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jason todd swears like a sailor whenever you ride him. the visual of your body on top of his, the feeling of your hands on his chest and your cunt fluttering around him, the sweet sounds of your moans and mewls— everything about getting ridden makes jason’s dick hard and turns his brain to mush
#won’t stop swearing. moans loud. keeps calling you pet names and praising you. waxes poetry about how pretty you look riding his cock.#the thought of it alone makes him feral. has made him hard on patrol more than once (he becomes even more brutal towards the criminals when#he’s in this mindset. he’s fighting off the adrenaline that the thought of you naked above him is making him feel)#he has come home early more than once with blood on his clothes and his dick hard in his pants telling you he needs you#he still needs clear vocally expressed consent before he does so much as breathe you in because as wound up as he may be he can’t stay hard#and aroused if you don’t want him back. your consent is crucial to him and he makes sure to ask for it multiple times even during sex#because nothing matters more to him than knowing you’re as into whatever you’re doing as he is#and the vocal admission of you wanting him (physically but also mentally and emotionally and psychologically) is a big part of his drive#jason todd x reader#jason todd smut#jason todd imagine#red hood imagine#dc imagine
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✨Two very unserious people✨
#she hasn't flirted like this with him since she started seeing Tyler#we are so back#my favorite bit of acting from Adam here is when he sits down as Garcia is monologuing so that way he's in her eyesight#Luke knows she's gearing up to roast him#and he's right because she stops to make sure she sees his reaction before grinning and looking back at her computer#i love them so bad#luke really thought#I know she's about to eat me up so let me present myself like a full course meal.#garvez#notbridgerton#penelope garcia#luke alvez#criminal minds spoilers#criminal minds evolution#cme#cm 17x07#cm 16x01#op#op's edit#op's gif edit
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What if I straight up didn't explain myself? What if I just said trust me on this? Would you?
#fe warriors three hopes#mercedes von martritz#miklan anschutz gautier#we really only need to clarify this is STRICTLY warriors miklan and i think ive already condemned myself but i accept it#i am very sorry but the person i usually would talk to about rare pairs has been a bit busy so i couldnt go to them to get it out that way#so art is the only way i have you have to understand its not my fault (its my fault)#did you guys know i reset the azure gleam map three times before googling the chapter where he dies to try and save him#no i dont think he deserves to be pardoned for what hes done but i liked that w3h gave him a small chance to be better FOR HIMSELF#no i dont think he should simply be forgiven for everything he did but i do like that he was given humanity and how#he was still not a good guy but damn you guys i think about that npc sometimes#who says that they admired him becoming something despite being a criminal bc if miklan can do it whats stopping them from being better ?#like that npc stuck with me a while ok#just ......... there are a lot of thoughts here that i dont think many of you care to read even in tags so ill stop now#i will say the canvas is saved as speed run to cancellation lesgo
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I need to post here more often again!
Here is a little cute template of the dynamics of RisCappu, hope you enjoy 🖤💙
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#riscappu#cappuris#oc x canon#yumeship#jjba oc#cappuccino#risotto nero#fan character#ship template#template#jojo oc#hope you like my interpretations#really put a lot of thought into this#I just love this broody dangerous goth jester assassin#it is such fun to think about him#despite them being assassins and having a criminal and cruel life they still manage a mostly healthy relationship#even if they are both troubled and lost souls#they are coping together somehow and trying to improve themselves#I need to stop rambling lmao#I just love thinking about risotto's very hidden softer sides
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I may have many issues with Countdown but I can appreciate it for a few things and that includes Jason meeting murder Batman* (Earth-51 Batman)
I mean to start Jason clearly doesn't agree with the guy. He's very not into the whole "let's kill all these guys" attitude and thinks murder batman is crazy (and outright says so) But also. He puts on the suit he's given that this Batman made, he's fights with him. He mourns him. He's upset with the death. After Batman failed him on his own earth he meets one that accepts him
And augh. They haunt me. Aughh I wish I could write I wanna write and get to see a fic about them so so bad
(do Not tell me to just write it anyway please amd thank you. auuaaoighh)
Because like! The way murder batman was SO quick to start seeing Jason as his own dead Jason and start referring to him as such.
The way murder batman never got to know about Jason's Red Hooding but AUGH. Can you just IMAGINE the moral dilemma he'd have with that??! He probably would've killed a crime lord Jason before ever learning his identity, or learning it too late. Aughhhaoujgh
They had to kill off murderbatman he wouldve been too powerful otherwise. For example I think he wouldve Not been willing to let go of this living Jason
Multiverse kidnapping story where after meeting and then leaving, murder bat finds our Jason amd just. Fucking takes him and pretends it's his Jason. Augh that'd be so fun
This page is everything ^
Theyre so so normal about eachother. I'm chewing on them like a dog with its favorite toy btw
#*a batman. who. iirc. after his Jason Todd's death killed the Joker and then like every other villain n criminal the heros face.#Batman likes to say that if he killed. he wouldn't be able to stop. And this is the Batman who doesn't stop)#In my own reading I def saw their short story as trying to show Jason as someone who doesn't want to#and doesn't consider killing every criminal something Lost Days also does.#batman#dc comics#jason todd#earth-51 batman#for references i think its just the main countdown comic (none of the side ones)#and you just need to start at like issue 16-15? and go down. then read 1#(countdown. counts down. so its goes from 52 -> 1. not 1 -> 52)#also yeagh jason was the first red robin. he let tim have the suit. that is in fact the same suit#used briefly while tim was still robin and i suppose fully donned at some point after bftc#i have Thoughts about that too but not right now#ANYWAY. falls unconscious. falls asleepy. honk shoe mimimi. im out now its like nearing 2 in the am#i sure hope this is comprehensible
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Please consider Barry Allen fully knowing Leonard "I've Never Willingly Felt A Feeling" Snart has a thing for him, and wants to pursue that, but Snart is too scared of fucking up or getting Barry hurt to say something
So it's the opposite of that meme I've seen a lot of Barry saying Snart doesn't have a crush on him and everyone, Snart included, says he does
It's:
Snart: I don't have a crush on Barry Allen
Lisa: Yes you do
Mick: Yes You Do.
Cisco [hiding behind Lisa for protection]: Yes you do
Caitlin: Yes you do
Joe, who hates this but can't stop it: Yes you do
Iris, who equally hates this but surviving: Yes you do
Barry, crying with how much he wants to love this man: Yes you do
#coldflash#barry allen#the flash tv#leonard snart#anyway idk it's just a thought#shoutout to mick for surviving all those “heists” that were just snart showing off to the flash#the funky fucked up criminal's version of a bird mating dance#ik people want iris to be unconditionally supporting of coldflash for the vibes but i genuinely think she'd hate it#but unlike her father she'd be less controlling about it#because if barry is happy and wants this she knows HER ass ain't stopping him#they know each other too well to maintain those illusions of sanity and control#anyway cisco being scared of snart is the highlight of any imagine i do#thank you for your time
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I cant believe horikoshi did all that and still said nothing significant about family violence in quirk society
#full stop#hes saying nothing significant about quirk society PERIOD#man said#uhhhh. wellll we should treat people better???#and then didnt do that#flimsy my dude#in fact it reads like criminals should be punished on the basis of crime not society and its implications#which tbh is kinda what it seemed like at first#please share thoughts#im interested in perspectives#but the social justice didnt social justice for me#no restorative justice in sightttt#bnha#mha#my hero academia#boku no hero academia
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SPENCER REID WAS SUPPOSED TO BE BISEXUAL!?!! AND THEY GAVE UP ON THE BEST IDEA EVER!?!!! IM GONNA LOSE MY FUCKING MINDDDDD
#i started watching criminal minds last month 😃 i am on S4 and since S1 i’ve been getting bi vibes from reid#and i thought it was just my gay brain doing its thing BUT NAH#he WAS supposed to be bi#im gonna scream#i wish i had stopped myself before opening this wikifan page#I have this insanely bad habit of checking wiki fan if a show is over 6-7 seasons long#and i generally scroll down to the character ‘trivia’ but reid’s was SO LONG i just read the first few and scrolled to the bottom#to see the last trivia 😃😃😃 i was about to close the tab i didn’t want to get spoiled more than that i already have#AND THIS WAS THE LAST ONE#why did i have to find this out now all i’ll think about will be ‘what could’ve been’ and how it didn’t happen#criminal minds#spencer reid
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Any idea how more power solves the problem of being a good person?
With more POWER, you can protect your teammates. With more POWER, you can defeat the Aberrant criminals who kill and extort and farm children for Rapture. With more POWER, you can avenge Jaeil. With the right kind of POWER, you could reform the Aberrant Corps from a killer, his killer, into a true hand of justice. You could impose Goodness across the entire world. With enough POWER, you wouldn't even need violence to do it.
And on the smaller scale... POWER can erase your mistakes. Good? You could be perfect.
#oh sayeon...#my own thoughts on the matter are 1: i didn't actually like that line lol#it was too on the nose#i forgive it because of the great character moment afterwards... but only just.#2: i think sayeon sees power/her own powerlessness as a barrier to being a good person in practice#she can't do most of the things she believes are good as a relatively powerless corps trainee#pretty much all she could do was confront aberrant criminals and now juni is telling her she's too weak to do that#& if she tries people will die because of her#damn this is becoming an essay. so becoming strong enough to protect good people and stop bad ones is sayeon's immediate “Power = Good”#and climbing the corps ranks to use the power she'll have at the top for good (lol. lmao even) is her long-term one.#double feature bc climbing the ranks requires power#3. BUT. rereading and she is HARDCORE fixated on jaeil. rn that logic is being co-opted into post hoc justification for her revenge mission#and then of course 4. her self esteem and using her power to wipe out any mistakes. but that requires further research#sayeon lee#hand jumper#asks
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Also I am still laughing about Matt's answer for Essek in a different person's body being someone who has a lower profile so he can do his research. Validation for me personally 😌
#as ariadne reminded me. doesn't help what's on the inside 😌#anyway. I will not be writing the grogssek crack played straight but#y'all can go read my 350k worth of thoughts on essek body swap if you want lmao#like the real question is whether he would actually stop looking over his shoulder lmao. jury's out on that one#you can take the wizard out of the war criminal but you can't take the war criminal out of the wizard.#sorry by the end of that line I was like 'this feels like a shadowgast joke.'#okay but for real what is he doing for 'research' matthew. where is he GOING what is he UP TO mf. EXPLAINNNNNN#4sd#essek thelyss
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Am I the only one thinking about how devastatingly stunning Female Marc Marquez would be??
Big brown doe eyes, thick black lashes, even thicker black hair that's endlessly silky and curls, sticking to her literally flawless skin after a race. That cupid bow mouth.
Looks dainty from afar but is built. All chiseled muscle, thick arms and legs, wide shoulders and hips pulled together by a tight waist. Strong hands. Shorter than basically everyone, though her shoulders are wider, and has an absolute presence that just cuts people in half.
#marc marquez#rule 63#female Marc Marquez#motogp#mm93#fem marc marquez#prettiest girl in the world#but still a violent war criminal that cannot be stopped#in conclusion I am a lesbian for a woman that's not even real#thinking thoughts#her bitch pose is naaaaasty#girl!marc#mar
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it's criminal that ubisoft stopped making the murder mystery sidequests in assassin's creed ... they were sooo good in Unity and Syndicate... I understand that not every time period is appropriate for that but tbh they obviously just abandoned the idea altogether (along with every other innovation from Unity) and they never want to bring it back ... sad
#they were so enjoyable... Unity had lots of good ideas for side quests and then after syndicate they stopped doing all of it#ofc it's also criminal that the parkour and assassination movements from unity were also tossed aside ...#they introduced all these really cool innovations and then tossed it aside after making just one more game with them#they got so close to perfection ... the perfect experience of assassin creed and then they immediately said ''yeah nah actually lol"#dreadful crimes#murder#assassin's creed#Assassin's Creed Syndicate#AC#Syndicate#Assassin's Creed#Unity#Assassin's Creed Unity#ubisoft#ac mine#my thoughts#my post#my posts#text post#textposts
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"Piero~ <3"
#buggy the clown#shireart#buggy#crocbug#sir crocodile#tfw Mihawk says you can keep Buggy as a pet#seriously why the fuck did Croc look so fucking happy after Mihawk said they could keep Buggy as the figurehead#I am NOT delusional that was CRIMINAL#there was not a single pure thought behind that smile Croc had#'You're Right' CROC STOP LOOKING AT BUGGY LIKE THAT#70% malice and 30% LUST
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bro criminal minds s17/evolution s2 ep 7 (Piranha) is so fucked up omg i went through a rollercoaster of emotions
#like first first i saw the thumbnail and thought it was JJ#then the beginning of the ep i was like dang acid? thats kinda a slay method but also ick#but i was also like yesss kill r*pists#and then the plot twist???#i was like urgh lets stop making asian men the villians#and then found out his wife + kid were unalived??#like from a miscarriage too like oml#anyway#wildlywatches <3#wildlywatches <3 criminal minds#criminal minds#criminal minds evolution#good ep though but wowww
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people who say they stopped liking reid in 'memoriam' & call him whiny for how he acts in it?? fuck u fuck u fuck u, exercise just the tiniest amount of empathy please fucking hell
#the guy thought his dad might've done that to him & u're calling him childish & whiny & unfair or whatever?? fuck all the way off hahah#dr spencer reid#my post#criminal minds#and when your precious queen emily bends the law it's queen behaviour but reid goes through something horrific & lashes out & it's#'this is the episode i stopped liking reid 🙄'#i love emily but come onnn sorry my reid rsd demons no wait my ptsd demons
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Absolutely adore your OPM writing but I am also living for your recent takes about Dorian Gray. Easily one of the best books I’ve had to read back in school. I just love when I find other people who are also obsessed with jt!
THANKS FOR ACTIVATING MY TRAP CARD I'M GOING TO GO OFF ON WHAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT YESTERDAY
okay. okAY so like. so i finish Dorian Gray right. It still feels so cold and ruthless and bitter, and once AGAIN I'm left thinking "oh damn, Henry is probably gonna be a little devastated by this one, he spent the last twenty years hanging out with this dude who he was absolutely fucking almost daily, and THEN he's going to find out that Basil really is dead, AND his wife left him, he can't sardonic his way out of feeling for this"
and he's hot right like that's a plot-critical point, Henry is seductive. SO HERE I GO LIKE "okay tumblr let's try this again SUREly you have art of the fucked up sexy old bastard right"
AND FUCKING THEN (under the cut this is SO LONG and i'm not apologizing for it)
i go on and see????? like not only is there almost nothing of him??? people GENUINELY hate him??? but they LOVE Basil??? and I'm like no, no this CAN'T be right, maybe--like okay, Tumblr is a unique place, maybe this is one of those cases where my opinion falls more in line with the majority, so I go to google and I just. Type in "Dorian Gray Henry Wotton"
AND IT'S ALL THE SAME. ALL!!! ALL THE SAME!!!! He's awful, he's the villain, he's the worst, blablabla, and i'm like. okya. OKAY. ALRIGHT OKAY yes he was terrible but it was so painfully obvious he was in love with/obsessed with/infatuated with Dorian, S U R E L Y that's gotten him some brownie points there. Like. He sees Dorian, and then goes onto spend every single day with him if he can, morning, noon, and night, taking him out on dates and trips and giving him anything he asks, for EIGHTEEN YEARS, to the extent that when his wife divorces and leaves him he begs Dorian to stay with him.
Like even his whole issue with women, specifically romance with women, like---did???? did fucking no one???? ?DID FUCKING NO ONE READ THAT AND SEE A GAY MAN PISSED OFF THAT HE HAS TO PLAY A PART??????? HOW MUCH FUCKING CLEARER CAN YOU GET. All in all he does the EXACT SAME THING Basil does, just in his own way, so i figure there must, there MUST, there has GOT TO BE sympathy for him *somehwere*
AND!!!!! NO/!1!!!!! NOT!!!!1 NO!!!!!!!!!! EVERYWHERE!!!! i loook EVERYWHERE!!! for "Henry Wotton in love with Dorian" AND IT'S ALL LIKE!!! oh no, he just wanted power, oh no, he just wanted to see dorian fall, oh no, he NEVER felt ANYTHING for this guy he fucking DEVOTED ALL HIS WAKING HOURS TO IF HE COULD and i just. i.
so i go to my last recourse right??? i'm fucking desperate. i am DESPERATE. I go to Reddit. Surely, FUCKING SURELY--and at this point i just want to know I'm not insane, you KNOW you are in the absolute fucking trenches when you're going to reddit for opinions on literature but fuck at least if I can find a mirror in the cesspool i know that I exist right like i'm not some fucking ghost right SOMEONE will have seen what I saw--and
overwhelmingly
OVERWHELMINGLY
it's people talking about how much they hate Henry.
i. And like. SOME people are like "oh he was so interesting, he was the best part of the book," which yes, gratifying, but???? I????
As i was reading it, it was unbelievably--UNBEARABLY--again ****OVERWHELMINGLY**** obvious that a) both Basil and Henry were in love with Dorian b) they were BOTH older men taking advantage of him and dominating his time and attention so they could try to mold him into something for their own personal viewing pleasure c) Dorian was bare minimum a little bit shit from the start--as in, BEFORE WE SEE HIM he's introduced as someone who likes to hurt his friends because he enjoys it. This was so obviously a mean book about bad people and we're watching a train wreck unfold. a sexy, sexy, SEXY train wreck because wanting to fuck Dorian is a critical pull for the whole thing, but!!!!
BUT!!!!! ALSO CRITICALLY!!!!! ESSENTIALLY!!!!! HENRY WOTTON IS A SEXY ASSHOLE YOU NEED TO WANT TO FUCK
LIKE!!!!!! It's like the whole thing with stories about Satan, where he HAS to be hot so you understand why people would do what he says despite knowing it's bad for them. Henry is designed to be the dangerous, hot, older worldly dude stepping further and further into the shadows while beckoning for Dorian to follow after him, and to a certain extent you NEEED to understand that pull so you understand what Dorian is going through. AND THIS IS SO COMMON IT'S A MYTHOLOGICAL TROPE!!!
DO YOU HATE SATAN IN THE BOOK OF JOB. DO YOU HATE MEPHISTOPHELES IN MEPHISTOPHELES. Henry is performing the exact same role!!! All his lines are written sex!!!! it is fucking LEGITIMATELY some of the most sensual shit I have EVER read!! "talking to him was like playing upon an exquisite violin" ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME. aND YOU!!! You're supposed to be pulled in!!! that's SO IMPORTANT. WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU READ THE BOOK AND ENJOYED IT BUT HATED HIM AND DIDN'T WANT TO READ HIS LINES. WHAT DID YOU FUCKING READ.
But okay. Alright okay. EVEN DISREGARDING that Henry is a hot sexy bastard and that's necessary for the story and for Dorian's characterization. I would fucking GET IT if he was the ONLY person in the story that's like that. I would give it a pass if this is a story where everyone is good and sweet and everything is all daisies and niceness. FUCKING BUT.
THE ENTIRE NOVEL IS FULL OF ABSOLUTELY SHIT ASS PEOPLE FROM START TO END
Everyone uwu-ifies Basil, but that man is the same age as Henry. He saw this barely legal???? Not yet legal???? I'm not entirely sure how that works at that time with people of that status, but he saw the equivalent of a fresh-faced "i've been 18 for one day and have never left my house" angel of a boy who lost his parents young and was raised with family that fucking hated him and was like "yes well i want to look at him forever I'm going to keep him with me as much as I can and tell him how perfect and pretty he is so he does what i say and lets me paint him in whatever pose i can think of" and like
HE DOES TEH SAME THING AS HENRY???!!! IT'S TEH SAME THING???????
IT'S NOT BETTER JUST BECAUSE BASIL IS PATHETIC?
He does the same thing Henry does!!!! Henry is also a manipulative predatory asshole!! HENRY IS JUST MORE FORWARD ABOUT IT.
like WHAT??? what is it better when he does it because he's a sad wet cat of a man??? why, because he says he loves Dorian? He loves Dorian SOOOOOO MUCH he watches as he falls down a worse and worse path, refusing to believe any of the rumors he heard about him FOR TWENTY YEARS because they don't line up with how he personally sees Dorian, and only steps in to try to make a positive difference the HOUR before he was going to leave for an unknown amount of time???? he loves him THAT MUCH he just gives up every time he runs into legitimate resistance when it comes to helping Dorian out????
And!!!!! fuckin!!!! Everyone uwu-ifies Dorian too!!!!! ONCE AGAIN, LITERALLY ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS WE LEARN ABOUT HIM--no, I'm just gonna write out the paragraph:
"He likes me," he answered after a pause; "I know he likes me. Of course I flatter him dreadfully. I find a strange pleasure in saying things to him that I know I shall be sorry for having said. As a rule, he is charming to me, and we sit in the studio and talk of a thousand things. Now and then, however, he is horribly thoughtless, and seems to take a real delight in giving me pain. Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day."
HALF OF THAT IS DEVOTED TO SAYING HE'S KIND OF A DICK. The *other* half is Basil saying being with him makes him happy, but, but, but, but, but. There's SO MANY conditions on that happiness. Dorian is NOT a purely good person--he's capable of good, but he's also capable of bad, and he chooses which he's going to be. He's capricious. And he's not an idiot!! He can tell Henry is bad news!! and he gets PLENTY of warning about it! But he's curious and he chooses to go back to Henry, over and over and over again.
AND THAT'S THE WHOLE FUCKING POINT!!!!!
Dorian chooses!!!! DORIAN CHOOSES!! Basil and Henry are both different forks on the same kind of hedonistic, idolatrous paths. Basil wants to put him in art; Henry wants to put him into the world. They're BOTH fucking Pygmalion and Dorian is their Galatea--it's just that the medium they both use is different. And Dorian can tell!!! He can see!! He realizes that Basil sees him like a pretty thing to keep around to inspire him! He KNOWS that Henry's ideas poisoned him!! AND YET!!
HE CONTINUES TO GO BACK TO BOTH, depending on what he wants the most at that moment!!
AND IN THE END HE BECOMES A WORSE VERSION OF BOTH OF THEM BECAUSE HE CONTINUES TO CHOOSE BAD DESPITE HAVING SEVERAL OPPORTUNITIES TO STOP.
The manipulation? Using people for his own pleasure and then throwing them away when he's bored of it? The hateful, bigoted, judgemental thoughts? Ruining lives because that's convenient for him? The deaths of MULTIPLE people, probably considerably more than we know about? Dorian does ALL OF IT, again and again and again, because he wants to.
We revisit him throughout SEVERAL points in his life, all of which it's very apparent he wants for nothing and can do whatever he pleases. At ANY OF THOSE MOMENTS, or any of the ones between, he could have chosen to do good. But the same way he chose to hurt Basil because he enjoyed it, he chooses to fuck around and cause chaos because he likes it. The ability to do bad was always, ALWAYS inside Dorian, and both Basil and Henry were fascinated by it because it served different parts of their own vanity.
Basil liked Dorian the way you like a filter on a camera, and he thought Dorian left everything that HE made looking more beautiful. It's made abundantly clear that his biggest concern was the art he was creating, and Dorian was key to it. Henry liked Dorian the way you'd like a phonograph, where you can hear everything you've said reflected back at you, but in a different way with different tones. They are BOTH narcissistic in their approach towards Dorian, WHO IN HIMSELF IS NARCISSISTIC IN HIS RELATIONSHIPS WITH OTHER PEOPLE. No one is good here!!! No one is a purely good person!!!!!!!!
And everyone else, except fuckin' Sybil Vane, is bare minimum kind of shit. We don't meet a SINGLE other character that's a glowing representation of what mankind can be, who doesn't have some sort of flaw. And like.
THERE IS A LITERAL LIST OF RULES AT THE BEGINNING THAT MAKE IT CLEAR NOTHING IN THIS BOOK IS SUPPOSED TO BE MORALLY GOOD.
It says it!!!!!! Again and again and again!!!!!! It makes it SO FUCKING CLEAR that this isn't concerned with right and wrong and you need to abandon that at the doorstep!! There are no good characters, the same way there aren't any evil characters, because that doesn't apply here.
SO FUCKING. TO COME BACK TO IT. AFTER ALL THAT. AFTER!!!! ALL!!!!! THAT!!!!!!!
TO HAVE PEOPLE SAY HENRY IS EVIL AND THE VILLAIN OF THE BOOK!!!!
DORIAN IS THE VILLAIN OF THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY. DORIAN IS THE BAD GUY!!!
Basil and Henry were paths!!!! They were choices!!! They were options AND DORIAN FUCKING CHOSE!!!!!!! And you're not supposed to feel good about it!! It's not supposed to make you happy!! We're supposed to see that Dorian was doomed from the start and we're watching his downfall!!
And it just!!!!! IT IS MAKING ME INSANE. IT IS DRIVING ME CRAZY THAT I'M NOT SEEING THIS OUTSIDE OF MY OWN HEAD. Gosh even just!!! Even the way the "Henry is the antagonist" removes agency from Dorian, and everyone else, when it involves Henry?? As if they don't all willingly go to him and talk to him and want to be with him??
Not to get fucking spicy about it but it comes WAAAAYYY too close to the idea that thoughts and ideas are guilty/sinful/actions in themselves and they need to be shut up, and there's little to no responsibility on the shoulders of the people hearing them to dissect them and decide whether or not they're a) legitimate and b) something they want for themselves. It's the reason it drives me absolutely I N S A N E when people say the devil made someone do bad or it was just God's influence who made something good happen, as if there weren't real actual living fucking human beings who made choices and put in the work, good AND bad, to make those things happen. It's like throwing up your hands and going "well! everything is predetermined and there's no point in fighting."
Like. The complete villainization of Henry, and the hand-waving on what Dorian and Basil do, is just---TUM,BLR. TUMBLR!!!!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING!!!!! I CAME TO YOU FOR HELP. I CAME TO YOU FOR NUANCE. TUMBLR!!!!!!!!! HENRY IS THE FOREFATHER TO ALL YOUR SEXYMEN!!!!! HE'S GAY!!! HE'S MANIPULATIVE!!!! HE'S HOT!!!! HE'S WEIRD AND OLD AND LURKS IN CORNERS ALL THE TIME!!!!! WHAT !!! THE FUCK!!!!!!!
#I HAVE A LOT OF THOUGHTS ABOUT THIS AND HONESTLY THIS STILL ISN'T ALL OF THEM BUT THIS IS ALREADY SO LONG#I GET THAT DORIAN WAS GROOMED BUT IT WAS BY BOTH OF THOSE MEN DO NOT FUCKING DELUDE YOURSELF#AND BEING ABUSED DOESN'T ABSOLVE YOU FROM BEING AN ABUSER NOR DOES IT TURN YOU INTO A STUPID MINDLESS DOLL WHO CAN'T THINK FOR THEMSELVES#ALSO WHY IS THERE SO MUCH FUCKING NUANCE FOR THE TWINK AND NO ONE ELSE COME THE FUCK ON WHAT#THE HELL ELSE#IS STORY FOR BUT DIVING INTO BIG COMPLICATED IDEAS AND RIPPING INTO THEM WITH YOUR TEETH LIKE A DOG WITH A CHEW TOY#WHY ARE WE STOPPING AT DORIAN AND BASIL WHY DOESN'T THE ANALYSIS CONTINUE PAST THERE#IF THE ANSWER MAKES YOU UNCOMFORTABLE WHY HAVEN'T YOU ASKED YOURSELF THAT QUESTION ALREADY#okay i'm sorry I'M SORRY here i'll apologize this honestly sounds unhinged and i completely get why but also my blog and i WILL go on#unhinged literary rants here#i just.#henry is so so so so so so so so so SO SO SO SO ****SO**** CRITICAL TO THE STORY#and specifically HIS APPEAL IS THE BACKBONE AND SOUL OF IT#it is absolutely fucking mind-blowing to me that so many people would hate him#PEOPLE LOVE LOKI#PEOPLE LOVE THE SHITTY SNEAKY UNDERHANDED MANIPULATIVE FUCKS#i was entirely and COMPLETELY taken off-guard#talk dirty to me#the picture of dorian gray#oh gosh people are gonna fight me over this and i just. don't. I GET IT I GET WHY PEOPLE LIKE BASIL I GET HOW WE GOT THERE#I JUST EXPECTED MORE FLAVOR TEXT FROM CRIMINALLY GAY BOOK ON THE CRIMINALLY GAY WEBSITE
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