fuck does anyone take what she says at face value???????#I would even go as far as to say that she's not even a particularly strong judas parallel#her betrayal of madoka is selfish‚ but it's born out of a need to protect her.#it's an extension of what she was trying to achieve in the original series#judas betrays jesus out of envy. out of obsessive hatred. not‚ notably‚ out of any concern for his wellbeing/happiness#even the more charitable interpretations of judas depict the betrayal as something he understands to be a pointlessly cruel act.#he gains nothing/very little from it. often‚ he only harms himself#homura absolutely has something to gain from betraying madoka‚ but the thing she gains IS MADOKA#it's unhealthy! it's twisted! but it's love!!!! it's badly coping with grief!!!!!!!!!!#it's selfishness born out of selflessness!!!!!!!!!!#homura's situation is so uniquely fucked to begin with that I can't really understand how anyone can see her acting against it as “evil”#the law of cycles doesn't really “fix” a lot. it's better than the original status quo#but I can't blame homura for wanting to sever madoka from her role and trapping her in mundanity#because she's not wrong!!!!!!!!! madoka SHOULD be a regular teenage girl living her life#contract or not#idk. homura better do something really fucked up in walpurgisnacht rising if she wants me to take her demon shtick seriously. anyways‚
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it is quite funny to me as someone who studies philosophy and has had to have the conversations that bh and ludinus have been having many times over and often with people who like ludinus do not have any reading comprehension and truly like. the notion of “this shouldn’t exist” is almost always one that comes up regardless of whether it’s a discussion on the metaphysics of a potential God(s) or divinity, high political powers, or vehicles of systemic oppression. and what anyone who cares about people more than their ideals (even, sometimes, ideals that started out being about people but quickly come to be about the ideals themselves) realizes very quickly in a philosophical discussion about what should and shouldn’t exist is that it does not matter if what you’ve decided ‘shouldn’t’ exist does in fact already exist. like that tends to be the difference between sociopolitical philosophy that actually has teeth and substance in the world — a willingness to engage with the world as it is, not as it should be. because you can have the perfect image of a just and wonderful future world, but if you do not at every step reckon with the unjust world from which you are aiming at that future, you’re doing nothing. ideals are helpful because they aim us toward goals and hopes, but they’re nothing without a reality that grounds them.
and so people like ludinus, who in the real world would play the role of a graduate student with critical thinking skills that make every professor he comes across question how he arrived at his level of study, they don’t have Wrong ideals, there’s obviously plenty of reasons why an exandria without gods might in fact be a better place for mortals (there are also many Many reasons why it would not). but ludinus has also chosen his ideals to weigh heavier than the mortals he claims to uphold them with. i think ashton is also interesting, because i think a lot of their positions have a fun fluctuation between being ideal focused and person focused, where sometimes they’re focused on how unfair life is in a very nihilistic position, and at other times they seem quite clear about how much ideals help no one if they’re not second to the desire to help others. and i think that made their role in the convo with ludinus in 102 especially interesting and irritating (but in a narratively fulfilling way). anyway, truly so fun watching ludinus argue with the amount of fallacies and undeserved confidence of like right wing first year students in an ethics class explaining how actually the ends justify the means and thanos had the right idea actually if it means no more starvation. get a grip old man.
#ludinus da'leth#cr3#critical role#cr spoilers#ashton greymoore#i don’t think ludinus is neat at all i think he’s fucking dumb as bricks and not even in an fun way#i do think he prompts interesting dynamics in the party though so he’s extremely valuable in the narrative#but like . ludinus is truly emblematic of exactly what brennan was talkin about when he was referencing#ursula k le guin and talking about how evil is often simple and good is endlessly complex#it is Easy. (which is not to say unwarranted) to look at your own pain and say Burn Down Everything That Caused It And Threatens to Do So#And Burn Everything If It Allows Me To Protect Myself From Being Harmed Ever Again#which is. both ludinus and most of the betrayers#it is much much harder to feel the desire to burn everything and still find something worth fighting for anyway . even if it’s just the#hope that you won’t have to burn everything .
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It was low-key so hot when in the second batman live action, Cillian Crane said "I said my drugs would take you places, I never said they would be places you'd want to go"
I need Btaa scarecrow to say precisely those lines now because he is essentially Cillian crow just fan fitted to be more accurate.
(Huge ass massive character rant in the tags lol, I LOVE JON SO SO SO SO SO MUCH)
#im actually really enjoying seeing all the different faces and behavioural manurisms of the different Cranes.#they are all so unique from each other despite being all the same guy#btaa sounds like he actually does his own drugs in his free time and actively promotes drug misuse to children#WHICH IS LITTERALY CRAZY#codotverse has given me an even deeper view into Scarecrows character making scarecrow a split personality front to protect Jon#showing clearly the severity of his childhood trauma to where his brain created scarecrow to defend him from more psychological harm#Which is so awesome how Codot applied actual real life psychology and diagnosis#to explain Jons actions and show Scarecrow as not just a mask but a physical part of himself#with a mind and actions of his own that he justifies through wanting to protect Jon#can you tell I love Codot Jon#then there was Mof Jon who bless him was bullied for things completely out of his control#ofcourse Jons actions are still unforgivable and evil unjustifiable acts if terrorism but its the complexity of his character that makes me#love him so much.#Jonathan crane#the scarecrow#cillian scarecrow#nolanverse#codotverse#codot Jonathan crane#codot scarecrow#btaa scarecrow#btaa#Honourable mention goes to btas Jon#less justifiable bro I love you but you were straight up just psychologically torturing folk#batman the audio adventures#btas#btas scarecrow#batman the animated series
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Galladrabbles: Grip.
Thank you @darlingian for this week’s @galladrabbles prompt! ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ
It’s kind of the precursor to this one!
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“That a threat or a promise?”
“Excuse me?”
Gallagher nods at his knuckles. Mickey follows his gaze, bewildered.
“‘Fuck you up.’ You follow through with that?”
Gallagher’s lopsided smile only serves to convince Mickey further that the redhead doesn’t realise the implication behind his ability to actually understand the runes tattooed onto Mickey’s knuckles.
“What, these?” he asks, gripping his fingers tight and displaying his knuckles. He has to make sure.
“Yeah.”
Gallagher can understand them. He can read the runes.
He’s not supposed to.
It’s in an ancient tongue, decipherable only by Mickey’s people and—
The Chosen One.
Fuck.
#the moment mickey realises that ian IS the chosen one#dun dun dun#chosen one au#galladrabbles#mickey milkovich #is a powerful sorcerer who is tired of having to weed out fake chosen ones but#ian gallagher#is showing signs after signs of being the real deal#in my head the runes were tattooed onto mickey by a well meaning & protective relative#it’s to protect mickey from harm & yes it’s both a threat and a promise lol#but other people arent supposed to be able to read them#the chosen one though#it was said that no magic is beyond the chosen one#he understands all magic and all magic is his#so to ian those runes just translate to FUCK U-UP because thats essentially what the rune says in the milkoviches’ ancient tongue#just a crude threat that doubles as protection lmao#ah but look at me flooding the tags#imma go now#gallavich
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ik everybody thinks that "his face crumpled. "he hates me," he said. "all i do is love him, but he hates me, he just hates me, i don’t know why." is gonna be ty talking to dru but what if it’s julian????!?
#like dude that would be emotional as hell#bc all julian wants to do is protect them all from harm but this isn't up to him and his brother is heartbroken#and he can't do anything about it#and and -#anyways just saying it would be super emo if it was julian but ALSO i really REALLY love it being dru#bc that would mean those two are finally bonding with eachother and letting out their fears and i need that so (i mean /so/) freaking badly#but yeah this snippet causes me actual pain#<- and i mean that#like my heart just got all knotted up this scene (and in general series) will be my downfall#ty blackthorn#julian blackthorn#kit herondale#kit x ty#kitty#the last king of faerie#the wicked powers#tlkof#twp#tsc
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"love has always been the world's best secret ingredient" -> "I'd rather just get rid of them" Joshua kiryu
"there's only one way to stay alive in this shibuya: Trust your partner" -> "in a way, he's been alone all his life" Joshua Kiryu
#twewy#joshua kiryu#ahisoaihih where am I going with this how to express it....#also like. Just the whole of day 5's quizzes#Joshua LOVES people Joshua LOVES shibuya Joshua doesn't want to erase it#He's not a misanthrope!!! He wants to believe in people SO MUCH!#but. he's about ready to give up. He doesn't WANT to. He jumps at the chance for megumi to prove him wrong#aio;iejaoij cursed with being inarticulate.#And. Joshua's love in no way moves him to 'protect'. Or even stops him from he himself harming them... wordshard#he's a lil screwed up (affectionate)#he rewards his proxies for making the choices he himself does not (can not? will not?)#Joshua's willingness to erase shibuya being motivated in part to protect the rest of tokyo/japan/the world#Also like. Sota and nao. A part me wonders#well watching endless failures of the reapers game may sap his faith and being able to see those two partially reignited it#BUT#Sota and nao also feel like they're supposed to be so unextradordinary#I can't believe they're so much better than the previous plethora of players so hmm they shouldn't be so foreign to him#hmmm hmmm hmm endlessly fascinating#Originally I was thinking: well twewy was made for the ds partnership is mandated by hardware and not so much meant to be reflective of the#in game composer. But then in interviews where they were like 'early twewy was also based on team concept' before slimming it down to duo#More is said about 'alone all his life' Joshua running a game about partners than his metaphysical status ever could
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I think what makes these harder Mirror Dungeons and Refraction Railway so special to me is the number of times I say, "I trust [Sinner]," or, alternatively, "I believe in [Sinner]."
Because, yes, ultimately is is my own knowledge and strategy that pulls through, but it feels special when I imagine I'm placing my trust in them. And thinking about it like that makes me imagine how they'd react to Sherry saying those things. She trusts them; she believes in them; she knows that, no matter what, they will pull through. I'm certain hearing her say those things would mean something to them.
#Sherry doesn't say ''I love you''--she shows her love in other ways ... and she says it in a different way‚ too#it reminds me a lot of the Three Garidebs case from the books ... when Sherlock gets very protective of Watson--#--and that's how the latter realizes Sherlock does genuinely care for him ... it's not that he *doesn't* love others#it's that he has a different way of showing that he loves them#and‚ naturally‚ Sherry is the same way#also ... her saying this specifically about Don Quixote‚ Heathcliff‚ Ishmael‚ and Sinclair gets me#Don really looks up to Sherry--she's a Fixer‚ someone DQ idolizes--so having her trust means the world to her#Ishmael counts herself lucky to be seen as dependable‚ especially given how Sherry can be when it comes to strategy (she's very strict)#Sinclair ... he'd just be so happy Sherry sees him as a valuable member of the team--I think he'd get a bit overwhelmed after--#--hearing her say she trusts/believes in him#and Heathcliff ... well#Heathcliff is the person she loves most#and he's been through so much ... he's hit his lowest point and truly believed he's worthless and a burden‚ harming everyone he loves#but‚ despite his flaws--despite the things he's internalized and thinks everyone believes he is--Sherry trusts him#and‚ in turn‚ he trusts her--they all do#si: to a great mind‚ nothing is little 🤎#Into the Inferno 🚇#scattered pages
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really hate that the most pervasive fan-interpretation of isaac is (or at least used to be) "soft, sad, innocent puppy in love with scott". like in love with scott maybe sure. sad sure. but he's not SOFT or INNOCENT, he's a BITCH and he's MEAN and his automatic reaction to anyone he doesn't like is to try to fistfight and/or murder them. he has his soft moments but they are far overwhelmed by what a petty bitch he is. and to me thats like the peak of his character and why i love him as much as i do but so much of the fandom apparently saw him and threw all that out the window.
#like yall really just took all the flavor away from my boy#(this post isnt adressing anyone that follows me or even really anyone i've seen in the current teen wolf tumblr community)#(this is more about the subset of fans that i think are probably the same subset of fans that ship sterek and made all those edited#-screencaps whenever i look for teen wolf stuff on pinterest)#magpie thoughts#magpie's teen wolf experience#i now have a visceral reaction anytime i see isaac described as a puppy.#on top of everything else it also just feels kinda like infantilizing an abuse victim#like ''oh poor little pathetic baby never did a thing wrong in his life must protect from all harm''#like. NO#he did LOTS OF THINGS wrong. he was hungry for power and control after having basically none his whole life and it made him reckless and#-cruel (at least at first). he tried to kill people and relished in it. and even after he pledged eternal devotion to scott or whatever and#-switched sides he was still bitchy as all hell. and i LOVE HIM FOR IT#taking away all of that and reducing him to just some poor baby whose done no wrong and must be coddled feels like just. erasing his agency#idk man#magpie rants#i feel like i had a tag specifically for me being salty at some point but i dont rmr it
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My baby, here on earth
Showed me what my heart was worth
So, when it comes to be my turn
Could you shine it down here for them?
'Cause my love is mine, all mine
I love mine, mine, mine
Nothing in the world belongs to me
But my love mine, all mine
#love notes#mitski#my love mine all mine#my sweet baby down on earth#taught me love is true and pure#so keep an eye out for them#protect them from harm until the end
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it’s with depression that i fear i have to say, i think for a long time (too long really), zuko doesn’t reach out to his uncle during his retirement in ba sing se, not even for the much needed guidance he could use, because he considers it part of the exhaustive list of reparations the fire nation (and he himself) owes
#zuko: he deserves peace too that’s what this is all for#and you zuko? your peace? (he doesn’t know the meaning of the word in relation to himself)#i’m sure iroh reaches out often. lots of letters#but for one zuko’s swamped and pushing himself past his own limits with his responsibilities besides#and for two he’s just as guilty about his treatment of his uncle as his treatment of the gaang if not probably moreso really#it is of course horribly misguided and i expect iroh would eventually show up on his doorstep like you IDIOT boy of mine—!#but until then. zuko is in fact being a self sacrificing and self hating idiot#i also think this is largely true to his character because he has no idea how to uphold normal and healthy relationships#obvi particularly familial#and zuko always deals in extremes when it comes to everything he does#so rather than outright cruelty and insults….he swings in the opposite direction and overcompensates….#by shutting iroh out completely#and justifying it as ‘he deserves peace and i do not’#which is completely incorrect of course on all levels#but he’s still learning and his development arc doesn’t end at the finale of book 3#ebb and flow. like water one might even say teehee#idk if this is canon to the comics i’m not super familiar with them except for a few plot points and quotes#it just breaks my heart that zuko still doesn’t understand that it is harmful to withhold himself from people who care about him#than it is to supposedly protect them from knowing him and being close to him#he makes me so emo hes so emo i love him so much
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The craziest thing about PTSD is thinking you're free from it and then getting triggered like 5 mins later by the most random thing.
#ptsd#it isn't always the big and obvious triggers that get you#sometimes it is some random child making a casual comment#that just happens to be very close to a comment that stuck with you from your time being abused when you were the same age as the kid#they didn't know and meant no harm but damn it really fucks you uo#like I could have been that child and kept that innocent and blind trust#i could have grown up still trusting in community leaders and authority figures to guide and protect me#but I didn't and now I have to live navigating a minefield while a part of me desperately wants to protect these children#despite knowing that not all churches are like the one I went to#a deep part of me wants to actively teach fear of these institutions but that would just be a self fulfilling prophecy right there#vent#i haven't had an event like that in almost A YEAR#i entered a church without any problems for the first time in 18 years just the other week#so I mean I had a valid reason to think I was finally able to fix things with my mind but I guess not#religion tw
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#us politics#current events#in the tags#holding two truths at once rn#that these people will do immense harm that will take a generation to undue#*undo#and that these people are also really shitty at being authoritarians#you have to have bureaucrats and it’s nothing but narcissists all the way down#that don’t understand logistics#it’s why the autism list got dropped - they fired anyone who could make that happen#they wanted 2k national guard members in LA and got 200#the marines are a scary name but each individual member is trained to tell their superiors to fuck off when it comes to unlawful orders#they’ll sit on their asses protecting buildings#while the bastard in chief claims he’s created order when there wasn’t a problem to begin with#he’s throwing a damn tantrum trying to play tough#that military parade? yeah that was already happening - it’s a celebration of the formation of the army#he’s just trying to look tough and scary#and do not fucking misunderstand me this shit is fucking terrifying#and the threat to literally everyone is deeply deeply real#he’s also had to backtrack most of his shit#including bringing Garcia home from El Salvador#these people are fucking cowards and the second people meaningfully stand up they fold#they can be beaten
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the problem with being mentally ill while having a creative mind is that there is a part of my brain that is completely and wholly convinced that horror movie monsters and creepy shit like that are real
#i literally cannot use ''that shit aint real'' to calm myself down#i have to go the route of ''well if my brain is being delusional i have to out-delude it''#and come up with some other insane magic reason why this Scary Creature would Not be able to harm me#normally i pick magic barrier or protective spirit and it works long enough to get me to fall asleep#but like still. its fuckign crazy that THATS what i gotta do to get some rest sometimes#the most notable incident of all the times this has happened#would be the one time i got stuck in the bathroom for like 20 or 30 minutes#because my brain just. refused to let me open the door. because there could be a Scary Creature on the other side of it#i think for that case specifically it was imagining something like the uh#the new like half human alien from that one newer Alien movie??? that white creepy looking thing#i assume people will know what im talking about
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