#He doesn't care about being evil

[bet-on-me-13]

Desperate Villain Danny AU

(this is a 17 yr old danny)

It started out slowly.

First, a few of Danny's less active Rouges stopped showing up at all. He didn't really notice, and just assumed that they had finally had their Fill of their Obsession for a while and would simmer down for a bit.

Then, some more of his Rouges stopped showing up. No big deal, but he is getting a little concerned for them. They had definitely not had their fill of their Obsessions yet, why did they stop?

Then, the worst started happen. All of his actual Ghost Friends start to disappear. Ember, Kitty, Johnny, even Amorpho, they all start to not show up at all in the Living World.

He goes looking for them in Realms, but he can't find any of them whatsoever. He tries asking around, but everybody else noticed the disappearances much earlier than him and began to hide away from whatever was taking all of the strong Ghosts. He can't find anybody, and the ones he does find won't tell him anything (or don't know themselves)

It takes weeks of searching, but eventually he gets his answer.

The GIW show up in Amity again after a period of absolutely no activity. They have stepped up their operations HARD. Advanced Ghost Hunting Equipment, Much more Competent Agents, and most worrying of all, they seem to know that Phantom is friends with Sam, Tucker, and Danny Fenton.

The GIW comes to his house for a Meeting with his parents, where he overhears them offering his parents a position in their Organization as Head Scientists. While there they also manage to plant Bugs in Danny's room somehow. Although he finds them quickly enough and destroys them.

And then, one night during dinner while his parents are ranting about the GIWs Labs, they mention something that cinches it for Danny.

"And today we even got to Dissect one of the Spooks! It was that Mind Controlly one, you know the one with the blue firey hair stuff that sang a bunch! We're going back tomorrow to continue our Study, this time we'll see how long it'll pretend to experience pain before it decides to give up on tricking us!"

That night, Danny packed up all his things, destroyed the Ghost Portal alongside everything else in his parents Lab, and left his house.

He tracked down the GIW Base, saved Ember from her Cell, and decimated the surrounding Area. No survivors, none of the research is preserved, and he left the Site Director alive to question him.

Turns out, the GIW had managed to Reverse Engineer the Ghost Portal from that brief period of time where they had taken control of Fenton Works. They had been using their own Portal to kidnap any Ghost they could get their hands on. Using the research from those subjects, they perfected their Ghost Hunting Tech and started going after the bigger fish.

"But good luck finding it, Ecto Scum! The Portals location was hidden to everybody, even me!" He said.

"Where are the others!" Danny cried. He was losing control of his appearance by this point. After seeing what they had done to Ember, he was too angry to maintain his Humanoid Form successfully. Even now, with most of his control, he could hear the Static in the air around him, and see the Glitching of his hands as they clenched this Monsters clothes.

"Scattered!" He said with a crazed laugh, "We knew we couldn't contain all of them, so we send them to all of our sites across the Country! You'll never find them!"

Without another word, Danny plowed his arm through the man's chest.

He turned around, picking up Embers weakened Body, before beginning his long flight to Wisconsin. Vlad still owed him a few Favors after all, and honestly his mentorship offers seemed VERY Tempting right now.

(Why reject him if you don't care about keeping your dad alive anymore?)

...

The JLA had recently received a distress signal from somewhere in the middle of some random Forest in Illinois, but when they got to the location, all they found was a crater filled with the ruins of some kind of Military Base, and so so many Bodies.

They had managed to figure out that this was a Government Site owned by an organization called the GIW. A Paranormal Investigation Wing of the Government focused on the study and capture of Supernatural Beings called Ecto-Entities, otherwise referred to as Ghosts.

As it turns out, an Ecto-Entity that had been terrorizing the local town for a few years now had made a drastic change in normal behavior and had attacked the GIW Base that had been posted there.

They would have destroyed it years ago, but this one was unnaturally powerful. It had eluded their capture and terrorized the Town for years, but they had too much pride to contact the JLA and admit that they needed help. And honestly until now, they didn't really need it. The Entity had been entirely confined to the singular town, and had not strayed from that behavioral Pattern in the 3 years since it's inital sighting. They had made the difficult choice to leave it there, sacrificing one town in exchange for the rest of the country.

But now they did need their help. This Entity, this Phantom, was one of the most powerful beings that had ever recorded, maybe even The Most Powerful. The fact that it had left the Secluded town it usually frequented meant that it was loose to wreak havoc across the rest of the world.

The JLA Needed to Find this thing, and Fast.

#Dp x dc #Dpxdc #Dc #Dcu #Danny Phantom #Villain Danny Phantom #Morally Grey Danny Phantom #He doesn't care about killing GIW agents #He'll still avoid Civilians though #Danny accepts Vlads offer #He doesn't care anymore cause he has no reason to refuse #He doesn't care about being evil #He doesn't care if his dad dies #And Ellie once told him that she still held some love for vlad so that's not really too big a conflict of interest #Speaking of Ellie... #He hasn't seen her in a while... #🤫 #Foreshadowing??? #Hmmm

[ineed-to-sleep]

Funny how all it takes is a couple of conversations with a cis straight man about gender to make me go "yup I'm definitely not cis"

#listen I adore my stepfather ok but he's got a pretty traditional view of gender #he's very respectful of others and doesn't enforce it on anyone else #and I think it's not that toxic all things considered bc he sees 'manhood' as being primarily about being hard working and protecting other #but it's still very gender essentialist #and he sees a lot of things as 'man things' and 'woman things' #and talks about skills and roles that are 'men's' #and I'm just like well but I do a lot of those things. but I identify with a lot of the things you describe. #and he tries to go around it like 'ahh well but you have personal history with that' etc etc #we get along really well tho we don't fight or anything but it's interesting to me #it makes me realize just how much I'm outside of the binary in the eyes of cis people #and how much 'trying to be a man' or 'trying to be a woman' are things that hold no emotional meaning to me(personally) #I could not care less what makes me masculine or feminine or if either of those labels are revoked for some reason #taking on the label of woman or man feels like a burden to me bc it always comes with a set of expectations #I just wanna be me yk. I just want people to see me through the lens of 'this is a person' #'this is what this person likes. this is how this person behaves' #I just wanna turn off gender. can I do that? like just flip a switch and no one perceives me as anything anymore #in a perfect world maybe #sleep.txt #I honestly still don't fully understand how I feel about gender but. I know that I don't like being put into a box #the box is Evil.

[ralseinumberonebiggestsupporter]

hate everyone who says that ralsei fans are stupid for liking a character that's obviously hiding something!!!! he will be evil!!!!!! hes bad boy!!!!! ok and? if hes evil then im gonna draw him being evil if hes good then im gonna draw him being good i dont care. if hes asriel im asriel too i support him

#deltarune #basically what i mean is. i know hes not the goodest guy on planet earth. i think it's interesting that hes convinced himself he has to #be the goodest person on earth. but he doesn't know how to and he doesnt know how to relate to people or to do anything unless he's being #told to and THAT'S COOL!!!! GOOD OR EVIL IT'S COOL!!!! hes my sillyguy because hes fun to think about and hes hiding something #i want to find out what hes hiding and why because hes an interesting character #AND ALSO HES FUNNY!!! HIS FRIENDSHIP WITH SUSIE IS FUNNY!!! HIS SILLY LITTLE OUTFIT IS FUNNY!!! #hes good at healing magic and bad at fighting but noelle is already as good as him at healing and even better at fighting #AND THAT'S INTERESTING!!!! i want to know where this is going. is he going to feel outclassed? is he going to care? WHO KNOWS? #im not saying you have to like him i can understand why people don't. but i think hes very interesting and yeag. #i need to talk about him more often lol

[maegalkarven]

No, but all the implications!!!

Gortash starting to treat Durge's wounds as a mere way of ensuring his ally doesn't die while he still needs them.

Durge begrudgingly allowing it bc fighting against it is more trouble than it's worth, though they're a little peeved by the idea first. Letting others treat their wounds feels too vulnerable, too...intimate.

Gortash slowly establishing that as the means of control because well-treated dog is a loyal dog and he needs Durge loyal to him.

Durge getting used to that because for the first time ever they're offered comfort, for the first time ever their pain eases, even if only the physical one. Learning they don't have to bear pain, what they can simply go to Gortash and he'll make the best healers take it away. Or better yet, would bandage their cuts himself, almost as if he cares.

This gradually turning into routine to the point where Durge once gets hurt Badly, blacks out and drags their uncooperative body to Gortash's house bc subconscious is a bitch and connected Gortash = comfort/relief/no pain/etc.

Gortash being met with the bloody unconscious body of his ally on the floor of his bedroom and being both annoyed and, strangely, relieved, because his plan of leashing Bhaalspawn is working and because he'd prefer to know if Durge is hurt and be in control of their healing.

#durgetash #dark urge x gortash #gortash x durge #the dark urge x enver gortash #levi so would #he Doesn't Care about himself till he does #which leaves the post-tadpole levi being confused af why the evil tyrant is so Comforting for him #turns out Evil Tyrant not just the only one who offered help but the only one levi gradually learned to accept it from #post-orin fight levi def turns into a bird and flies to the wyrm keep #falls into a bloody heap on Gortash's floor and passes out #making Gortash live through the most awful storm of emotions as he enters #annoyance relief satisfaction worry #enver sees vivisection scars as he treats the wounds and has even more questions #leaves for a moment and returns to levi climbed into his bed and snuggling his pillow #bc it 'smells nice' #having to fight a wave of affection bc he should be annoyed! everything is covered in blood now it will take ages for staff to clean #meanwhile bane frantically searches for some black hand to challenge and defeat Gortash bc This Shit Has Gone Too Far #Gortash had gone soft and needs to be dealt with

[incorrect-rainbow-rocket-quotes]

Ghetsis: How do you do that?

Colress: What?

Ghetsis: Smile so much.

Colress: Oh, I’m just a happy person.

#Source: Mistborn: The Final Empire #Pokemon #Pokemon Villains #Incorrect Quotes #Plasma Leader Ghetsis #Ghetsis #Colress #(I feel like a lot of people delve too much into Colress being a backstabber) #(Like. No) #(He is a happy neutral character who pursues his own goals regardless of other's feelings about him) #(He's not /evil/ he just doesn't care -- or at least not think of -- other people in the process)

[cryingalexanders]

I think one reason I like both smallville clex and pre-crisis clex so much despite their very different vibes is because they’re both made up of honourable villain vs asshole hero. "they deserve each other <3" kinda deal

#toxic on different levels #precrisis superman giving lex fond looks and giving him gifts whenever he does one (1) good thing #even though he is the world's most dangerous supervillain and has been trying to kill him most of their lives #vs smallville clark chronically being an ungrateful ass to his devoted weirdly ethical heir to an evil corporation best friend #until that former best friend snaps and starts doing evil stuff (and still cares about him and doesn't target him) #until he thinks he has to kill him to save the world. and tries to kill himself too in the process because he loves him #clex

[bylertruther]

i was doing my regular rewatch the other day and tbh... lonnie and will's relationship is so unsettling. lonnie literally did not give a single goddamn fuck that his own twelve year old son was missing and later "dead". he just... did not fucking care! at all. couldn't even pretend to. jonathan comes to tell him what happened and we see that...

lonnie got joyce's call and still didn't care to reach out,

when jonathan tells him this is serious and real, he mocks will by saying "he was never very good at taking care of himself" (which is already disturbing considering this is his son he's talking about, but especially so when you remember that lonnie abused will for being gay and tried to get him to like "masculine" things),

he's already talking to jonathan about seeing him more and reconnecting, like will isn't fucking missing, like he's already fucking dead and he's moved on, as if will is some stranger or worse someone that never existed at all,

instead of feeling any kind of shame about jonathan not believing him when he says will isn't there and him looking in the actual fucking trunk of his car, he just makes a joke out of it asking if jonathan's gonna check up his ass too,

his neglect is brought up again when jonathan slams one of the posters to his chest and tells him "in case you forgot what he looks like",

and that's not even touching on the fact that the very first thing we see lonnie do when jonathan enters the house is fucking shove and pin him to the wall, telling him "you got stronger".

like, he is not a good man in the slightest—the complete antithesis of the byers we know.

and then afterward... lonnie finally decides to come back. he's being nice to joyce and pretending like he's the man of the house again. like he's finally come home to fix and save his family.

he goes to will's funeral and treats it like a schmoozing event, like that isn't his youngest son being buried right in front of him, showing less emotion than one of will's classmates that hasn't ever even talked to him.

but... he's not there because he's had a sudden change of heart.

no, he's there because he has something to gain out of this unimaginable tragedy. his own youngest son is dead and he comes back home to collect a fucking check for it. because he's never cared about will, hasn't ever even seen him as a human being, he just... sees his death as something he can benefit from.

it's just so fucked up and so sinister. lonnie isn't a man riddled with vices, beholden to some disease which makes him act in ways most unbecoming. no, he's... just a man. a small, manipulative, and cruel leech of a man that just doesn't fucking care and is in it only for himself.

it's just... it's really tragic to think that will really was dealing with monsters way before that first demogorgon ever came through the gate.

and even then... that demogorgon was an animal acting as animals do / possessed by vecna and you can't really blame it for that. but what's lonnie's excuse, huh?

#like. hashtag felt lmao #a lot of ppl write lonnie as an alcoholic and i feel like ... lonnie just being a bad person because he Is a bad person without the help of #any vices is just... so much more terrifying and painful. #because then it's just lonnie. just a man who doesn't care about his son. a man who views his baby boy as less than a bug. a man who #doesn't care or hold any affection in his heart because he just simply does not fucking want to or care to. he doesn't care if will is in #danger. he doesn't care if will is dead at the bottom of the quarry. he doesn't care not because he's drunk or high but just.. because. #he couldn't turn will into what he thinks is a proper man so in his mind he's thinking well.. if i can't get anything out of him like that #then i'm at least gonna get my money's worth with this wrongful death case. #a man making the choice to be evil. to inflict pain purposely. for no gain whatso-fucking-ever. #bc at least vecna does it to gain more power to achieve world domination. but lonnie is just a piece of shit that abuses kids. #water is wet lmao but... i feel like stranger things manages to be so fucking dark sometimes and yet it just... it's treated so normally #that you almost don't even notice it. bc ur just viewing this story from the perspective of a character and for them it IS normal #i just. yeah. idk. Thinking Thotz Over Here #it's so fucked up when u stop to think abt it lmao like. if will doesn't get his happy ending bro....... #abuse tw #byers #lonnie #mine

[hamartia-grander]

Another connection between Luis and Leon's relationship paralleling Ada and Leon's relationship. The fact that both Ada and Luis feel they have to mask their personalities around Leon and come across as less vulnerable and more put together than they actually are. throwing up

#Like if capcom didn't want us shipping Leon and Luis then WHY did they make Luis Ada's foil WHY did they make serennedy parallel aeon #resident evil #serennedy #resident evil 4 remake #And the fact that they've both missed the mark in that Leon prefers when people are vulnerable with him #and equally a mess as he feels he is. #And I KNOW Ada only masks around Leon to guard herself. Not because she wants Leon to like her more - she doesn't care about that #But she doesn't mask around Luis much at all which goes to show she feels more comfortable around him #they recognise each other as people who have hurt and are hurting and therefore they can be themselves around each other as friends #versus being around Leon feeling like they have to constantly perform #Luis learning how to act from Ada only to find out too late that it pushes Leon away even more (bc leon sucks) #sobbign

[moregraceful]

Photos: 1. Blossoms on I think the plum tree, taken on film; 2. Jake Oettinger grappling with Miro Heiskanen while Jason Robertson and Roope Hintz look on; 3. Flowers and shadows at midnight.

#having like eight different mental breakdowns rolled into one atm and like don't even know how to talk about them #like where do i start. it started eight months ago. it started two years ago. it started 35 years #ago. #i said i would have * done by tonight bc it would open up some job opportunities but every time i look at google docs i scream #i may need to handwrite it #and people at * being like oh you look tired. well i am tired. you people make me very tired. but you do not care #and it's like how much of this was preventable vs how much is just someone pulling out that last loadbearing block in the jenga tower of my #sanity and now it's all falling down #i made a list last night to compare things that would make me sad about doing * vs things that fill me with hope and curiosity and quiet joy #the hope/curiosity/quiet joys list was a lot longer #i swear every third text message i send beryl is like hi. i'm spiralling. again. but then i'll say to someone else and theyre like wow have #you tried not spiraling? #well i love to do that personally but every time i try something massively destabilizing happens #it's so interesting (it's not interesting) #angela sent a wonderful prompt about sleep deprived demon summoning #and being as i am on that shit i thought ok what if cale summons a demon due to sleep deprivation #but the demon is simply his younger self. happier #less ground down. more bright-eyed. easier to smile. doesn't feel the weight of expectation #voice like you hear in a recording of yourself five years ago and it's you but it's not you #it's him but it's not him because it's also a little evil. what if you hadn't looked the other way #what if you said something. what if you found your voice. what if you let your heart grow open rather than grow cold. #the demon of a cale who is less serious and more open less selfish and more giving #and he calls devon in the night and devon ends up at his house with two cales the one he loves and the one he always wishes he'd known #before the nhl ground it out of him #and then devon has to decide who does he keep the now cale he loves or the old happier gentler cale #and as i was contemplating thaf i thought hm. it's possible i'm sublimating some things there #like i am to be clear a way happier and more well-adjusted person overall than i was five years ago #but rn i'm also an animal with its leg in a trap growing increasingly desperate and frantic #fresno oilers.txt

[dollsome-does-tumblr]

the russell marrieds @ each other in like every episode: i love you so much and you are the best

me: [screaming, rending my garments, totally undone]

#SOMEBODY TAKE THEM AWAY FROM JFELLS!!!!! #I CAN'T BEAR THIS MARRIAGE BEING UNDER HIS EVIL SWAY!!!!!!!! he's gonna tear them apart!!!!!!! he doesn't care about anything!!!! #except randomly writing the worst plot twists you've ever seen in your mere human life!!!!!!! #(downton abbey made me normal) #seeing a couple love each other so much and be so open about it as a simple fact of life simply breaks me into pieces for some reason. #maybe because it's so common on tv for people to be hiding their feelings from each other? #idk. #whatever it is it's destroying me and i trust julian fellowes zero percent. #this is going to go horrible for me. i'm assuming. #dollsome's deep thoughts #the gilded age #(if jfells follows my blog: um. sorry. but you know what you did.)

[letthestorieslive]

The Boy   -   The Beast

For @masonhewittappreciation week, day 2 : Monstrous

#mason hewitt #the beast #i have so many thoughts #about mason and about the beast and about mason being the beast #but there is one that kept me awake at night #mason's character is all about love #like he loves his best friend so damn much #that instead of being terrified when liam is wolfing almost all the way out #he accepts it immediately #because he knows liam and he loves him #and that there is no way that liam can be or do evil things #even if he is a werewolf #mason is about love and he sees the world around him through that #he trusts scott easily even if he doesn't really know him #because scott has done nothing wrong in mason's eyes #and even better he cares about liam too #he worries about him and tries to look after him #so when scott tells him that something is wrong with the music #mason is going to do something about it #for liam #for scott #and for that weird girl that hangs with them #(which is also why he has a hard time forgiving theo i think) #(aside from having to assist to scott's brutal murder without the possibility to do anything about it) #(and aside from the betrayal) #(pretending to care and weaponizing mason's love to get him to trust him just to stab him in the back ?) #(hard to move on from that) #mason is about love #which is why nobody suspects a thing #mason and the beast are polard opposite

[floralovebot]

went fucking insane

template!!

#i saw this template and my mind fully blanked until i could finish a helia version #i didn't know what to add in the smaller boxes but i saw other people putting sexuality and gender stuff so i did that :) #my source for him being bi and nby you ask? ME #if i left one of the little circle things blank it's because it doesn't apply to him at all! #like i don't think he believes in Good/Evil yknow? so i left that empty #also please don't mind the bad drawing skills i am simply bad at art #me putting his beauty to the highest: eheheh the blorbo <333 #i just think that helia being canonically attractive <3 #winx helia #tempted to make one for flora !! i am definitely normal about them #i think the funniest thing about helia is that he IS a good mediator but he refuses to mediate #i contemplated the 'others opinions' one being higher but i think it depends too much on Who #he doesn't really give a shit about strangers yknow? but he does care A Lot about friends and family #so i went with a lower score because overall he doesn't care as much about other people's opinions #but if that one was about people close to the character then its 100% the highest one

[lokisflame]

Genuinely, how are the Alastor takes from the finale SO. BAD.???

media literacy is truly dead y'all

#even saw someone say a line clearly meant one thing and ppl were bad at interpretating but but GURL #UR THE ONE ADDING STUFF THAT ISN'T STATED #ALSO MORALLY GREY/UNDECIDED BC THE CHARACTER ITSELF DOESN'T TRULY UNDERSTAND OR IS SURE IF THEIR IS CHANGE IN THEM IS A THING!!!! #not saying it's Al's case #but for the sake of argument just good/evil or being secretly good/evil inside is .... just not the only options guys #ESPECIALLY IN HAZBIN HOTEL #like of all shows lmao #my personal pov is that he realized that he COULD care but isn't at that point yet and NOWHERE does it clearly show or state in ANY way that #the deal is him being at the hotel #FFS ppl fan theories ARE NOT CANON #the only clear thing he says is that he WILL NOT die for someone else and be altruistic AS IN SELF-LESS GOOD DOER PER DEFINITION #he could still slowly care for charlie etc AND NOT BE ALTRUISTIC JFC #also how about the fact that he doesn't want OTHERS to define his story??? #the takes and comments I've seen about the finale revelations concerning Alastor ARE SO BAD AND WILD #*BIGGEST SIGH* #i need to stop reading comments on YT for real.... #hazbin hotel #hazbin alastor

[katierosefun]

the line about logan roy not being able to fit a whole woman in his head being said from his own daughter is so. something about daughters and their fathers something about daughters who are their father’s child something about daughters who are daddy’s little favorite daddy’s little girl but the second they start having opinions and the second they start talking back, the father holds their daughter out with open hostility and suspicion, something about how only years later will the father occasionally go, do you remember? do you remember when we used to have good days, when you used to come to me with all your wonders and your worries, do you remember when we were stuck together like glue, what happened to that and the daughter just has to give her father a rueful smile as though she hasn’t been wondering why her father built up that wall in the first place as though she hadn’t been wondering since when did her father only ever said good morning to her brothers as though she hadn’t been wondering since when did her father only ever ask her brothers to accompany him to work and something about shiv roy saying my father couldn’t fit a whole woman in his head and something about shiv roy still crying the most when she learned that her father was dead something about how shiv roy called her father the world and yet something about how shiv roy still asks her father’s closest male confidants if he was really that bad, was my father still an okay guy when they all know the truth, they all know he wasn’t a good person, but shiv roy still remembers playing outside her father’s office just to get him to come out and shiv roy still remembers her father telling her to remember, slant of light and ugh ugh ugh ugh ugh fathers and their daughters daughters and their fathers or whatever

#caroline watches tv #succession #can't believe this show is ending next week. maybe i'll be free #truly i think whatever tf is going on between shiv and logan's relationship #is the only other father-child relationship in tv that has made me want to eat cement in the same way #that joo won and han ki hwan's relationship in beyond evil makes me want to eat cement #except at least with shiv and logan. you SAW the tenderness between them sometimes #logan has a nickname for shiv. logan is the one to tell shiv to come into the company #logan is the one to tell shiv 'my daughter. my only daughter' in a way that makes me cry #logan is the one to tell shiv she is marrying a man beneath her in one breath but then he holds her hand #and says 'he's a good man.' #logan is the one to show up at shiv's wedding but he doesn't care to show up to connor's #something about mothers who tell their daughters 'you may hate your dad but you are going to cry the hardest when he dies' #something about shiv's mother being so annoyed with shiv at all hours #something about mothers who hate their daughters because they know that their daughters are 'stealing' their husbands away #which is such. a sickening sickening concept but the fact that this is genuinely how some women feel #anyways. ughughghghghh whatever. whatever. #something about how shiv is the one who i think has been hurt the most from her father #(i still haven't forgotten about that one scene in season one. that still haunts me jfc) #but at the same time. she's the one who's sobbing on the floor #and she's the one who literally schedules her grief #she's the one who just keeps going 'my dad is DEAD he is DEAD' #just like. every time i see shiv roy contemplating her father's death i hear kill bill alarm sirens in my head #just. FUCK OFF FUCK OFF FUCK OFFFFFFFFF!!!

[thatscarletflycatcher]

I will bore you all writing about Doctor Finlay, but bear with me.

One of the most unrealistic aspects of the Doctor Finlay-Nurse Meitland mess is the idea that they got engaged right before or as the war begun, and then for some reason had not seen each other ever since. Brenda has never left Tannachbrae during that time; which would have been an easier fix, had she joined up as an army nurse herself and been sent to units far from John's. I guess it couldn't be because the maximum drama of her new American fiancé living in town couldn't possibly be cut off. The western front didn't reopen till 44'.

The only possible mitigation, then, would be for Finlay to have been on the desert front, and lo and behold, upon rewatching 1x02, he tells a kid he was in the desert, then Sicily, then Italy, and finally Germany. But even on this generous scenario of the writers it doesn't make sense. If Finlay had had 6 years of ininterrupted service without leave home, chances are he'd have priority to have leave home as soon as the war ended, specially because I don't think personnel was being roaded or flown directly from Italy to Germany for obvious reasons of logistic convenience. So he would have been home on leave after may 45, and so the plot as presented is absurd.

But then it is all doubly absurd because the most reasonable and likely course of action would be for him to hear about it through letters. A dear John letter, or even someone from town condoling with him by assuming that the public status of Brenda's new engagement meant that Finlay had been informed too. What is the audience supposed to assume about their correspondence? Was he writing her tender, loving letters and receiving no response? Was he receiving tepid, general letters from her and being unconsciously or deliberately dense?

It makes no sense. Compels me though.

#doctor finlay #other highlights of the episode are evil mustache twirling snotty doctor for the rich #and rich guy congratulate themselves on what a pleasure it is to do medicine for the rich #we get our sex-related plot of the day as a poacher gets treated of hydrocele and keeps bringing game for Jane #we have dr. cameron retiring for the second time in two episodes #we have a kid whose dad went MIA 4 years ago and he keeps on shaming his mom #for trying to grieve and move on instead of holding onto hope #the series frames the kid as fanatical but then his dad comes back in the end so I guess shame on his mom #in another unsubtle plotline we are treated to the direct contrast between the pregnancy and birth care of rich vs poor #and in the remaining one the narrative toys with the idea that a girl might want to murder her just born brother #but she's just actually physically sick and the weird upsetting scenes are never explained and just red herrings #well I suppose you can construct independent meanings for each #like her destroying her new doll by dropping it a couple of floors is about her being angry at her dad #for not believing she's sick. but then she doesn't even know that she is really sick

[discjude]

Yeah this is about right (as always my thoughts are in the tags so there's actually kei content there lmao)

#Hester I adore you they could never make me hate you. Seriously the first chapter in 6 (bad candy) is like my favourite opener #Kei they could NEVER EVER make me hate you. did nothing wrong ever. rhian when I CATCH you #its so funny how my two favourite characters just like. hate each other. like japeth literally kills him #sad cause they're so SIMILAR. theyre both victims of Dog Metaphor its so sad that kei does Not like japeth in the slightest #personally if they had a good long discussion about their emotions at like 3am they could've probably stopped TCY from happening #but alas. Aric. somehow its all his fault again. why do I have an aricposting tag but not a keiposting one. #Hester easily has the best overall characterisation arc I love love love the way soman writes her #I remember when I read 6 for the first time #before japeth insanity happened #I used to anticipate her chapters over like everyone else's. Hester the 1 lesbian in the series you are deeply loved #I could write whole essays about japeth and kei's characterisation it is so sad that soman forgets kei exists #like he's meant to be rhian's eagle. that's his job. that's what he's spent a Long Time anticipating becoming #but rhian refuses to acknowledge it. instead he calls Japeth his eagle in book 4's ending #He eventually falls in love with Sophie #he only ever cares about the crown #how he GETS to the crown #and bringing his mother back. he lies more than japeth #and never once does he get to be the eagle. There's only three spaces - lion/eagle/snake - and he doesn't get to be any of them #dont even get me started on how he dies. surrounded by white swans. being purely good #god rhian II try not to fuck EVERYTHING over challenge. and also Aric. its all arics fault as well #keiposting #japethposting #actually not really jposting. didn't do it that much #sge #tsfgae #school for good and evil #the school for good and evil #sfgae #the school of good and evil #as much as I adore Hester I dont think I will talk about her much in detail ever so no hesterposting yet