#to defend himself

[general-cyno]

it's always interesting to me how a bunch of analyses on knives’s character I've seen/read rely on the affirmation that he's inherently in an advantageous or privileged position compared to vash when not only are both of them from the same female-presenting species, they both suffered from the same gendered trauma and exposure to oppression/violence in the form of tessla as kids - it was their reactions and processing (or lack of processing, in knives’s case) of it that ultimately shaped what would later become their opposing ideals and/or beliefs.

obviously, our own different experiences, thoughts, beliefs etc irl will influence our readings on these sort of characters but idk, I think it's curious that knives's brand of rage/hatred/violence is seen as a Clearly Cis Masculine thing (which boy. there's a lot to unpack there) when these feelings stem from a deeply rooted fear of exploitation and consumption (that he can be subjected to, by virtue of the species he belongs to and what his body can do) that can be pretty relatable to afab folks imo. the lowkey infantilization is huh interesting as well bc honestly a lot of knives's overly emotional reactions remind me of afab characters who are immediately dismissed as crazy, hysterical etc etc for acting the same

anyway. I don't really care what genitals ppl hc knives with bc lord knows porn is free real estate and that's another matter (I've personally enjoyed fanarts/fics where he's depicted as having either, both, or smth completely different) but eh ig what I mean to say with all this useless rambling is that knives belonging to the same (oppressed) species as vash and still exhibiting abusive behaviors towards him doesn't automatically make knives the Cishet Male Privileged guy fighting against vash's Queer Trans Marginalization when both can easily be read as sexually-and-gender queer (even if in different ways) and if you believe folks from the same oppressed/marginalized group can't hurt each other well. think abt that perhaps

(as a side note bc this apparently needs to be said on these kinda posts but No I Do Not Think Knives’s Genocidal Tendencies Are Okay)

[thoodleoo]

hmmm. thinking about a version of theseus and the minotaur where theseus goes to crete but it's the minotaur that comes back to athens

[montyfinchirl]

A dead boy with a cricket bat and a magic backpack: if you wanna get to him you have to go through me!

Another dead boy who spent over 70 years in hell AND clawed his way out of it, is an insanely skilled magic user, doesn’t even notice when he’s burnt by iron, and got up and started walking around like he was in barely any pain after being trapped in a machine for half an hour that evaporates other ghosts in SECONDS: :3

[lilislegacy]

annabeth: nothing anyone can say would make me cry

sally: nothing bad that’s happened to you, or anyone close to you, is your fault

annabeth:

annabeth: excuse me for one sec

[australet789]

"Alastor is a villain because he chained poor Husk 🥺"

I think you all forget THIS is the Husk that made the deal with Alastor:

The Husk that was so careless and selfish that was gambling SOULS, to the point he gambled his own soul away to save his powers.

[howellester]

.. which could mean nothing

[heybiji]

His hand hovers over the hilt of his dagger...

Dandelion was about to kill an enemy drow who was tied down and defenseless, but hearing his party member's voice caught his attention first. Dande's also in a bit of a confused haze, having cast a new spell by accident (Hunger of Hadar) that plunged the enemies and himself into a freezing, eldritch darkness full of whispers, acid tongues, and the grazing of teeth, which reminded him a lot of being home. He may have thought it was his mother...

[lady-of-the-spirit]

"JC should have defended WWX and the Wen remnants-" babe he has no political capital right now. He's rebuilding his sect from the ground up after a war. He's been locked out of the Venerated Triad. He's the youngest sect leader. How could he have defended them and not doomed himself and his sect all over again.

[grapejuicegay]

I haven't got a job. Why not? I think they only want clean people. They haven't taken that thing off yet? It's gone. But I guess some people still see it.

[juniemunie]

This post wouldn't leave my mind.

Error and Ink meeting before they completely become themselves is so....

ლ(ಥ益ಥლ) HHHHHHH

[mechanicalinfection]

a man made monster

[kittykatninja321]

Actually there is something so choice about how the narrative around Jason’s death pre-ressurection spends so much time reassuring Bruce (and the audience) that Bruce has no culpability and that Jason was hopeless and even at times tries to convince us that actually Jason wasn’t even really his son so Bruce didn’t fail as a father, he did the best he could really. Bruce doesn’t owe him anything. This could be seen as an attempt to distort history in order cope with Jason’s death, but this narrative is never actually challenged, we’re meant to take it as truth. And then Jason comes back and drags Bruce by the ear and goes actually no bitch you do owe me something you owe me a death. Bruce doesn’t get to wash his hands of him. Jason forces the issue, he refuses to let Bruce walk away clean. Good, he shouldn’t <3

[bardof-avon]

“i’m not religious” mfs when The Book of Mormon Musical comes on

[swan2swan]

The way Renji's Bankai in the last episode displayed every flaw he's had and every technique he's ever used as just another element of his true power was phenomenal.

Remember that technique he used against Aizen? The one that absolutely sucks because he can only use it when Zabimaru is broken and damages the sword so completely that it takes him days to put it back together?

Yeah, that's because the technique is supposed to be used by shredding all of the baboon hair to lay a minefield of grasping, inescapable hands to pin the enemy in place.

The colossal, unwieldy giant snake blade that was Renji's incomplete Bankai? The one he could barely move while wielding that everyone criticized as being one of the worst in the series?

Yeah, that's because it's intended to be wielded by a giant baboon arm that Renji controls like a Gundam, not his own scrawny little limbs! More strength and greater size turns it from a cumbersome burden into a wieldy weapon.

And remember how Renji could never use that red fireball technique properly? The one where he's supposed to create a ball of energy and fire it like a cannon?

Yeah, that's because he's a man of the streets. He's not supposed to fire energy balls based on something he read in a book, using ancient chants. He's supposed to gather the energy up from his own soul and channel it through his Bankai's arm in a blast of fiery energy.

Renji is not a dog barking at the moon in a pool of water. He's a two-headed monster of flame, blazing his own light into the world, and he's finally shown it!

[forgetful-nerd]

I saw this picture and just had to do something with it.

[here-comes-the-moose]

Some guy: *insults Echo not realizing Crosshair is within earshot*

Same guy: Why do I hear boss music?