#this silly bitch again

[front-facing-pokemon]

[dizzybizz]

i just miss them a teensy-weensy tiny bit,,, okay

[fist-of-vengeance]

thinking about how essentially every relationship john locke formed in the early seasons of lost has completely disintegrated by the time of his death.

of course there's his relationship with jack, which starts tense but manageable and culminates in jack pointing a gun at john's head and pulling the trigger. but even his smaller, less narratively prominent relationships either implode or drift apart. he bonds with walt in season one but then walt leaves the island, which is itself a severing of their bond since it was mainly based on being the only two people who wanted to stay. still, he goes and visits walt off the island so this is probably john's most successful relationship. I dont think i need to explain how he fucked up with boone, "the sacrifice that the island demanded." charlie viewed john as a mentor and claimed to trust him more than anyone on the island, but after the events of fire and water, that trust is destroyed and charlie despises him. at the same time we get john bonding with claire and having a pseudo-paternal dynamic with her, but their closeness basically drops off the face of the earth as he gets less and less involved with the other survivors.

his arc in the series is essentially a gradual distancing from everyone around him. it starts when he abandons hunting (providing for the others) in favor of trying to get the hatch open (it's extremely clear his primary motive isn't any survival applications but getting answers to the mystery). when they do open the hatch, he spends more and more time inside, underground, cut off from other people. he spends more and more time interacting with ben, a human mystery box that he's obsessed with cracking even if it gets him killed. he follows the proverbial white rabbit deeper down the hole and leaves his connection to humanity behind. the island and its mysteries become more important to john than anything or anyone else.

then in season three we get him claiming to go undercover with the others only to unceremoniously tell sawyer that he's actually going to join them. and it doesn't feel shocking, it feels inevitable. because john has spent the entire series becoming less and less connected with the people he arrived with. in that sense he actually makes a fascinating foil to juliet, who is introduced as one of the others and yet never really fits, she's increasingly sympathetic and kind in a way the rest of them aren't, her redemption arc feels so natural that she actually starts referring to her old people as "the others" like she's been one of the crash survivors from the beginning. her and john basically have inverse arcs, which is probably accidental but very neat.

in season five john tries to convince everyone to go back to the island, and fails spectacularly. and of course he does, because he was so consumed by obsession that he stopped maintaining his relationships, and in many cases actively alienated people (this is also basically what happened with helen) and now he can't wrap his head around why they're all so hostile to him. i am forever obsessed with the scene where he confronts kate and she brutally calls him out for wanting to return to the island because he doesn't love anyone. it actually struck me on rewatch how well the two of them got along in season one, and how badly their relationship has degraded by this point. john repeatedly casts aside interpersonal relationships in favor of his obsession with destiny, so when said destiny actually involves persuading the people he once shunned, he's at a loss. this is because john treats purpose as a supplement for connection, destiny as an alternative to love.

as an aside, this aspect of john's character kinda ties into my opinion that several lost characters can be read as allegorically neurdivergent under a certain lens. i know this was absolutely not intended, but as an adhd former gifted kid who struggles socially, there is something uncomfortably familiar about a character who allows their relationships to burn around them because of a single-minded obsession, especially as a result of being promised the fickle status of "special."

tl/dr: john locke is a doomed idiot and i love him

[watermel0ns-dumb-cringe]

These are same picture to me

[wu-wakfu-undertale]

Re-watching wakfu for the first time in years and s1 Yugo was so silly???

dude discovered he could make portals at will and his first thought after actually acknowledging it is "i can do so many cool pranks with this"

[accio-sriracha]

Marauders and Co. playing Never Have I Ever

~~~♤~~~

Remus: *bluntly* Never have I ever been a dog.

Everyone else: ?

Sirius: *drinks*

Everyone else: ?????

Marauders: *refuses to elaborate*

~~~♤~~~

[freshbeeth]

inspired by my off the hook (irl) playlist

[angelbambisworld]

The Demon in his cape. He's trying super hard to be scary but all I wanna do is pinch and squish his little cheeks 🥰

[contentment-of-cats]

This is literally this post below.

The amount of projection is amazing. Everything she is accusing others of doing is shit she did to Drac, to Bee, and who knows how many other people. She might as well have stick her name on it, it's just like the ones she's posted on her blog. IMHO, the mysterious anons are@cordelliaperry talking to herself.

A small sample below including doxxing, outing, lying

When accused of outing Drac, resorted to 'oh, somebody else sent me the pic.' Drac and Bee are her scapegoats, she tried to make Jade a scapegoat.

If I post about all the bullshit @cordeliaperry has pulled, I will be here until Labor Day, and I have enough to keep me going until then.

Hello, my name is Draculard. I create whisper campaigns against authors I don’t like, cry wolf about harassment and stalking, and watch with glee as fellow fanfic authors get dogpiled due to my lies. I cry and whine about getting mean anons, even though my lies have caused other people to drop out of fandoms, stop writing altogether, get stalked and doxxed by my flying monkeys, and caused more mental pain and anguish than I’ll ever be worth. I am a toxic person, have zero friends irl, and have failed at every single thing I’ve ever tried to accomplish, hence the morbid insecurity and jealousy.

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[hermesmoly]

Clytemnestra, Medea, and Oenone in the afterlife meet up and become a support group of husband killers and/or bad mothers. Also the Danaïdes attend their meetings

[temeyes]

huhu munchkadees, i'm gonna be honest with y'all but i'm really fighting my demons tonight (resisting the urge to write a one shot story for Chariot, write lore for three separate cod ocs, and create an codverse blog for said cod ocs)

[lightbulb-warning]

i used to freehand comics all the time as a child and since the part i liked was the drawing part i would just draw panel after panel because i didn't want to stop drawing to think about icky icky words, plus the story TOTALLY still made perfect sense! to me! and noone else, but 'whoooo caaaaares omgggg its not like comics and sequantial art are a communicative meeediummmm lmaoooooo'. i spent my entire childhood telling myself stuff like "oh pfft I know this story by heart- ill SIMPLY remember the dialogue and write it later" ...and. I can't help but admire baby maiora's (call that a minora ba tm tsk) fucking audacity? hubris? confident wrongness? kid couldn't even remember to finish the comics in the first place? INCREDIBLE levels of unearned self assurance, wish that were me, genuinely- what an icon!!! anyway i think i have forever cursed myself

[spaceratprodigy]

✨💛 Cybill n Iris — @grimreapersbutt 💛✨

Hypnotizing, mesmerizin' me She was everything I dreamed she'd be Sweet surrender, what a night

Commission Info | Ko-Fi | My Links

[anachronistic-falsehood]

i was the bitches?

[tench]

How many Depeche Mode songs can I put into my Stolitz playlist? The answer is yes.

(Listen, not only I finally have a pairing of the right demographic, but it works so well! Halo for example. I am living my best life right now)

[booigi-boi]

The Best of You was originally supposed to be a Needy Beast song, right? It definitely feels more of a legit band song than the rest, and even if I'm lowkey sad they didn't go with this plan (cause I need more NMT references, lol), look at Needy Beast and then look at me and tell me if those guys look like the kind of band that would make that song, kssksk

Idk, maybe Thrash made the song for Courtney 🥺