#wanting a scapegoat

[ego-similis-testudines]

I may very well be swinging a bat at a hornet's nest, but I find it very interesting that the crowd that (rightfully) says "Read another book" to Harry Potter fans among the J.K. Rowling bullshit has a not-insignificant overlap with the crowd that has also only read one book (and that book is Whipping Girl).

[dixdixbby]

[tai-janai]

reminder that it was all for tco

[artsy-1diot]

autism creatures part 2

(heres part 1 for those who didn't see it and want a creature of one of the 1.3 managers :3)

[jungledboy]

i was watching an old dynamite episode from last year around double or nothing and jumped out of my skin when these two popped up. people are talking about jack and danny being weird and gay but these two were the mvps of having weird sexually tense chemistry

why did darby say "yeah" so low like that. why did jack not stop smiling. why were they so keen on fighting and being around each other. why did darby smile too. did darby have to pat his shoulder. they should've fucked. bedroom eyes. i need to rip my skin off i have so many thoughts

they need to work it out on the remix or at some point in the future because there is Something here. tell me i'm wrong

who looks at each other like this when they supposedly ""hate"" each other. i'm dead serious

[danyseastar]

i’m being so serious rn i’m going to need tg to stop glomping onto half of rhaenyra’s kids 🫨

jace would NEVER abandon his family to back aegon’s claim (‘wah wah wah he HATES his mother bc she *made* him a bastard-’ one, jace does not care enough about that to abandon his mother [to whom he is literally the miniature version of] and two, his entire personality is his love for his family. he literally dies trying to save aegon and viserys *after* his mom told him not to go fuck OFF).

rhaena would also *never* abandon her family to back aegon’s claim (apparently she’ll feel sorry about blood & cheese and want to make amends with them. i don’t think so, i think she’d be more upset that her betrothed was ruthlessly slaughtered despite his status as a peace envoy but whatever).

baela is one of rhaenyra’s staunchest supporters (‘the greens reach to usurp our queen’s throne and they must be answer with fire and blood.’ i DO NOT care that it didn’t make it into the show that is canon!baela) and does *not* want driftmark (which only corlys has a say in, and he chose bAsTaRdS over her and rhaena at every single turn don’t even mention it), so stop trying to conflate your hatred of rhaenyra onto her daughter.

aegon iii would never have been happy married to jaehaera and vice versa. these were two heavily traumatized children. jaehaera would have to deal with being married to the son of the man who had her brother executed (not to mention that she already had severe physical and mental health issues that were not being treated and the people around her [aegon ii before he died and alicent after] were actively making her life worse). aegon would have to deal with being married to the daughter of the man who had his dragon burn and eat his mother alive while he watched. which he never ended up letting go of (even with a wife who we know he obviously loved dearly) he wore black for the rest of his life and was stated to be the most solemn king due to what he experienced during the dance. there was no saving them.

leave. them. alone.

[whatyourehungryfor]

lottielee is so good because it is the driving force behind SO MUCH in yellowjackets all because laura lee looked at lottie and saw something good. purpose was given, and laura lee dies for it, and lottie ends up killing for it. it's not what either of them want, but out in the woods what they provide is only what is useful to the group, and so lottie becomes a scapegoat and en excuse for the violence to come. and its good because tragic yuri 😌

[blissfulrain12]

Jimmy Can't Give Curly Mercy

So I've seen people say that Jimmy putting Curly in the cryopod was an act of cruelty and they're right but for the wrong reasons. Most people say that because they believe Curly's state of being is so awful he'd be better off dead. Which is ableist for someone else to decide. Curly wanting to die would be one thing but no one asks post crash Curly what he wants. Nothing that happens to Curly post crash is for his benefit or done based on what he wants because no one seems to ask him or listen when he does make his wishes known.

Jimmy can't give Curly mercy because he's still dehumanizing Curly even at the end. He's also still Curly's abuser who has absolute power over him and can do with Curly as he pleases. Whether Curly lives or dies is entirely up to his abuser.

When Jimmy put Curly into the cryopod it was just an abuser deciding to let his victim live for the sack of his own ego. If Jimmy had killed Curly it would have just been an abuser murdering his victim because he was finally done with him. Jimmy can't give Curly mercy because he'd have to do what Curly wants and what Curly actually wants isn't even a concept to Jimmy because he can't see Curly as his own person.

[official-lucifers-child]

you know when everyone hates your blorbo so going through the fanfics are just “not blorbo friendly” “blorbo bashing” and you aren’t SUPER into your blorbo so you’re not sad or angry necessarily but you are just wondering what you missed that made 3/4 of the fandom abhor your blorbo

[pruneunfair]

This scene really hurts when you think about it.

Like... imagine you've been looking up to someone your whole life, you've been looking at their photos to give you strength while you you were down and even though everyone told you you didnt deserve to be near your idol you still believe they would look at you kindly and that idol not only ends up disliking you but they become friends with your abuser right in front of you. You would naturally feel angry that someone you've been told is a kind and caring person chooses to side with someone who hurt you over and over.

I think that's one of the things that makes my blood boil the most about remarried empress. Not only was everything Rashta loved slowly taken away including her own two children, one of her children was given to Lebetti to raise and now her abuser gets to be known as a sweet girl who supposedly did what Rashta wouldn't. An abuser being treated like a saint because the victim was a scapegoat for the story to distract you from the fact that the abuser was just that.

[nightmare-foundation]

Yknow, I feel like Dick not fighting back against the mistreatment of him during the Spyral arc (perpetrated by the batfamily) isn't super surprising from a trauma lens, at least not to me.

I've seen people tend to argue that Dick should've and would've fought back, and I'm definitely not arguing otherwise- but why DIDN'T he fight back??

Personally, to me, his behavior strikes me as fawning. He's not arguing against the shitty things the batfamily does to him or say about him, if anything he's agreeing with them. I could probably really look back over how he acts in B&R: Eternal, but from what I remember, he feels very people pleasing.

And imo this isn't super surprising? Especially if what happened in Nightwing #30 is still fresh in his mind, not to mention Spyral breaking him down and the others lashing out at him, physically and verbally. These things are very traumatizing, and would've changed him most likely. His trauma response being to fawn here makes sense; he Needs the others to work with him, and fighting them on something they won't budge on will only get him hurt. Not only that, but physical punishment seems to be a very real consequence at this time, and Dick is likely in survival mode.

If fawning means he can get his job done and not be physically punished, then it makes the most sense for him to go that route, as sad as it is. His trauma response moving from fight(?) to fawn would be a really interesting thing to explore. After all, Dick said things wouldn't be the same, but we don't know WHAT would change, or if it would even be for the better (since people seem to interpret that to mean 'I'm leaving after this' or similar, which is fair tbh but that statement can mean a multitude of things).

Overall, regardless of how in character it is, I think Dick turning to fawning makes sense in this situation. Being beaten by your father and then repeatedly physically and verbally assaulted by the rest of your family is deeply traumatizing, not to mention everything that is Spyral. If Dick can minimize the damage to himself as much as possible and finish the mission, then it makes sense for him to fawn.

[teatitty]

Normal transformer fans: mechpreg

Me, utterly deranged: Starscream tying Bumblebee down onto an operating table and opening him up to use his hot insides as a furnace for his forge to create the perfect kids for them, swirling his claws into molten sludge to get a taste of his consort Bumblebee is drugged out of his mind obviously but he's also super into it and -

[octavodeci]

I lose a piece of my sanity every time I interact with Marie Antoinette defenders on yt comment sections. “she actually just wanted to live a simple life in a farm with louis xvi. She even wrote to her mother to save her. The french hated her because she was a woman 😢😢” 1.2k likes in 2 days.

I asked “Has anyone picked up a history book? What the French wrote during the Revolution?”

Then somebody with a Gacha life profile replied “We don’t care what the french think when we can study the real history. I bet you’re one of those people that believe she had incest with her son.”

What? Why did it escalate that quickly. I cannot believe Marie Antoinette has raging fans you’d expect from Taylor Swift. She is dead people <<DEAD>>. What legacy are you trying to salvage in 2025? Kirsten Dunst’s performance is not a biography. The French Revolution in 1 minute does not make you a historian. Don’t believe your history teacher either because they’re skimming over frev to get to the next unit as fast as possible.

They’re teenage girls, stanners, Marie Antoinette is girlyyy pop ✨✨💅🏻💅🏻, “I don’t know what an estates general is!!!” What is a clergy? I am ignorant!! 😁🎉🥳

It frustrates me. It makes me mean. I am no longer engaging in stuff like this. I need to distance myself from negativity.

Where was this information from? Tik Tok?

Case concluded.

[fandom-space-princess]

there is a meta post. brewing. somewhere in the back of my head. about the almost comically bad, one-dimensional-to-the-point of parody way that the mass effect fandom interprets Ashley. something about how cynicism is only an acceptable personality trait in male characters, how she is consistently punished for her learned defensive posturing by the fandom in a way that e.g. Wrex isn't, and not allowed the same opportunities for growth out of that defensive posturing by the narrative that other characters are e.g. Tali.

[wildwolf-fandoms]

Two AU ideas for DRDT, because i just listened the Butcher Vanity cover of J's VA.

Tw: Ed and canibalism, also Chapter 2 ending spoilers

Game Killer/Stopper Ace AU, where his attempt of attacking and breaking MonoTV is actually successful. The mastermind only has one spare of it and the data in broken MonoTV has way too many information that's important for them. Therefore, when Ace broke MonoTV, the game is temporarily paused until the mastermind gains access back to it's body to keep it running. While mastermind is scheming, Ace takes over the leadership of the group and divides them to two seperate positions: Guards and Lookers. Guards are those that'll guard the body of MonoTV and try to figure out its secrets; and Lookers are people that’ll look and search the academy throughly again for an escape route or hidden passage that might lead to mastermind or outside, whichever one happens the first. Daily, Ace not only manages the news/reports and problems from both of the positions, but also partakes in both activities (Aka he is the only person that looks for an exit/passageway AND partakes in MonoTV's "autopsy"/guarding in the entire class) to make sure nothing funny is happening. He's been known as a coward among the group and he knows that if the game starts again, he will certainly die. Ace needs to make sure that they can either bring down the mastermind or escape outside as quick as possible; he also tries his hardest to train everyone physically (because despite his weight, he is canonically stronger than majority of the group) and prepare them for a fight, just in case in the mastermind tries to get MonoTV back by attacking the Guards. While Ace knows he can't clean his reputation after killing Arei, he is not willing to let the chaos and distrust among them ruin the class more than it already have. Especially with whatever mindfuck David, Teruko, Veronika and Hu are going through right now. Because of the broken glass from punching MonoTV cutting his hand and fingers, he now has a horribly scarred hand and is way more confident and bold on leading the class to their survival. He'll make sure Arei's death will be the second to last one their group will have to suffer from, with the mastermind's own death being the last one.

Butcher Vanity J, where J is the mastermind. She has an eating disorder which she can only eat meat otherwise her body will refuse to function. She quickly learns that out of all meat types; the human meat is the healthiest, tastiest and easiest to get. Therefore, she sets a Killing Game to consume more corpses. Whenever a Trial ends, she eats the corpse of the blackened and victim behind closed doors.

[howtodisappearcompletelyand]

20/10 stars little guy