#violent and terrible

[dhaaruni]

Mom? Can you pick me up? People on Twitter are doing noble savage "European colonialism is worse than Islamic colonialism" arguments again.

[v4guelyv4mpiric]

i keep my promises

[dogmaz]

[Skullduggery - 1983]

[disastertwins9000]

“i said are you boys ready for school?”

[idalenn]

"Coward."

[the-daily-dreamer]

Dignified?

Dignified?!

DIGNIFIED?!?

I’m sorry when did getting killed in a battle or burnt to a crisp become a more dignified way to die? Has this fandom run so far with the notion that women are only valuable if they are masculine or fighters to the point that we find gruesome deaths in battle as a superior way for them to die?

Why must a woman be a warrior or a fighter to have value? Why must she seek power in traditionally masculine ways to be powerful and respected? Why does this fandom wish for all women to be the same cookie cutter, fighting girlboss lest she be titled a misogynistic pathetic trad wife? What is wrong with this fandom and their glorification of masculinity and violence and their continuous desire to have any soft, gentle, kind character be changed into a fighter or else they will ridicule and hate her?!

Helaena deserves far better than her book canon death. But she also deserves better than to die in a battle for a war she didn’t start that has already ruined her life in an unimaginably painful way.

[lucky-clover-gazette]

tbh i think volo would have been significantly more normal and fine if he hadn’t been hiding so much of his true feelings and personality. like when you deny yourself genuine human connection to that degree you’re probably going to come off as a machiavellian monster who wants to make the world and the lives of others worse, but looking at his actual stated motivations and intentions it’s clear to me at least that the guy is deeply empathetic and idealistic and more than anything disappointed that the world can’t be better

[erinwantstowrite]

Being a Jason Todd fan sometimes Is so damn hard like,,,,the whole mess with mia??? We were in the trenches i swear

they consistently mischaracterize jason and put him in a default villain role when they have no better ideas and it pmo so bad

[ladsofsorrow24]

my tolerance for evil female characters are surprisingly high compared to how i feel about evil male characters lol

when it's an evil woman, most of the time i try to understand her problems first, like maybe the roots of her villainy might be born from issues that is understandable

but if the man is evil and have qualities that i don't like?

first impression and i already can't stand him lmao

[nomsfaultau]

[Mandatory Family Reunion Philza: ��First, I would like to apologize. I did not foresee how badly the testimony [in which Philza hired actors pretending to be Techno's abusive criminal parents to testify against him, triggering him to the point of questioning his own sanity, in an attempt to prove Philza right about xy&z] would impact you, especially after being forced to relive what those monsters did to you. I realize everything feels very uncertain for you right now. But the Piglins really did reveal their involvement with the Nether at our dinner together, remember? We were both there. Can’t you trust that at least?”

Techno: “They said– no. Be-be-because. No, you hurt th- the Piglins.” And it almost sounds like a question, wild hope tangled with harrowing fear. 

Only a moment does Philza toy with the decision of convincing Technoblade the torture of the Piglins wasn't real. Wouldn't it be kinder, if the thought distressed him so? But no. Philza is merely trying to help his son, and would never exploit his mental illness like that.]

I hate him so so so much oh my GOD. pHiLzA woUld nEvER eXPloiT His mEnTAL iLLneSs BRO SHUT TF UP YOU CAUSED THAT MENTAL ILLNESS.

[eiravolence]

kind of niche but helena eagan (of severance) keeps giving me major tamerlane usher (of the netflix mike flannigan series fall of the house of usher) vibes. they're not the same but they are so strange and specific already as characters it will not leave my brain. specifically her rewatching the security footage i was like Hmm i have Seen this before. but like. nepo baby daughter of the ceo of a monumentally fucked up medical company, who is unable to do intimacy/relationships normally. AND they're both ginger!!

[normalbrothers]

linda shelby + her mother

[rotzaprachim]

i'm reading orhan pamuk's essay about going on trial for "insulting turkishness" and will post it (it's excellent. of course it is) but I am DEEPLY feeling this part right now:

The hardest thing was to explain why a country officially committed to entry in the European Union would wish to imprison an author whose books were well known in Europe, and why it felt compelled to play out this drama (as Conrad might have said) “under Western eyes.” This paradox cannot be explained away as simple ignorance, jealousy, or intolerance, and it is not the only paradox. What am I to make of a country that insists that the Turks, unlike their Western neighbors, are a compassionate people, incapable of genocide, while nationalist political groups are pelting me with death threats? What is the logic behind a state that complains that its enemies spread false reports about the Ottoman legacy all over the globe while it prosecutes and imprisons one writer after another, thus propagating the image of the Terrible Turk worldwide? When I think of the professor whom the state asked to give his ideas on Turkey’s minorities, and who, having produced a report that failed to please, was prosecuted, or the news that between the time I began this essay and embarked on the sentence you are now reading five more writers and journalists were charged under Article 301, I imagine that Flaubert and Nerval, the two godfathers of Orientalism, would call these incidents bizarreries, and rightly so.

[rometabss]

rewatching the "would u kiss me? if i asked you?" tomgreg scene and well we all know tomgreg gay whatever but the gist of it is tom trying to adopt roy language. i mean hes trying to get in, find a spot at the table, and he tries by getting logan a gift to win him over/show him his appreciation, but also he's trying to not only become adjusted to the environment but also seamlessly fit in. and he knows the roys use sexual language to assert dominance.

so atp he hears logan tell shiv that he will have greg as his competition, and he feels threatened obviously. so, he immediately gives logan the gift and then, proceeds to go tease greg and play it off as friendliness, including the kissing lines.

the problem is kissing, while it can be rough, is just commonly associated with tenderness, its something soft. this type of language doesn't carry threat or violence in its use, as opposed to the violent use of fucking, handjobs, blowjobs, etc. the mere use of kissing instead of fucking immediately sets him apart from the roys, he doesnt have that inherent violent business sexuality to him.

also, the fact that they're starting w the deal with lawrence, a gay man, and the characters constantly paint this sexually violent images in regards to him and express sex as little metaphorical favours they'll do to win him over.

sex to them is violent and forceful and a business strategy and a mere threat that doesn't actually get carried out. and tom tries to replicate that, but a kiss is not sex, sex is rough and ugly and a kiss is soft and graceful, and he starts off with an ask of consent and tries to save it with the luring threat of forcefulness but it falls flat, he already revealed his true nature.

[sodapopper]

For a fic, I was doing some research on corporal punishment used in schools during the 1960s, and holy heck, y’all. Check in on your grandparents, wow. I knew it was bad but like. Yikes.

[skepticalcatfrog]

"Benedikt walked to Marshall. Appearing utterly, utterly devoid of anything, anything—he put his hand to Marshall’s throat and kept it there, waiting.

A terrible noise tore forward from his cousin. Roma would hear that sound in his head forever."

- These Violent Delights, Chapter 38

(Commissions are open!)

((Close-ups under the cut, as usual))

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(Also just going to tag @chloegong down here because I don't know if I'm going to put this one on Instagram due to. uh. the blood)