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Man, I feel I've been letting too much babygirl show through with Bal. But I don't wanna just do bloodbath for the sake of it, you know? I swear he does more stuff. I'm just an idiot.
#wolfatrest#that and we're at a point in his life#where it's kinda sitting on laurels#long earned laurels#but still#he also doesn't /have/ to be vicious#because he has his protector
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batman: so by splitting the work between former League members, Young Justice team, and current League members we were able to take down a good portion of the meta child trafficking ring and bring one of the leaders of the operation to justice.
wonder woman: but you lied in order to do that. do you feel bad that you had to lie. to do that.
batman (a vigilante): ,,? not. not really.
#ramblings#jesncin watches yja#were the writers possessed by the future spirit of maws lois lane or somethin#i don't get superhero media's insistence on “lying is bad” plots when the whole point of a cape is having a secret identity to-#-protect your personal life and therefore lie and have a secret. “we're becoming vigilantes!” i mean yea. that's the point?#the justice league were getting caught up in too much red tape that they can't superhero properly so bats is going to his vigilante roots#i don't get this plot thread rn feels petty. esp since the show understood the need to keep things discreet or “lie” before
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And I forget sometimes I'm just flesh and bone.
As he stands in the ruined bathroom, all Rook can think is, At least now I can breathe.
#ts4#ts4 edit#the sims 4#sims 4 edit#my edits#ts4 render#my renders#blender render#oc: Rook#dnd sims#ts4 dnd#please I beg of you open this in a new tab and look it it. it's 2080px across and I spent way too long on tiny details.#(like the blood on the shards of glass on the sink. and the mirror alone took well over an hour...)#augh I love my boy so much#he's really going through it right now tho#poor bby#but when he's going through it I'm having fun playing him so...#yeah#blood tw#tw blood#so this is scheduled to go up right as we're starting our session picking up from exactly this point.#I thought that would be thematically fitting#please listen to this song it's so good and it's very Rook.#I almost put the lyrics right after this line (''I saw my reflection on the street that night / he said I got something to change your life#/ he said you don't look wrong but you don't look right'')#bc yk mirror shit. But I ended up going with this line instead because it's VERY VERY fitting for the conversations going on w/ Rook.#specifically about his reckless endangerment of himself to the point where some of his party members consider it to be self-harm.#(and obviously punching a mirror intentionally is self-harm.)#but like Rook doesn't see it that way and he's so confused as to why the party is so upset with him. (esp. his mentor and the gunslinger.)#god I could talk about this ridiculous man for hours so I'll stop here.
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i love liushen as much as the next guy but i dont know how theyd ever end up together. liu qingge as a person is not the type of guy to be in touch with his emotions like at all and shen qingqiu just doesnt ever really know whats going on esp when hes being hit on. doomed to be a couple of lesbians constantly going on dates and neither of them know it
#svsss#liushen#to be completely real this is said with the utmost love#i think theyre both hilarious#i relate to liu qingge im also not in touch w my emotions like at all#lesbian liushen would be catastrophic. uhauling it after their 3rd date and one of them is on reddit like#me and my gay best friend live together and kiss and might get married is she hitting on me#if anyone was recognizing their feelings first it might have to be sqq#we're just used to binghes level of insane like if it was just a normal person sqq might figure it out like at some point in his life#lqg isnt an emotions guy he likes to hit things work out drink beer go on paleo diets and hit things again#hes the ancient fantasy china equivalent of a gym bro. born too soon to hog the stairmaster at planet fitness
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things you can't get back
aka i've been waiting so patiently to see kidd get his ass beat by shanks (affectionate)
#fun fact i am an anime only-er#because i'm watching it with someone who hasn't read the manga and i don't want to get ahead of them. we're in this together#but i was very aware of how the fight went in advance lmao#(and i may or may not be writing a fic that this is based on)#just smth about killer warning kidd they might not be so lucky as to survive this time#and kidd saying “oh well that's only if i lose!” is very interesting to me#bc kidd cares for his crew a lot but he is also very arrogant. and so he kind of fails to consider their safety bc he's so confident#he's not stupid he knows the risk to his own life. but there is an entire crew of people behind him who could also die#who he is currently disregarding a little bit. which i think was kind of killer's point in warning him#trying to get him to maybe reconsider on his own bc he's going to do what kidd says regardless#even if he thinks its an awful idea#and i just think kidd should get to go through the horrors over the outcome. just a little (a lot)#since killer tried to talk him out of it and he didn't listen and now they're all kinda fucked#i love him a lot and i want him to suffer deeply#what is a man without crushing guilt#kidkiller#eustass captain kidd#eustass kid#massacre soldier killer#killer one piece#one piece#one piece fanart#my art
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screw it i'm posting the other little chunk of this silly little au thing 'cause i want to and it might motivate me to idk clean it up and finish it yippee!
#cookie run#shadow milk cookie#pure vanilla cookie#shadowvanilla#vanilla milkshake#it ain't obvious but also#tw death#creme university au#i made a passing comment about blueberry yogurt having died in a more metaphorical sense#and my friend said okay but like what if he actually died would that be traumatic or what#and now we're here and i love it so bad cause then -points at mystic flour-#anyway something something shadow milk died and pure vanilla had to bring his ass back to life and its all very tragic#cause he isn't the same person he was before but pure vanilla still loves him all the same#these two make me ill when i think about them im so glad they're married and being domestic they deserve it#so funny to be saying that about a character who in canon is a fuckin' shithead shadow milk i love you so bad
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Retired happy Junmei for no reason at all except let them be happy post-canon that's all.
#junmei#jun wu#mei nianqing#mxtx tgcf#tian guan ci fu#tgcf#shoutout to the sj server for one person (u know who u r) suggesting mnq has one (1) black strand holding on for dear life#and they're right cause that's incredibly funny#i just imagine this dude has had so much stress in his 2k+ years life that he could not keep his hair NOT white#Running away and stressing about JW probably did a good job on him as well living thru JW growing up#And then Xie Lian??? Final nail in the coffin#you cannot tell me this sassy child/teen did not absolutely cause him to develop more grey/white hairs#and at some point he figured he might as well stop fighting it#but that's my silly hc and you don't have to agree lmao#just noticed now JW and MNQ have like swapped hair color patterns nice#anyway I have more junmei wips but it's on a giant stash of Shit To Render sooooo it may be a while#wanted to finish this and another piece for junmeiweek but alas we're REALLY late
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another thing i've been trying to do recently is read more self-published stuff. "but fell," you say, "you're a self-published author. surely you've been reading self-published stuff all along" and then i laugh for so long in response we both become uncomfortable.
see, the fear (which has for a long time been killing my mind) that i'll read other self-published stuff and find out that it's so much better than mine that i might as well stop writing forever kept me from doing that basically ever. i have a hard time not unfavorably comparing my work to others and had convinced myself i was being smart by withholding an avenue of de-motivation (reader: i was not being smart). it also doesn't help that i'm pretty low income and have a hard time spending money on books i haven't already read, and that self-published stuff isn't always available at the library---but really a lot of it was just me being a coward. which i'm working on. i could talk about how this particular cowardice is Very Silly, but i think enough has been said about it on writeblr and in the Writing Space in general that i don't feel the need to (though i will if anyone wants me to).
instead, i wanna talk about the self-published things i have read in the past few months and ask about the self-published things you love!
so: what happened was i got real sick, and while i was real sick i (naturally) read over 200,000 words of ace attorney fan fiction in the span of a few days. eventually i got bored of it (and also maybe annoyed at how people were characterizing some of my guys), but i still wanted to read something gay and romantic and nice, something i knew was gonna end happily, which isn't my typical fare.
now you may be saying (having gotten over all the uncomfortable laughter from earlier) "fell, you write gay romance. what do you mean that's not your typical fare?" listen. until a couple months ago i hadn't read a cut and dry romance novel since before i finished college. for context: i graduated in 2015. i know it doesn't make sense. i'm a guy who doesn't make sense.
but in this case it worked to my advantage. not the not making sense thing, but the not having read Published Romance in 1000 years thing. I didn't know where to start. I was very skeptical of everything the library had Available Now in the Gay Fantasy Romance category. what if it was all bad and also not good?
and then i scrolled past the familiar cover of our very own @ashen-crest's A Rival Most Vial.
now this was comfortable territory! this was a novel by a very nice writeblr person whose posts i enjoy! i already loosely knew the plot, i was familiar with the characters, i knew the names of things like rosemond street and the griffin's claw and that ambrose had blue hair and that at the end of it all there would definitely be Boyfriends. i didn't have to worry that this would be bad! i only had to worry that it would be really good!
but i wasn't worried about that, because i was officially Not Writing at the time, and because why the hell hadn't i read this book yet Ash literally emailed me some very kind words last year when my cat died??
Y'all, I devoured ARMV. If you haven't read it yet---especially if cozy fantasy is more your thing than it is mine---you should check it out Immediately. It was fun! It was heartwarming! It was sweet and earnest and confident! I was delighted to find it was occasionally hot! Ambrose and Eli snuggled up into my sick exhausted heart and found a permanent little place there. (Especially Ambrose. I have such a thing for Stiff Guys who Kind of Suck for Tragic Backstory Reasons and are So So Lonely They Don't Even Realize It. gawd)
(And a very small part of my brain spent the whole time wondering why I had been so afraid to really engage with the work my community is doing. The community that I'm in. The one I'm a part of. Why?! Maybe more on that later.)
But from there the curse was broken! I immediately devoured @stjohnstarling's What Manner of Man in a similar sort of frenzy (and hooooly shit guys am I excited for the expanded, finalized version to come out at the end of next month!) and started digging into @lurinatftbn's The Flower that Bloomed Nowhere (which I can already tell is going to be an All Time Favorite).
And now I want to ask you what your favorite self-published books are so that I can read them, too, but I think I will in another post that doesn't dedicate so much space to talking about my various and sundry Issues and isn't Terminally Long
#my god the library. darling. beloved. breath of my life and heart of my soul.#i should make a post about her#also. and maybe i'll make a separate post about this at some point too#but i truly think the free serialized webnovel rough draft ala What Manner of Man is The Future#i should probably make a whole separate post about all these novels too tbh.#boutta become Posting Guy. The Guy Who Posts#and writes novels in the tags. but i've always been like that#i never talked about the dream i had where i was emry karic from the lutesong series did i? i totally meant to. fucked up!#so i had a dream where i was emry karic.#I (emry karic) was fleeing a bunch of elves in a forest with my mom and sister (who were fully my irl mom and sister)#they thought i had done a murder and were chasing me (emry karic) with spears and stuff. they almost caught me#but i managed to escape. later i came upon a weird old-timey fantasy carnival.#and for some reason one of the fun attractions at this carnival was A Day in Court#where you watch someone defend themselves in court.#you'll never guess who had to defend himself in court and what the charges were!#notably there were no other characters from the lutesong series involved.#and i also have yet to read any of the books in the lutesong series. emry and his flower crown simply invaded my brain out of nowhere#i thought about turning this post into separate posts or rewriting it or smthn because it's so long and all over the place but#that sort of defeats the whole trying to just post and not be so up my own ass about it that i never actually post thing#so here you go#if you are also someone who struggles or once struggled with reading other people's stuff because of self esteem issues. hi!#we're now spidermen pointing at each other
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for the love of god someone add tommy to the 118 group chat
#honestly i'm. i'm excited#the fact that they made such a point of him asking about it#right next to the talk about team having your back#which tommy looked briefly genuinely annoyed about buck diverting back to the curse after#and saying we're learning more about his background next ep AND buck's gonna talk to bobby about it?#AND the continued posse turning on billy and 'your people make life worth living' this ep#i genuinely think we're gonna be getting more on tommy's complicated feelings re the 118 and being both in and out of it#which is something we've been hinting at all along (that must be why i haven't gotten any of your christmas cards) but he's never fully sai#certainly not since being with buck#i think has actively been making an effort not to be obvious about it#which makes sense! it would be complicated. especially with buck specifically having taken his place there. something that has not#come up at all#AND eddie also joining after him#he's in a genuinely interesting position with them and i'm looking forward to (hopefully) more exploration of it#911#Tommy Kinard#bucktommy#911 spoilers#mine#firefam
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Local Sequencer hasn't gotten regular and rejuvenating sleep since 1872.
#my art#roberts/nite#the real reason behind this is that i had some extra space in the pre-modern day section of the ref sheet i've been building for him#there was never a point in his life in which he did not have silly facial hair#we're in the sideburns era and if i'm feeling particularly cruel he's going through a mutton chops phase in the 80s#honestly i feel like i might've been faster using actual chalk than trying to do this digitally#roberts
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The unmistakable sound of footsteps approaching begins to fill the air. Whoever is coming seems to have brought some company along…
They are getting closer… and closer… and closer…
…and closer…
……until..................
"Goooooood evenin'!!" Comes the loud greeting from a certain blond man. A big smile on his face and all.
"We beg your pardon for our prolonged absence. It was completely beyond our control..." Then adds the gentleman standing by his side, apologizing on behalf of both, offering a genuine smile along with the apology.
"...BUT! We're back!" And hopefully for good this time…
#[HI HIIIIIII~~ HOW'S EVERYONE DOING?? 8)]#[IDK IF ANYONE REMEMBERS ME OR MY MUSES ANYMORE?? BUT HELLOOO]#[one million years later but we're backkkkkk]#[i'd like to start by apologizing for completely disappearing for months without any announcement]#[life has been far from kind all this year so far and this has greatly and negatively impacted me emotionally]#[like..very VERY badly (harmful stuff and etc)]#[all to a point where i've had to take some time off from most social media]#[and which is also why i haven't checked or replied to any messages anywhere in a while]#[not that i'm the most social and most active person ever but you get what i mean here ;v;]#[the original plan was to come back here like a month or so ago but as you can guess i was unable to due to the same irl issues]#[i'm not gonna lie i'm still not doing well]#[but i wanted to come back or at least try to]#[since writing for these two and the ogre street guys always brings me joy and i also missed everyone here!]#[i'm still unsure if dropping threads will be the way to go for now or not#because i have no idea if my partners are still interested in any threads we had prior my unannounced hiatus]#[or if anyone's still interested in interacting with me and my muses again ;v;]#[so if we have ongoing threads i'll likely be jumping into your IMs over the course of the days to ask about it]#[i just need to check my thread tracker first because i can't remember what i owed last time ;;;;;;]#[as always: we can start new stuff any time in case you're no longer feeling whatever threads we had]#[and we can also start from scratch if that's best too]#[so no worries there!]#[enough blablah from me for now]#[i missed you all so much!]#[and to the new followers this blog somehow earned in my absence: Hi!! Thank you for following and I hope we can interact soon!!]#[hope everyone has been doing great during my absence!! <3]#;speedwagon says (( ic ))#;jonathan says (( ic ))#;ic#(??#;speedwagon withdraws coolly
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Something I love about ATLA is that it doesn't force the "forgive the villain" on all the characters. It's been left clear that Ozai is a bad person, and there's no chance of redemption; the only reason he's not dead yet is because Aang is a pacifist
The one episode where a character is supposed to forgive someone who has hurt them in the past is the one where Katara is off to kill a man (which, fair) and Zuko helps. In that episode, even if Aang is telling her to let go, she doesn't forgive him. She never will. But she spares him. Not because she thinks he doesn't deserve death (he does), but because she's not willing to continue the cycle of violence
Killing someone can have a very important impact in your entire being, mostly depending on who you are as a person. Aang would've never recovered from killing Ozai. Katara wouldn't be who she is now, had she taken her revenge on the man that killed her mother
And the best part of it is that Ozai doesn't deserve to die. Not in a "I'm defending him" way (ew), but in a "he deserves worse that than" way
Taking away his bending was the perfect punishment for him. He believed bending made you superior and he never cared enough to train something besides his bending. What a loser. Zuko and Azula wouldn't be restrained by something like that
He's alive. Nobody has forgiven him. Nobody ever will
#on a “ozai deserves smth worse than death” mood#which is. my everyday mood but we're not talking about that#read a fic where ppl were mad ozai was still alive#zuko clarified that he's still alive not only bc that's what aang wanted but bc death would be a mercy for him#that's the man who ruined everybody's life(s). you can't tell me we can just let him die like that#and they're not even torturing him. he's just in prison#but he's so fucking weak that not having his bending = torture#pathetic#honestly what did he even do? his entire family was better than him#zuko was better at any kind of fighting and he learned firebending from the fucking dragons#azula is. azula! she bends blue fire and is the best at lighting n stuff#iroh created a whole new bending technique and broke out of prison w no bending#ursa killed the fucking fire lord#i mean sure ozai can shoot lighting out of his hands. but so can iroh! so can azula!#his 14 year old daughter is better than him#she could kick his ass if she wanted#but that's her dad right there and the obssession she has w pleasing him is straight up unhealthy#man. poor azula#anyways back to the point: ozai is pathetic#loserlord indeed#atla#avatar the last airbender#fire lord ozai#zuko#aang#katara#azula#uncle iroh#avis' post#avis talks
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"The fandom unnecessarily villainizes sam and dean for choosing each other over strangers when it's literally how humans work" great critic but I actually think the fandom (those interested in the brothers' relationship) are reacting to it how they're meant to: in a negative light.
To trace things back, yes, it's a given, kind of an innate human nature to respond in situations by prioritizing the people you know over ones you don't. That is true. On an individual basis, each person would do this, I would do this, and anyone'd be crazy to villainize this act on my and your part. But sam and dean do it, and it's painted in this hyperbolic moral degeneration light both by the narrative (we could argue) and by the fandom. Because see, sam and dean are a little different than you and me.
They're positioned in their world as tragic heroes who, given the nature of their job, are expectedly deprived of things the normal person could enjoy. They don't get to lead normal lives, they don't die by natural causes, and they must navigate through life bearing more than they must know with soul-crippling responsibilities. "We're the people who save the world," sam and dean don't spend much time before they assume the token role of saviors in their world. Along with that role comes even more imposed limitations.
They are more viscerally equipped and knowledgeable. They have access to things randoms could never dream of having (like death and god). The more you know, the worse you sleep and comes with the mere knowing is the obligation to do something about it. Someone ignorant to the whole ordeal simply doesn't have to answer to it.
Basically, they're soldiers. Imagine samdean reporting for duty, they preserve peace of the public and their blind following to decision moral rightness is taken for granted. It comes with the job. You don't get to make ill-advised progress in your self-interest as a person (sth random ppl can enjoy) when several lives are at stake.
At some point, sam and dean themselves are metaphoricaly acting Gods: people's survival or death depends on them. Sometimes, it's a city's worth of population. Other times, it's the entire world. Their right to free-decision making stops depending only on its virtuous intent and starts being consequential. They're elevated to adhere to higher standards and criteria than normal people are held to.
The rightness of their actions will not be determined among a set of feasible options but instead assessed by whether they chose the option with the best consequences. Or not. The main decision-making factor for "heroes" like them should be putting the general welfare at its fore interest. Not one individual's. Especially not if it's one individual's.
When dean and/or sam sacrifices someone stranger to save his brother, it's a subjective good call I can relate and see myself in it, but given their position within the universe it's irresponsible and far objectively wrong; especially if at the cost of saving his brother, several others suffered.
There are criteria for judging the actions of the pivotal role they uphold. From a subjective moralness standpoint, sam and dean are only humans, and they can be cut some slack or even not at all villainized for doing what their instinct demands. On the other hand, moral objectiveness influenced by the world-setting's structure deems the goodness or badness of how they behave based on the particular consequences of their given actions and whether said actions affected people in good or bad ways. If sam and dean did something that brought peace to the world on the whole and reduced suffering, it's good and logical, whereas if said action caused suffering and threatened peace, it's bad.
dean grudgingly accepting sam’s plan to overtake lucifer even though it meant losing his brother is the objectively morally good choice to make. He had to sacrifice his precious family, but he ultimately was rational and responsible enough to know his brother's life is not a fair trade-off to millions. both sam and dean here act in accordance with their positions within the story/world: they're heroes. But by S8 dean doesn't let sam make a similar sacrifice. He prioritizes sam's life over the many who'll be possessed and will either kill others or be killed themselves. sam releases a world-ending evil to save his brother, and later on, both take turns facilitating the guy who practically promises them an apocalypse to once again save each other.
"The good of any one person is no more important from the point of view of the universe than the good of any other." sam or dean's lives aren't more important than someone else's, this was a point so base sam felt the need to make because it needed to be addressed, their lack of changing anything about it is another matter. Thing is they're the world's designated saviors be it by choice or not, the narrative views them as the fact, they're expected to value the well-being of all individuals equally, regardless of their personal closeness. Imagine a firefighter postponing saving you because someone he knows is more important even when the situation for them is not as grave as you. It'd be unethical and worthy of condemnation because in this line of work, and in general when your job is saving people and work towards the greater good, you do it indiscriminately, you don't get to privilege the well-being of yourself or your family over the well-being of distant others.
sam and dean hold a rightful consequentialist commitment to their actions being as good as possible: the basis on which one outcome is better than another is only if it contains a greater sum total of people's betterment. No impartiality.
Yes, it's his brother, his only family, but it's still morally wrong to prioritize him (in their case). Let's use a patriotism allegory. Imagine a general of a losing army. He catches wind of the enemy's secret bases or is exposed to confidentials enough to turn the tide to his side. However, he finds out his family at home is being held hostage. The moment he reveals what he knows, they get killed. A man has to save his family it's the most basic human instinct, yes, but you'd think it's irredeemably wrong for him to prioritize his family in this case. You'd think he doesn't even have the right to choose when it's a choice between two insignificant people and the entire country being infiltrated and invaded, with the deaths of million soldiers and citizens. It's not even a choosing matter. sam and dean are the general in this scenario, and instead of the country being at stake, it's sometimes the entire population they're throwing to the fire for each other. Anyone'd think it's messed up. You're supposed to.
There is a good reason to save your family (brother) over a stranger (or two, or hundred or million); but labeling both actions as right would risk ignoring the important moral difference between the two. And we need to draw an account of what a hero is obliged to do in order to meet minimal moral standards. sam and dean's constant moral failure to meet such standard despite their role in their universe paints them as flawed, sometimes as the story's designated antichrist.
Their ceaseless prioritizing of themselves marks their moral debauchery and decline as heroes. they get away with not fulfilling their obligations that are thrust upon them by design, they're using a cheat code acting not how they're supposed to and that's the characters/narrarive's grip with them. I don't blame corbin for what he did, while It’s extremely wrong that he tried killing sam, it was a call for survival. Your savior normally doesn’t come with conditions. He was faced with an oddity from the typical rescue mission. And he did what he had to ensure the more number of people survives. We sympathize with sam and dean, so we criminalize corbin immediately and side with dean. We're swept by emotions and our judgment is clouded you could say but from a utility standpoint, dean's decision to stay with a dying sam would've lead to four people's death, or three and one heavily wounded meanwhile corbin's leads to three people's survival and the loss of one. With corbin, more lives are saved, with one unfortunate but necessary sacrifice. Morally and objectively, corbin was more right in choking sam than dean was in staying.
#unrelated but this is also a point for john#he makes for a better hero than them because he understands this.#it's no wonder that an actual soldier gets this#while his sons don't#samdean#sam winchester#spn meta#dean winchester#mine#i gotta admit acting like we're the crazy ones for viewing sam and dean's terrible calls borne from their unreasonable codependency is wild#i love them but i for shit wouldn't wish to live as them where i know my life is a number they drop when they're having a bad day#that's the thing tho.. they're morally corrupt actually#the story had various ppl from all kinds of opposing sides parroting the same critic against samdean#bc its what you're supposed to think of their extreme devotion to one another its misguided and oftentimes a plague more than it's a virtue
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the erins will write the most horrifying realistic depictions of abusive relationships and then go online like "omg we literally invented the most wholesome romance..."
#it like... honestly drives me a bit crazy how the erins seem to think tigersasha is adorable to the point they call it ''true love''#and that goldenflower distracted him from his soulmate or whatever#and then like. tigerstar literally advocates for the eradication and shaming of people like her#he shames her for her past and she becomes so enmeshed she turns down a comfortable life because he put that shame in her#T&S isnt perfect but its a pretty decent example of what being in an abusive relationship can do to you#but then like. we're not SUPPOSED to read it like that!! we're supposed to read it like its uwu tragic!!!#its happened in yellowfangs secret too with yellowragged#its not even something the fandom believes in iirc most sasha art i see portrays the relationship as toxic for her
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look at him. he hasn't slept in three days bc he isn't ...impolitic about the emperor like his boyfriend is and he knows that when you strike at a king you must kill him
#dion: surely he'll understand we're saving him from evil and darkness and treachery :)#(read: severing his claim to rosaria and ending his line)#terence: [sharpening the executioner's blade to cut both sylvestre & himself out of dion's life in one precise horrible swing] surely.#spicy terence is so real to me idc#disarmament at the cost of his heart and happiness. but if it means dion's freedom then.... what's one small unremarkable personal tragedy#but then dion sort of made that a moot point. god im wailing and gnashing my teeth etc#ffxvi spoilers#i love them so much can they have a world where they don't have to keep killing their own hearts to save/protect each other#sir terence
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made up some guys to engage in shrinking shenanigans. theyre terrible people and i enjoy them deeply
dr. alfred "alfie" kauffstein is a world class scientist who's committed all future inventions and progress to the ownership of a Shady Space Corporation in exchange for a lifetime of funding. he's working on perfecting true, reversible shrinking technology, none of the pseudo-compression that deep space transport companies are using these days. he has the formula down pat, and now it's just a matter of perfecting the method of application - rays, serums, pills, etc, etc.
robin "robbie" cosmique is a world class scumbag who needed a legit job while he laid low and let the legal consequences of his last get rich quick scheme blow over. the Shady Space Corporation is always looking for ways to keep costs low and the personnel budget is the first to get slashed, so instead of any kind of accredited or qualified scientific expert to assist dr. kauffstein, they hired robbie. he and alfie are always at odds, but nonetheless manage to work rather well together - though they're also the only guinea pigs around for alfie's experiments. robbie will eventually get fired when it's discovered he's been sneaking samples of the shrinking serum for yet another harebrained scheme, but for now they're making the best of it.
#ibis art#alfred kauffstein#robin cosmique#gotec#oh yeag baby we're on main with this stuff now. no more side blogs. unfiltered ibis indulgence#i think it's great when a guy is so small and also such an asshole#the company also keeps giving alfie's inventions Horrible cutesy marketable names and he Hates it so much#but he's resigned to the fact that any great inventor must also in this day and age be a great advertiser#it's not enough to solve the world's problems - you have to write a catchy jingle to go with it#such is his lot in life and one he made a grudging peace with long ago#he's ridiculously dramatic and self centered about all this and robbie is like ok sweetheart tone it down you make shrink juice.#these are also expys. if you couldnt tell. no points for guessing of whom.#actually alfie is two expys put together. points if you can identify both.
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