#yes less villains

[cezij]

Girls

[kiruamon]

A villain's light AU - The boss and his henchmen

His henchmen got him a mug for christmas.

And also a sweater.

He uses both. Even though he wasn't fully sure why they wanted to give him these.

Also, there are multiple reasons why the bots that work for Eclipse are pretty loyal towards him. He had found and repaired every single one of them himself. Eclipse also builts with them new legs to replace their bulky lower wheel halfs. It takes more time but he simply likes the fact that it gives them more freedom to move around and let them reach places that they couldn't before. None of them have to stay with him as they are free to go whenever they want. It's just that most of them decide to stick and work for him. (He might also have a few fans/simps under them, but is a bit oblivious to that fact.)

Also... Y/N reveal at the end? Okay, little side fun fact for Y/N in this au. While this au doesn't has a focus on them I did think it would be fun to include a Y/N option. And it kind of made the most sense to me to make them one of Eclipse's staff bot-henchmen. Honestly, it would be very, very hard for any human being (other than his little boy) to win over Eclipse's heart as he isn't on good terms with humans and dislikes them greatly. Not impossible, but well. Not easy either. There also had been a vague idea to include multiple Y/N options. As in have your pick. Like the staff bot but also human Y/Ns that could range from being a normal civilian to being Sun's and Moon's mechanic or another hero. Pretty much whatever one could come up with. But I don't really intend to elaborate on that idea. So it's more something for you all to play around with in your minds if you want.

[bubble-jasmine]

I feel like the writing in this game would instantly improve around the middle/endgame if Bachikin was allowed to cuss out Sigkin at length.

(At any point really, but especially after either battle with Jungle or after he drops the whole “yeah they have the Homobi robots because I gave them the blueprints and traumatized all those kids years ago. Anyways-”)

[francy-sketches]

I think aemond might be one of my least favorite greens rn (not that I dislike him I just like the others more) which is crazy bc I started out ready to be a hardcore aemond stan and I'm gonna be honest I think a good part of it is that he's too popular 💀 like it's not as fun to justify the crimes of your evil little gremlin guy when there's one gazilion other people doing the same. I need to be #notlikeothergirls or whatever idk

[arunneronthird]

honestly a lot of problems would be solved if people read the batman run morrison wrote

[rejectedfables]

So the villain is a girldad. Who cooks?

Do they eat out every night? Get takeout or delivery Do they eat from his favorite restaurant or hers?

Does he hire a chef?

Does she cook for him?

Or does he roll up his sleeves and pick up his knife and learn to peel potatoes?

Long paper-thin swirls of vegetable skin Trash or compost? Do they plant a garden?

Did he already know how to cook? Or does he learn badly slowly starting with the easy recipes to keep a hungry girl fed Or does he buy cookbooks and oven mitts and fresh produce? Does he learn to bake?

[teh-nos]

me: why does all the thorki fic i have written take place in thor's pov?

me, five minutes later: oh, it's for the corruption arc, isn't it? fuck yeah, corruption arcs!

[fluffypotatey]

I said once and I'll say it again, I don't really think late season merlin is a villain, but I do think season 1 and pre canon merlin would think his future self is a villain

agreed, anon, s1 merlin would be horrified at the decision and choices he made by s4-5

but yeah merlin isn’t a “villain” by s5. he falls into more of a gray area in my opinion. like, he is still a hero to me but just with a narrower view on his priorities and 10 years of dealing with your classic episodic enemies who want to kill Arthur

[cezij]

More Pro wrestling AU

Who is that girl? oh it's @cherrybombrs as guest I got help for pro wrestling information XD

[corallapis]

from the brig’s memoir (in ‘the doctor: his lives and times’):

the restoration was in 1660.

from ‘dismemberment,’ wherein a newly-regenerated missy visits the scoundrels club:

the great fire of london was in 1666.

and then in ‘heralds of destruction’:

the third doctor (while playing chess against a disguised delgado!master) relates an anecdote about pol pot with a chummy nickname.

i think it’s safe to say that three was a member of the scoundrels club, don’t you?

[ap0llx]

could never shut my brain off watching my favorite old animated movies bc road to el dorado is one of them

[wonder-worker]

"[Elizabeth Woodville's] piety as queen seems to have been broadly conventional for a fifteenth-century royal, encompassing pilgrimages, membership of various fraternities, a particular devotion to her name saint, notable generosity to the Carthusians, and the foundation of a chantry at Westminster after her son was born there. ['On other occasions she supported planned religious foundations in London, […] made generous gifts to Eton College, and petitioned the pope to extend the circumstances in which indulgences could be acquired by observing the feast of the Visitation']. One possible indicator of a more personal, and more sophisticated, thread in her piety is a book of Hours of the Guardian Angel which Sutton and Visser-Fuchs have argued was commissioned for her, very possibly at her request."

— J.L. Laynesmith, "Elizabeth Woodville: The Knight's Widow", Later Plantagenet and Wars of the Roses Consorts: Power, Influence, Dynasty

[lendmyboyfriendahand]

I just watched "Damsel," here is my low spoilers* review.

Very fun movie. No idea if it was good, but it's entertained me the whole time and I cared about the main characters.

The end credits song is a somewhat hilarious choice (a mournful cover of "Ring of Fire" by Johnny Cash)

Robin Wright, best known as Princess Buttercup, is a wonderful evil queen.

Prince Henry's shot at the end, with his eyes closed and accepting his fate, is amazing. He is my new precious little meow meow.

I had assumed "it's a lie" referred to the map, and that Elodie would be led back to the dragon's main lair.

I love all the princesses across generations working to help the next one even when they can't escape themselves. Unclear how real the ghosts are and that is exactly right for a fantasy movie.

A lot of the plot beats were things you could see in advance, but not all of them. I was pleasantly surprised by the identity of the horsemen Elodie saw.

I love you magic glowworms.

Yay for familial love, both by blood and by adoption.

Girl power!

The dragon is slightly smaller than I first thought, but it's still huge. Maybe ten feet tall at the shoulders, eighteen feet at the wingtips?

Don't nitpick the politics or the economics, it's a fantasy movie.

The characters have understandable motivations, the magic is used for low-stakes situations before high-stakes situations, and you get a lot of cool shots of dragons.

Overall, wholeheartedly recommend if "movie where the princess evades the dragon herself" sounds like your thing!

*Low spoilers mean about as many as in the trailer and the marketing

[greensaplinggrace]

my love for the darkling as an antagonist and my desire to see him be more monstrous to the point of becoming an eldritch horror and devouring the world vs my critique of the racist undertones of the writing in regards to both the darkling and the setup of the grisha as an oppressed minority and the knowledge that the darkling’s dehumanization within the text is the result of prejudice against his people and especially shadow summoners. fight

[a-shadowedvales]

so… in the additional media of stranger things (specifically the comics i’m mentioning), it was initially brenner’s idea/plan to kill off the other test subjects because they weren’t performing as well as eleven was. it was his best solution because that way, all the resources, time, and money could instead be placed only to her. and i just…. sure henry is a fine character and the massacre makes a lot of sense to me, but i think i am once again gonna change up my canon to actually fit this potential narrative instead.

i genuinely think the comic canon of the lab and brenner is far more intriguing than the show. everything with 9/9.5, ricky, and francine. eleven being the only one who grew up completely in the lab. those other kids were either volunteers, well into their teens, or had some semblance of a home life. eleven was the only one practically moulded from the womb. and they all had such a range of interesting powers. i firmly stand with the idea that jane is the only one who can contact the void.

brenner’s entire point of view on the lab subjects changed the second he found out terry was pregnant. he discovered he could steal this baby and make her his own. there would be no convincing the child because it’s all she would have ever known. because of this, i would not put it past a man like brenner to kill the other subjects for the sake of the “greater good” in this case, eleven.

eleven’s gifts just continue thriving beyond his wildest expectations. brenner would never dare assume that having moulded her from the womb, she would still be able to grow into her own person, her own mind, and one day be able to see him for exactly who he was.

back before season four aired, it was obvious there were other test subjects because jane was 011. so there were at least ten kids before her. but i always liked the idea/assumed that she was the last experiment because she was the most successful. that they didn’t need anyone after her because she was fulfilling everything they set out for her to do. with flying colours.

i just think the whole rainbow room idea, pitting the kids against each other thing… been there, done that. boring and predictable. i think at this point my portrayal of her time in hawkins lab really stems from the complete isolation she endured. where having the rainbow room, although eleven was obviously the most isolated out of the kids, brings that sense of community and sister/brotherhood. albeit extremely warped and toxic. knowing that she wasn’t alone in that experience just. doesn’t sit well with me. i think it’s important to note that she was alone, physically and mentally. which is why kali is also so important to her growth. i thought a lot of the flashbacks of her time in the lab during season four was really boring, repetitive, and just very predictable. although peter becoming vecna was a surprise to me, and was a nice little twist, the idea of her having an ally on the inside was really interesting.

maybe they did get as far as they do in canon, peter ballad was telling the truth about everything, about some of the workers there being prisoners like him, and he really wanted to get her out and to safety. but before they can escape through the pipes, they’re caught. peter is shot on the spot, and eleven is put into the isolation room for a few days as punishment. in this timeline, henry would be vecna, but henry would not be peter ballad.

when eleven turned seven, and was already showing extreme promise, where the other children were average at best, brenner had the eight children killed. kali had already escaped. this was the main cause for peter to gain eleven’s trust and try to get her out. because if brenner could murder his “children” in cold blood, there’s no way eleven was safe even in spite of her power.

when eleven is allowed out of the isolation room, her testing becomes more rigorous in attempt to distance and make her forget about what she attempted to do with peter. brenner begins gaslighting her, saying that there was never a peter, that she must have been dreaming. eleven does ask “papa” about “mama”, given peter told her of the day terry broke in the lab, but brenner is convincing enough to make eleven believe it was all in her head. say she is around eight years old, meaning the same timeline of season fours canon flashbacks.

i still do wanna keep the henry creel canon, and keep him as 001. brenner didn’t have him killed alongside the other test subjects, because who knows, one day he could become an even better asset than 011. brenner definitely wants to be able to control henry, but keeps the chip in him because, for the moment, doesn’t know how. killing him would be too big of a loss.

when eleven is ten years old, henry’s concealed powers break free and he manages to get the chip out himself, and unleashes hell onto hawkins lab. he almost kills brenner by snapping his bones, but eleven manages to stop him. her extreme abilities are unleashed, and she sends henry to the upside down. she does fall into a coma due to the extremity of the situation, but she does not forget what happened. brenner believes she’s the perfect weapon as she stepped in to save him without a second thought, was able to defeat henry, and opened a door to something he never thought possible. eleven is rewarded for her efforts. although she remembers the entire battle / confrontation, her memories regarding the portal are very hazy.

brenner decides not to focus on the portal straight away, instead gets her training harder and harder to see what else she can accomplish. also loved the idea of brenner sending her into the void to “look for him” so that will definitely be kept.

by the time she escapes and season one begins, her knowledge of the upside down is basically what we see in canon. because she passed out the moment after she sent henry away, she was once again gaslighted into believing she merely threw him through the glass and killed him. for two years she believed this, until making contact with the demogorgan, and those memories return completely.

due to her saving brenner’s life, (it was pure instinct. she happened to be there. saw her “papa” hurt and knew she had to make him better.) brenner constantly thanks her. but in a very condescending way. tells her: “you saved me so i can continue saving you.” aka, harness your abilities and see what else i can achieve from you. despite the fact that she saved his life, these words and phrases make her feel indebted to him. that she owes him something further.

i don't realistically see her thriving with her speech improvement until she's well into her twenties at least. her slowed development, sensory and social deprivation causes a serious delay in language. surrounded by other children she would have overheard conversations, some would have spoken to her. her conveniently forgetting her upbringing pre the battle with henry just isn't good enough for me anymore. it makes more sense for her to have been raised alone.

it also helps indicate why she gravitated towards the boys when they found her in the woods. they would have been the first people her age she ever remembered seeing. as far as she knew, during the lab there was no one like her. everyone was much older, they were adults-- although she stayed with benny, i'm not sure if she would have stuck around very long. where she followed the boys home without thought.

also it's important to note that after time, jane does understand that peter ballad was a real person, and was truly the first person (aside from terry) who wanted the best for her. when she remembers him, knows that brenner was lying, she deals with immense guilt regarding his death. he was shot right in front of her eyes, because he was trying to help her. this is another catalyst as to why after season two, jane never refers to brenner as papa. she does not give him that sort of credit.

[mylastmoleculeofserotonin]

Kill the notion that Star Wars needs to step away from force users. I don’t know about you, but I love to see space wizards fight with glowy swords. The only thing that needs to change is the good/evil dichotomy of the Light and Dark sides of the Force. Give us a show about a Padawan who tries her hardest to be a great Jedi so she buries her emotions so deep within herself that she loses herself and becomes complacent with Jedi/Senate corruption and turns to the dark side to reconnect with herself and rediscover what made her want to be a Jedi in the first place. Give us the story about a child who’s sibling is taken by the Jedi so they ally with a Sith to break into the Jedi Temple and rescue their sibling. Give us a movie about a Dark Lady of the Sith and her apprentice defending their home planet from being absorbed into a sector of the Republic where their historical oppressors would hold their seat in the Senate.

All those stories could feature epic clashes between Force Wielders without contributing to the perceived stagnation of Star Wars shows featuring Jedi and Sith.