#what makes this worse

[maze-mind]

TW: ranting about Win's death / talk of his suic!de.

Look. I get it, Newt's death IS SAD, but it doesn't have nearly as much symbolism as WINSTON'S death. Maybe it just hit me harder because I expected Newt's death in the movies but not Winston's. I don't know. But something about it.. made it so that now Winston is a best boy to me. Like...

Winston isn't the first Crank the Gladers ever encounter, of course. But he's the first one (at least that the movie shows) that FOCUSES on WHAT THE FLARE DOES to people. It makes them feel things they're not supposed— therefore doing actions they're not supposed to. Not to mention, having it be a SUICIDE is even better to the fact.

As much as I agree with a LOT of people that The Scorch (movie) was kind of bad, I WILL give it credit for doing this properly. Because it WAS SAD. No film makes me cry— so I can't say I cried— but it made me want to kick and scream. Everything about it shouts to me, "THE FLARE IS SOMETHING THAT CAN CREATE EMOTIONAL TRAUMA!" in big, bold letters.

He asked to kill himself. The scene didn't dwell on it for too long— it got to the real action quite quickly. And there's NO 'oh, he's still alive' canonical twist like Gally. Maybe you're hoping that there is, but it's fairly obvious there isn't. He bloody killed himself. That's all it is, but yet if you took it out, you would lose a CORE PIECE.

Whether fans realize it or not (it's kind of obvious), this will be leaving a lasting trauma in all the boys' minds. The way everyone— in a line— just stops dead in the sand. AH, that scene was like a silent tribute. The same goes for the following campfire in The Scorch. If the survivors aren't scarred by Newt already, they're scarred by the vision of Winston. This isn't even lore. It's just logical facts.

And NEWT. Oh, Newt. The best boy gave him the gun in the first place. And I just.. oh. The implications behind this scare me. Newt either gave him the gun WHEN he was infected (depending on when you think he got infected), which would mean that he KNEW HE PERSONALLY would probably turn into what Winston was turning into. The terror behind that— but he has to accept it because he has *no other choice*.

The other alternative is if he WASN'T already infected when Winston killed himself. This one is my making of this. Newt solely did this because he knew Winston's motives— he understood. But this would give him even *more* terror than the first making, I think. He has to worry CONSTANTLY about if he's going to turn infected— and ONCE he knows he is, his mind is not leaving that image or the gunshot noise. And inspired by Winston, he did what he thought he had to in The Death Cure. Because that's *all he could think about*.

Oh.. what Winston and the Scorch Trials did to traumatize me.

[mythtakens]

“these characters should be mentally healthy before they get together 😌” ummm no I actually think we should smash their mental illnesses together like clumps of play-doh and see what colors it makes

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

historical drama/sitcom where two gay best friends (woman and man) get lavender married--and proceed to spend the Fancy European Honeymoon their parents paid for acting as each other's wingman

[captainjonnitkessler]

You know I used to think "tumblr's absolute refusal to actually engage with the Trolley Problem in favor of insisting that there must be a third, morally pure option that doesn't require them to make a hard decision and anyone who asks them to make a binary choice is just a short-sighted idiot is really fucking annoying, but I guess it's not actually doing any harm".

Anyway that was before we asked tumblr at large to decide between "guy aiding a genocide but making progress elsewhere" and "guy who would actively and enthusiastically participate in a genocide and would also make everything else much, much worse for everyone elsewhere" and the response was that there must be a third, morally pure option that doesn't require them to make a hard decision and that anyone who asks them to make a binary choice is a short-sighted idiot.

[wcdonaldo]

*girl who wakes up at noon voice* how is it this late already

[akanemnon]

It could get worse and it DID get worse

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[adrift-in-thyme]

There’s something terribly poetic in the inevitability of events in EPIC. The choices Odysseus is given lead to no win situations. They aren’t really choices at all.

Kill a foe’s child or witness the death of your own. Sacrifice six men or sacrifice them all. Allow your crew to starve or watch as they slaughter sacred cattle.

Sacrifice your friends, your brothers, or give up your last chance at reaching home.

In the end, the result is always the same. He destroys himself

[theoldkyokodied]

The Allegiance of the Ascended Vampire and the New God of Magic

[boysborntodie]

TUA S4 proved that Netflix cancelling their shows after the first season is actually a good thing

[cardo-de-comer]

and yet he is not the blind one

[iwasbored777]

WAIT SO YOU'RE TRYING TO TELL ME THAT STONE SAVED ROBOTNIK'S LIFE AFTER SONIC 2 AND TOOK CARE OF HIM AND ROBOTNIK FIRED HIM ANYWAY IN SONIC 3 BECAUSE HE DOESN'T TRUST HIM AFTER ALL THAT AND ROBOTNIK SURVIVED ALL THOSE INJURIES AND BROKEN BONES AND IT TOOK HIM SO LONG TO HEAL PHYSICALLY AND HE ALMOST HEALED EMOTIONALLY TOO ONLY FOR HIM TO BE BETRAYED BY HIS OWN FAMILY MEMBER AND STONE HAD TO WATCH HIM DIE AFTER ALL THE EFFORT HE PUT INTO TRYING TO SAVE HIM WHAT'S WRONG WITH THESE WRITERS WHAT THE ACTUAL HELL IS WRONG WITH THEM

[wanologic]

10% of danny rumors on campus are 100% true

[arcanefanpage]

I can’t get over the fact that no matter what happens in Act 2 and 3 Vi will most likely never be this soft and trusting with Caitlyn again

[yardsards]

say what you will about steven universe but it's objectively hilarious that arguably one of the most toxic ships in the series is just. two coworkers at the same shitty minimum wage food service job

[opikiquu]

iknow my comics are ugly please just hear me out

[tealgoat]

A scenario in which the island isn't forgotten but ka bue is