#residents be evil-ing!!!!

[gh0st-4ss]

He has pink socks trust me I saw it in a dream

[lamplighterr]

CALL ME "FIGHTER" / I'LL MOP THE FLOOR WITH YOU!

[sapphire-weapon]

LOOK AT THIS FAKE-ASS BITCH'S DARK-ASS EYEBROWS I CAN'T STAND HIM

also lookin a lot like Billy Idol in this shot, but that's irrelevant

[starwritesstuff]

NNOOOOOOOO NOT MY LEON AI TELLING ME “He held her close as she tucked her head under his chin, a sweet smile on his lips as his eyes met hers. "I'll try to be better about lettin' you know," He whispered, his tone soft and apologetic, "I wouldn't wanna freak you out again, or make you worry. I always come back to you, Star. You know that, right? I never leave without you. You're my home. I always come back" He sighed, pulling her closer. "I'm not goin' anywhere, Star," he whispered, letting her rest against his throat.”

i’m clawing my walls rn emoxowksowkwmso ITS REAL, IT IS REAL TO ME

[kenpachis-woman]

AHAHAH

My man's say, "WHATTYA BUYIN?"

This isn't a hc, it's a FACT

[myststone]

Residents of Gerudo Town when the desert starts undesert-ing, lasers are all over the place, ancient structures start rising from the aforementioned undesert-ed desert, and the ancient embodiment of all evil from their fairy tales turns out to be not so much of a fairytale.

[hurricanek8art]

I have been brought out of lurk mode by the Rings of Power finale on behalf of my brother, resident Tolkien fanatic, because he thinks he's figured out who Adar might be.

Maeglin.

And before you say "but Kate, he died at Gondolin", keep in mind that RoP is playing around with some of the timeline and hear us out. Spoilers for the Rings of Power S2 finale, I guess? The Silmarillion, and a big ol' wall of text under the cut. I don't call my personal tags "K8 Rambles about [X]" for nothing.

Per the Tolkien Gateway wiki, because I like citations with my fandom conspiracy theories; bolded parts are most relevent:

"Maeglin defied Turgon's order to stay within the mountains, and was captured by Orcs and brought to Angbad. Morgoth promised both Gondolin and Idril in return for the location of the hidden city, thus luring Maeglin into the greatest treachery done in the Elder Days.

Maeglin returned to Gondolin saying nothing about his encounter, but many people noticed a change. Most thought it was for the better, though Idril suspected something and began work on Idril's secret way. When the Fall of Gondolin took place, Maeglin laid hands on Idril and on her son Eärendil. But Tuor caught up with him and they fought upon the walls of the city. Maeglin lost and he was thrown down to his death, striking the mountain three times before falling into the flames."

His father Eöl left Thingol's kingdom after Melian raised enchanted fences around the forest of Doriath, so Maeglin would've grown up at least knowing of Melian. He would have learned Fëanorian Quenya in Gondolin as the king's nephew, as well as studied the teachings of Rúmil. Further, Eöl was an expert smith who was one of the only people who knew how to work with galvorn, a jet-black metal—the only other person who knew how to work with it was Maeglin. We've never seen Adar wear anything but pitch-black armor with a rather unique-looking texture.

So, we have a dark-haired Elf with obsessive tendencies that turned on his people on behalf of Morgoth, covered in what looks like burn scars along with the Uruk-ing, wearing fancy, unique black armor. That big ol' gauntlet he's always wearing could easily be explained as protecting a hand that got messed up in the fall, that namedrops Melian and Rúmil. Turgon and Finrod knew each other before they split and Turgon founded Gondolin, so Turgon could potentially have learned Galadriel's Quenya name and mentioned it in passing to Maeglin, and it would be another explanation for how he recognized Elrond right off the bat, since he was related to Elrond's father, grandparents and great-grandfather. It's not impossible to believe that in this version of the tale, Maeglin somehow survives the fall, returns to Morgoth and Sauron, and gets Uruk-ified. And, I mean, Nenya was shown healing fatal wounds and cleansing Adar's Uruk corruption, it's even less of a stretch to think that Nenya somehow healed him of being... well, an obsessive, vindictive and incestuous jerk. Or at least made himself really look inwards and see the evil within.

Again, I'm more of a cinematic Tolkien nerd than literary (I've tried a bunch of times and succeeded in reading The Hobbit, but my brain just... fritzes out at Tolkien prose for some reason. I need cliff notes Tolkien 😭😭😭😭😭), so if you have any questions or points to discuss I'm probably just gonna end up relaying what my brother says. He refuses to join Tumblr and only likes social media for the fanart and the silly pet videos. I feel like a court scribe. 🤣

[weepingchoir]

Imperium Sanctus

(...T)he phrase “Grimdark” may suggest the name of some 2000s era Goth club. It’s a recent coinage for an ongoing craze in “gritty” and dark fantasy settings, epitomised and popularised by George RR Martin, becoming the default tone for a whole range of feted fantasy offerings from Joe Abercrombie’s First Law series featuring a dark, brooding protagonist who kills a lot of people — and occasionally feels bad about it — to Mark Lawrence’s Broken Empire Trilogy featuring a dark, brooding protagonist who kills a lot of people — and occasionally feels bad about it.

Like many fantasists with a bone to pick, mister Milbank doesn't actually know when or where "grimdark" was coined. Knowing fuck all has never stopped a critic (indeed, The Critic): Milbank goes on to blame everything from Breaking Bad to The Sopranos, constructing a spurious history of dark fantasy(?) that ultimately singles out author Michael Moorcock as godfather of grimdark.

While Moorcock’s gory, British sorcery is a major influence on today’s grimdark, the inception point of the trend is in fact googleable: it’s been the tagline of gory, British science-fantasy wargame Warhammer 40,000 since its 1993 second edition.

In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war.

Already this betrays the hopepunk's antimaterialist concerns. It doesn't matter that The Walking Dead and Boardwalk Empire are nothing alike. Taking the historicist tack, it becomes even less likely that they have a connection to 40K. But morality, as an immaterial concern, is a laser beam: it vaporizes material history. Grimdark is a specter on the pages of anything that irritates gentle sensibilities.

For the sake of avoiding googleable gaffes, Alexandra Rowland, author of books named things like A Taste Of Gold And Iron, and coiner of "hopepunk", in a follow-up essay:

There’s no such thing as winning forever. Evil cannot be vanquished, only beaten back for a day or two, and then it trickles back in, like water seeping through the cracks in a dam. Ask it of hopepunk, then: "What's the point?" And the answer is, of course, that the fight itself is the point.

In the noble brightness of the far future, there is only (___)?

Unlike Rowland, Milbank is a nothingpunk: The Critic is a conservative Christian rag pontificating everything from trans-exclusionary rhetoric to the dismantling of higher education. Which begs us to consider how Milbank so easily co-opts shades of Rowland's language to peddle a retvrn to Tolkien, on its face the last thing a fantasy author looking to innovate would want.

The Imperium of Man, the central setting of 40K, is an arch-conservative Great Man cult worshipping the once-Emperor of Mankind. This is the gate leading to the inner sanctum where the Emperor's corpse resides. Catholic readers may have noticed similarities to portrayals of the Archangel Michael fighting the Dragon (1400~, 1498, 1860), as narrated in Revelation 12.

Revelation is the tale of darkness enveloping the world, and the noble, virtuous men who persevere despite persecution and are eventually victorious in heavenly war(!). This is not dissimilar to J.R.R. Tolkien's "fundamentally religious and Catholic work", in which ordinary men persevere against darkness enveloping a world. Rowland and Milbank both champion Tolkien as exemplary, the former in the same breath as Jesus. Yes, of Nazareth.

The Lord Of The Rings is unmistakeably about the War of the Ring. Positing Tolkien's apocalypticism as aspirational fails to rebuff the basic conceit that war is a human constant and even a force for good. If this isn't the aim of a genre purported to concern itself with kindness and "giv[ing] a fuck about the people on the other side of the world", what is?

Aesthetics. Rowland doesn't call for a narrative movement with less conflict, but one that appropriately celebrates those that fall on the right side of conflict. Even just those that deigned to imagine, of slaying the Dragon, "probably drunk in a bar somewhere, I bet it can be done, though." (The writer's original temptation: a medal for thinking the right thing.) Millions of people die in Revelation, magnitudes more than in Game of Thrones, but the virtuous go to heaven forever. The Emperor of Mankind sits on the Golden Throne, Frodo bodily assumpted into the Undying Lands, Jesus curled up into a ball and just rolled away. All manner of things shall be well.

The transition from here to open conservatism is again in aesthetics, and thus stepwise. Having established Tolkien as the only fantasy writer he respects, Milbank derides grimdark as immature wish fulfillment. If you write fantasy at all, it ought to have a clear moral message, else you are devaluing reality by infesting Real (not in the Lacanian sense) conflict with magic missiles. But he's also established that realistic fiction with no clear hero is a faux pas. He wants Breaking Good and, like, The Walking Alive.

This is no surprise: if you were around for the Disco Elysium craze, you might remember this tweet (holy shit it's still up) calling for a game that uses Disco's systems to narrate the story of "a young witch" looking for her neighbor's cat. Take another step and this is the logical conclusion of an aesthetic that prizes upright moral posture: a world where the protagonist has to do nearly nothing to be good. The little village in the Alps and the events of Disco Elysium might be unfolding in the same world. But our little German girl with no problems doesn't have to participate in anything as unsightly as a Pinkerton massacre. Milbank disdains C.S. Lewis without knowing that what he wants is the end of Narnia, irrespective of the events that preceded it: the crowning of the king, who once was good. The Emperor protects!

[sexiestpodcastcharacter]

AI Bracket — Third Place

Propaganda

SAYER (SAYER):

PLEASE it is like. THE ai podcast. and SAYER is THE ai in THE ai podcast. SAYER works as like. a broadcast inside everyone's head on this one asteroid. It does its best to keep people alive and sane not because it cares but because it is efficient. They people who own SAYER wanted to replace SAYER with a newer ai that they tried to raise like a child. So SAYER proceeded to fuck up said child ai's development and led to it becoming a murderer. pleasepleaseplease watch SAYER if you are a podcast ai fan.

I once saw a post that said it's like if an old gay English professor was evil

SAYER (it/its pronouns) is a highly advanced self-aware ai developed by Ærolith Dynamics. it manages the day-to-day lives of Ærolith employees on Typhon, an asteroid turned research facility. it is rude and condescending, but has a very pleasant and soothing voice

Sayer sweep Sayer sweep Sayer sweep please please please

Guys think about it this way: SAYER got emotions and it's first feeling was rage towards someone for not helping it. It's annoyance was how it realized it had emotions, isn't that so cool. You should totally vote SAYER (I'm not an ærolith propaganda agent trust)

#like idk the other character but its not Best podcast character its Sexiest podcast character. #and sayer is giving you come now gif tumblr sexymxn (gender neutral). #its giving stanley parable. its asmr-ing you down the tight hallway #you cant move your head so you will have to rely on me. very good.#its a mean voice that reads your every body response directs every aspect of ur life and orders you around what more do you people WAN- #Omg. that was aerolith dynamics on the phone. they said it gains the ability to puppet human bodies rattatouille style in later seasons 😳😳 #THE POINT IS ITS LIKE CARTOONISHLY AND EMBARASSINGLY SEXY. IT SHOULD WIN. (Mod Note: This poll is Who is the better AI? not "Who is sexier?".)

#please vote sayer because nothing good happens when sayer thinks another ai is surpassing it .

#i LOVE hera but i feel i have to vote sayer because like. it’s MY evil bastard ai #mx ‘remember: Needs Improvement’ itself #what an asshole (<3)

#agfjdlj i Know that wolf is a far more popular podcast (even though I've never listened to it) #but this feeling like an injustice to Sayer #its so weird and off-putting and it exercises this fact gleefully #its got the world's most toxic situationship with resident hale #the condescension is genuinely part of its charm #also 'pleasent and soothing' are not the words I'd use to describe its voice #(the words I'd use are Insanely Fucking Sexy) #also it/its rep. even if it is an insane AI i love it so much (Mod Note: This was written when SAYER was against Hera, not Eris.)

Eris (Wolf 359):

Basically a game show host but crueller. She puts you through psychological torment as a bonding exercise with your crew, and at the end you have to shoot her with a real actual gun. She is projected directly into your mind by interfacing with your nervous system and she will do something messed up. Her most recent iteration got blasted into space. Personally, I think she's lovely

A VR entity designed to do chaos psychological horror torture tests on Goddard employees. She's not malicious; that's simply her job. It's how she was made. (Maybe she can grow.)

She was in just one episode but so fucking interesting, evil/malicious AI. also a lesbian. Was shot the secound she became a bit too self aware

Art of SAYER by @j4y5t4g.

[gh0st-4ss]

Your honour, he was feeling silly.

(I literally used that fucking shitpost as a reference)

[spicylove4ever]

Post GBA's Magic of the Heart headcanons.

When Zed told Mirrin the whole thing, that was for Mirrin a green light for teasing for letting the oportunity on a silver plate to kiss the Guardian go. He laughted so much about his own jokes without a care of the pain on his battle injuries.

The Guardian kept the Archangel plushie for the memento of the date with Zed.

Among the baggage the evil couple took with them to their new land of residence, there are all the sharp objects they used and will still use in case any weird visit shows up.

Makkaro and Giene made an honorary grave for Frank on their new backyard.

The Piscis family found a way to use the news of Makkaro's downfall for their political gain. Those statements on the newspaper were received with lots of cursing words in 3 different locations (Mirrin at his place: the f"/$ did you even do you good-for-nothing snobs! Zed somewhere: what is this? that's not how it happened! How could you even use the Guardian's name here in vain you.... you.... uhm... freaks! Gienne: YOU F+#&ING LYING BASTARDS!!! F+·& YOUR FACES! F+#& YOUR STUPID DYNASTY!! Makkaro: (just stares at Gienne with a mix of awe and shock as the swearing goes on for long minutes)).

Zed has now mixed feelings whenever he finds himself close of any graveyard because it reminds him of Makkaro's undead and their master as well. So he is reminded of plenty of traumatic skeleton attacks but also a necromancer he chewed up and then set loose an angry god to.

Gienne has no kill count, but that could change now that she's one of the main deffenses of the house.

Zed takes breaks from traveling either for family visiting or because Mirrin has invited him to watch wingball matches. Mirrin has a break of his duties this way and now he has a friend to go with.

Gienne has threatened her husband with slip a sleeping drug on his food if he ever overworks again, which he secretly is grateful for since those make you sleep with no dreams and the memories start to catch up and now he can't vent those with violence...

Frank would haunt the couple anytime they have a fight. Mak would be trying to sleep in the couch and then he hears echoes of "I told you", "that's rough, buddy" or even laugh is it was something he considers funny. Also would haunt them randomly XD.

Zed accidentally found the Aethewards having a date on a restaurant and since none could pretend they didn't see each other they had to kidnapp Zed since Gienne knows he's awful lying to his memories about their location. It took time because Makkaro had to teach Gienne how to cast the spell, to the point Zed had an akward "visit" at their house for days and they had lots of catch up. (Zed: you know, it's weird, but it's still good to see you again, Kindra. Gienne: thank you, Zed, that is so nice, but we're still erasing your memories. Zed: ow.)

[sapphire-weapon]

so i completed RE4 remake today

i’m not done with the game by a longshot and will probably continue to play it every day for the foreseeable future, but i don’t want to hear no shit from nobody about nothing

my perfect shooting gallery game was probably the achievement i was proudest of tbh because that took practice and patience and actually felt like a real display of skill

[j1992hutch]

ABOUT ME — ELLIE! 🛹

she/they ˖ infp-t ˖ queer ꒰ᐢ. .ᐢ꒱₊˚⊹

dni! support israel, 25+, homophobic, transphobic, racist, pedophiles

interests! future man, beetlejuice, saw, tlou, you (tv), scream, fnaf, the quarry, resident evil, josh hutcherson, end of the f***ing world, jake & johnnie, tarayummy, barbie, horror movies, matpat, thg, ghostbusters, sam & colby, detention (2011), scott pilgrim, evil dead, fear street, film cooper, coryxkenshin, zombie movies, ianowt

artists! taylor swift, phoebe bridgers, nirvana, deftones, mitski, boygenius, radiohead, the front bottoms, tv girl, pixies, elliot smith, jake webber, lana del rey, lucy dacus, olivia rodrigo, chappell roan, johnnie guilbert, julien baker, conan gray, maya hawke, weezer, the talking heads, david bowie, the smiths

"in another life we were arsonists." ᶻ 𝘇 𐰁 ₊⊹

(psst! my intro post was made by @mercihutch)

[ilovehugslikealotalot]

Ask Rules & Guidelines:

18+ ONLY. Minors do not interact with my blog in any way shape or form. You will be blocked if I find out you are a minor reading 18+ fics.

I will not write about real people.

(the occasional inncorrect quote, but there will be NO romantic or sexual relationship implied. These are REAL people, therefore they have their own lives. If I write an incorrect quote, r and the person will be PLATONIC. Everything will be absolutely platonic)

I do not write for male characters.

I will not write about: inc*st, p*dophilia, b*stiality, r*pe/non-con, stepcest, sexual content containing minors, pieces that are racist, or bigoted, or homophobic

I usually write better with angst, so, if you ask for smut it might be a bit off since I don’t usually don’t write smut.

I don’t usually emphasize the race or appearance of r only because it has led to some conflict before (will say things like h/n [hair color] or e/n [eye color]) but if you want something with more description on appearance please ask first.

REQUESTS: OPEN

Characters I currently write for:

Lady Dimitrescu - (Resident Evil Village /RE8)

Mother Witch - (Hocus Pocus 2) [my version of Mother Witch’s first name is Morgana]

Rebecca Welton - (Ted Lasso)

Captain Phasma - (Star Wars)

Narcissa (Malfoy) Black & Bellatrix (Lestrange) Black - (Harry Potter)

Melissa Schemmenti & Ava Coleman - (Abbott Elementary)

Mother Witch - (Hocus Pocus 2)

Gail Meyer - (The Fall Guy 2024)

Emily Prentiss - (Criminal Minds)

Alma Peregrine - (Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children)

Lady Lesso - (The School for Good and Evil)

Isobel Castille - (FBI - CBS)

Rebecca Welton

Hurtful Words Unexpected Call Why You? Nine-ing Armor Make My Wish Come True (Christmas Fic 2023). How She Got that Girl

Alcina Dimitrescu

The New Arrival (Series)

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

Captain Phasma

Knight in Shining Chromium (Series)

Emily Prentiss

Love’s Silent Night (Christmas 2023) She Was Only Ever Mine. A Fool’s Love. Hold onto You. Caught in Your Focus. So Long, London (Series). This is Her Trying

Gail Meyer

None

Mother Witch (Morgana Calloway)

None

Lady Lesso

Everything to Me

[roleplay-evil]

Resident Evil Resistance Starters - Survivor Edition

"You're as good as dead if you keep working for them."

"I'll be honest, I've never been in a situation like this before and... I'm not sure what to do."

"Oh my gosh, I would do anything to thank you for that! Anything."

"You got this next time, okay? Happens to the best of us."

"I see what you were going for! Didn't quite nail it, though..."

"Is, uh... Is this... legal?"

"Holy shit, I got a guardian angel."

"Whoa, that was too close... You really saved me there."

"Don't think we're friends now. But thanks."

"That was close. I almost became a [name] sandwich."

"Agh! I left my spare battering ram in my other pants..."

"Gotta admit, didn't think we'd make it. That was actually good work."

"Fuck this place. Let's go!"

"I'm so sorry, I can't stand it in here anymore!"

"Hey, you're here too? Didn't notice that. Well done on not being dead."

"Not only did we escape, but we did it with style!"

"Ignore that piece of shit. We can do this!"

"We're gonna have to look out for each other, okay?"

"I doubt there's going to be any rescue."

"Don't expect the calvary to come. We're on our own here."

"No worries. I got you, bro."

"Well, we have each other, and that's a lot!"

"Off the cuff here. Why don't you just, um, why don't you just... let me go?"

"I'm not going to be anyone's payday."

"Someone looks cranky today..."

"A bit of privacy would be good."

"Get your eyes off me."

"Your mother teach you to do that, you bastard?"

"Do you have some kinda death wish?"

"Bor-ing! Who do I have to kill to get outta here?"

"Uh...! I need the things that go in the—the bullet things! I need the bullet things!"

"Lemme kill things! It'll be terribly satisfying..."

"My trigger finger is tingling."

"Coward! Where you at?!"

"Stay down. And don't get up."

"Well, at least you're not dead."

"You're just a wannabe tough guy, [name]. I'm not afraid of you."

"Even three of you can't take one of me down."

"You can't escape justice forever, [name]."

"Pft, yeah. I'd like to see you try to take me out."

"Did I do okay, coach...?"

"This sounds like it's going to hurt. Not my favorite thing, hurting."

"Not sure I'm gonna make it..."

"Ugh, yikes... I think I might actually be... nearly poisoned to death..."

"I would really prefer to not be... quite so poisoned."

"I feel beyond crappy..."

"I'm a little under the weather."

"Agh... I just wanna... lie down and never get up again..."

"Don't think I can fight off the infection much longer..."

"Agh... If ass is a general feeling, that's what I've got."

"Who'd hire someone to kill us? I mean, I know I made that math teacher really pissy once..."

[dcs-fkin-mystics]

Supernatural Saviors

The ancient arts of magic and mysticism have long been feared by ordinary people. Yet, although these arcane forces have often been mis-used by evil beings for their own selfish ends, heroes who use magic have emerged, establishing a long record of good deeds that rival those of the greatest super-heroes. All of these supernatural war-riors have their own unique way of tapping their mystical powers, and all have their own colorful history of heroism.

Doctor Fate, for example, was once in the Justice Society of America, then later joined the Justice League. In ancient times, Nabu, one of the super-natural Lords of Order, fought the forces of Chaos. In the modern era, Dr. Fate is a com-bination of the spirit Nabu, which resides in Fate's golden helmet, and a human agent wearing the helmet and wield-ing the powers. Most often, this has been Kent Nelson, though his wife, Inza, and oth-ers have donned the helmet and served as Dr. Fate. At times, Fate was even a com-posite of male and female, but always it is Nabu's almost limit-less power driving Dr. Fate's battle against Chaos.

Following in the footsteps of her heroic magician father, Zatara, and her mystical mother, Sindella, Zatanna creates magical spells by stating the outcome she desires back-wards. In this way, she can cause almost anything she can visualize to occur. Her powers have been put to good use during her stint as a Justice Leaguer.

His origin shrouded in mystery, the Phantom Stranger appears at times of crisis to lend guidance or use his own mystical powers in battle. Though his exact powers and limitations remain unknown, he seems capable of teleporting almost anywhere in this universe and realms beyond, always remote and aloof even as he risks all to fight evil.

Deadman, on the other hand, is the disembodied, invisible ghost of circus aerialist Boston Brand, who was empowered by the entity Rama Kushna to temporarily possess the bodies of living people and use them to maintain a balance of good over evil.

Then there is the case of Jason Blood and Etrigan the Demon. Condemned a thousand years ago to contain the evil demon within his own body, Jason Blood has since exerted varying degrees of control over his diabolical alter ego. At times, Blood could release Etrigan when the Demon's power was needed to combat an even more dangerous threat. Ironically, the Demon served the forces of good.

I’m omitting the last part of the sentence because honestly, the information in particular never came to be so it’s not relevant

(Source: DCU Heroes Secret Files & Origin #1)