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Hot Take:
I STILL don't hate Chloé Bourgeois as much as the show('s writers) wants us to.
It's not that I don't think a person as bad as intended can exist, but rather that the development into one wasn't handled the best way.
Shocking observation on my part, I know.
I just want to imagine what could have been. I wish that development took a different turn. I wish the writers put more thought into helping people/kids believe that everyone is worthy of second chance (and third, and fourth, and so on), rather than doing everything they could to turn her into the most irredeemable person on the planet.
Sure, make her irredeemable in the end. But make the heroes come out of that as the biggest people on the planet because they kept giving her love and support up until her very last breath, and have HER end up choosing not to be deserving of it.
Don't teach us to hate the people who hate us. We already treat most of our surroundings as undeserving of our love and we keep pushing them away - we need a new approach. Let the bad guys push themselves into the abyss.
And I'm not saying we shouldn't put a healthy distance between us and such people - but we need to keep in mind that we should NEVER, under any circumstance, think of someone as worthy only of a place in the trash bin. At worst, we should feel sorry about them.
Practice of this in real life is difficult, yes. But this is a cartoon character, and this is a kids' show. No, you are not protecting a kid by teaching them some people are beyond repair. You are making them lose faith in humanity by doing so. Who are we to say when a person has lost all hope for ever turning to the good side? None of us can read other people's hearts. And because of that, it is our DUTY to try everything in our power to bring them to the light. What is not in our power is whether they accept that help or not and we need to learn THAT. We need to learn to accept that some people will turn down all our extended hands, not that we should stop extending it at some point because we condemned them as unworthy.
Yes, it's important to know when to stop doing that in order to protect yourself. But not to lose faith.
And I think it would've been a 100 times more valuable to see her have a change of heart at some point because of this - maybe even at a time when nobody expects it - because it would send out this message.
Again, this is a show for KIDS. Grown-ups learn over time how to handle people bad to the bone. Kids don't need that at their young stage of life. They need to believe that good can triumph over evil, every time, in every and any way.
#If someone had asked me about 2+ years ago#I would've said this was exactly what the#Miraculous Ladybug#writers were doing#But I lost faith in Astruc's writing...#And his open hate for#Chloe Burgeois#is not helping any#I still have that last shred of hope though...#which is probably going to get mercilessly crushed#like everything else#Also#Chloé is so young#Making her evil to the core and unable to ever change#while letting older characters like Gabriel and Nathalie get away with worse stuff#makes absolutely no sense#miraculous ladybug#chloe burgeois#not a chloe apologist#but not a chloe hater either#... I may need to add more to this post later....#feels unfinished
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The final TF2 issue really got to me. Spoilers, but it’s the reveal that all of this suffering and murder and war over gravel and shitty land was for nothing but senseless, bottomless hatred. That the administrator can’t even remember where this revenge plot started as she flashes through different false memories of her parents’ deaths. There was never a tragic backstory or justification, only terrible people doing despicable things. And despite how crass and stupid and unserious TF2 is, the story subverts every expectation by showing the survivors and inheritors willingly breaking the cycle. Ms. Pauling lies to the administrator and chooses not to save her, and finally lets her die. (Hurts even more if you read into the subtext that Ms. Pauling is in love with the administrator.) She lets the final cache of Australium go and walks away from the burden and legacy of a century-old bloodfeud. Hale lets Gray’s daughter go and live her life freely. Spy is the first to arrive at Scout’s house and meet his big family, finally takes off his mask, and helps with the kids. Even Merasmus exhaustedly makes peace with himself and Soldier and chooses not to curse him or something. There’s nothing to finish, no promises to keep, and no one to avenge. The only thing to do is break the cycle and walk away.
It feels odd how happy and warm everything is, but it feels so right and earned. These bloodthirsty, awful, violent men were expendable cogs in a machine of endless violence, and they found a way out. It’s a genuinely great message about letting go the past that burdens you and finding the will and a way to hit the bricks, change, and be happy. Maybe they don’t technically deserve happiness, but they’ve got it nonetheless, and they’re not gonna let it go to waste. They’re still all crazy and violent, but on their own terms now and with people who love them! Smiles.
#tf2#rant#personal#the stuff with the administrator reminded me of the ending of breaking bad#except the admin isn’t as self aware as Walt lol#that there was never a sympathetic reason or justification to fall back on#all of this was done simply because they were sadistic people#I really appreciate the writers avoiding the expected trope of the administrator dying and#Ms Pauling taking the mantel and becoming the next administrator. both as a either a girlboss empowerment thing or a sad but realistic end#like nah they’re happy and doing well. we won’t torture these characters any more and doom them to continuing the cycle#they’ll be happy and you’ll be happy for them
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#iwtv#devil's minion#armandaniel#daniel molloy#armand#shows#iwtv*#min.gif#oh my godddd please tell me i'm not the only one who noticed this????#crazy work by the writers. insane of them to do this#idk if i'm reaching but like. the signs were there and i chose to follow them (even if the signs were wrong i don't care)#iwtvedit#ㅇㅇㅎ
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We as a fandom have collectively decided that
not only does Emmrich Volkarin fuck
Emmrich Volkarin fucks like it's his job
Even his tamest ao3 backstories have a throwaway "back in the day when I got laid six nights a week and only because I needed Sundays to meal prep" line. I read a one shot this fic where my man had lugged an entire Adam and Eve checkout cart to the Lighthouse with him to keep in a drawer Just In Case.
Emmrich is occasionally nervous, but only because Rook turns off his brain cells or he's worried about the age gap. Once he gets started he knows what he's doing and how and where and exactly how many times and Evanuris help you if you thought you were getting out of there south of four orgasms. Sorry, dearest, a gentleman has standards.
Emmrich heard of the Kinsey scale once and lit it on fire.
He's not a rake or a fuckboy. He's not sleazy. He doesn't lie or manipulate, and he doesn't kiss and tell. Emmrich is never, ever in horny jail. Emmrich stormed the horny Bastille and instituted a new horny constitution where everyone gets exactly the amount and kind of sex they want and if their name is Rook he will see to it personally.
And I love that for us. Well done, team.
#emmrich volkarin#did the writers understand what they were doing to us all with “Slow. Deep.”?#did they know what they were unleashing?#emmrich volkarin fucks
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You know sometimes I wonder, “damn where did this random lust for robots come from?” And then I remember what I grew up watching
#transformers#transformers prime#transformers arcee#arcee#tfp#tfp arcee#transformers prime arcee#robot posting#eroticism of the machine#robophilia#robotposting#transformers posting#roboposting#robot fucking#robotgirl#robo girl#robot fucker#robot girl love#the writers knew what they were doing#the animators must’ve known what they were doing#this required collaboration and lust for the machine from all parties#transformation#transformation kink
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it's not like they live on a mountain with other monkey citizens running around
Or also known as Oz trying to flirt (??) but it backfires on her.
set after BMW when Oz is living on Mount Huaguo, hence the hanfu and the neater hairdo
I think I'm also slowly getting the hang of drawing Sun Wukong without having to look at 81 reference images
#szynkART#if i was a fanfic writer part 1 would be the adventure of DO and becoming Sun Wukong#and part 2 of the story is Oz learning more about her ancestors that fled to “her” world and settled down and had a family#probably they ran away cause they were branded a traitor by the celestial court#so imagine the confusion when they see a girl splitting image of the traitor popping up helping the monkey#anyway. i wish i was a fanfic writer LMFAO#probably gonna try to write some one shots in the future#black myth wukong#sun wukong#sun wukong x oc#sun wukong x reader#monkey king#cepheus baskerville#former heroes who quit too late#fhwqtl
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Sleeping Soundly Again - my comic for the Until the End of Time zine! I drew this around a year ago, and I'm so excited to get to unleash it on the world at last.
#billford#gravity falls#zine stuff#postbetrayal#ford angst#this is my first time doing a comic so i kept the panel layout as simple as possible#i feel like my art skills are better now than they were when i drew this but i still think the idea comes across just fine#seriously though check out the full zine the artists and writers poured their heart and soul into everything and it shows
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just thinking about how distraught mel looks when she sees the hextech weapons after promising jayce she wouldn't let the council corrupt his dreams, essentially making all her efforts vain
and viktor's blank face as he sees the blueprints for the weapons, showing that jayce broke his promise not once, by reviving him with the hexcore, but twice.
idk, something about paths diverging or whatever. They left him alone unsupervised for like one day and he does this shit
#feeling normal about jayce breaking their hearts yk#i get he prob did it for cait to make sure she'd at least be protected but i wish we saw that convo or more of his thought process#also after that meljay don't have scenes together until act3 i guess it was the writers' way of showing them drifting apart#do i think it was well portrayed? not really i still hate how isolated mel's arc is but there were hints at least that something changed ig#now how do i tag this#arcane#jayce talis#mel medarda#arcane viktor#star.txt#meljay#jayvik#not really ship-related this is more about the dynamics... why am i defending myself
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"He's afraid of everything. He's a little awkward, every so often he gets a little aggressive... he's very complicated."
Hearing Matthew Fogel describe Luigi like that, plus some of the expressions in the concept art, has me hoping that at some point (in a very reasonable set of situations) Luigi's going to snap Charlie Kelley style.
#Matthew Fogel has surprisingly based takes on The Mario Bros whenever he talks about them#(I mean I shouldn't say ''surprisingly''#the characterizations of the bros in the movie were fantastic and he was the main writer so it adds up)#But I really do love Luigi's Portrayal#In the Luigi's Mansion series (particularly 2 & 3) he so shy and quiet and nervous and a bit of a doormat#While in the sports & racing games Luigi is determined and excited and has a certain amount of grit to him#Movie Luigi feels like a good balance of both these qualities with a light sprinkling of SMBSS Luigi added in#he's just a goober who also at some point deserves to go off on a stress-induced rant whenever he's at the end of his rope#Luigi#The Super Mario Bros Movie
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Sometimes I think about the fact that there was a whole episode of parks and rec where Ben and Leslie had to miss his birthday party so she could filibuster the city council meeting to protect voting rights in Pawnee
And instead of doing what most shows would do and making the central conflict a whole thing about Ben being mad about having to miss his party and Leslie having to make it up to him etc - he literally never even thinks to question her on it and is in complete agreement with her that protecting voting rights is more important than a bday party and has to be their top priority no matter how inconvenient it is for them (plus he also spends most of the filibuster drooling over how hot and generally awesome his wife is filibustering in her roller skates)
It’s just so refreshing to see a show’s main couple be so supportive of each other and on the same page rather than creating pointless conflicts where they’re both irrationally mad at each other over nothing - its not like they never have disagreements or anything but it’s always Leslie and Ben against the world on this show and I’ll always love that
#another example of parks always being a top tier show#also bonus Ben drooling over Leslie in the skates while Chris looks at him like ???#like yep that’s Ben and Leslie for you#they’ve always matched each others freak#like they’re so in love that they’ll never stop annoying everyone about it#those writers knew exactly what they were doing with these two and I love them all#benslie#ben and leslie#parks and rec#relationship goals#leslie knope#ben wyatt
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so since it's ace week i wanna talk about my very specific jon's ace ring headcanon. (btw the beginning of this is very inspired by a fic i read once, but i can't remember the name)
so jon has an ace ring. he got it from georgie in uni after she helped him figure out he was ace, and he wears it everyday.
but then, after jude perry burns his hand, he can't wear it for a while (i know if he wore it when shaking her hand it would have probably melted, so let's say he wasn't wearing it for some reason). he keeps the ring in his pocket and after he comes back to the archives martin notices he keeps fidgeting with it. (now this is the part that i read in a fic) martin asks about it and jon admits how upset he is that he can't wear it (this also ends up functioning as a coming out so martin can hear it from jon instead of office gossip!) and martin gives him a chain so he can wear it around his neck while his hand heals.
now this is the part that's all mine. i imagine right before they leave for the unknowing, jon and martin say goodbye (and they kiss cause it makes s4 hurt more and it's basically canon im my mind). jon takes of the ring necklace and gives it to martin, asking him to look after it until he comes back.
then the coma.
at first i imagined jon waking up with the ring next to him but no martin. but then i came up with something sadder (but also maybe sweeter?). martin keeps the ring. he knows he should give it back after jon wakes up and that he could probably find a way to do it without talking to him, but he just can't get himself to do it. jon notices but kinda forgets about it (he's got bigger things to worry about and assumes martin forgot).
then they go to the safehouse. and martin gives back the ring. he apologizes for not doing it before but jon is just touched that he still has it. it's all very emotional and then martin puts the ring on jon's finger and they are both VERY aware of how much it looks like a proposal
#i have spent a lot of time making myself sad thinking about this#so i figured i'd share it#if i were a writer i'd make this a fic#but i'm not#so feel free to run with this#(and please tag me if you do)#tma#the magnus archives#jonathan sims#martin blackwood#jmart#jonmartin#tma headcanons#echoing thoughts#echoing thoughts tma
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Felt a bit nostalgic watching RT shut down…Here are the og faves again for old times sake 💙
#rvb#agent washington#agent Carolina#lavernius tucker#michael j caboose#epsilon#my art rvb#ahhh a lot of feelings…of course I stepped away from rt as a company a long time ago#but RvB is special to me!! it was my first fandom experience ever#and the community here on tumblr specifically was so instrumental to me growing up#I really could not have asked for a better community of artists and writers to grow up in. I know it sounds like platitudes when I say#that everyone was super nice and talented but REALLY. People were so kind to me and somehow I became well known despite#my art and writing and me in general still being immature and hashtag cringe#I found my creative legs and#people would respond to my stuff with walls and walls of support in the tags and we would do exchanges and events every year#I made my first lyric comic and it’s still doing extremely well on YouTube even today!! my dad who passed away recently always loved it#and my favorite RvB writer came out of hibernation to write me a bunch of text wall asks about it#I’ve never had another fandom experience quite like RvB#I still keep in touch with many of my friends from that time period even though we’ve all moved on the other things#these guys will always always have a place in my heart#so long reds and blues….
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Stop that right now jimothy
#season 2 episode 5 ‘the apple’#WHY did he do that#Jim’s brand of affectionate exasperation is killing me#I’m sure the writers were going for ‘amusement because he doesn’t need to be told the planet is full of life’#but shatners choice to act as though everything that comes out of spocks mouth is the sexiest thing in the universe#is really adding to the subtext#when I say adding I mean piling on that queercoding with a wheelbarrow and shovel#Star Trek#Star Trek tos#my art#shitpost#comic#sketch#doodle#james t kirk#Spock#spirk#fanart#side note i drew Spock so cute here in my personal opinion oh my LORD
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Mel and Jayce did more for Piltover and the undercity in like a week than mayor humdinger and the rest of the kitten catastrophe crew did in centuries, of course they got nuked
#they were too powerful I fear#their kids woulda had such lethal face cards too#writers knew if they gave them a couple more months they'd make as much progress as humdinger had in years#im never gonna stop calling heimerdinger mayor humdinger.#do i tag paw patrol in this#paw patrol#arcane s2#jayce talis#arcane#jayce and mel#meljay#mel medarda#mel arcane#goldenforge
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#rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles#rottmnt#rottmnt leo#rottmnt raph#rottmnt splinter#separated au#villain au#TECHNICALLY i kept my promise#coz a week is a 7 days period#sorry if its scuffed last few days were super rough for me#non-stop freaking out#the writers block has been blocking#the jokes have not been joking#the speech bubbles have been trying to murder me again#but i think im doing a lil better now#april soup in the next one??#villain pb&j duo
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everyone at aperture always treats wheatley pretty badly, he’s used to being called a moron and other belittling names due to his general incompetence. of course he would grow attached to the one person who is willing to spend time with him and actually treat him decently lol
chell is very much a lone wolf. she is introverted and avoids most people in the facility, and at first she would ignore wheatley’s ramblings and maybe even think he’s slightly annoying. but overtime they became eachother’s friendly face in a place full of unpleasant coworkers. they also see eachother quite often because he helps oversee test subjects like her. and eventually she truly warms up to him, despite still maintaining her usual stoic demeanor, she starts smiling at him more often.
anyway he develops the fattest crush on her. who wouldn’t. WHO WOULDN’T
#my art#portal 2#human wheatley#chelley#portal chell#chell x wheatley#wheatley#chell#if i were a writer id cook the most self indulgent 700k words slow burn hurt/comfort chelley fic#but alas silly little comics like these is what im able to do atm#portal human au
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