#then what WOULD make him worthy

[bunnieswithknives]

OH MY GOD??? HAS IT SERIOUSLY BEEN A MONTH????? I am so sorry guys

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[dysfunctionalcreature]

obviously all the characters in Interview With The Vampire have such tragic pasts, and they each have so many good lines of dialogue that beautifully capture that trauma, but the one I just keep coming back to is Armand saying, voice shaking, "No one has painted me in over 400 years". It's the sadness and resentment in his voice, the implications of it, partly he just misses Marius I'm sure, but I really think that it's more than that, Armand is so deeply insecure, I can't help but think that maybe he doesn't consider himself worthy to be painted, he says "No one has painted me in over 400 years" and I can't help but hear "It has been 400 years since I was worth painting"

[checkadii]

I think I’m normal about him

[sunnykeysmash]

[ohitslen]

College (uni??) AU catering to my own interests as it should always be hehe :)

[aquickstart]

one thing that's been talked about here and by creators and is obvious but still important to articulate (to me) is that oliver is not envious of the cattons because they are wealthier than him, necessarily. it's not about the money. or it is, but in a way that everything in life is about money: no matter how much you have, you kind of always want more, because want is a very strong driver. he's not coming from a place of poverty or any financial need at all, and he is not genuinely burning with the anger at the rich as a working-class guy constantly overpowered by them. there is no righteousness of the oppressed in his motives; sure, he "knows how to work", but to me—and this is, again, personal interpretation—the more important part is that the cattons "made it so easy" for him to take everything from them. it doesn't matter where oliver is coming from, ultimately (which is why he is so pointedly an upper middle class kid, quite comfortable, not a struggling genius he paints himself to be). for oliver, and for his audience, what matters is what he wants, not why he wants it; how badly he wants, how deep inside his own desire he is.

in short, it's not that the cattons had something he didn't have. it's just that they had something he wanted.

[crustyfloor]

I still feel as though I'm missing something when i see the connection of Luka staring at Ivan and Till staring at Luka but nobody is actually looking at each other.

I know the reason for this homophobic stare was probably Ivan regaining his composure/giving himself a check "damn I really did that"/realizing that still trying to reach out to Till one last time was fruitless after slipping up during the song but. What if he was staring back at Luka? what if he knew what was coming all along.

[borgialucrezia]

LUCREZIA BORGIA + JUAN BORGIA

"One thing that I've always said about Juan is that every action that he does is heartfelt and genuine. When it was the war against the French, he was there and he was going to go to war, even though he knew he was going to die. He saw them getting ripped apart, but he was there and he was going to do it. I believe if Lucrezia hadn't come over, he would have led all his troops into death. I don't think there's anything that he's done which was through general cowardice. In terms of his survival, he died how he lived, and that's laudable, in itself."  — David Oakes.

[faithinlouisfuture]

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[xxplastic-cubexx]

just read the new mutants issue where Charles chose to stay behind in space and my god the juxtaposition between Charles trusting Erik and Erik joining the hellfire club and wondering at his own trust worthiness. I wonder how much of Charles decision was him ultimately trying to avoid the fact that his first class had seemingly betrayed mutant kind and not be willing to face them and how much of it was Dani and Illyana's reaction to him having Karma mind control Illyana. the fact that Illyana was depending on him to ease her mind through limbo and in choosing to stay he forced karma to do it instead, probably fucking up their relationship in the process.

I love him, this is crazy, how much of this is him trying to runaway and how much is this him not trusting himself to fix things and how much is it just him trusting Erik?

i keep trying to put into words my exact thoughts about the sitch but there really is a lot for one issue aintit... oh charles you and your brain...

[mad-hunts]

okay, but it's the way that listening to songs sometimes reminds me of these random OC's that i have come up with over the years though JSJSJ like i have nottt thought of this one in a WHILE... but i once had an OC named ilias whose parents basically had a dream related to wealth due to his birth + so they took it as a prophecy because they always wished to have money as they lived in poverty for as long as they could remember. thus, they were superrr overprotective of him growing up to the point of obsession because they started seeing him as like their 'savior' in a way. and at the age of like six years old, he ended up developing the 'midas touch' or the ability to turn things into gold with a touch except he ALSO couldn't turn it off like midas + it only started with small things like insects at first but then spread to things like people and animals being turned into gold by his touch?

and that is SO incredibly sad whenever i think about it?? but also, IDK... i think i might've been cooking slightly whenever i thought of this idea. not to brag or anything, of course LOL buttt the commentary i could be using this kind of story for related to how capitalism is horrible and how greed can quickly overpower people is something i'd definitely be interested in now, i think. but SKSKS if y'all have any thoughts about this, then please feel free to comment them below because i'd love to hear them :)

[sainteclectic]

I know that we all agree that in this WholeSoul relationship Soul deffinetly putting a Whole on pedestal... but that if they know how strongly Whole brocken and flawed(if she were othervise she wouldnt need them. (And maybe Soul keep this thouts on the back of theyr mind like it some horrible sin, this understanding))

I know that it fun make Soul less pay attention to theyr god's flaws, but that if they clearly realise them and love theyr 'Regular God' tm Whole, not regardless... but thanks to this flaws? Maybe it ends up even more stronger feeling then his re

(Maybe this is for futture or moment of theyr acclimatisation)

I think it's a realization that happens gradually... whole isn't exactly flawless in soul's eyes, moreso... complete. the flaws don't matter to soul because they're flaws of an actual person instead of a shard of one. soul isn't a person, so he doesn't get to have flaws in the same way whole is. he's divine in the way an intricate vase is far more important and worthy than a shard of broken pottery.

still, soul doesn't really see the flaws. they're ultimately inconsequential to whole's brand of divinity. it tends to brush off her flaws as not that bad - she's still far more perfect than he could ever hope to be, and definitely less broken. it doesn't realize that, of course, it's only "broken" because whole is too.

it's a struggle for soul to realize that whole is genuinely flawed, with faults that aren't just superficial cracks. maybe his mental illness acts up and he ends up yelling at soul, maybe soul can't quite push down the frustration of being trapped in a cycle of whole's design anymore - whatever it is, soul feels hopeless at the revelation. whole's perfection is what kept it going! that maybe if it becomes whole, if it becomes complete, it'll stop feeling so broken. he placed whole on a pedestal out of a desperation that maybe he could join her up there someday. so of course finding out that pedestal has just as many cracks as soul does is devastating. all he's ever worked for is a lie.

but... once he started seeing the flaws instead of obscuring them, he realized how beautiful they are. not like the pristine vase he thought she was, but as kintsugi - a process of mending broken pottery that emphasizes the cracks with gold dust instead of hiding them away. they're both so, so very cracked. but they're still here. and maybe that's what matters most.

[aelswiths]

*screams into the void*

[lord-squiggletits]

Also I'm just gonna say that even if it were true that Rodimus was a """""true Prime"""" and Optimus wasn't, that isn't as much of an L for Optimus as people seemingly want it to be.

Like so you're telling me Optimus was never a chosen hero and the burden of the Matrix/leadership pained him morally, emotionally, and physically, yet he still survived 4 million years of war?

You're telling me he wasn't God's Designated Special Boy but he still tried his best to live up to that impossible ideal to the point of developing serious depression and suicidal ideation as a result of so much goddamn loneliness and self-doubt?

Optimus wasn't a "true Prime" and yet he still believed in ideals of reconciliation and ending the cycle of violence? He wasn't a true Prime but he still stayed on Cybertron trying to fix a broken, broken society while also trying to stop Earth from being invaded for a second time? He didn't even need to do that he could've just stayed in exile which he was originally supposed to do all along, and which he would've personally preferred?? You're telling me that Optimus wasn't Primus' Specialest Boy And Chosen Leader and yet he stepped into leadership anyways bc he perceived that there was injustice to be fixed??

Wow yeah I guess Optimus is just such an inferior leader, clearly his actual actions/moral character as person don't matter and his "worthiness" should be judged solely on whether the Magic Cybertronian 8 Ball liked him or not.

[lafcadiosadventures]

Lots of inspirational quotes on the seneca tag and very, very little on his plays. this is the guy that set the renaissance imagination on fire, his influence on the big names of renaissance theatre is vast….

[abitofboth]

do you think……….. if he tried…………. that loki would be worthy enough to lift mjolnir now…………………….