#they are so damn tragic

[abla-soso]

Alicent apologizing to Aegon nearly brought tears to my eyes.

I remembered young Alicent saying: "All I wanted was for someone to say that they were sorry for what happened to me"

She wants to give her son what she needed and never had, but her unhealed truama keeps sabotaging her efforts 💔

[ohumokay]

Super Long Silena Beauregard/Luke Castellan Rant

Okay, so we all have our options on Luke's groomer/pedo personality (due to what he said to Annabeth), but the clearest evidence (for me, at least) is when Luke manipulated Silena's crush on him.

[definition of grooming according to the NSPCC website: "Grooming is when someone builds a relationship, trust and emotional connection with a child or young person so they can manipulate, exploit and abuse them."]

Firstly, background info: In TLO, Silena confesses that, before dating Charlie, she had a crush on Luke. She found him charming and good-looking, all factors that are no doubt credible to Hermes being his father. Luke manipulated this crush to get her to spy on CHB for him. After she started dating Charlie, Luke couldn't use the crush anymore, so he changed tactics; assuring what they were doing was for a good cause. He then threatened to hurt her boyfriend and tell people that she was a traitor.

Next, ages: In TLO, Silena is 18 and Luke is 23, and it's confirmed that her and Charlie were dating for a bit over a year, since Silena was 17 and Luke was 22. So, with an educated guess, Luke preyed on Silena's crush when she was 16 or younger, most likely right before he left CHB. When he left CHB, he was 19 and Silena was 14.

Luke, at the GROWN age of 19 (more likely than not) used the crush a 14 YEAR OLD CHILD had on him to convince her to be a spy. Then, at the GROWN age of 22, threatened the 17 YEAR OLD CHILD and her boyfriend to stay a spy for him.

That is horrific. If he had just claimed to be fighting for a good cause to manipulate her, it might not have been so disgusted. That was his belief and he's entitled to that. But the fact that a grown ass-man knowingly used a child's crush on him to his advantage is grooming and underlining pedo-ish.

Now to the more Silena-based portion of this rant:

I'd like to state that everyone has a right to their own opinions, I respect it. That being said, I cant respect people who argue that Silena was a awful person because she was a traitor.

I can understand people not thinking of her as a hero (since I'm sorta those people), but to say she was an awful person for such a complex reason really irks me. Their only argument is that she's a traitor (or, at least all of the dozens that I've seen) and that's crap, because there was so much more to her betraying CHB.

As stated above, her romantic feeling was manipulated at such a younger and impressionable age. She was told that what she was doing was good. She had her own problems with the Olympians as most demigods did. It wasn't until she got with Charlie that she realized the extent and harm Luke was doing, but then her security and her boyfriend's safety was threatened. So what was a 17 year old who spent the past 3 years trusting this very person do? She listens. Because she knows what he's capable of, unfortunately .

After Charlie's death, though, is when she learned that it didn't matter how obedient she was. So, since she was no longer trying to spare Charlie's life, she decide to go down fighting against Luke.

I, in no way, think of Silena being a hero through and through. I think she was a traitor (not really by choice). I believe she live as a traitor, but I also believe she died heroically.

She lived as a spy for the titan army, but died leading the missing and probably most important piece of the demigod army.

She lived deceiving to her loved ones, but died changing the tides of the Second Titan War in the demigod's favor.

She lived morally bad, but died tragically beautiful.

Silena Beauregard, the daughter of Aphrodite, died as a hero.

[deskatt]

It's a sickness at this point

[paintedcrows]

Love this guy. The Gucket...

Also I was messing around with the colours and I kind of love these.

[starheirxero]

The boys are back in town (to kill you!!)

Still versions under the cut!

Here's V1 Bloodmoon, 👇

And here's V2 Bloodmoon! 👇

[queen-morgana91]

Katara had no idea that Iroh would have saved them and she was ready to die with Aang here

[mih4nn]

cheering the other 8 gin enjoyers out there (him meeting sanji again to eat his fried ricee orz)

[spkyart]

THE BOYS ⭐⭐⭐⭐

One of them is a professional yapper

[pokimoko]

haunting the narrative -> haunted by the narrative -> haunting the narrative -> haunted by

[opheliasam]

guys he’s so . wtf…WTF . angel

[moliathh]

the scorpion and the frog

[c6jpg]

Hunters fight not for fame, but to aid the people whenever they are summoned.

[luxurystark-jackson]

sam is like his father. was innocent to the reality of what was going on until something bad happened and he was forced to become a monster he shouldn’t have been, all for the greater good.

dean is like his mother. cursed with the knowledge of their reality, forced to grow up in it and ready to do anything to save their counterpart from anything that tries to kill them, even at the expense of the greater good.

[sherurose]

"i thought i was fully prepared for the threshold on store // stay your pretty eyes on course // i guess i've never really faced my fears before // so stay with me because // my body's on the line now // pull the blanket tight now // i can feel the light shine on my face"

(jayce, scared, looking in viktor eyes and seeing how scared he is as well and just... coming to him so gently, holding the back of his neck to bring him close to him, forehead to forehead, "i'm here...". and viktor returning the sentiment by gently stroking his arm. it's okay because they are together.)

[artbymesa]

A result of this

He's such a brat 😅 [affectionate]

But he can have this one if it makes him feel better about what happened at the ritual

[oatmealcrisp-freak]

It makes my heart ache that Penber starved Naomi of the validation she so rightly deserved so much that the second a freaking kid goes, "I think you're right" her eyes light up and she says, "Really? You mean that?" Honey... Oh honey...

She is a former FBI agent. He is a highschooler. LIKE.

Light's literally not even gassing her up. He's just acknowledging and respecting her intelligence and treating her like a goddamn person, and it has her practically over the moon enough to smile since probably the first time Penber died. She's being told that her deductions make sense. Her brain is worth something after all. Light's not lying when he tells her her theory could become central to the Kira case. It's literally the truth. He acknowledges this to himself. It's basic fact. And he treats it like such, and verbalizes that to her as such after a touch of light skepticism to see the strings she's connected. And she's all for it.

And she has indeed connected them. Every single one. Everything she's saying makes sense, but she's been so goddamn trained by Penber that she was very nearly resigned to not being believed. She's adamant to explain her conspiracy board piece by piece in person because she's so acutely aware of getting swept aside, but she still knows she's right, and that her deduction is important, and she overcomes that fear and goes anyway.

She is a careful, intelligent woman. She IS. All Light does is respect that and she's suddenly spilling fucking everything to a kid she doesn't know, who she knows is tied to the police, who she knows have a leak, who she knows her fiance was investigating. She plays some cards close to her chest but she's just so swept away by being believed for once that. Well. She dies.

Light very quickly falls into honeytrapping and using women as tools but based on this I wonder how much of it is his. I don't know. Headcanon territory alert but. Seeing a reflection of the self in them? IIRC he only does this to women who are blatantly attracted to him. He doesn't seek to use Naomi in any way. Manipulate her, yes, as she's a very real threat but she's also blatantly a person to him even before he learns how much she knows. I very well could be reaching, but I could see Light seeing people who are attracted to him and being disgusted by them. He knows he's attractive on the surface, but underneath...

Does Light see the world as rotting because he's viewing it through the lens of self? Ykno?

They see his face and swoon and suddenly it's like they don't seek to know him at all. He's effectively been a prop his whole life, a model 'good son', and he sees that he's become a prop to these people too. So, too, do they become props to him. He's serving his worth to them by just being there - it's practically reciprocal, and therefore the fair and right thing to do.

Light uses Misa. He's not kind to her. He uses Takada. He's really not all that kind to her either, though he's less blatant about it to her face for the most of it. He cheats on them with each other aaaaand literally doesn't care if they might be hurt. But he still trusts Takada to effectively become his second, and trusts Misa to information gather and write names and follow a plan outside his immediate supervision. He is a two-timing manipulative gaslighting bag of dicks who'd happily sell them to the devil for a corn chip, but I'm tempted to think that's because he knows their worth, their abilities, sees his need of them, and is therefore always keeping that in mind as he tries to seduce them sweetly to where he needs them to be. Light thinks women are easy as hell, his opinion of their intelligence is definitely a hand waggle at best but he still sees them. And honestly, he thinks everyone's intelligence is a hand waggle at best, and he thinks everybody is easy to manipulate, and he's, frankly, not always proven wrong. His dismissal is pretty sex-neutral. Women probably get singled out because statistically she's gonna be straight and therefore attracted to him and that's just another button he can mash. Looking at Mikami, I have no doubts he'd treat men who are interested in him in the same way.

Naomi, obviously, is not attracted to him in this way even though he's able to please her with almost excessive ease. Naomi therefore seems to retain her personhood in his mind. 'She's just a woman', yeah, he thinks to himself as he's freaking out and going over worst case scenarios where he might actually have to assault her. She's smaller than him. Her long hair means she has an easy handhold. He's not really figuring out that she could kick his ass before he can do so much as yelp... he still hesitates, doesn't go for it, and finds another way. He thinks to himself that she's too careful for him to successfully assault her even though she's 'just a woman'. People say he taunts her after she walks away to commit her suicide but I'm not so sure he is. He's ensuring his alibi publicly in every way he can, to anyone who happens to pass them by, to anyone who can see him smile, to anyone who can hear him and register his 'friendly' voice the moment he's not speaking so only Naomi can hear. Naomi is a threat. Naomi is careful. Naomi is very, very fucking smart. Light needs to ensure his victory as much as possible, and is acting to do this from every angle even as Naomi is in the grips of the Death Note's thrall because she's goddamn Naomi Misora.

And Light, though he's only met her very briefly, knows that. There is no way he didn't enjoy that cat and mouse game. Of course he revelled in his victory. She was an exceptional opponent who very nearly had him in checkmate several times in, like, the span of a half hour. L's been at this for months and he's never gotten as close to catching Kira as Naomi did lmao Him being giddy makes sense in that context.

Penber trusts Naomi enough to get him tea and keep house. He tells her as much to her face. All she is, is his fiance. That's all she's good for anymore - whatever her capability, whatever her intelligence, whatever her reputation 'before', they're now worthless. He'd never even think to try and manipulate her to make use of her blatant fucking intelligence because he literally doesn't see it. He dismisses her skills out of hand. What a waste. What a goddamn waste. If Naomi had been the one investigating Light, he'd be in custody before Ryuk even told him he was being stalked.