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#the truth#jedi and sith codes alone were flawed#dependency on the force led to their deaths as Kreia sucked the force from them because they needed it to survive#the war of conversion#the sith code and the jedi code were half-truths and little lies but they harmed both who believed in it#they converted those who believed the jedi and sith codes were what failed them#the war didn't kill Kreia and she became stronger which is Nietzschean philosophy#she took the truths from both Jedi and Sith code and disposed of the ideas that failed them or could be manipulated and exploited#betrayal can only happen when we also betray ourselves#meetra surik or the exile didn't depend on the force and used it like wielding a weapon or a tool but she alone was strong without it#to turn away from power that is not your own cannot be exploited neither manipulated and used against you#the power of individuality#the power of the collective#abandon ideology like the Jedi and Sith codes and embrace their strengths and do away with their weaknesses while cultivating perspective#Carl Gustav Jung always said that it's not that people have ideas but that ideas have people#It is very hard to create your own ideas#Kreia will always be my favorite Star Wars character#Youtube
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I'm not explaining why re-imagining characters as POC is not the same as white-washing, here of all places should fucking understand.
#personal#delete later#no patrick. “black washing” is not as harmful as white washing.#come on guys get it together#seeing people in my reblogs talk about “reverse racism” and double standards is genuinely hypocrisy#say it with me: white washing is intrinsically tied to a historical and systematic erasure of poc figures literature and history.#it is an inherently destructive act that deplatforms underrepresented faces and voices#in favor of a light-skinned aesthetic hegemony#redesigning characters as poc is an act of dismantling symbols of whiteness in fiction in favor of diversification and reclamation#(note that i am talking about individual acts by individual artists as was the topic of this discourse. not on an industry-scale)#redesigning characters as poc is not tied to hundreds of years of systemic racism and abuse and power dynamics. that is a fact.#you are not replacing an underrepresented person with an oft-represented person. it is the opposite#if you feel threatened or upset or uncomfortable about this then sorry but you are not aware of how much more worse it is for poc#if representation is unequal then these acts cannot be equivalent. you can't point to an imbalanced scale and say they weigh the same#if you recognize that bipoc people are minorities then you should recognize that these two things are not the same#while i agree that “black washing” can lead to color-blind casting and writing the behavior here is on an individual level#a black artist drawing their favorite anime character as black because they feel a shared solidarity is not a threat to you#i mean. most anime characters are east asian and i as an east asian person certainly don't feel threatened or erased. neither should you.#there's much to be said about the politics of blackwashing (i don't even know if that's the right word for it)#but point standing. whitewashing is an inherently more destructive act. both through its history of maintaining power dynamics#and the simple fact that it's taking away from groups of people who have less to begin with#if you feel upset or uncomfortable about a fictional white character being redesigned as poc by an artist on twitter#i sincerely hope you're able to explore these feelings and find avenues to empathizing with poc who have had their figures#(both real and fictional) erased; buried; and replaced by white figures for hundreds of years#i sincerely hope you can understand the difference in motivations and connotations behind whitewashing and blackwashing#classic bixels “i'm not talking about this chat. i'm not” (puts my media studies major to use in the tags and talks the fuck outta it)
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Core Gems
So when a ghost becomes injured, they have a last ditch defense where they retreat into their core. And I mean, injured badly where their body is rip apart to the point they can’t hold a solid form anymore. And they basically go into a hibernation state until they are strong enough to form again.
Ellie, Danny, and Dan are all injured in a final battle against the GIW. The organization was destroyed and the ghosts were safe but the halfas ended up being so injured that they reverted to core form and then went to sleep for a bit. When they woke up, they were still weak but at least recovered enough to gain consciousness. And realize…they are in some kind of auction…in the middle of a heist. It appeared that two furries (one in a bat costume and one in a cat costume) were ducking it out. And they…they were a necklace. All three of them had been turned into a necklace with their cores as gems accompanied by sapphires, pearls, and opals. And frankly gorgeous craftsmanship as the metal was crafted around their cores as if to cradle them and the other gems.
Unfortunately, they were too weak to take a form properly, they could still feel the strain on their bodies. But at least they could still communicate through their auras. Then the cat lady punched a hole in the glass container surrounding them and grabbed their necklace.
However, the bat grabbed the other end and it resulted in a sort of tug-a-war. Meanwhile, Danny, Ellie, and Dan were having a back and form commentary on the situation and what they should do. Completely unheard by the other party.
In the corner of their eye, the three halfas finally noticed a third contender. Some kind of clown who was…hold on…holding a gun?! And it was pointed straight at the two fighting furies who had yet to notice him. The ghosts’ protective instincts went into overdrive and they frantically tried to shout, yell, move. Just do something to warn the two but their cries fell on deaf ears. All they succeeded in doing was faintly glow which immediatly caught the attention of the fighting duo. The two turned to look at the strange necklace but right at that moment, the clown fired and a gunshot rang throughout the auction room. Having no other options, Danny and the others poured every ounce of ectoplasm they had to try and phaseshift, making the two furries intangible as the bullets passed right through them, but in their shock, the two jumped away in opposite directions and accidentally ripped the necklace apart. Gems and pearls went flying and the three cores bounced along the ground.
Luckily, the two finally noticed the clown and went to deal with him and his minions who had appeared. Seemingly putting their fight on hold and forming a temporary truce. The three halfas could only watch as the battle finally wound down, ending with the cops barging into the place and arresting the clown and his grunts, the cat managing to escape with half the scattered gems and pearls from the broken necklace along with a few other jewelry pieces (none of their cores though) and the bat leaving through a skylight.
The auction continued and in the end, despite being broken, their necklace seemed to have caught someone’s interest. A man named Bruce Wayne bought up every piece of the shattered jewelry wear. The auctioneers appeared relived that the item managed to sell in the end and gratefully gave it to him.
Bruce had no idea what happened at the auction, but he could have sworn that some of the gems faintly glowed right before he and Selina were shot. If the necklace was some sort of magical item, then he needed to understand exactly what has been brought to Gotham. It was unfortunate that Selena had taken some parts of the necklace but he utilized his vast wealth to make sure all the other parts ended in his possession. Now he would take them back to the mansion for examination.
#Dpxdc#dcxdp#kizzer55555 ideas#Bruce thinks the necklace is magical. He’s technically not wrong.#When he gets home he immediately puts each gem in a glass container to examine them. For the longest time though nothing happens.#They all look like normal gems except for the main three of the piece. He can’t identify what kind of gem they are.#The gems are perfect spheres with various shades of blue (with hints of green and white) swirling around.#The colors almost look like they are moving in slow motion. Still. Nothing happens as he examines them and no strange events happen.#That is until one day he decided to take the gems to be examined by a professional and a villain attacked.#A piece of building was about to crush him when a wall of ice appeared as a shield over him. After that he took them back to the cave.#Bruce looks up thousands of documents about enchanted necklaces and artifacts but finds nothing. He even calls in favors from JLD.#Zatanna doesn’t recognize them but feels some kind of power coming off the gems however it doesn’t feel malevolent (at least for 2 of them)#(The last gem is neutral.) Also Constantine was unavailable (*cough* hiding from responsibilities *cough*)#The other bats get interested in the gems. Tim has a theory that they are some kind of protective charms. Damian agrees.#(Everyone is shocked Tim and Damian agree on something). So while Bruce is continuing his investigation the other bats decide to do some#‘Field testing’ and take the gems out. Consequently the gems end up saving their lives and they discover a few things they can do like make#The wearer invisible. Intangible. Create green barriers/constructs. Create ice. Vibrate when an enemy is coming. And much more.#The bats fashion them into new individual bracelets/necklaces and think they are the coolest thing. They have powered up protective charms!#The halfas just wish these kids would STOP PUTTING THEIR LIVES IN DANGER! What are they MORONS?!#Most of the ectoplasms they recover is used to protect the bats and nearby civilians.#(Dan also trolls people and is mostly protective his siblings though)#People notice the new power ups. A rougue gets his hands on a gem and tries to use it ONCE to attack something but the gems didn’t respond.#Then it froze the rough’s legs to the ground.#Much time later the gems are swapped between the bats and alternated and have just become a new item in their belt#(batman was not pleased but eventually got used to it and begrudgingly accepted that they were useful. Especially when they save his kids)#They come to a Justice league meeting and Constantine finally sees them.#His mouth drops in shock and he frantically asks where they got GHOST CORES?! And this is when the bats finally realise what they have.#And are horrified to realize EXACTLY what they are holding and that these ‘gems’ were technically ALIVE.#Meanwhile the three Halfas have been kinda chilling but also working their butts off to keep this family alive. It was a fulltime job.
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can i just express my profound appreciation that the rings of power has refrained from giving us quippy or sarcastic characters? contemporary fantasy is obsessed with 'witty banter' and 'sassy protagonists' and always at the expense of the sincerity that once characterized the genre.
but the rings of power, in contrast, has gifted us a female protagonist free of irony. galadriel is not a snarky, quick-tongued warrior. she is a deeply earnest and contemplative character, shaped by the profound grief of her brother's death and a weighty sense of responsibility.
it is not surprising that some audiences, particularly those predisposed to hate any female character, struggle to appreciate her. she defies the common modern archetype of the 'sassy, snarky' heroine, whose appeal lies in her 'witty' deflections rather than any sort of depth. and i love her for that!
#trop#the rings of power#galadriel#i don't most about her often as an individual but only because i love her so much i can't talk about it!
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Stop fighting me and together, let us fight them.
#ropedit#tropedit#rop spoilers#rings of power#the rings of power#ringsofpowerdaily#ringsofpowersource#halbrand#galadriel#sauron#isildur#estrid#haladriel#rop s1#rop s2#rop 1x05#rop 2x04#parallels#quote#*#isildur with the reassuring response trying to overcome estrid's attempt at distancing herself#galadriel and halbrandron meanwhile on a whole other path of feeling cast out together and relating through that#(i didn't include the brimby scene when sauron is like “she cast me out when she discovered the truth” bc it didn't fit the vibe of the set#(but that's the endpoint of manipulation and using shared ostracization as a means of us vs the world)#(in a way i wonder if galadriel planted that idea in sauron's head since she's the one who first roped him into a 'partnership')#(how much of an actual one is up to interpretation)#(brimby isn't head first running towards a suspect individual like galadriel did (lbr) he's just pure and utter confusion)#(complete good faith like yeah okay i'll receive you with an open heart my friend why would anyone cast you out idgi)#(i could write an essay clearly i'm thinking about this way too much lol)
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(exasperated) the opportunist's insistence we bury the pain so that we could remain eternally, happily imprisoned within the cabin in HEA implies that, if he were in the driver's seat, he would have agreed to the networked wild route. my guy why are you like this
#oppy only being in routes where we're propositioned into becoming one w/ the princess is funny#AND HE ALMOST ALWAYS AGREES#mr “i will kill anyone for power” will drop his individuality the instant it's unrewarding#anyway i think this is ample ground for a swap au with oppy as hea#witch trapping oppy and the player inside a palace of briars à la sleeping beauty#and the only way to leave is to get oppy to Look At The Pain he's caused you and himself-#hey wait where are you going come back#♡. txt#slay the princess#voice of the opportunist
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Saitama has a moment realising how handsome Genos is whilst he’s distracted
#the moments of them individually thinking#about how cool and powerful each other are#and how much they care and worry for each other are so wonderful#and then they don’t tell each other ESPECIALLY Saitama#my art#one punch man#saitama#genos#genosai#saigenos
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Mxtx, creating a beautiful and well-rounded female character that appears only briefly: Hey, isn’t it fucked up that this character who is so important in the world of this story and to the people that knew her can only be known to you, reader, through flashback memories because the people in power were willing and able to sacrifice her in their never-ending quest for ultimate dominance? Do you feel the constant grief over what could have been had her potential not been killed in its infancy? Do you understand that you as a reader are mourning in the same way that her loved ones she’s left behind are, knowing that the world has been changed for the worse by her premature death? Doesn’t it suck?
(English-speaking) Mdzs fandom the bane of her existence (probably): Killing women in stories can have no other meaning than that you hate women, so this was a misogynistic choice, actually.
#mdzs#human metas mxtx#human gripes at fandom#my damn cat woke me up THREE HOURS AFTER I WENT TO BED#so i guess I’m channeling that frustration into fandom#jyl and wq had soooooo much potential!#just for it to be suffocated in the cradle#because the more powerful people around them#wanted to use their lives and deaths as fodder to justify power grabs#i almost wish mxtx did ‘what if’ type extras#i’d ask god (her) to take all of jyl’s and wq’s suffering#and give it to the jin clan as a whole and jc as an individual#with a special helping for jgy and jgs and also nmj#almost forgot about that damn hypocrite
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I want to carry this scene with me a little while...
#kamen rider blade#kamen rider#aikawa hajime#comic art#fan art#i'll be honest i saw a series of screenshots of this scene at one point a long while ago....#and i thought it was one of the most moving visual sequences i'd ever seen... but by the time it came round in Blade i'd forgotten about it#i did cry though lmao!#Love. this is what love looks like.#my guy can go home now.... :')#i just really liked it!!! communicated so much with so little!#sometimes an individual really connects with something and its hard to describe why aahaha!#(had to look up when the episode aired and when spiderlilies bloom though...)#(just kind of gonna hope they were in season at the time of shooting lol!)#kamen rider blade spoilers#kinda...#this is the power i have when wielding photo reference and a whole lot of enthusiasm lmao#....sleep<drawing on this one unfortunately though...
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my personal headcanon is the vees were unremarkable nobodies when they were alive. i just love it as a thematic throughline for them. they love to let the public of hell speculate on them being famed and acclaimed since before death, but the the truth is they were a d-list failed influencer that got by on cheap controversey and scamming, a broke junkie who burned every shaky bridge he ever had, and a worn-out broadcast production assistant with more rejected auditions and tossed out script pitches than he could count. nobody missed them when they were gone, nobody cared who they were until they were dead.
#because villains who didn't start off supremely powerful are more interesting to me#vees#it's not that they CAN'T be better. or that they're simply ignorant of the ways they fuck up others lives#they actually all do have that knowledge of being the underdog. and it's made them all the more shitty#because they never want to be those people again#narratives about people who make each other worse <3#to be clear they were still shitty people in life. manipulative. consumed by greed and envy. all their individual flaws etc etc#but hell made them into the absolute worst versions of themselves#of course what their Worst Self is and the journey/length of time/initial reaction to being in hell varies#like val sees hell as a continuation of the things happening in life. just w/ the power dynamics always privileging him#it's the same drugs and violence. except the violence isn't just survival anymore but the chance to indulge his deeply sadistic desires#vox has completely dissociated from his time alive. that person is dead and he's reinvented himself 1000 times over since then#90% of the time he has those memory files shoveled into a hidden directory#he refuses to acknowledge that he's still haunted by some of the same insecurities from almost a century ago#val doesn't necessarily see his living self in a fond light but he does see that person as fundamentally him#velvette thinks life was full of people who weren't her demographic but fortunately that's been fixed by sinners!#they just couldn't Get Her and that was all their faults#the primary way they view their past selves can be summed up as: scorn (vox) apathy (valentino) and in denial (velvette)#sorry the bulk of the post was in the tags. i will be doing this again#the scorn is the coping mechanism for shame. of course
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I get Dusty listening to Wally and Howdy, but why would he listen to Frank? Are the two friends in the Mob AU or something?
Frank is the manager, of course he would have rights to use money from the vaults (however him and Howdy have a strict amount they can borrow at a time. Anything higher than 500k would need to get explicit permission from Wally first)
most of the lil dust sprites/bunnies do the little work, Dusty is typically on the side taking a nap or somethin on the floor, doin whatever dust does
#Dusty is pretty neutral with everyone and even gets along with em#However they do sometimes have a hard time with the more greedy individuals#Like Robbie Barnaby Sally and even Julie#Welcome home#welcome home mob au#welcome home oc#welcome home frank#frank frankly#dusty bunny#Hopefully Frank wouldn’t abuse his power with this for his own personal project smhhh#However everything is kept at high record#Frank isn’t the only one keeping count of the numbers after all- it all needs to make sense and all be used accordingly
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there are a lot of daddy issues to go around on DS9 in general, but odo, bashir and garak are really in their own special little fucked up 'what am I but wrought in my father's image' club
#star trek#star trek ds9#ds9#odo#julian bashir#elim garak#(I personally think we should put their dads in a cage match and let them kill each other. tain would probably win#but we could just shoot him after he claimed that victory. I Would Like To See It)#the triumvirate of bad dads to karmically oppose the sheer power of good dad vibes benjamin sisko has#specifically dads who Cannot and Will Not allow the healthy individuation of their sons into whole separate people#apart from what their father's hands have shaped them into#where that is one of the first things sisko accepts and realizes he must allow jake to do right at the early seasons#the bad dad club boys seem more specifically forcibly held in place to serve as mirrors for their fathers#and have to find ways to break away from that in more or less graceful ways; breaking off more or less important parts of themselves#to do so#dr mora seems to have a 'oh fuck.' moment where he sort of realizes what he's done#but the sympathy that gains him from me is hm. neglible lmao at least tain is basically fully just a monster#what's your excuse mora#I haven't met bashir's dad properly yet but I've seen enough to suspect I'm not going to be very charitably inclined towards him either
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The Lost Phantom Women
Valerie and Danny are married and they adopted Danielle who can't age or mature until she lives until her physical age.
One day when Valerie and Danielle are out flying in the Infinite Realm to visit Dorathea when they flew through a natural portal into the DC universe.
Thanks to Danny, the Fenton parents and Tucker, Valerie's suit could keep up with Danny and let her battle with their rogues some of whom could be considered gods. And while Danielle is her own person she is still the clone of a powerful Halfa.
This led to the Justice League and villains trying to find out where these two powerful beings came from. Valerie and Danielle don't want anything to do with either side.
But they got cornered by both sides and were fighting back. Valerie got injured taking a shot that was going to hit Danielle. And when Danielle saw her mother fall to the ground she unleashed a wail that shook the earth and allowed Danny to locate them.
But instead of going to them Danny pulled the earth into the Infinite Realms.
All the heroes and villains could see after realising their ears and opening their eyes when the pain faded was green and purple sky's and a giant with green eyes and white hair looking down on them demanding to know what they are doing to his wife and child.
#dp x dc#danny phantom#danny fenton#dc comics#danielle phantom#valerie gray#gray ghost#gray ghost family#danny x valerie#danny and valerie married#danny and valerie adopt danielle#valerie and danielle are lost#valerie and danielle attacked by heries and villains#op danny phantom#op danielle phantom#op red huntress#giant danny phantom#danny phantom is not the ghost king#danny phantom is not eldritch#justice league wants to know abiut these to powerful individuals#justice league#smart danny fenton#smart tucker foley#smart fenton parents#parental danny phantom#parental valerie gray
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Hello good sir, I am sure you have well intentions! :)
I wanted to do some lighting practice for fun and now I have this sly devil. I'm pretty proud of how he turned out and how fast I was able to make this! :3
Welp. Now I kinda wanna turn him into a character. we'll see if I ever do, hehe :P
#Either being sleepy gives me power#Or i just have really lucky days#bud-dum-tissss#but also fr though#how did this only take an hour and a half#Did I figure out the method???#the method probably involves doing close ups-#But yea take this dangerous individual#*Throws him at you*#Don't worry he seems pretty happy about it#probably will play with your hair or pinch your cheeks before getting bored#just wait him out you're fineee#Okie bed time yippieeee#LD Queue#dca fandom#dca community#fnaf dca#daycare attendant#dca fnaf#dca au#dca oc?#Either a variant of#fnaf sun#or#fnaf eclipse#I have someee ideas#I'm sure good ol sleep will help mimimimi#Also doing hw before doing anything more yeah that's also probably a good idea-#dca art#my art
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#death note#light yagami#yagami light#l lawliet#lawlight#mouthwashing#jimmy and light are so alike but theyd fs hate eachother LOL#misogynists but they despise each other for being power hungry rotten individuals#light is nearly the EXACT person jimmy saw curly as#or at least gave off the same pretentious vibes
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#climate change is a hoax#lies for profits and create fear#deep state’s plan to destroy the planet depopulate 7 billowing people and enslave the rest#environnement#environmetalists#we have been lied#manipulated and controlled by few extremely powerful individuals#wake up humanity#speak up#standup#seek truth#speaktruth#these people are evil#fight for justice#crimes against humanity#truth#please share#wwg1wga
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