#the survivors: what the fuck is going on

[lotus-pear]

i love you royal trio (minus akechi)

[rocketbirdie]

just move on already.

[pathoscleaved]

THE SKELETON'S WIT STRIKES WESKER - IF THEY MANAGED TO STOP FIGHTING, PERHAPS, IN A STRANGE TWIST OF FATE, OR DUE TO THE ENTITY'S BLESSINGS, THEY COULD BE FRIENDS. But perhaps is a strong word here. Very strong.

"I claim no falsehood. I am a god," he says, tone even, mouth betraying a grimace. Being challenged on what he views as his birthright, the one Spencer manufactured... irks him to no end. He wonders if he can rip the Ashen Lord's leg out from under them. If the other would stumble or fall.

"What respect do you speak of? You show me none. This is reciprocal. You decide not to speak to me civilly. I will not do the same."

Wesker flips the knife into a guarding position, blade sticking outwards and up towards the tall figure. Memories of other almost-deaths spike in his mind, and another thought races by: is it possible for Killers to kill other Killers? Is he in actual danger, or is he, by the might of the dark mistress, the Entity, safe?

And though Albert appears to be just of the flesh, he is not human, and grows less human by the day due to his symbiosis with Uroboros. Nearly all of his cells have been replaced by the virus. . .

"I appeared in your corner of the Realm," Wesker huffs, "and I am no blight to the sea. I enjoy the sea! I own a yacht. The sea is my home."

His collection of ships could be compared to a small fleet.

"I know I hunt survivors - the ones that run. The pigs we slaughter? We hook them, do we not? Same. Side."

But then everything goes to hell - maybe literally, with all of the fire - when the skellie lays down the challenge. It is the exact same as an iron gauntlet.

The Ashen Lord's foothold is stable, stable enough that Wesk feels the quiver from Uroboros that danger is coming, and he knows he can't shake the skeleton's posture. The heat is blistering, and he narrowly avoids the white flame. He manages to roll backwards, knife pointed away from him as he moves. The tyrant stands when he is at a safe distance, and suddenly, his knife is placed back in its holster and velcroed back.

"You say fleshie as if you use slurs."

The Mastermind grins a little, and more writhing tendrils start to seep through his clothes. From an outside perspective, it is hard to see if the black goo is making up his clothes, or if he is formed of it entirely.

"I am not made of flesh," he states a moment later, as the virus wraps and slithers around him in a coil, building him to a taller build and height. Uroboros may be weak to fire, but perhaps . . . this fight could cause the resistance?

A fight for evolution.

"I am all-consuming."

A wave of black tendrils surge forth.

     A god? Oh how amusing to hear somebody call themselves such a thing! A pitiful title amongst the living when they only believe in their chosen one or all false idols waiting to be torn down into pieces. Humor dances in their tone this time -- although their ever grim visage could never shift to show off the grin that would be spreading their mouth, “ You can claim whatever divine presence you want, but it means little in the way of respect. ” A little ironic since they had demanded respect moments prior -- but alas, there is a difference between claiming as a lord rather than a god, “ All I see is a pitiful little soul still bound by the weakness of flesh ; boasting divinity when gods are mere stories, images made to manipulate the weak. ”      The Warden does recognize the movements, used to make one harder to hit -- to evade what towers over them. Smaller the posture, the harder it is to hit with precise strikes. Oh, how it reminds them of the days they had their own burden of flesh.      Although, to avoid a stream of searing fire summoned from the skull would be difficult. If they had the intention of burning the other to ash in an instant. Pity their full strength has been barred away by that creature.      When the fire ceases, they let out just one last puff of embers -- the color drained as it comes out in pure white. How the threat of burning alive seems to change the tone of even one who claims to be above the rest of the riff raff of fleshie weaklings.      “ The same side? ” A low laugh, “ What makes you think I would be aligned with you? My master has spoken of no alliances nor do we humour such blights upon the Sea. ” Even if this one is another Killer as those insects have called them, lest their master has said such a simile as an alliance has been formed, they are all unwelcome to the Fortress.      Tone shifts, from the laugh into a growl as the tendrils wrap around their leg. Strange on the sensation, not quite like what they have dealt with in the past. . . fire always does the trick, however, “ Give me a real fight, I've been craving to tear limb from limb a little fleshie since this wretched place came about! ” The foot is planted firmly in the ground, using the weight of the bones and crystals to keep themself in place as well as possible. Then, another breath of fire, this one spewing out as the white the embers had been before.

[sforzesco]

Crassus, Caelius, Cicero, Catiline, Conspiracy

boy howdy these four sure are something. not featured in this soup of C names, Caesar! what on earth happened here.

Plutarch, Crassus

Sallust on Crassus, Ronald Syme

Patron and Client, Father and Son in Cicero's "Pro Caelio"

Crassus' New Friends and Pompey's Return, Eve J. Parrish

Catullus and His World, T.P. Wiseman

Cicero's Catilinarians, D.H. Berry

[wingedqueenlynx]

Hmmm yes.~ Symbolic Arkham Survivor drawing :]c

What could this possibly mean? 🤔🤫😁✨️💚

This took so feckin long to do oh my lord..... first mistake was have so many characters lol

[joanofexys]

if people start spinning the sex-repulsed, traumatized by sex so couldn't possibly enjoy sex view with Jean Moreau I will be coming after them with knives because have you morons not learned a single fucking lesson about infantilizing SA survivors

[spaceratprodigy]

(palette challenge) PINK LEMONADE OR WATERMELON FOR DELIRIS ⁉️⁉️⁉️

@oldworldwidgets — [ palette prompts ]

WATERMELON LEMONADE DELIRIS 💖💚

[momentomori24]

Someone on twitter said it best: The title should actually be "How NOT to show support for SA victims that don't fit your desired demographic."

"His character is reinforcing negative gay stereotypes" and it's a hypersexual gay man who died in the 30s struggling with addiction and drug abuse to get through his life of exploitation, repression, trafficking and ipv doused with fake glitter and glam so no one can see beneath the cracked surface of his tortured soul.

"I don't think I've ever come across a character so poorly represented yet so greatly praised by the general audience" Because Angel isn't "representation", but an actual character with his own unique struggles and issues and responses that thousands of people (inclusing myself) can deeply relate to and if not "relate" then sympathise with. He isn't "SA rep". He isn't "Gay rep". He's Angel Dust. He's a person, and a broken one at that. If you don't relate to him the way so, so many others do, then maybe it's not for you. I already hate you 💀

[dykedvonte]

Butcher Pete is a crazy song in universe cause what do you mean one of the 20 songs we have to listen to is a two-parter about a guy who town hops and fucks every viable and willing woman in town so well that women anticipate his appearance?

Like respect to Butcher Pete but crazy that he and the sole survivor are on the same grind set.

[ruvviks]

"The outer reaches of space remain unexplored by humankind to this day, but its greed is relentless. We grasp and yearn and hunger for knowledge— answers to questions we cry out into the endless void expecting to understand, expecting the stars to respond. The stars will not, but one day something else will— and we will not like what it has to say." — Rome Solomon, Beyond the Exosphere (1965)

taglist (opt in/out): @shellibisshe, @florbelles, @ncytiri, @hibernationsuit, @stars-of-the-heart, @vvanessaives, @katsigian, @radioactiveshitstorm, @estevnys, @adelaidedrubman, @celticwoman, @rindemption, @carlosoliveiraa, @noirapocalypto, @dickytwister, @killerspinal, @euryalex, @ri-a-rose, @velocitic, @thedeadthree

[forcedhesitation]

dead by daylight-- the game where you can play as steve harrington from stranger things, and can get sent to partake in a match of murder hide and seek at midwich elementary from silent hill, where you can then use a lute to perform bardic inspiration from dungeons and dragons to give a bonus to your teammates, except for the one who is being chased by nemesis from resident evil 3.

[dreamlogic]

aye can i get a fuckin uuuhhhh

break. on my burger

[momentomori24]

I don't believe liking immoral and downright evil characters says anything about you as a person, but I think acting like this definitely does.

"The HH fanbase will defend Valentinoto the moon and back" this and "Val is praised by a majority of the fandom" that, except said majority of the fandom fucking HATES that moth and fans have been harassed, had their art scribbled on to "fix" it, repeatedly called "rapist apologists" and "abuse romanticisers", get questioned or accused about condoning him irl, received graphic death/rape threats and are in general mistreated by the fandom. A Val cosplayer was mistreated and had a gun pulled on them IN REAL LIFE not even a year ago. Even the VA got repeatedly asked or assumed to be like the character he plays because "why else would he want to voice a rapist??" and told they deserve for choosing that role (fucking WILD btw). People that like Valentino as a character are the minority of the fandom, and even there NO ONE defends him. We all realise he's a disgusting individual whose actions shouldn't be defended in any capacity. What kinda bullshit lie is that?

I'm also in the Mouthwashing fandom, and it too has a bunch of issues. Infantilising Curly and minimising his actions, making Swansea to be better than he actually is and ignoring that he knew of the SA, people still debating or not realising that Jimmy raped Anya in the first place, shipping Jimmy and Curly (which isn't even a bad thing or a real problem but this person would see it that way), ect. But sure, conveniently don't bring that up. Anything for the Hazbin Hotel hate, right 💀

These next comments especially piss me off (nevermind how they're talking about an abuse survivor which is gross already). This might be a hot take and I don't care if that's the case, but I think people refusing to call Jimmy by name and excluding him from the cast is not show of a "good" fandom, actually. Jimmy has a lot more to him besides being a rapist. Rape culture, toxic masculinity, capitalistic exploitation, misogyny, male dominance-- there's sooo much more to explore and discuss about his character besides him being a rapist. And he's an incredibly disturbing character in a fucking horror game. If you can only refer to him by some stupid nickname (which takes away the seriousness of his character imo), ignore the significance of his role and themes in the story and the rest of his character and reduce him to a single trait that's BAD. That's not a good thing, and in fact, probably makes you worse than the people that do like his character because they can at least separate fiction and reality and not scrap well written disturbing characters for the sake of "comfort" or moral standing (again, in a horror game of all things). People shouldn't feel bad for liking Jimmy because he's a very good character, and ignoring that completely and acting like there aren't people who could like him... kinda sucks?

Moving over, Valentino is not and has NEVER been portrayed in a positive light in the show. I can't wrap my head around people that genuinely think that. Whenever I hear people say that the arguments I always see are "he shouldn't be attractive" and "he's just a cartoon villain" and "he acts silly and quirky even tho he's a rapist" among other things, and I don't think these people realise they're spouting eugenics bullshit and demonstrating that they don't know anything about his character simultaneously. No, Valentino isn't a "positive" portrayal of a rapist because he's attractive (way to tie morality to appearance btw). No, Valentino isn't a positive portrayal of a rapist because he acts goofy and funny and silly. Those traits are intentional and important to his character. Val is the Overlord of lust and depravity, hell's most famous pimp. His beauty is how he lures in unsuspecting sinners, and his personality is how he gains their trust and gets them to sell their souls for him to exploit (notice how Angel signed his soul away willingly). He's supposed to be appealing. He's supposed to be charming. He's entire persona is meant to be disarming. If he were like Jimmy or just a one-note unlikeable guy, his position in the show and his relationships with the characters wouldn't make sense, so he isn't. That doesn't make him a more positive portrayal or anything, it just means he's more fleshed out and written more complex than you want him to be. He's a very real depiction of an abuser, of their two-faced nature and how being attractive and charming to others doesn't make you less of an abusive monster to someone else. For context, I have been abused by someone extremely similar to Val, so his depiction feels very real to me and it's extremely tiring seeing a bunch of assholes who have probably not even seen the show or have been abused act like he's "romanticised" or "unrealistic" or "bad" simply because he was written by Vivziepop (who's ALSO an SA survivor like what is wrong with you 💀).

This is a broader point and not entirely related to this specific case, but we don't give people shit like this over people liking murderers and serial killers-- acting like all a sudden liking a rapist character says something negative about their writing or about the people that like them is INCREDIBLY stupid. People don't talk like this about Alastor and Vox-- who are both VERY despicable people. Both of them are also abusers among other horrible things, but they're not (or at least Alastor isn't) rapists so they're "not as bad". This is a sentiment I see all the time in both the fandom and hatedom whenever Valentino discourse comes back up, and this line of logic that rapists are a unique evil that can't be liked as characters in fiction but murderers and cannibals and serial killers are totally Ok is so dangerous and backwards. Liking evil characters says nothing about you as a person aside from the fact that you're a freak in the fun way. Liking evil characters but then going after others who do as well because you consider their character "too evil" and watering down the crimes of yours to justify liking them says a lot about you tho. Saying that the characters you like says something negative you in general does too.

We seriously need to stop bringing morality into fiction and saying that "normal" people wouldn't like certain immoral characters. We need to stop ostracising people for their "problematic" ships, proudly brag about ostracising them and justify it by calling them "weirdos". We need to stop saying villains are "badly written" because they're not written how YOU want them to be written, regardless of whether or not that opinion is valid (which in this case it isn't). We need to stop putting fandoms in some weird competition with each other about how characters are written and spit on people who actually enjoy them, are comforted by them or felt seen by them (gestures at the whole Angel dust situation barely a week ago). And honestly we need to stop giving attention to people like this, who spread a false narrative and kick others down for being fans of a media they don't like or know squat about for whatever reason. Who spread lies about the media or fandom in question in way that's blatantly in bad faith.

This crappy post is sitting a 17k while I'm typing this. The way people can just say ANYTHING about Hazbin Hotel and its fandom-- doesn't matter if it's valid or true or if they watched the show or know anything about the fandom at all, it just has to be negative-- and others will eat it up no questions asked needs to be studied at this point. We saw that in the months the show first aired. We saw that with the Angel Dust video. We're seeing this again here. I don't think we should be harassing anybody over fiction and in general (and needless to say don't harass any of these people) but calling out bad actors who pull shit like this more often and making it uncool to shittalk Hazbin Hotel and its fandom (and any fandom from unapologetically dark media where the people deal with enough bullshit already) for no reason and in bad faith is a change I'd be down with. Like, wash your mouth of its name and disappear into the shadow realm, goddamnit.

[my-thoughts-and-junk]

thinking about superheroes unfortunately

[skwivr]

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[aesadraws]

Introducing my Courier 6 from New Vegas, Omar Santana~ With bonus boyfriend Arcade because I think about them a very normal amount. :)

Got shot in the head, badly flirted his way to New Vegas, slowly fell in love with a nerd, experienced So Much Trauma that he abandoned his friends for years, and now that he's reunited with Arcade and Veronica he's still figuring out what to do with himself.

I totally didn't forget to post this the day after I finished making it, whaaaat no you're silly.